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1032406 No.1032406 [Reply] [Original]

Finnegans Wake

>> No.1032420

/mu/

Because Hipsters also read books.

>> No.1032424

>>1032420
I mean /lit/, and "hipsters" shouldn't be capitalized.

>> No.1032429

Sad thing is, back then he wasn't trolling. All the references were based off of "commonly read literature."

We so stoopid now.

>> No.1032446

>>1032429
Well, he was panned back then, too.

Still, Wake was a bit too ambitious.

>> No.1032449

>>1032446

>Well, he was panned back then, too.

Most great writers were.

Also, you're not the first to think Finnegan's Wake is too ambitious... a lot of critics think he wasted his time/talent writing it.

But they've also said the same about Ulysses.