/lit/ - Literature

>>9204806
you see b/c most new worlders go to europa looking to discover some ancestral authenticity that they believe couldn't be transposed to the new world

hence the mythos about french, italian, and andalusian cooking; the wandering through the louver hunting out the five works by the five old masters that will surely offer them a transformative experience; the anticipation of some jerusalem syndrom-lite in seeing pilgrimage sights.

but when they get there there is no majesty, only the feeling preterition. all they meet is the banality of orchestration and streamlining. the "öld world" ethos imagined falls in the face of the real, capitalist, new world oriented, ethos through which the country speaks of itself

but yet they still feel like they can crack the facade and gain reentry. this manifests in petty routines, museums and churches in the day, dining and spectacle at night, dreary substitutes that leave them feeling like they never left home yet estranged at the same time

it's all along the lines of twain's holy land revisited; they want to break the place in and break into the place simultaneously

>>8439974
>This is just about my favourite simile ever written

different yokes for diffo folks for sure, I think the sausage part is what ruins it for me, or "rocked, rolling"; I'm far too spoiled by contemporary sensibilities and popular constructions to not be distracted by something like that


Joyce would say that though cause he believed Odysseus to be in every man, and his [any man's] struggles to be those of the very substance of life whether condensed into the microscopic or expanded into the macroscopic. Ulysses is basically revealing a trip to the store for bread and liver to be as existentially pressing, confounding and confronting as any other feat one might undertake. Both enmythening the myth and demythologizing the myth at once.

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Joyce
Pynchon
Eliot
Gaddis/Lowry tie
McCarthy

>>6069992
Platonic subjective-exclusionary and anti-distinctive skeptic with causal areligious empirical views founded in physical anethical elitism

>>6009837
Don't worry about it; things will either work themselves out or they won't.