I never got very much out of Ulysses. I think it's an extraordinary book, but so much of it consists of rather lengthy demonstrations of how a novel ought not to be written, doesn't it? He does show nearly every conceivable way it should not be written, and then goes on to show how it might be written.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I never got very much out of Ulysses. I think it's an extraordinary book, but so much of it consists of rather lengthy demonstrations of how a novel ought not to be written, doesn't it? He does show nearly every conceivable way it should not be written, and then goes on to show how it might be written." in the context of "Aldous Huxley Interview (1960)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.