You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
Quotes about ulysses (15 Quotes)
Ulysses known for his archery skills is taking on a whole army emerging from the gates of Troy on horseback and in chariots.
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
A glorius place, a glorious age, I tell you A very Neon Renaissance And the myths that actually touched you at that timenot Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneasbut Superman, Captain Marvel, Batman.
A man anxious to tell a dirty story asked, 'Are there any ladies present' Ulysses S. Grant spoke up and replied, 'There are no ladies present, but there are gentlemen.'
In his later reminiscences, Ulysses S. Grant roundly condemned the Mexican War in which he had served, and even saw the Civil War as a sort of karmic retribution for America's sins against its southern neighbor 'Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation of Texas was consummated or not but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.'
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia.
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.