Avid8329

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   by Avid8329 2y ago

   I'm so happy to see one of the greatest 20th century American poets quoted right at the beginning! Elizabeth Bishop was amazing! Something fun to do at work is to read her correspondence with another great 20th century poet, Robert Low
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   by Avid8329 2y ago

   Ulysses has mostly "real" words while Finnegans Wake is largely made of portmanteaus. It'll be interesting to see the results!
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   by Avid8329 2y ago

   > This Standard Ebooks edition is based on a transcription of the 1922 Shakespeare and Company first edition, with emendations from pre-1929 errata lists and the second edition in its 1927 ninth printing by Shakespeare and Company. It do
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   by Avid8329 2y ago

   Exactly. Please can we stop gatekeeping somebody enjoying a book that's known to be highly inaccessible. However one chooses to engage with Ulysses is perfectly fine.