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 about 12 years ago
Adam is a Philistine, never read Samuel Beckett either.
slug_queen about 12 years ago
Cannot.Stop.Laughing!!!
pschearer Premium Member about 12 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 about 12 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 about 12 years ago
And then there’s Hemingway. Maybe he’s just a man’s writer.
cvdemers about 12 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 about 12 years ago
Nice outfit guys!
DonVanni about 12 years ago
And he actually opened up to the title page of “Finnegan’s Wake”!
Linda Solomon about 12 years ago
more gobbledygook. try steinbeck, faulkner, mcmurtry, kellerman, and dorothy parker…
Guilty Bystander about 12 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 about 12 years ago
I’m a modern kid, and I’ve heard of James Joyce.