ok, ok...*grin*....but I thought Joyce was NEVER gonna quit in "Ulysses".

"Moby Dick" is also great writing, but "The Old Man and the Sea" is merely 'decent' writing. Why? Because it reeks of **Hemingway** and I doubt it would ever have become so famous if written by 'Joe Schmoe'...whereas Melville made his opus reflect humanity without the personality of the author imposed upon it.