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How James Joyce invented Cinema

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I'm Obsessed With the Dead

James Joyce as a modernist in 1909 imagining what this art farm could eventually be. falling like the descent of their last end upon all the living and the dead is just fucking beautiful but it's not just beautiful prose it's cinematic that's cinema. I think James Joyce was trying to write a film what films would be forty years later when citizen came along he I think he was tried to write what a film could be when editing and angles and drawn shots and dallies none of this existed yet so it just happened on the page as a short story. Its pure modernism that is pure modernism when art such as writing painting music existing comfortably relatively unchanged as heritage art forms for a long

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