On the Bloomsday Virus

[azurelunatic]

"Ulysses may be the zenith of modernist writing in the novel form, but it's barely recognizable as a novel or as any other kind of writing," said Francis Harrod, of the anti-virus software developer F-Secure. "Of course the same can be said of text messaging; but nonetheless I sincerely doubt America's youth is equal to the task of sudden, unanticipated confrontation with this book. It could be extremely damaging to their minds."

Thanks, metaphorge!

Comments

^_^

[simoncion.livejournal.com]

*is thoroughly amused*

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if Joyce had just been born in our age, he would have composed Ulysses via text-messaging, and brought about the complete collapse of Western Civilization.

[azurelunatic]

Perhaps. Or perhaps Western Civilization would have turned their phones off?

...nah.

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Somewhere in a secret government warehouse is a large crate filled with all the punctuation marks Joyce never used.