Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for July 23, 2023

Well, this strip does have the word “farther”, which does include the word “fart”. Perhaps a veiled love note to his beloved Nora?

One and a half pages later and it’s off to Gazpacho Shack to recover.

That’s still about twice as far as anyone gets through Finnegans Wake.

Not sure how you’d go about it in 3-4 panels, but I once decided to read Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” (wanted something from Shakespeare’s era but by somebody else just to keep it different). Got all the way through but the main thing that came out of it was after a couple of days I was having trouble not formulating all my thoughts in iambic pentameter.

Eh? Me not get this. Me is goes back to trying to draws Doug.

I got as far as “What do you call a disappointed bridge?” and “What is an Englishman’s proudest boast?” There was also something about an outsized period…

You can’t really follow what they are saying because you don’t what you’re reading is either dialog or narrative.

Couldn’t get through “Ulysses” although I tried numerous times. I have read “Finnegans Wake”. Really. I’m not kidding. Absolutely loved it.

And yes, she said, yes.

“Buck Mulligan went over the parapet, laughing softly to himself” — misprint in the first edition (it should have been over to the parapet), approximately recalled many years later

I have every intention of starting to read this some day. I think I glanced at my parents’ copy when I was little, but I’m not counting that.

There are other books that I intend to start, Remembrance of Things Past comes to mind, and others that I intend to start with a reasonable expectation of finishing.

I tried Joyce. My folks had a copy of Ulysses. Couldn’t do it.

I’ve never read or heard anything positive about Ulysses. So why is it considered great literature if nobody can stand it? I’d rather be reading Terry Pratchett.

thanks, Rube! I aced the exam!