I Like Joyce and Run-On Sentences, How About You Let’s Sing Tra-la-la

Here is a wonderful review for a movie about James Joyce, the man who wrote sentences like this:

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p. 1.

This is certainly a fitting tribute to Joyce, although there is altogether too much punctuation to be a perfect pastiche.

I think the last sentence sums it up, really.

Side Note: The movie, according to the Netflix description, concerns the “erotic correspondence” between Joyce and “the passionate and sexually outgoing Nora Barnacle.”  Who would read that and think, “Family movie night!”?

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