/lit/ - Literature

You are at your local bookshop. Suddenly you see this guy browsing through modernist section. He yells "farts" and "Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunnt-rovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk" from time to time. What do?

Anyone else go into a week-long existential crisis after reading the first story out of Dubliners

Nothing's more BARP than a BRAP.
Discuss.

>characters have sex without the woman farting even once

I rarely post here.

Firstly, I remember reading some anon post about how a relative of Joyce laughed at scholars who would come up with interpretations of his work.

Secondly, what is the point of getting into literature if you just extract meaning that the author didn't intentionally put there? It seems very arbitrary, could anyone disillusion me?

This refers to everything post-portrait and the last chapter of portrait

>pseuds on this board WILL disagree with this

In what order should I read Joyce? Are there any reference books I should take a look at or works that are essential to read before him?

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I have no fucking idea, but he sure loved them.