>Finnegans Wake is an amalgamation of puns executed in dreamlike English, and it is difficult not to describe these as frustrated and incompetent... Jules Laforge and Lewis Carroll have played this game with better luck. So, why /lit/ meme this book so much?

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Anonymous Sat Oct 28 23:49:01 2017 No.10202427 [Reply] [Original]

>Finnegans Wake is an amalgamation of puns executed in dreamlike English, and it is difficult not to describe these as frustrated and incompetent... Jules Laforge and Lewis Carroll have played this game with better luck.

So, why /lit/ meme this book so much?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 23:51:20 2017 No.10202436 File: 56 KB, 645x773, 1481357983251.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >why does /lit/ meme a meme book

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 23:51:44 2017 No.10202437 Haven’t people deciphered a relatively coherent storyline?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:27:32 2017 No.10202531 >>10202427 Because its way too dense and people whove read it get the dickwaving trophy of 'hey guys i read finnegans wake'

Anonymous Sun Oct 29 00:32:04 2017 No.10202538

>>10202436
>>10202531
I really wish you wouldn't think this way and just give it a chance. You're not supposed to fully understand the meaning as you read, it's supposed to feel infinitely meaningful. You can still piece together the narrative and find the book hilarious and breath-taking

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