Show I Slime for Young Minds I k During the past five years the traffic in copies of or Joyces Joyce's contraband Ulysses has become an industry industry industry indus indus- try second only to that of smuggling rum lum No self self- respecting young intellectual would think of or going through the tho dally daily round without Ulysses tucked under un un- un- un der dee his arm That sl sky blue paper-covered paper volume has the old family Bible backed up against the wall fighting fo rita very life Ufe Now Ulysses in my opinIon opinion ion is an authentic if JC muddled masterpiece it strikes me not as the work of one man but as a whole national literature in itself As food for youth I think its it's damnably bad Adolescents need books that will help them thein out of ot their confusion clarity clarify their thoughts for them and serve their mental vision like a good pair pall of spectacles to safeguard them both from far sightedness and near Ulysses when its it's studied by the tho young joung only churns up the mud and slime and sediment In their brains I honestly believe th that t the boy who is content with Treasure Island when hes he's 15 has a much better chance of or appreciating ap ap- ap- ap Predating Ulysses at 30 than hi his more moro precocious brethren will Richmond Barrett in May Harpers |