portrait of a young man as a collection of undergaduate dissertation post-it notes rediscovered inside a copy of ulysses

 

Note 1

new use for old waste

reuniting with birth? healing?

holy, salvation, et cetera.

 

Note 2

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Note 3

stupidly nationalist views

making fun of rhetoric

turns teacher’s ideas

around on him

 

Note 4

images of waste

coming together

limp father of thousands

using words badly

 

Note 5

veggie food brings on

the shits… and poetry

 

Note 6

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Note 7

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Note 8

waste words superfluous to story

waste of body superfluous to system

reinvented as voice of machinery

reinvention equals voice

 

Note 9

metempsychosis

becoming a man

becoming stephen?

 

Note 10

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Note 11

tenuous link!

overlong descriptions

bag of wind

wasted words? or not

rhetoric is lies!

 

Note 12

ireland???

 

Note 13

waste / sex / land

bad baby, fatherhood, impotence… important?

laying england to waste

daedelus ostracised

through assocciation [sic]

 

Note 14

gross! literature & waste mixed

rejuvenated by plantations

dead dad washed up

waste shore

ireland goes to waste

 

Note 15

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Note 16

[illegible]

see descriptions

of washed up waste

on page 41