/lit/ - Literature

>>12960642
>Reading two pages apiece of seven books every night, eh? I was young. You bowed to yourself in the mirror, stepping forward to applause earnestly, striking face. Hurray for the Goddamned idiot! Hray! No-one saw: tell no-one. Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria? Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara. Pico della Mirandola like. Ay, very like a whale. When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once...

What is your muse? The inspiration for your writing and new ideas? Is a muse necessary to facilitate new writing from an author - or, if not, is it necessary for him to reach his peak ability?

I feel like I've lost mine, personally. I can no longer come up with new ideas to write about me, like that part of my brain has been deadened. Is this something that happens to all writers, eventually?

>>10481798

>I am physically unable to talk about real world issues without correlating it to advanced level "scholar" media because I'm so disconnected from reality that I need to use scholarly culture as a motivator to care about anything.

>This is what academia wants.

>Please buy Finnegans Wake

>>10387339

Tbh you have to have a very high IQ to understand Joyce. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the entire western canon most of the jokes will go over a typical reader's head. There's also Joyce's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his plots—his personal philosophy draws heavily from fart and cuckold fetishism, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny—they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Joyce truly ARE idiots—of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in "Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" which itself is a cryptic reference to a fat dirty fart that came spluttering out of Nora's backside and I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Joyce's genius lays folded on their bookshelves. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Joyce tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only—And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

>deal with him Hemingway
>glorifying a beta cuck as the new messiah archetype

A loser held up by other losers.

ITT: Write your interior monologue in the style of James Joyce.

>>9173339
Sniff Sniff

>>9149935
The only true romantic

Seriously, how can anyone even compete? and I mean ANYONE, not just writers.
Joyce is fucking ridiculous, is absurd, his power level goes beyond everyone and everything.
Im not able of articulate how blown away I got after The Sirens and everything that goes after.
He literally went beyond music and thats just one little part of the book.
And then he goes and drops Finnegans Wake like if it wasnt enough with this.
Is Joyce the ultimate genius? the endgame of humanity, consciousness and being?
Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are what the internet was supposed to be but failed.
They are a protean mirror to the self, everything beyond and all the shapes time can give to it.
How do you think being inside Joyce's head was like?

Was he a schizo?

Thought I'd try reading some of Joyce's work, where'd be a good place to start with his books and how difficult will it be for me to get into them?

I'm starting Dubliners today. From what I've gathered on this board it seems the best way to approach JJ is to read his major works in chronological order as they get more and more difficult as you go.

Is this a fair assessment?

ITT: The last book you read and a /lit/-related confession

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1984 and Catch-22 remain two of my favorite books despite becoming more "well read"

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I want to read and enjoy Ulysses, but I am aware that it makes a lot of allusions to other works, and I am wondering what should I read before I attempt to read Ulysses. I am already planning to read The Odyssey, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man.