No structure at all

this quote should be printed in the new edition

this is the greatest work written in english language.

When did Veeky Forums get so full of shit

No that's King Lear

Why cant the chaotic mess be the deeper meaning?

kek

Its likely that Joyce never said that quote about keeping professors busy, the french guy who said Joyce said that was interviewed years after he had talked one on one to Joyce and wasnt someone Joyce frequently corresponded with. That guy was probably just jumping on the meme because there arent so many unsolvable riddles in Ulysses and the biggest one, the one predicted by Joyce in the work "a man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and the portals of discovery" has more come from ubiquitous printing errors that people cannot dostinguish from errors Joyce put in decisevly to channel the register of Blooms incomplete knowledge.

That quote sounds pedantic as fuck. I reckon if user and not Joyce had said this we'd shitpost him into oblivion for being this much of a faggot. And this is Veeky Forums. We're supposed to be one of the nicest boards.

Its a really obnoxious quote and it suggests that Joycea entire goal with Ulysses is just to confuse people which really doesnt appear to be his motivation when you read his letters to Frank Budgen or early drafts just as he began to go retrospective

Because meaning happens in the head of the reader, not the head of the author. Take something where meaning isn't obvious and everybody will project their own onto it.

It's like the story of this art professor who had his students analyze a Jackson Pollock painting, only to reveal that it was only a close up photography of his painting apron.

Or those examples in films, where critics say an actors emotional expression was so convincing and impressive, but all they did was film the actors face and the director told him "look bored" without any context.