It [Joyce’s “Ulysses”] plays on the reader’s sympathies to his own undoing unless sleep kindly intervenes and puts a stop to this drain of energy. Arrived at page 135, after making several heroic efforts to get at the book, to “do it justice”, as the phrase goes, I fell at last into profound slumber.
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Another assumption is labelled “regression”, and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.
The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
