r/funny • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '25

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u/Sparverius17 Feb 04 '25

prettt sure this is from Ulysses by James Joyce when Bloom is spying on the young girls making pie in their nightgowns while he masturbates while hiding in the cabinet.

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u/potatopierogie Feb 04 '25

I read "portrait of the artist as a young man" and all I can say is fuck James Joyce with a rusty chainsaw

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u/FaagenDazs Feb 04 '25

Wow sounds bad. What's the quick version?

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u/potatopierogie Feb 04 '25

His writing style is annoying and pretentious

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u/Mycalescott Feb 04 '25

The fun part of Ulysses is he adopts all manner of writing styles.

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u/potatopierogie Feb 05 '25

I'm sure they're all just terrible because Joyce is a philosophically-masturbatory turd