For me the stream of consciousness style didn't work at all. But I'm referring specifically to these passages of the article, which set the novel in a new conte

For me the stream of consciousness style didn't work at all. But I'm referring specifically to these passages of the article, which set the novel in a new context for me. I always appreciate hearing someone else's well-articulated reasons for why they adore something that I did not, particularly when the sheer joy of their experience shines through. >Joyce picked June 16 as the time of the novel partly to commemorate his first date with his future wife (more on that in a moment), but also because it was an otherwise ordinary day, on which ordinary people did ordinary things. Like the rest of literary and artistic modernity, the novel pits the epic against the mundane, and Joyce’s version toes the line with virtuosity. and >Ulysses bathes in low-culture vulgarity, even if it’s hard for today’s reader to see it clearly. The choice of June 16 as an homage to his future wife’s first date is partly romantic, but partly bawdy, too. >Instead of standing on the shoulders of giants in faux-humble deference to tradition, as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot had done by incorporating classical references and source material, Joyce devoured and disgorged them again. And it was beautiful and real, like watching a drunk heave outside a pub in the wee hours of the morning. This is life.