James Joyce

"In attempting to be completely faithful to real life, in all its true confusion and complexity, Joyce ended up writing a book that is fascinatingly, instructively unreadable." - Professor Eric Bulson, for The School of Life on Joyce's Finnegans Wake

This is serious. I have tried several times and I just keep putting Joyce's books back into the queue. Listening to this framing of Joyce's work makes me think I should bump up its priority and try to read it again.

This post's theme word is frustraneous (adj), "useless, unprofitable." The exercise of reading was frustrating but not frustraneous.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?

• 10k
• chuck
• 18
• 2
• Well a woodchuck could chuck as much as a woodchuck could chuck hard.
• hello chuck
• ∞
• n
• 3.50
• O(nn!)
• a good amount

This post's theme word is gnathic, "of or relating to the jaw." The proverbial woodchuck is frighteningly gnathic.