/lit/ - Literature

>>22515257
>>22515253
Interesting effort but wrong LOL. This is what happens when a nigger ain't actually read and engage the book and memorizes summaries. Pathetic and immediately obvious to the rare Joycean motherfucker. Hoooo boy.

>>22433850
obv he is lmao

>>22433832
link to quote?

>>22433838
what do you think the book is / how do you imagine he wrote it

>>22433894
>Naked Lunch
honestly not difficult to understand at all
did you really have trouble with it
or did you just blow through it while shrugging

>>22434049
fffffffffiltered

>>22434079
>The Dead is one of my favorite short stories of all time
why... (inb4 you dont have an answer)

>>22435024
>after contracting syphilis from sleeping with prostitutes
source? you dont actually think portrait was factual right? you dont right? and you know he never visited a hooker in his life right? Not exactly well read I take it.

>>22435412
this

>>22436504
you must not have a copy

>>22315567
ya
+
no he doesn't eat a booger and you don't remember him jacking off you read that somewhere—try quoting the part where he's jacking off (you can't)

>>20611269
It's probably different from what you're expecting. You need Don Gifford's annotations and Jorn Barger's robotwisdom.com/jaj/ site (it's only available on archive.org at this point).

Just read the chapter annotation (from both sources) THEN read the chapter. Works like magic. The book will be almost completely clear. There are two pages at the end of Oxen of the Sun that remain a mystery. But it's ez street this way. Just a lot of looking at annotations. Not for everyone.

>>20585289
this
but the greeks arent going to help lol the correspondences to the odyssey are overblown and theyre not based on the homer version but a boiled down kid's version j man read growing up which is closer to the order of episodes

>>20585320
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!!!1
it took a genius like op to finally point it out he has a penetrating mind he can see through the labyrinth of bullshit but
will we listen?

>>19159062
Re Ithaca:

Joyce—

>I am writing Ithaca in the form of a mathematical catechism. All events are resolved into their cosmic physical, psychical etc. equivalents, e.g. Bloom jumping down the area, drawing water from the tap, the micturition in the garden, the cone of incense, lighted candle and statue so that not only will the reader know everything and know it in the baldest coldest way, but Bloom and Stephen thereby become heavenly bodies, wanderers like the stars at which they gaze.

>Struggling with the aridities of Ithaca—a mathematico- astronomico- physico- mechanico- geometrico- chemico sublimation of Bloom and Stephen (devil take 'em both) to prepare for the final amplitudinously curvilinear episode Penelope... The Ithaca episode... is in reality the end as Penelope has no beginning, middle, or end.

and Budgen (his buddy):

>Joyce once told me that Ithaca was his favourite episode. 'It is the ugly duckling of the book'

What do you think JAAJ meant by devil take 'em both?

>>17424862
A gift 4u:

Joyce:

>I am writing Ithaca in the form of a mathematical catechism. All events are resolved into their cosmic physical, psychical etc. equivalents, e.g. Bloom jumping down the area, drawing water from the tap, the micturition in the garden, the cone of incense, lighted candle and statue so that not only will the reader know everything and know it in the baldest coldest way, but Bloom and Stephen thereby become heavenly bodies, wanderers like the stars at which they gaze.

>Struggling with the aridities of Ithaca—a mathematico- astronomico- physico- mechanico- geometrico- chemico sublimation of Bloom and Stephen (devil take 'em both) to prepare for the final amplitudinously curvilinear episode Penelope... The Ithaca episode... is in reality the end as Penelope has no beginning, middle, or end.

and Budgen:

>Joyce once told me that Ithaca was his favourite episode. 'It is the ugly duckling of the book'

What do you think JAAJ meant by devil take 'em both?

>>16788493
>believes the television coronahoax
>is statistically illiterate
>reads cringe material
>writes cringe material
>plays cringe AAA games
>thinks his mom's friends don't know he's a failure
>doesn't realize failure means anyone thought he had potential
get some perspective m9

ITT: Cringe Responses IRL Responses to Joyce

>I just re-read all of Joyce. Everything up to Portrait.

>Read Ulysses twice at college for classes. Didn't make a lick of sense.

>I tried reading The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man with my daughter, but it really is just word salad.