Virginia Woolf, privately dissing James Joyce

"the inferior water" "callow board school boy" -wotta snob!

(Didn't she say similar snobby snipes about D.H. Lawrence?)

More Woolf bitchery about Ulysses

"I should be reading ‘Ulysses,’ and fabricating my case for and against. I have read 200 pages so far—not a third; and have been amused, stimulated, charmed, interested, by the first two or three chapters—to the end of the cemetery scene; and then puzzled, bored, irritated and disillusioned by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. Tom, great Tom [T.S. Eliot], thinks this is on a par with ‘War and Peace’! An illiterate, underbred book, it seems to me; the book of a self-taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating.”

Got no dog in this race - I have read exactly the same number of pages of Ulysses as of Mrs Dalloway - eight.