Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)
Really impressed with H. G. Wells here; he manages to:<p>- imagine (correctly or incorrectly) a system of values&#x2F;upbringing that might result in <i>Finnegan&#x27;s Wake</i> being seen as good or worthwhile [not his words, but for example: valuing “artistic” &#x2F; “creative expression” over pleasure or illumination for the reader],<p>- articulate his own values and why as a result he considers it not worth his time,<p>- yet remain humble [you may not think so but this is how it appears to me] that this is just his own point of view and for others with different values, this “extraordinary experiment” may be worthwhile after all — or not.<p>This ability to imagine another point of view, another system of preferences even, and come with a plausible explanation of it.