His most famous work isn't an opus that you could find stuck with a palindromic tag - far from it.
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:23:41PM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Personally I prefer Perec's palindrome > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Bob W > > > molly blooms monologue in ulysses consists of several paragraphs which > each > > consists of one sentence and the monologue itself contains no punctuation > > marks other than the final full stop it being an interior monologue and > > stream of consciousness and all although quite how somebodys thoughts > > arrange themselves into paragraphs punctuated or not I dont really know > but > > what I do know is this Joyce would have had a hard time writing it these > > days because whenever Bill Gates thinks youve made a grammatical error he > > insists on trying to correct it the literary philistine swine but maybe > > Jimmy J would have writ Ulysses on Unixes I certainly think he would have > > felt at home in the world of email and texts where punctuation and > sentences > > count for nothing and all communication is a direct stream of whatever > > nonsense is in peoples heads at the time they write it maybe I should ask > my > > neighbour who is a cousin of Joyces mate Sam Becket and has an amazing > early > > edition of Ulysses all decorated and encrusted with stuff by Joyce himself > > with his own fair hand but now Im sick of trying to write like this and > ask > > myself will I stop and yes I said yes I will Yes. >
