/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/,

/v/ here. Our boards is going more and more downhill every day.

I consider /lit/ as one of the most polite and intelligent boards on 4chan, can you give any suggestions on how to save our board?

Thank you in advance

Hey /lit/, did you ever tried to explain what Ulysses is about to someone?

Last time i tried it was something like this:
>on vacation with friends
>lazy afternoon, reading ulysses for the first time
>cute girl i kinda liked comes to me
>"Hey anon what are you reading?"
>"hey, i'm reading ulysses by james joyce"
>"James Joyce? haven't heard that name before. What is it about?"
>"It's kind of a modern version of The Odyssee. But instead of the greek hero its a jewish guy called Leopold Bloom walking around in Dublin on one day in 1904"
>"oh cool.. and what happens then?"
>"huh?"
>"This Guy, what is he doing? what's the story?"
>"Ehm.. Yeah he's wandering around.. and .. attends a funeral.. and yeah.. does some work.. basically he is trying to find his son."
>"Okay.. Does he find him?"
>"No.. I mean Yes.. I mean.. He never really had a son.. Well he had but that one died.. and .. He finds this other guy, who's mother died and that's it."
>"and that book is nearly a thousand pages long?"
>"Yes... It's the most critically acclaimed piece of literature from the last century"

>She never spoke a word to me again.

>>2695267
>when you read a poem is because you want to feel the poem.
>mutherfuckingmagic