/lit/ - Literature

>>14294279
>meaningless drivel

The failure to catch a wild pitch is not the catcher’s fault. So, too, some pieces of writing and some spoken utterances are either so devoid of meaning and coherence or so befuddled and confusing in their use of words that the best reader and listener can make little sense of them. Some are such defective presentations of what is in the mind of the writer or speaker that they are not worth paying much attention to, if any at all.
Mortimer Adler on Finnegans Wake

That someone would go so deeply in schizophrenia as to write this.
Pretty sad if you ask me.

Is Finnegans Wake comparable to the Phenomenology in terms of impenetrability?
Hegel was a retard.

>FINNEGANS WAKE READING GROUP
Around 20/30 pages a week.
Sunday Threads
Comfy pacing, comfy discussion.

>SECONDARY LITERATURE
W.Y. Tindall - A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake
J. Bishop - Joyce’s Book of the Dark
R. Elllmann - James Joyce
J. Campbell - A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
R. McHugh - Annotations to Finnegans Wake

>READING FOR NEXT SUNDAY (03/02): I.2 & I.3 (p. 30-74)

>TODAY’S DISCUSSION (27/01): I.1 (p.3-29)
What did you understand of the chapter?
What passages where you impressed with the most?
What’s the most interesting word(s) you find and why?
Are you enjoying the general experience or not?
Also suggestions on how to improve the thread

>But the world, mind, is, was and will be writing its own runes forever, man, on all matters that fall under the ban of our infra rational senses fore the last milchcamel, the hearten throbbing between his eyebrowns, has still to moor before the tomb of his cousin chairman where is date is tethered by the palm that’s hers. But the horn, the drinking, the day of dread are not now. (pp.19-20)

>Around 20/30 pages a week.
>Sunday Threads
>Oxford World’s Classic Edition (possibly, since it maintains the original page layout it’s easier to set where to start/stop).
>Comfy pacing, comfy discussion.

This first thread aim is to set up the reading group.
Any help or suggestion is welcomed: better editions, commentaries, helpful secondary literature. We can put together a reading list and put it in the next thread (I’ll do some research myself later, today). Also, please speak up if you have suggestions about the general structure of the The idea is to maintain a rather slow pace so we have only a few pages to discuss every Sunday.

I would follow the outlines in the Oxford World’s Classic Edition (p.xxxiii and following) to decide how much to read each week. My idea is not to lay out a complete plan of reading, but to modify it - at least during the first weeks - after seeing how the threads go. That way, if the reading is too much/too little, we can change.

>READING FOR NEXT SUNDAY (27/01): p.1-29 ‘Finnegans Wake’

Let’s get it going!

>But the world, mind, is, was and will be writing its own runes forever, man, on all matters that fall under the ban of our infra rational senses fore the last milchcamel, the hearten throbbing between his eyebrowns, has still to moor before the tomb of his cousin chairman where is date is tethered by the palm that’s hers. But the horn, the drinking, the day of dread are not now.
(pp.19-20)

>>12379680
I finished it early last year. It was not enioyable but im glad i did it. A few parts were more legible than others and you could decipher some kind of narrative from them. The most famous chapter, the “Anna Livia” chapter, is pretty much an abstract budoir porno, or some acid trip semblance of one anyhow. You should just start reading it OP, itll be fun! Ignore all ththe bullshit and take from it whatever you feel like

What the fuck was his IQ? How did he singlehandedly write this shit seriously? over 5000 characters. What the fuck

Terence McKenna said the universe could be rebuilt from it, if it were to collapse.

Modernism has taken literature in the wrong direction.

>>8965959
Book that is so dense that every syllable has so much going on.