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===The Starting Point=== | ===The Starting Point=== | ||
James Joyce spent 7 years writing a story that takes place on June 16, 1904, the day he met his future wife. It is the product of his attempt to depict the haphazrdness of thought and action of Leopold Bloom as they occur in their own separate and distinctive versions of "real time" in turn of the 20th century Dublin. Though | James Joyce spent 7 years writing a story that takes place on June 16, 1904, the day he met his future wife. It is the product of his attempt to depict the haphazrdness of thought and action of Leopold Bloom as they occur in their own separate and distinctive versions of "real time" in turn of the 20th century Dublin. Though ''Ulysses'' depicts a kind of disorder of what has come to be called "stream of consciousness," a concept of real time as something already broken and fractured for which it can depict in its wholeness by means of depicting its fractured nature, it is one of the most rigorously structured works of modern fiction, but one which does not exist in a "definitive edition." | ||
===The Experiment=== | ===The Experiment=== | ||