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>My great adventure is really Proust. Well– what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there are, I suppose, faults to be found, but I am in a state of amazement; as if a miracle were being done before my eyes. How, at last, has someone solidified what has always escaped–and made it too into this beautiful and perfectly enduring substance? One has to put the book down and gasp. The pleasure becomes physical–like sun and wine and grapes and perfect serenity and intense vitality combined. Far otherwise is it with Ulysses; to which I bind myself like a martyr to a stake, and have thank God, now finished– My martyrdom is over. I hope to sell it for £4.10.

What the FUCK was her problem?

>> No.11057632

>suicidal dyke
what wasn't

>> No.11057638

Sylvia Plath has spoken out about her hatred for Ulysses too

>> No.11057647

>>11057619
she's right though, Ulysses is a slog even if it's impressive, revolutionary

Proust requires your attention but doesn't require a second book to understand 30% of the textual references that are essential to the book being "good"

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>>11057647
>requiring a second text to understand ulysses

>> No.11057705

>>11057702
>he doesnt understand that Ulysses uses a secret code from the french enlightenment about the current standing of the holy grail

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>>11057619
Tom, I...

>> No.11057755

>>11057619
>racist classist mad that a working-class Irishmen supplanted her legacy as the most important English Modernist author
She was a very petty woman, like most undersexed dykes

>> No.11057810

Recherche is definitely a more pleasant read than Ulysses. More beautiful as well. But not as funny.

>> No.11057815

>>11057705
...Go on

>> No.11057825

>>11057702

>Implying you've even finished it or understood more than 30% of it and aren't just shitposting

>> No.11057830

woof was a hack

original affirmative action celebrity writer

>> No.11057841

>>11057619
A full set of the Everyman's Library, In Search of Lost Time, Moncrieff translation is only $75. Should I do it, bros?

>> No.11057850
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In a 1928 letter to a mutual friend of T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf wrote:
>I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with dear Tom Eliot, who may be dead to us all from this day forward. He has become an Anglo-Catholic believer in God and immortality, and goes to church. I was shocked. A corpse would seem to me more credible than he is. I mean, there’s something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God.

>> No.11057856

>>11057815
Read the book, read arthurian texts, and focus on christian esoteric philosophy about the soul.

>> No.11057858

>>11057619
authors trashing each other is pretty entertaining

>> No.11057862

>>11057850
based

>> No.11057868

>>11057705
This hasnt been proven yet

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>>11057850
>tfw Eliot realized the truth in the end, and attained everlasting life

This is honestly pretty powerful, I feel like most people don't make as big a deal of this as they should. Also, pic related: Chesterton worked a pretty strong influence on Eliot towards the end of his (Chesterton's) life.

>> No.11057885

>>11057870
anglo-catholics are still proddy scum

>> No.11057913

>>11057885
In Eliot's time they were more Catholic than Catholics are today

>> No.11057957

>>11057841
Do it. You owe it to your poor dead mother who wanted this for you more then anything.

>> No.11057967

>>11057850
This almost makes me feel bad for her.

>> No.11057985

>>11057856
Fine. I will.