Well, we'll see how it goes. I'm loving Dubliners moreso this time around with more life experience under my belt. Portrait... it's heavy going during the chapter where the priest is lecturing on and on about Hell, and again when Stephen is waffling on about his aesthetic theory, but I enjoyed the overall story arc. I read both in Penguin's annotated editions. Even though I'm familiar with the geography, politics of the era and much of the slang, there is still a lot that can pass me by, so having an editor to hold my hand and explain the things I didn't get is helpful.
Ulysses is obviously a much more daunting prospect and I just realised neither of the copies I own (a Penguin, and a nice 1960s hardback edition) has annotations, so I'll have to do something about that before I get to it.
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