yes!

ok, so....i got home early enough to finish ulysses......plowed on toward the end until it was done.....yes, yes, and yes.....well, yeah...molly only says the single yes......but you get my point......i imagine that i am the only person on earth who was under the gun to finish ulysses in time for the final harry potter to come out......but then, one never knows..........i must say that it is a different feeling than i felt when i finished moby dick, the last epic that i read, as a read-out-loud book with my eldest.....when he was still in montessori....moby dick was quite repetitive.......and if i cannot read or hear the word leviathan without flashbacks....the word was used so many times to describe the same thing......moby dick is no ulysses.....ulysses is brilliant...impossible, unattainable....absolutely the finest work of literature yet created.....and yet i cannot wait to finish harry potter's last installment.....not because it is timeless prose, but because it is exciting and compelling and enchanting....which were j.k.rowling goals.....i cannot begin to entertain the notion that james joyce intended to entertain me with his masterpiece....perplex me, yes....but amuse me.....no!