Madam, - Kevin Myers talks arrant, if amusing, nonsense about Ulysses (An Irishman's Diary, February 11th), dangerously reinforcing Roddy Doyle's feline birthday tribute in New York.
Open the novel anywhere, and its radiant energy leaps from the page: humorous, scabrous, immersive, life-affirming, its famously riverine flow of consciousness perfectly mirroring the minds of ordinary Dublin citizenry. Leopold and Molly Bloom are every man and every woman - nothing difficult, no mystique.
The transcendent power of Ulysses speaks to every reader, whether of middle, lower or higher brows.
Buckle to, Kevin: ars longa, vita brevis. - Yours, etc.,
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ANTONY FARRELL, Lilliput Press, Dublin 7.