2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[coreyfeldman]

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1681255973585821697?t=JkBQUiJxrRTIe2dOvm5RNw&s=19

[Bobby Boy]

I don't think I've knowingly ever read a single word by Joyce. I've heard that his stuff is quite inpenetratable at times, and I don't have the energy or patience to persevere with anything like that I'm afraid.

'Ulysses' is pretty hard going. I got a third of the way through before giving up as my brain was starting to over-heat.

Anyway, back to the Villa...

[Drummond]

You read seven words of Joyce in my post above.

So even Joyce knew Woodhall!

[Dogtanian]

I own a copy of Ulysses. Unfortunately.

I'm happy to sit for hours and decipher C# code and SQL queries, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Now, The Gobbler by Adrian Edmondson is an absolute masterclass. It has chisels, poultry, and lots of alcohol in it, who could ask for more in literature?

[Vegas]

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1681255973585821697?t=JkBQUiJxrRTIe2dOvm5RNw&s=19

Romano says it's done?

Not in that tweet, he doesn’t?

[Sexual Ealing]

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1681255973585821697?t=JkBQUiJxrRTIe2dOvm5RNw&s=19

Romano says it's done?

If he does, he doesn't say it in that tweet.

[Monty]

Nobody has to like anything in particular. I can't really get into Henry James, for instance. But 'overrated' is a statement with pretensione to objectivity, i.e. 'and if you like him you're wrong.' And almost anyone who thinks that about Joyce isn't worth listening to, and I'd guess the same is true of James.

[danno]

I own a copy of Ulysses. Unfortunately.

I'm happy to sit for hours and decipher C# code and SQL queries, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Now, The Gobbler by Adrian Edmondson is an absolute masterclass. It has chisels, poultry, and lots of alcohol in it, who could ask for more in literature?

I feel like “the gobbler” was either a Roald Dahl villain, or somebody Bon Scott would have written a song about.

[Bad English]

He's on a flight to Australia, so you might have to wait a while.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

The flight is too short to read a bad book.

[coreyfeldman]

Apologies, somehow misread this. Too distracted by Irish modernism

[Sexual Ealing]

Nobody has to like anything in particular. I can't really get into Henry James, for instance. But 'overrated' is a statement with pretensione to objectivity, i.e. 'and if you like him you're wrong.' And almost anyone who thinks that about Joyce isn't worth listening to, and I'd guess the same is true of James.

I'm the same with James. It felt like every tutor I had at university had a massive boner for him so I spent ages not reading him.

[ChicagoLion]

I did the James Joyce tour of Dublin which meant being dragged around various slums of Dublin whilst some bloke  his nephew apparently prattled on about this being where -( pick any obscure scene from his books) before moving on to the next place. It was pretty pointless as I had never read anything by him. So I went out and bought Ulysses and I think I got about half way through it before giving up.
Dis is where Mary Higgins crossed the road whilst just a few doors down Patrick oshaunssy was stripping the wallpaper off  the back parlour but unbeknown to him Albert McNally was sleeping off a late night with his wife in the next room peeling potatoes.

[Sexual Ealing]

And there's your final confirmation of the genuis of James Joyce.

[dr.chekov]

The Joyce industry is pretty horrible. As it is for any dead writer, I guess. Except the Beckett estate, who just tell everybody to fuck off.

[Sexual Ealing]

The Joyce industry is pretty horrible. As it is for any dead writer, I guess. Except the Beckett estate, who just tell everybody to fuck off.

I've had money off the Beckett estate (actually, it was the Beckett Society, which is probably different) to do a show in New York. Nobody came. It was very Beckett.