One revelation I had was when hearing Joyce reading it out loud [1] and realizing how much of the weirdness is just phonetic spelling.
I had a similar a-ha moment listening to Fiona Shaw perform T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland [2] — now I can't stand anyone reading it without doing the "characters" (e.g. Gielgud's awful version).
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One revelation I had was when hearing Joyce reading it out loud [1] and realizing how much of the weirdness is just phonetic spelling.
I had a similar a-ha moment listening to Fiona Shaw perform T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland [2] — now I can't stand anyone reading it without doing the "characters" (e.g. Gielgud's awful version).
[1] https://youtu.be/M8kFqiv8Vww?si=FjTwYqBvBCjZnlJl
[2] https://youtu.be/lPB_17rbNXk?si=MvEZRGx8PlRO6zvN