You Can Link a Word in Ulysses to Your OnlyFans. Literature Is Dead

Yep. That’s real. That’s a thing you can do now.

Because someone out there woke up one morning, looked at James Joyce’s famously unreadable masterpiece Ulysses, and thought: “You know what this needs? Hyperlinks.”

Enter Open Ulysses - an unhinged, glorious, oddly poetic website that has taken Joyce’s entire novel, chopped it into its 260,000+ words, and put them up for sale.

Each word. One by one. Yours for €5 per character. And once you buy it, you can link it to literally anything. Your blog. Your YouTube video. Your Etsy store for crocheted possum costumes.

Or — and this is where things go full galaxy-brain - your OnlyFans.

Because, yes: you could now take the word “desire” or “moist” or “joyce” and link it directly to a thirst trap.

And it will sit there. Forever.

A clickable literary landmine.

Wait… what?

It’s like if a library, a public bathroom wall, and a domain-squatting forum had a baby - and that baby was raised by performance artists who moonlight as SEO marketers.

Open Ulysses is part digital art project, part absurdist meme, and part eternal monument to web chaos. You can choose a word, or you’re assigned one that’s still available. Once you get it, you own it.

It’s yours. You can tattoo your personal brand on Joyce’s metaphysical back and giggle maniacally while doing it.

But… why?

Because permanence is weirdly sexy.

And because in an age of disappearing TikToks and vanishing tweets, Open Ulysses is basically saying: “Hey. Wanna carve your weird little link into the bones of Western literature?”

Also, because it’s funny.

Imagine future digital archaeologists clicking through Ulysses and stumbling upon a link to a dead SoundCloud page, a conspiracy blog about alien crustaceans, or someone’s 2045 campaign for President of Mars.

That’s legacy, baby.

The beauty of it all?

It’s high-brow and low-brow.

It’s art and ad.

It’s profound and pointless.

And somehow, in the middle of all that contradiction, it makes total sense. Ulysses was always about chaos, consciousness, and connection. This just replaces stream-of-consciousness with stream-of-clicks.

So no, I didn’t link the word “desire” to my OnlyFans.

But someone could.

And I respect the hell out of that.

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