Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for March 15, 2012
March 14, 2012
March 16, 2012
Transcript:
Adam; Who are you supposed to be? Clayton; I am today Irish author James Joyce. Adam; Was he a pirate, too? Clayton; No. He had bad eyesight. Adam; I was joking. I actually the Newman family record for reading "Ulysses." Clayton; Really? How many times? Adam; 17 pages. No one else is even close.
Pharmakeus Ubik almost 13 years ago
Adam is a Philistine, never read Samuel Beckett either.
slug_queen almost 13 years ago
Cannot.Stop.Laughing!!!
pschearer Premium Member almost 13 years ago
A book famed for its incomprehensibility, lauded by literary snobs as the greatest novel ever. Pretty much the same phenomenon as those who admire Picasso or John Cage.
linsonl almost 13 years ago
I think we were reading “Xanadu” when I told my English teacher we would understand it better if we were smoking whatever he was smoking when he wrote it. I think that was the year I flunked English.
Dani Rice almost 13 years ago
And then there’s Hemingway. Maybe he’s just a man’s writer.
cvdemers almost 13 years ago
Now Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” holds a top ranking with me. Outstanding piece of literature.
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Nice outfit guys!
DonVanni almost 13 years ago
And he actually opened up to the title page of “Finnegan’s Wake”!
Linda Solomon almost 13 years ago
more gobbledygook. try steinbeck, faulkner, mcmurtry, kellerman, and dorothy parker…
Guilty Bystander almost 13 years ago
Being of Irish descent (look at my avatar), I like the storyline, but how many modern kids have even heard of James Joyce?
TheSpanishInquisition almost 13 years ago
I’m a modern kid, and I’ve heard of James Joyce.