A challenge (to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield!)

According to the inimitable Mark Twain (actually, he is imitable, since Hal Holbrooke's been doing it for decades, but--already!--I digress), "A classic is something everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read." I laughed when I first saw that quotation, because I had recently had that exact thought about James Joyce's Ulysses. I really want to be a person who has read it, but I've never necessarily wanted to put in the work to make that happen. Well, I have decided that, no matter how long it takes or how crazy it drives me, I am going to be a person who has read Ulysses. My attitude toward this project can be summed up by those inspirational words from the other "Ulysses," hence the title of this post. I am not going to yield, no matter how loopy the stream-of-consciousness narration gets, and I will post here about the experience.

So far, I have checked the book out of the library. I'm afraid the easy part is over.