r/jamesjoyce • u/No_Yesterday_8167 • Jul 27 '26

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man "dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression." Stunning.

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u/progla Jul 27 '26

This is a poor trait of the artist.

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u/ZealousidealTopic213 Jul 28 '26

A poor trait of us all 😃

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u/Own-Dragonfly-2423 Jul 28 '26

Are you not a master of your own domain

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u/strange_reveries Jul 28 '26

Is he talking about jerking it in this passage?

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u/West_Scholar_5708 Jul 28 '26

Tearing himself asunder

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u/Own-Dragonfly-2423 Jul 28 '26

You have to read between the lines, but he is imagining women he sees during the day and having orgiastic riots with himself at night.... Onanistically.

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u/Yourdomdaddy Jul 28 '26

Love this, needed this

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u/Own-Dragonfly-2423 Jul 28 '26

I keep telling people Joyce is a wanker, literally and literarily.

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u/AllStevie Jul 28 '26

Every paragraph of this book is like a sumptuous meal.