Reading Ulysses — Nestor: Pt. 2 by Russell Block

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Nestor Pt. II

“One can see how humans beings like to reach their ends only by their own means, how much trouble it takes to make them understand what is self evident, and how difficult it is to implement in someone who has real ambitions the first conditions that will make his efforts likely to succeed.” — Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship 

With particular interest in the language of literature, an interest increasing as the world devolves into madness, we observe the fundamental capacity of language to observe as well as to describe, distinguish as well as bring into unity…