
The Date






Proust said that the novel is a mirror held up to life, and that the art is to be judged by the quality of the mirror, not of the life. Joyce’s variation on the theme is that the mirror–everyone else’s, one assumes, not his own–is a “low grade ha.”
– from The Ethical Spectacle

Sometimes it’s really hard to come up with something original to say when you’re vandalizing a phone. Or is this a deep, deconstructionist comment?
