I read Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before but I didn't grasp a lot of it. How fortunate for me that the Tvtropes Critical Editions paperback is out. I'm glad I can learn about it from an academic resource and it looks great next to my copy of
King Lear in Alphabetical Order. Here's a teaser:
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (
Mary Sue)
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII, 188 (
The Pretentious Latin Motto / Smart People Know Latin)
I
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo….
His father (
Orphan's Ordel: Subverted, Stephen is not an orphan) told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo (
Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality). The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived (
Alliterative Name): she sold lemon platt.
O, the wild rose blossoms
On the little green place.
He sang that song. That was his song.
O, the green wothe botheth (Baby Talk)
When you wet the bed (
Wetting the Bed) first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.
His mother had a nicer smell than his father (
Oedipus Complex).'
I have no idea why they put hyperlinks in a physical book.