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You mean too say something like stay away from all books by Joyce or Hemingway or Poe or many other authors who had struggles with alcohol?
by onemoresoop 4y ago
You mean too say something like stay away from all books by Joyce or Hemingway or Poe or many other authors who had struggles with alcohol?
- lukas099 4y agoI think they meant that you have to know/understand too many outside cultural and linguistic references to understand a lot of Joyce's writing. Judging from the other comments here, this seems like a reasonable position.
- xsmasher 4y agoNo, it's a reference to "dependency hell" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell Large parts of the book don't make sense if you don't have the right cultural information "installed."