/lit/ - Literature

>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Boring.

>Dubliners
Boring.

>Ulysses
>Boring.

This guy sucks. Never mind the modernist and experimental writing style, his works are a chore to read. Painfully overrated.

“With will will we withstand, withsay.”

What does this sentence mean?
Or more specifically, what does withsay mean?

Also, general quote thread, I guess.

>>4043923
worship him

I'm digressing, but this more or less completes your introduction on how to write a literary classic. This is what the muse of today sounds like, so listen for her voice - this will help you write literature that has the correct form to secure it as a classic, as a work representative of the age that it belongs to. I'll give you an example for the sake of illustration - perhaps you could write a straightforward realist novel where people fall in and out of relationships, except you use language borrowed from ALL of literature - this would show how our age needs to use simulated voices in order to express itself. You could borrow Byron's voice for the romantic scenes, you could borrow Shakespeare's voice for the dramatic scenes, you could borrow Dante's voice for the introspective scenes concerned with the character's soul, etc. I know Joyce already did something like this, but who cares?

enjoy
http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm
>book is 672 pages long, took 25 years to write

Just your daily reminder that every time you fart, James Joyce is popping a boner in the afterlife.

So what he a fart lover or something?

break all rules

the potato fanzes down the ishtaw
he gallops across the metaphysic
into the literally botswana camp we come
to jayden james in a hot desert storm
of the third reich in which he jumps down
from vietnam into sazanskitan on a ski slope
made from a sweat shop in shanghai on a saturday sunny d is my favorite drink when we play the mulatto sunday cake.

Especially if - God forbid! - this guy gets mentioned, and this goes for both naive supporters and obnoxious contrarians.

The world looks upon this as classic literature

>Have I shocked you by the dirty things I wrote to you? You think perhaps that my love is a filthy thing. It is, darling, at some moments. I dream of you in filthy poses sometimes. I imagine things so very dirty that I will not write them until I see how you write yourself. The smallest things give me a great cockstand - a whorish movement of your mouth, a little brown stain on the seat of your white drawers, a sudden dirty word spluttered out by your wet lips, a sudden immodest noise made by you behind and then a bad smell slowly curling up out of your backside. At such moments I feel mad to do it in some filthy way, to feel your hot lecherous lips sucking away at me, to fuck between your two rosy-tipped bubbies, to come on your face and squirt it over your hot cheeks and eyes, to stick it between the cheeks of your rump and bugger you.

But Dune will forever be written of as genre-fiction dreck.

There. Is. No. Justice.

Never read Joyce before.
What should I start with? Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulyssus are what's at the local library.

"what's a whispering eye?" I replied.

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somebody's mad

>"...The smallest things give me a great cockstand - a whorish movement of your mouth, a little brown stain on the seat of your white drawers, a sudden dirty word spluttered out by your wet lips, a sudden immodest noise made by you behind and then a bad smell slowly curling up out of your backside..."

If this is your precious "LITRACHAH", I'll stick to reading Discworld, thanks.

Who doesn't love some gassy assy?

Reading Ulysses now, why does James Joyce use dash - instead of " " like a normal person would?

"A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man" is fantastic so far. I want to read some more like this after, should I go with more Joyce?