'All the arts aspire to the art of music'
joyce explains that we should pay attention to the epiphanies in literature.... but pay attention to the MUSIC in the literature rather than the philosophical things that can be found in literature.
i hwould have to agree obviously, but sometimes it seems that the epiphanies may be very important yet, the moment they happen almost passes you by before knowing what just happened. As joyce wants, this way of reading , makes a reader so much more focused on the text rather then just 'passing' everything good by. So when reading 'The Dead', i will have to be looking for anything and everything that is trivial i guess.
Diamonds that we are looking for in 'The Dead' are trivial, is what Dr Sexson has told us. Pay attention to the conversations, the paintings on the wall, the trivial conversations.... which most are not only in the story but in life...
if i think about it, i have spent almost my entire life having conversations with trival topics.... but that changed once i came to college and actually met people that i wanted to have conversations with, that were more than just trivial BS.... and since becoming an english lit major, i have met my favorite people to talk to about REAL things.. hmm i would say thats a little 'oooh'... one more reason why i became an english major...
