August 3, 2005
I love this!!
(By the way, what am I doing? I am poring through the digital online gallery of a rare book library looking their James Joyce collection. Of course I am.)
This one is phenomenal - I gasped out loud when I came across it.
It is a page from Thornton Wilder's copy of Ulysses - obviously, he went a bit nuts with the taking notes thing. But you know what? My copy looks the same way. Of course I am not famous, and so my copy is not in a collection at a rare book library - but I looked at all of his notes (definitions, scribbled thoughts - one every other word!) and felt a kinship with Thornton Wilder. I felt: So you had the same experience reading that book as I did, huh??
You cannot be passive and read Ulysses. It's got to be interactive. It's a rollicking barrel of laughs, actually, once you get into it!
For some reason, looking at Thornton Wilder's notes make me want to cry.
I've been crying all day, truth be told. What's one more tear.
Thorton Wilder? Well that certainly makes us up for KS hits. He's always been a favorite. Which reminds me, I think I am due to read "By The Skin Of Our Teeth" -- it's been a couple of years.
Posted by: the blogger formerly known as "Dave" at August 4, 2005 7:27 AM