BJGP Library: Ulysses: >The Genius of Joyce

摘要

I first started reading Ulysses when I was about 13. While exploring along my parents’ bookshelf one day, I picked out a large green hard-backed book and flicked through its pages idly, looking for some naughty bits. Almost at once, my eye was caught by some very explicit descriptions of sex from the female point of view. Naturally I read on and didn’t let the apparent absence of any punctuation bother me. There were also some very rude words that I had never seen in print before. What were my parents doing reading stuff like this? As I continued browsing, I came across other passages that were less sensational but very entertaining. So I kept on reading, just skipping about at random, ignoring anything I couldn’t understand. After a while, I found myself reading this: