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Earwicker posted:Ulysses isn't impenetrable, but if you aren't an Irish Catholic from the early 1900s - or someone who happens to do a lot of research on that place and period I guess - then I would say there is a hell of a lot of the book you are likely to miss without reading a guide of some sort, or reading it in a class. I was reading Machado de Assis and first there was a bit where the local priest was promoted to, like, Protonotary Apothecary and im like, ok, it's something important, he's almost a notary and then a few pages later they're carrying a Sacharist to a sick woman's house and they needed four Trenoticulars to hold the canopy under which the bishop marched with the Nonuterian Escapole and im like jesus loving christ speak english if you go to museums in Portugal or Spain you're likely to come across absurdly ornamental golden devices which look like a sun, through which you're supposed to look at the eucharist in some medieval ritual (???). I can't be hosed to google what they're called Catholicism ftw
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