/lit/ - Literature

INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see.

Ok /lit/, I'm finally reading Joyce, starting with Dubliners. What am I in for? Is it as hard to read as his infamous other works?

What's the best way to read Ulysses? With or without a guide or annotations? Should one read A Portrait and/or Dubliners before reading Ulysses? Also Joyce thread I guess.