“A moment of silence”

Nola Tully on “Ulysses”:

The response to Ulysses was immediate and extreme. Writer and literary critic Malcolm Cowley described it using the metaphor of a stone dropped into water: there was a moment of silence, the stone was dropped, “then all the frogs who inhabited the pool began to talk at once.

Below: a compilation of quotes from “all the frogs” talking at once.

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