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I didn't particularly enjoy Portrait, so I've never bothered moving on to the heavy stuff.

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I haven't read Ulysses, but this type of attitude always strikes me as more elitist than those who claim to understand Ulysses. It's basically saying, "If I don't understand it, no one else possibly can!"

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While there's something to this, a Sklanskyesque Bayesian approach tends to lead me to think that the balance of pretentiousness tips the conventional way.