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>>2723143

I agree. Just compulsively defending the guy's rule as descriptive of prescribed usage. Then I thought it worth noting that "If you could put a period there, a semicolon will work" is not equivalent to "If you can't put a period there, a semicolon won't work".

This post is not fun to read.

>>2723143

I agree. Just compulsively defending the guy's rule as descriptive of prescribed usage. Then I thought it worth observing that "If you could put a period there, a semicolon will work" is not equivalent to "If you can't put a period there, a semicolon won't work".

This post is not fun to read.

>>2723143

I agree. Just compulsively defending the guy's rule as descriptive of prescribed usage.

Then I thought it was interesting that "If you could put a period there, a semicolon will work." was true but "If you can't put a period there, a semicolon won't work." was not. You could say, "[in that case], it won't definitely not work.". That would be equivalent to the first statement.

>Not reading Hamlet as a prerequisite to Ulysses.
>2012.
>Get on the level of many.

Gonna bump this a bit, just cause I don't want this to go to waste and I don't come on here that often.

Oh also, part 1 goes up to the first half of the Cyclops episode, part 2 from there to the end. Though if you're gonna take any you should take both, they're great.

>>1798497
You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore's glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover's fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling's cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.

Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.

>>1499105

Joyce isn't that popular after his lifetime either. I ain't hatin' on old Jimmy, but y'know, I is jus' saying.

Dan Brown sold more copies of his books while I was typing this post than James Joyce has ever sold in the whole of his publishing career, alive or dead.

Sobering thought or not?

>this thread

What does /lit/ have to say about Ulysses?

Finnegans Wake?

Hi, I'm James Joyce, and this may possibly be the best work of historical fiction I've ever read, to date.

>>1068586
>>1068578
>>1068574

What was that you were saying?

>>1054071
>>1054066
That's from Ulysses guys

>>1040318

This face....

...it is the face of a troll.

>>1037504
Haters gonna hate.

>In a car on the way to poor Dignam's burial.
>Sitting with Powers, Cunningham, Dedalus, and Bloom.
>Talking about Dignam's suicide.
>Say the worst man is the one who takes his own life.
>See Bloom's mouth open.
>He says nothing.
>Get told later that Bloom's dad killed himself.

My face.

>>1016346
Your lack of faith is disturbing.

>>1009183
>Fuck you conservative dog. You have bad grammer and you post on lit.
>You have bad grammer and you post on lit.
>grammer

>>979102

Hey /lit/

Aspiring writer here. I go to community college and I'm SO much smarter than all my teachers! Whenever I turn in a piece of literature, they tell me it's "overreaching", "pretentious", or "nonsensical." Personally, I think my style is very Joycean. Let me know what you guys think, I posted this on my blog and it got some really positive responses.

IV

I’ve literally written over 150 pages worth of work—some double-spaced, some not—this semester. Granted, most of this work has been dubiously easy, but my efforts have left me begging for some personal freedom. Not included in this page-count is the myriad of short stories and other such fiction that I’ve written for a few journals. I enjoy writing, but similar to many people in my standing, only when it fosters creativity or intellect—not when it’s contrived to reiteration of unclear premises and muddled discrepancies. I’ve written a few pieces of worth, though most is just squandered academic rhetoric for the sake of unneeded practice.

Philistine, comatose, emaciated, bombastic labor in the doldrums.

Not that I’m against discipline or the honing of a craft; I wholeheartedly agree that one must assign his or herself to keeping up a steady pace in order to perfect a craft. It’s not the future of the work that bothers me—just this semester. As far as this one goes, I just don’t know how much effort I can keep putting forth.

Four more pages.

IV.

Then I’m done for now. I’m not complaining; I’m just not challenged. A curriculum of terrible film and ineffective instructing will do that, I suppose.

Four.

I’ve grown tired of even seeing ivoried pages of empty word documents. I’ve just got a few more hours to kill before I’ve hallowed this semester out.

For what?

Hey /lit/, I'm heading to the second hand book store tomorrow, and I'm in need of some recommendations.

If it helps:
My favorite author is Joseph Conrad.

Picture not related as I own most of his work (but have not really read any of it).

So who else on /lit/ believes that pure literature is going to die out and be replaced by marketable authors like jk Rowling and Stephanie Meyers?

Capitalism is now killing literature how fucking pathetic have we become

Hey /lit/, it's safe to say that all of you are amateur writers who have degrading opinions for anything original posted here.

Can we have a thread of the most well written piece you have personally written with no shit talking?

It could finally be a good thread on /lit/

No tldrs keep it short guys.