Andy Miller

It has given me one exquisite moment of amusement.

I gather that if I hope to retain my reputation as an intelligent shade, open to new ideas, I must peruse this volume.

Peruse.

Oh, it's so pooterish.

It is a singular matter that a countryman of mine should have produced this great bulk of filth.

You may smile at me for uttering this when you reflect that in the eyes of the world I am a tainted creature, but at least I had a sense of the values of things on the terrestrial globe.

It goes on from there.

But just as a postscript to that, Joyce was so delighted with that review that he encoded a review of it in Finnegan's Wake.

There is a section of Finnegan's Wake where they tap the table

And Oscar comes through and expresses disapproval of the book you are reading at that moment.

So I'd think a victory to Joyce on points there, really.

I'm afraid that's where we must leave the inimitable Oscar.

Huge thanks to Stephen for generously sharing his thoughts, insights, memories about this extraordinary text.

To Nicky Birch for putting us at ease with her oral aptitude.

And to Unbound for smuggling in the Dante and the Flow Bear.

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