/lit/ - Literature

>>7857122

What is your favorite chapter of Ulysses, and why?

> working at an extra credit thing for a class, off-campus
> fat girl comes up
> starts talking it up a bit
> turns out she goes to my uni, and is also there for extra credit, lower my guard
> "what are you studying anon"
> "double major Computer Science / English or Philosophy, I have to decide soon"
> she lights up a bit
> "wow I love english!"
> "yeah kinda clicked later on for me, I spend all my time in the library now"
> she starts looking a bit intimidated
> I smell a pleb who doesn't spend 8 hours a day reading and writing like I do
> "who are your favorite authors?"
> "hmm"... I look off into the distance with that Joyce look of "man I hate niggers and Jesuits", pic related
> she starts trembling, expecting something "patrician" like vonnegut
> "I have recently reread the entirety of Joyce's works, though I am reading Finnegans Wake a few pages a day supplemented by multiple essaybooks, annotations, and my current studies of latin, greek, and gaeilge. I am a huge fan of William Gaddis, especially The Recognitions. Nathan Hawthorne is my 19th century man, though. All of these guys are on the 7th floor of the library, though I have to go down to the 6th to get french literature, Milton, Shakespeare, etc. Also, Brion Gysin is pretty-"
> she is basically about to cry
> she starts undressing and while she's fat honestly I'd hit it, maybe even in front of everyone
> she's straddling the table, there's a metal bar sticking out and she's just stuffing it inside of her, about to commit sudoku the ladylike way from my sheer power of libraryness
> "I'm almost finished Proust in the original--"
> she is squirting and fondling herself, reciting a pleb poem by TS Eliot or some shit
> "-- and I can read the entire Bible, New and Old testaments, in the original."
> she explodes into a million pieces
> de chunks in de hayloft
> make a note of the event and get back to analyzing Whoroscope by Beckett translated half into Swahili and half into proto-Cuneiformic Irish

>>6332548

>The irishmen in my novel speaks a constructed language that I-

I'm about to give a presentation -- about the use of the Irish Gaelic language in Finnegans Wake and its indirect impact on modern English literature -- to a bunch of uninterested college freshmen, to whom the words "Joyce and Beckett" sound like a brand of clothing. I had to memorize about two pages of Finnegans Wake for the presentation (opening of Chapter 1, and part of the Anna Livia chapter), and I will be autistically reciting them in a light irish brogue.

Presentation is in 20 minutes. Wish me luck!

>>6236746

> look at the movable shelves
> realize that if I could just instantly have the knowledge of just one shelf's worth of material crammed into my head, a shelf of my choosing, I would be more well read and more learned than almost anyone even 50 years my senior
> look down at my book
> 50 pages in the last hour
> look at the shelf
> mfw

so today I was browsing a 2nd hand bookstore and found a copy of dubliners dirt cheap. i have never read joyce before but am wondering if this is a good 'first step' into his writings? or, if not, what would you suggest as an alternative?