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Anonymous Sun Sep 27 08:17:19 2020 No.16455127 [Reply] [Original]

So how the fuck am I supposed to get 1900s jokes and references?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 08:18:26 2020 No.16455137 >>16455127 Yeah it's outdated. Read YA for contemporary references that you'd get immediately.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 08:23:40 2020 No.16455158 >>16455127 You don't. Just pretend you get them. You're on /lit/, remember? Being a shameless phony is a prerequisite to posting here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 08:48:40 2020 No.16455235 >>16455127 Annotated edition or one of dozens of guides available, including some on the internet. Reading the Odyssey before and Richard Ellmann's biography after is a good idea to fully enjoy the book. Take it one chapter at a time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 12:46:47 2020 No.16456581 >>16455235 Who’s Richard Ellmann and why is he related to ulysses?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 12:48:34 2020 No.16456593 >>16455158 Literally the only way to get them is to have lived in Dublin at that time. There's nothing wrong with not "getting" it, sounds like you've got a chip on your shoulder.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 12:48:59 2020 No.16456594 File: 44 KB, 640x628, 1601195487115.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16455137

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 12:51:55 2020 No.16456618 >>16456581 Made a biography of Joyce, cunt

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 27 13:08:40 2020 No.16456750 >>16455127 This book is basically Read Player One but for pseuds.