The Lesson of Ulysses

I've never claimed I was on the quest to perfect Ulysses or to edit a definitive Ulysses. New York Times magazine author Jack hit simply made that up as he seems to have done with several other things attributed to me by him. Or maybe he is an uncredited source that inspired him to romanticize my mundane drudgery as a tropical textologist and translator. The lesson of Ulysses, of course, is to be nice to your wife. But the other lesson is that we need to stop banning books.