/lit/ - Literature

>>23518420
>'

>>23419288
>he pronounced it with an apostrophe

>>22110340
wait until you get to the very end before you unveil your fart fetish, by then it'll be too late

>>22097027
>>22095797
>tfw you will never have a dirty little farting fuckbird
why even live

>buying Finnegans Wake
>seems to be a problem when the checkout girl scans it
>asks me to please accompany her to the backroom
>realize i have impressed her with Finny's and she's going to blow me
>before i know it two heavies are hooking me up to a polygraph test and make me admit I had no intention of reading the Wake
>tfw banned from the store now

>>15822747
>No. 15794101

>its a writing about a story

>loved IJ, read it only oce and without having read pynchon
>been wanting to re-read IJ ever since I finished it
>just read V., Lot 49 and finished GR yesterday
>want to finally get to philosophy again (Aristotle)
>get a fucking urge to re-read IJ at multiple points of GR
FUCK. What do I do mates, do I go for the Entertainment or for the Serious Classic Philosophy?

>>11675433
how to doing stop that?

based. move to parisfrog.

>>11376903
>Icarus not Dedalus
Joyce looks down on you pleb

>>11364035
All I have is this alternative Joyce Pepe. Hope that helps a little.

move to paris.

>>11361401
>Beauty of the whole
>Beauty in harmony
>Beauty of its radiance

>>11326370
stick with the lit

>>11312121
>Command f
>no Portrait
Fuck this board is full of brainlets who don't read, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man fits your description almost perfectly

>>11282219
is this good?

>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce's prose is beautiful and they way he evokes emotions you haven't felt in years (particularly in the first half of the book) is incredible, but to me it became a 10 in the days after I'd finished. The plot and prose lay stewing inside me, and looking back on it everything that made it so excellent became clear, like how Stephens eventual self imposed exile from Ireland is so obvious in retrospect due to his history and upbringing, his treatises on beauty the made me consider for the first time in my life what I actually consider to be true beauty, and a relatable protagonist going through ( as we all do when growing up) fears of death, longing to be older and wiser, puberty and often unhinged lust, and a search for his own personal spirituality. I read once somewhere that this book is the king of motifs and this was the part that really stuck with me, all of them are used so perfectly it makes me want to go back and read it again even though its so fresh in my mind, motifs like birds, flame, identity, country etc, all come together so perfectly

in the midnight hour she cried....

Went on a date two days ago, had a great time, talked about literature and history. But now he's left town and I've been sad for two days.

>>10462614
STATLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY [[[[PLUMP]]]] BUCK MULLIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>10430897
thats not the one

>tfw linguistic training prevents you from participating in this sperg thread
Feels bad

>>9801423
>wanted to read finnegans wake for a long time
>order it and start reading IJ, as (not american) imported books usually takes 1~2 months to arrive
>finnegans wake surprisingly arrives 200 pages into IJ, but now will have to finish it