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12.01.13
by ELG Gray

Ulysses – take one

I am on page 37.

Those first 37 pages took 2 weeks and were making me lose the will to ever read again.  I had to look up 4 words and a phrase that I still don’t understand. And I ignored the Latin. I can see why a scholar would call it ‘rich’, but I cannot bring myself to carry on…

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