Sheila's going to be pissed.

Nothing like a good literary dust-up: modern Irish writer Roddy Doyle declares that James Joyce 1) could have used a good editor on Ulysses, 2) wasn't Ireland's best writer, and 3) that his reading 3 pages of Finnegan's Wake was a "tragic waste of time". And hilariously, he chose a Joyce birthday celebration to air his views.

[Via the Creator of Worlds.]

This is why I read Farm Accident Digest.

For quotes like this:

"That evil, uncaring man daring to act like he doesn't want to blender up all those common folk into a slurry prized by the rich for its ability to enhance the look of caviar when viewed through a monocle."