438 How Was Your Ulysses? (with Mike Palindrome)
The History of Literature
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The U.S. Versus One Book Called Ulysses
Ulysses is through and through irish they brick by brick, he went off to recreate the city of dublin. And it's like, lines like, god, these bri bloody english, bursting with money and indigestion. So there were three arguments against ulysses. One was sexual titillation, especially molly's soliloquy at the end. The second thing, the second argument against was that it was blas blasphemous in its treatment of the roman catholic church. But Louis manand kind of put it in a different way: It's not for obscenity but for reality. He showed that the artist must have absolute freedom to
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