Yeah that's pretty much what I did with most of them, you'd get those York Notes books and they would get you through no problem.my dad always advised me not to read the books cos it would only confuse me. just learn what you are supposed to think about them.
Giving Ulysses a crack. Got stuck on the Shakespeare library dialogue a week ago and haven't picked it up since.
one of the first times I went to London a girl tried to chat me up coz I was reading songs of experience and innocence or whatever it's called, some edition with the carvings or paintings in or whatever they are, on the tube. it was absolutely amazing. nothing remotely like that has ever happened to me again
" ... we were just sitting here talking about you, and then we started talking about my needs, and what I need is a 40,000-candlepower illumination grenade. Big, bright bastards, that’s what I need. See if you can get them for me. I might be coming to Baton Rouge to interview [imprisoned former Louisiana governor] Edwin Edwards, and if I do I will call you, because I will be looking to have some fun, which as you know usually means violence."