[purplerabbit]

Loved your comment.

I also (truly) enjoyed the Iliad. It is rich with appreciable association.

Having studied english lit in college, I guess I feel betrayed by works like Ulysses. On some level I feel I was promised that immersing myself in the canon to the extent that I could enjoy such a text in the way you described would give me a richer way to perceive reality/life/humanity/whatever. I believe that such is the case with works like the Iliad, the Pentateuch, etc... but for Ulysses, it felt less like connecting myself with more of reality and more like binding myself to the narcissistic culture of literary fiction.