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Ulysses by James Joyce
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Ulysses

by James Joyce

The thing about Ulysses is it has all kinds of language. It is a kind of equaliser of language by making the everyday into an epic. You have the language of the pub and of drinking, which is this coarse unliterary language that he makes famous through this book.

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