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Friday, June 13, 2008

You'd Have to Be Me to Know What This Means

Um, so apparently when I feel way overwhelmed, I take Internet quizzes, buckets of them, and post about them on my blog. What I do not do is: sleep, keep in touch with friends, spend quality time with my family, do substantive writing, read, or answer e-mail or comments.

This quiz came to me via Marta. Someday I may try to explain why the idea of Ulysses being my book is hilarious and disturbing to me, but I'm off to dream of being a Greek folk hero instead now...



You're Ulysses!
by James Joyce

Most people are convinced that you don't make any sense, but compared to what else you could say, what you're saying now makes tons of sense. What people do understand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at once brilliant and repugnant. Meanwhile you are content to wander around aimlessly, taking in the sights and sounds of the city. What you see is vast, almost limitless, and brings you additional fame. When no one is looking, you dream of being a Greek folk hero.

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

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12 comments:

  1. Granted, I don't really know you in the real world, but I have a hard time seeing the repugnant. The other bits? Maybe. But not that.

    Sorry to enable your quiz taking.
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  2. Mary P Jones (MPJ)Jun 13, 2008 02:22 PM
    Ha! Marta, I like that if you take out repugnant, you've left me with brilliant and incomprehensible. :)
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  3. Well, I think you are brilliant, and while I wouldn't say I find you incomprehensible, I do think there a some folks out there who would. You know, the I-would-leave-my-husband-what-is-she-thinking-and-why-is-she-telling-the-world types.

    Usually if someone is brilliant to some people, they are incomprehensible to others.
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  4. I'm Ulysses, too!
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  5. I took the quiz & I am Watership Down. This surprised me, I loved that back, having read it years and years ago!

    Thanks for the delightful distraction!

    "Though many think of you as a bit young, even childish, you're
    actually incredibly deep and complex. You show people the need to rethink their assumptions, and confront them on everything from how they think to where they build their houses. You might be one of the greatest people of all time. You'd be recognized as such if you weren't always talking about talking rabbits."

    Setting the record straight: I *don't* think I've ever mentioned the word rabbit once in the past six months. Hopping off now...
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  6. My mom loves Ulysses. It took her years to read the damn book, and she did tons of supplemental reading about it.

    I took the test. This is what it says about me:

    You're Mrs. Dalloway!
    by Virginia Woolf

    Your life seems utterly bland and normal to the casual observer, but inside you are churning with a million tensions and worries. The company you surround yourself with may be shallow, but their effects upon your reality are tremendously deep. To stay above water, you must try to act like nothing's wrong, but you know that the truth is catching up with you. You're not crazy, you're just a little unwell. But no doctor can help you now.

    Scarily accurate, I must say.
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  7. I’m resisting the temptation to play in favor of seeing if I can read and respond to a few more posts here before my computer balks … but you know how I enjoy these quizzes myself … so it ain’t easy ;--)
    Hugs and blessings,
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  8. Wow - I dont do quizzies that often - Mostly I get links to them from you - but I also dont sleep, keep in touch with friends or spend quality time with my family when I am feeling that way - maybe more quizzies would help?!
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  9. I'm the best book ever: To Kill a Mockingbird!

    How did they know?

    ;)
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  10. Yeah I was Ulysses too. They banned it here when it first came out. And a whole bunch grew up reading the "dirty" parts as soon as they could find them. They were reading a masterpiece and they thought it was porn, go figure. I already have.

    Hell I used to sneak Mailer's The Naked and the Dead out from behind the facade in front of the "dirty" books when the parents left. My god it had the word "fug" in it and that was just something I should not be allowed to read. Christ I said the word fuck everyday. And for the life of me I couldn't figure out why the book was hidden away or had caused any controversy at all.

    As far as I know the last 3 chapters of The Story of O are still banned in this country. I hear they weren't all that hot anyway and the book lost a bunch in the translation from French. Most wouldn't know art if they tripped over it. And that story most would consider hard core porn.

    As you can see I combined this one with a prior post of yours. And as always it's just my take on it. In a free society you have to take the bad with the good, to put limits on expression will defeat you in the end. There must certinaly are those thngs considered porn that I do not like and somethings that poeple don't even consider porn at all, but will set me in a dead rage. However I respect those that do like it, as long as it isn't hurting anyone. The not hurting anyone can get a bit complex too.

    Burning books isn't the crime, it's the not reading them and those that would burn them, wouldn't read them anyway. Art is to change ones view, to take away something from the expierance, good or bad. It did it's job if it allowed you to feel something. Mother nature is pretty good at it too and some of Man's work will make you retch. War is the porn that should be banned. It will never happen and if you don't think it has to do with the very basics of sex...well I don't have the time nor inclanation to explain it. The Art of War is an excellent read, by the way, and I doubt if it's ever been banned. As well it shouldn't.

    I think I'll go wish I was Pandora now. I guess she's a Greek folk hero, hell I dunno. I wrote a piece on that a long time ago, well it seems it was anyway. I could give a twist to ol Pandoras box that would get me banned in Boston, I just betcha I could. ;p

    postpaleo
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  11. I'm Ulysses, too.
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  12. Thought you'd like to know that the sequel to this quiz, the Book Quiz II, was launched this week. Enjoy!
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