{"id":4955,"date":"2006-06-16T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:06:44","slug":"bloomsday-like-a-vomit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4955","title":{"rendered":"Henry Miller:  &#8220;Ulysses is like a vomit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Henry Miller<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For at bottom there is in Joyce a profound hatred for humanity &#8212; the scholar&#8217;s hatred.  One realizes that he has the neurotic&#8217;s fear of entering the living world, the world of men and women in which he is powerless to function.  He is in revolt not against institutions, but against mankind &#8230; <i>Ulysses<\/i> is like a vomit spilled by a delicate child whose stomach has been overloaded with sweetmeats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0394743121&#038;asins=0394743121&#038;linkId=WRPIHVDTGG2CYLZ5&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Miller: For at bottom there is in Joyce a profound hatred for humanity &#8212; the scholar&#8217;s hatred. One realizes that he has the neurotic&#8217;s fear of entering the living world, the world of men and women in which he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[35,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102759,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/102759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}