/lit/ - Literature

should i even bother trying to read more complex literature if i'm too low IQ to understand it?
>picrel

ulysses is an order of magnitude more difficult imo

>>20470113
>>20471095
I've read Ulysses before. Here's how I would go about scheduling the chapters:
Listed are for each chapter the Odyssey-nomenclature, the word count, the weight of difficulty, and at the rate of ~7500 weighted-words per day the total amount of days for reading.
>Telemachus: 7174 words, 1x, 1 day
>Nestor: 4420 words, 1x, 1 day
>Proteus: 5665 words, 3x, 3 days
>Calypso: 5882 words, 1x, 1 day
>Lotus-eaters: 6370 words, 1x, 1 day
>Hades: 10917 words, 1x, 2 days
>Æolus: 10046 words, 1x, 2 days
>Læstrygonians: 12619 words, 1x, 2 days
>Scylla and Charybdis: 11839 words, 1.5x, 3 days
>Wandering Rocks: 12559 words, 1.5x, 3 days
>Sirens: 12221 words, 2x, 4 days
>Cyclops: 21259 words, 2x, 5 days
>Nausicaa: 16652 words, 1.5x, 4 days
>Oxen of the Sun: 20286 words, 3x, 7 days
>Circe: 38319 words, 2x, 8 days
>Eumæus: 22647 words, 1.5x, 4 days
>Ithaca: 22403 words, 3x, 7 days
>Penelope: 24059 words, 2x, 6 days
A total of 64 days for Ulysses.

>>20470113
>>20471095
I've read Ulysses before, here's how I would go about scheduling the chapters:
Listed are for each chapter the Odyssey-nomenclature, the word count, the weight of difficulty, and at the rate of ~75000 weighted-words per day the total amount of days for reading.
>Telemachus: 7174 words, 1x, 1 day
>Nestor: 4420 words, 1x, 1 day
>Proteus: 5665 words, 3x, 3 days
>Calypso: 5882 words, 1x, 1 day
>Lotus-eaters: 6370 words, 1x, 1 day
>Hades: 10917 words, 1x, 2 days
>Æolus: 10046 words, 1x, 2 days
>Læstrygonians: 12619 words, 1x, 2 days
>Scylla and Charybdis: 11839 words, 1.5x, 3 days
>Wandering Rocks: 12559 words, 1.5x, 3 days
>Sirens: 12221 words, 2x, 4 days
>Cyclops: 21259 words, 2x, 5 days
>Nausicaa: 16652 words, 1.5x, 4 days
>Oxen of the Sun: 20286 words, 3x, 7 days
>Circe: 38319 words, 2x, 8 days
>Eumæus: 22647 words, 1.5x, 4 days
>Ithaca: 22403 words, 3x, 7 days
>Penelope: 24059 words, 2x, 6 days
A total of 64 days for Ulysses.

Someone explain the 'agenbite of inwit' or 'remorse of conscience' theme of Ulysses.