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The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur.................nuk!)

Alright i literally started laughing uncontrollably, how many iq points do i need to understand this book?

What the fuck?

Read this, if you're man enough

>>15186561
Oops, wrong picture.

What was he trying to do here? Was he attempting to *solve* language?

Have you read it?

What am I in for?

>>14674793
Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Wilde, C.S. Lewis, Beckett. Joyce may well be the best of these but at times his work is practically unreadable and more about technique and aesthetic value. Ulysses is his finest work and does more to relate the framework of thinking than almost any book, before or after, but he had jumped the shark by the time he got to Finnegan's Wake

whenever my prof mentions finnegans wake i imagine the really exhausted pepe and i cant help but laugh out loud almost disrupting the class
thanks lit

Was it kino or just a pretentious overrated jumble of incoherence masking a not particularly interesting story.

Have any of you even started to understand this word spaghetti of a book ???

this shit's gonna top Ulysses

>we our visible husks and jockeying, trod upon s-terned voyles and widdy traps, and had our wax-coral darts and anyrometer wonderings cut out and smashed, and are now made of leather and encircled with eierl meat and unlaced lippoms; or are packed in soft yellowish bays and borne in nipstrict busbys under trafty rhymes and are flung over foars and keels in water. For at last (as we have learnt in the sword and shield and foot and not in the donkey and caoutchoue) the aparcy of these may goe no further than thy sartor and dead.

That done it for me. What passage made you quit reading a book?

>trolling the world of literature for decades if not centuries after his death
I'm think Joyce was based as fuck.

So, what's this about?

>write a literary masterpiece
>follow it up with a pretentious piece of shit filled with literal gibberish

>do so knowing that critics with their heads so far up their asses that they can lick their own lungs will spend decades debating what the DEEP meaning behind your gibberish is.
>for the rest of your life rabidly defend your bullshit gibberish as actually having a DEEP meaning
>nearly one century later literal retards posting on a byzantine erotica enthusiasts forum whom are stunning examples of the dunning-Krueger effect in action unironically defend your bullshit gibberish

Was he the most Kino auteur of all time?

So what is the point of this book?

>tfw not intelligent enough to understand or appreciate Joyce
any other brainlets here?

How dare someone write this book? It pisses me off

if you don't get it, leave immediately. the board would be better without you.

>what

pictured: a month of work