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>Sinbad the Sailor and Tinbad the Tailor and Jinbad the Jailer and Whinbad the Whaler and Ninbad the Nailer and Finbad the Failer and Binbad the Bailer and Pinbad the Pailer and Minbad the Mailer and Hinbad the Hailer and Rinbad the Railer and Dinbad the Kailer and Vinbad the Quailer and Linbad the Yailer and Xinbad the Phthailer.
What did he mean by this?

>> No.16011022
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16011022

>>16011009
>Xinbad the Phthailer.
Fuck you Joyce.

>> No.16011031

>>16011022
One day I will find a word to go with my x-words!

>> No.16011040

>>16011031
>Xinbad the Xailor womxn

>> No.16011080

>>16011009
What’s in name?

>> No.16011181

Does Sinbad do sins because he is bad?

>> No.16011371

One of the themes of Ulysses (which was much more heavily thematically involved / built around in Finnegans Wake) was the uniqueness of all of humanity in our modern voyages / journeys, differing from one another only in vanity.

It also seemed to serve as a sort of falling asleep mantra for Leopold Bloom as it is the second(?) last line of his internal monologue in Ulysses.

It's also just some fun wordplay.

>> No.16011373

>>16011371
Meant to say oneness instead of uniqueness, also sorry for reddit spacing

>> No.16011421

>>16011373
reddit-spacing is how everyone used to post before /lit/ became 90% redditors pretending not to be redditors

>> No.16011430

>>16011371
>>16011373
>>16011421
Interesting, both for the explanation of some of the themes of Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake as well as on a bit of the history of /lit/.

>> No.16011444

>alfred jazzy

>> No.16011687

>>16011009
>Joyce the joomer, cammy the coomer, snake the soother, santan the doomer, brian the boomer, snake eater the saint waiter

Its easy as fuck to do tbat my implies way more than his and rolls better

>> No.16011703

>>16011022
he's just doing that to make sure you're paying attention

>> No.16011792

>>16011009
This one was pretty funny and I actually laughed out loud when came to it in the passage

>> No.16011998

One of my favorite lines and it does have actual meaning

"Stanley Sultan identifies the rhymed companions with whom Bloom/Sinbad has travelled as “the sailor, W. B. Murphy; the tailor, his friend George Mesias, in whose shop he met Boylan; the jailer, Alf Bergen the court clerk; the nailer, Corny Kelleher, the undertaker; the failer, Simon Dedalus; the bailer, Martin Cunningham, who twice during the day saved him from predicaments; the hailer, Lenehan; the railer, the citizen; the ‘phthailer,’ a friend who died from ‘phthisis’” (Sultan 413). The allusion continues with the roc, a huge mythical bird; in one story, Sinbad finds a roc’s egg with a circumference of fifty paces"
- http://www.ulyssesguide.com/17-ithaca

>> No.16012326

>Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan

>> No.16012397

>>16011687
Unironically good

>> No.16012432

>>16011687
>snake eater the saint waiter
Not bad anon

>> No.16012465

>...and OP the faggot

>> No.16012555

>>16011703
I don't believe you.

>> No.16013051

>>16011687
>snake eater the saint waiter
Just got it. I'm thinking based

>> No.16013066

>>16011687
>snake eater the saint waiter
Omg

>> No.16013085

>>16011009
Sneed the sucker and Chuck the fucker, anon the nonce and OP the penile tucker, pseud the rude and faggot in-tangent, dyke the Mike and /fit/ the twink

>> No.16013119

>>16011181
How many sins would a Sinbad sin if a Sinbad could sin bad?

>> No.16013213

>>16011687
>snake eater the saint waiter
This is gold

>> No.16013223

>>16011009
oh my god he really was a genius.

>> No.16013228

>>16011687
>>16013085
more

>> No.16013535

>>16011687
>snake eater the saint waiter
Based

>> No.16013588
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16013588

>>16012326
Genuinely kek'd.

>> No.16014056

>>16011687
>snake eater the saint waiter
Woah

>> No.16015703

>>16011687
Can someone explain this to my microbrain?
>snake eater the saint waiter

>> No.16015723

>>16015703
Wait never mind I think I got it

>> No.16016410

>>16011009
Ching Chong Ding Dong King Kong Ping Pong Sing Song Bing Bong Ling Long Ting Tong Ring Wrong

>> No.16016760

>>16015703
>>16015723
Explain now.

>> No.16017926

>>16011080
That which we call prose

>> No.16018103

>>16011687
I was staring at this for like a minute before I got it

>> No.16018144

>>16011687
Why is everyone freaking out over this

>> No.16018159

It's stream of consciousness. The character is exhausted and his mind is delirious, making loose, nonsensical connections. Sinbad the Sailor is obviously a popular cultural icon, and for some reason he appears randomly in the character's mind, as such things are apt to do in reality. Then his mind, being exhausted, starts making a weird chant out of it, starting with the very structured approach of just swapping the first letters of the two nouns, and then becoming more chaotic as the chant goes along and the character falls asleep.
For me this section is very relatable because when I am tired I start thinking delirious nonsense as well. Scoff at it all you want, OP, but Joyce is here representing a small nuance of the human experience.