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美国诉一本名为《尤利西斯》的书
United States vs. One Book Called “Ulysses”
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这篇记录美国诉《尤利西斯》一书的法庭判决及相关讨论：Random House 故意进口一本以促成司法裁决，围绕《尤利西斯》是否淫秽展开。评论兼谈阅读门径与乔伊斯对意识流动的写法，值得写作者了解文学审查、现代主义叙事和阅读经典的方法。
可以直接用的写作要点
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写人物内心时，不只写当下聚焦的观察，也写记忆残影和潜意识联想，让心理层次更厚。
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用不断切换的具体感官印象表现人物，而不是直接概括情绪。
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读影响自己的经典可先读入门作品，不必被注释和批评绑架，先抓住主题和语言。
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难读的作品允许反复尝试；第一遍不“中奖”不代表它没有价值。
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文学审查案件常由出版方有意制造“测试案件”推动司法裁决。
这条判决读起来很有趣。我不知道背景：《尤利西斯》因片段发表后在美被禁，而这份判决来自 Random House 故意违反禁令、进口一本以迫使法院裁决。虽然海关提前得知书会到，但到达时未没收，而是转寄给纽约的 Random House。由于海关扣押是测试案件计划的关键，Random House 律师 Morris Ernst 把未拆封的包裹带到海关，要求扣押，于是书被扣。
paulgb查看英文原文
This is a fun judgement to read. I wasn’t aware of the backstory, but Ulysses was banned in the US after an excerpt was published, and this judgement is the result of Random House intentionally violating the ban by importing a single copy to force a court to decide on it. > Although Customs had been told in advance of the anticipated arrival of the book, it was not confiscated on arrival, and instead was forwarded to Random House in New York City. As seizure by Customs was essential to the plan for a test case, Morris Ernst, the attorney for Random House, took the unopened package to Customs, demanded that it be seized, and it was. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Called_Ulysses
读难书先打基础、别被注释淹没，重读可能带来回报。
对好奇《尤利西斯》的人：它很棒。先读《都柏林人》和《青年艺术家的画像》。如果以前放弃过，再试一次；我多年觉得它是胡扯，重读后爱上。建议跳过学生版，别在读时被大量注释和批评卡住；用翻译查拉丁文，了解一点荷马和莎士比亚即可。它主要讲生、死与轮回。《尤利西斯》像老虎机，很少第一次拉就中奖；而乔伊斯最爱好的“拉一把”。
kinghtown查看英文原文
For anyone curious about Ulysses: It’s great. Read Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before Ulysses. If you gave up on it before: try again. I used to think it was BS for years but I tried again and ended up loving it. I’d advise skipping student editions or getting hung up on reading tons of notes and criticism while reading it. Just use google translate for latin and know a little bit about Homer and Shakespeare. It’s about mainly about life, death, and reincarnation. Ulysses is like a slot machine in that it rarely pays out on the first pull. And if anyone loved a good pull it was Joyce.
用“意识屏幕/重写本”写人物内心，可把当下观察与记忆、潜意识联想叠在一起。
判决书说：乔伊斯似乎以惊人成功展示意识之屏如何带着不断变换的万花筒式印象，像可塑的羊皮纸重写本，不仅承载人物对身边实际事物的聚焦观察，也承载半影区的往昔印象残余，有些近事，有些由潜意识联想调取。他展示这些印象如何影响所写人物的生活与行为。我试过至少五次读这本书都失败，又试有声书也放弃；只能承认我做不到。
isaacfrond查看英文原文
From the verdict: Joyce has attempted it seems to me, with astonishing success to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in a penumbral zone residua of past impressions, some recent and some drawn up by association from the domain of the subconscious. He shows how each of these impressions affects the life and behavior of the character which he is describing. I've tried, at least five times to read the book... and failed each time. Then I tried the audiobook. Gave it up. I have to face it, I'm just not up to the task.
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