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Anonymous Sun Jun 28 23:51:22 2020 No.15728328 [Reply] [Original]

just listened to Mckenna stroke himself over Finnegan's Wake for 2 hours

https://youtu.be/Gmtki_pR4hI

is the book really THAT good?

ps: i know Mckenna is a hack sometimes (timewave, archaic revival, stoned ape theory) but i honestly still love and respect the guy.

tldr: is he overhyping or is Finnegan's Wake the best book ever written?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 23:53:51 2020 No.15728337 >>15728328 I was listening to an interview that Borges had with a frenchman and he also admired it. He said that Joyce's many neologisms alone such as hithering and tithering marks him as a master of the English language.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 23:54:00 2020 No.15728338 >Terrence McKenna I remember my first weed

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 23:56:12 2020 No.15728352 >>15728337 who?

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 01:27:02 2020 No.15728864

>>15728328
I do not have much to say on Joyce, but I am really drawn to McKenna because he was so much of a lit nerd. In his book True Hallucinations somewhere he has a bit about fucking in the jungle and how at the time he thought of it as "Doing it for Nabokov" cause all the butterflies around. Real dork.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 01:37:54 2020 No.15728901 >>15728328 >is the book really THAT good? No. It's the book you read when you hate reading but still want to be 'literary'. The quintessential anti-novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 02:04:58 2020 No.15729009 >>15728337 borges didnt read fw, neither did that faggot mckenna

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 02:40:26 2020 No.15729165 >>15728864 i wish i could see more of what he was reading

Anonymous Mon Jun 29 02:43:17 2020 No.15729183

McKenna knows his shit. It's a shame he didn't talk more on topics like this and was so caught up in ethnogens. His lectures on Hermeticism are pretty damn good too. In one lecture he offhandedly reccomends the latest Pynchon novel (I think it was M&D).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 03:03:20 2020 No.15729279 >>15729009 Borges did, and he was pretty bummed about it. He has a short review in his selected nonfiction.

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