Oh, my. As someone who is usually quite willing to wade through all those Shakespearian speeches, it's becoming ever clearer that one of these days I'm going to have to overcome my Joyce-block and read both Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. Now, why is it OK with me to have to sort through the annotations to Shakespeare, and not to Joyce? Is it that I think in a modern writer it's pretentious to write that way on purpose?