scott fscott@carfree.city
Oct 7, 2026, 8:30 PM@minmi so it was type 2 fun!
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MinmiTheDinominmi@sfba.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:33 PM@scott yea very much so!
- scott fscott@carfree.cityOct 7, 2026, 9:56 PM
@minmi I haven’t read it, but I read the Odyssey as a precursor to Ulysses which I heard was modeled on it. (Very loosely it turns out) And hoo boy, it doesn’t get more type 2 fun than Ulysses 😪
- MinmiTheDinominmi@sfba.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:02 PM
@scott have to admit, I hated Ulysses and didn’t finish it. And that is *rare*.
- scott fscott@carfree.cityOct 7, 2026, 10:16 PM
@minmi how far did you get? did you have an annotated version for the obscure words?
- MinmiTheDinominmi@sfba.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:17 PM
@scott I got about halfway through. It just felt so self indulgent and also so uninterested in women as humans that I got mad at it.
- MinmiTheDinominmi@sfba.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:18 PM
@scott I mean, did the Iliad regularly measure women’s worth in oxen? Yes. Somehow still felt less misogynistic 😅
- scott fscott@carfree.cityOct 7, 2026, 10:25 PM
@minmi that's fair! It didn't register as authorial sympathy for characters' misogynistic views for me, but maybe I was too worn out running to the dictionary to notice.
- MinmiTheDinominmi@sfba.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:28 PM
@scott 😂 I read it in college and it’s also possible I just didn’t care enough to kind of reflect on the underlying truth there.
- MinmiTheDinominmi@sfba.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:28 PM
@scott did you end up glad you read it?
- scott fscott@carfree.cityOct 7, 2026, 10:40 PM
@minmi I'd say so. It was six years ago, and I was just thinking about a re-read. On Monday I re-read the opening scene and it felt completely different now that I understood enough of the references to move through it briskly, rather than pause to look up every other sentence on https://joyceproject.com