No, Joyce doesn't irritate the hell out of people for failing to do what he
attempts. He irritates by succeeding. Salinger isn't quite there.
Jim
Paul Miller wrote:
> Scottie wrote:
> And for me at least
> it's the knowingness, the preening, the 'haven't-I-the-most-marvellous-
> verbal-facility' quality of that voice that puts the teeth on
> edge............................
>
> Yes that's what I always hated too. Are you saying that Joyce never
> irritated the hell out of you because I can't say that? Faulkner called The
> Sound and the Fury a brilliant failure. SaI may well be a failure at
> whatever Salinger was trying to do, exactly what that was is the interesting
> part.
>
> Paul
>
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