drink every time you are baffled by "Ulysses"

At the Jenny Vaudeville Show on Wednesday, I had promised "literary drinking games," but on further reflection, was unable to develop such a game that could be played in under ten minutes.

I did, however, do a "guess the author" game, where I read an excerpt from something, giving only the hint "playwright/novelist, now dead," and had people shout out guesses until someone got it right and won a prize.

It was from Beckett's "Molloy," and someone (Ari) guessed after about a paragraph, winning a copy of The Soft Room, by Karen Heuler, who was also in attendance.