A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a spectacular book that everyone should read.
1 year ago | 2
This ties into the end of the novel, where he writes, “I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience, and forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.“
1 year ago | 5
Glenn, I don't wish you any more hospital visits but I must say some of your best work is coming at a time when you are ailing and we most need it. Thank you brother!
1 year ago (edited) | 0
James Joyce was the ultimate s41tlib - he hated his own. The perfect ambassador for a world where a human is no more than an interchangeable labor/consumer unit, a nation is no more than an economic zone where nobody or has any allegiance to anyone or anything. Where freedom with the goal of increasing commerce is the only sacrament and the actual sacred things like obligation, loyalty, and tradition are considered profane. That's partly why he is so loved by liberals and the regime, and knowing his dysgenic political bent I find it hard to read him. If I know Joyce he would be thrilled about what has become of Ireland lately. Look deeper into the meaning of what he said. And look at what his ideal has brought forth into the world, conservative man.
1 year ago (edited) | 1
In that book he also wrote:"When you wet the bed first it gets warm, then it get's cold." Joking aside, probably my best writer of all time, including Finnegan's Wake, currently on my second read through and it is taking a couple of years because my grasp of the English language has quadrupled since last I finished it.
1 year ago | 2
There is a reason us Irish we called the blacks of Europe. We too had some real challenges in the way of our success and most not all were put there by our own hands
1 year ago | 1
Never mind that you might be forced to spend 12 years in a school system which graduates students with barely any knowledge of math, science, or reading. Give the kids a copy of Joyce.
1 year ago | 0
Conservatives tell this to absolutely everyone besides Jews. Glaring and consistent omission
1 year ago | 1
I politely disagree, he was referring to Ireland killing the spirit of those it needs most; writers.
1 year ago | 2
Why can’t the Irish people retain their ancestral home and culture?
1 year ago | 7
The Glenn Show
James Joyce has a passage in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in which he says “Do you know what Ireland is? Ireland is an old sow that eats her farrow.”
He says your ethnic inheritance. He's talking about Irish nationalism is like nets holding you back.
Your challenge is to learn how to turn those nets into wings and thereby to fly.
Flying into the open skies of modern society.
Don't be your grandfather, don't be your father.
Don't wear your things so heavily that it keeps you from being open to everything new in the world.
Wear it lightly.
Everybody comes from somewhere, but it doesn't have to be where you end up.
You are this wonderfully blessed human being in the middle of the 21st century.
Don't miss it. Don't live blinkeredly.
Don't live small. Live big.
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