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Ulysses and Marilyn Monroe have me licked

July 28, 2013 1

What pisses me off about James Joyce’s Ulysses is that it makes me feel dumbassthick. For 13 years it has stuck its tongue out at me from the ‘Top 100 books of the century’ list. Having now thrice tried to pagewade Ulysses I wave a white flag, roll over in defeat. This time committed to reach pg 50, at times …

A South African wife, poet and mother. Sula was the founding member of the Durban Live Poets Society (LiPS) in 1995 which she headed until leaving Durban in 2000. She has had journal extracts published in Fair Lady Magazine and in the anthology “Glass Jars Among Trees” and her poetry, for which she has won several prizes, has been published in various South African and international anthologies. Sula is a loving mother to 4 children and loves hiking, the outdoors, reading, writing, cooking, baking and sewing. (written by my husband :) ) You can e-mail Sula at sula1968@gmail.com