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19016330 No.19016330 [Reply] [Original]

Aighyt, so when are we doing /lit/-annotated Ulysses?

>> No.19016367

Well first off, the Moby-Dick annotated edition was just finished, and I was actually going to email Mobydickanon and ask him how to prepare for the project and everything, because I don't want there to be a massive six month delay between when the project is closed and when it is published. Also, Ulysses finished serialization in December (1920) and then published in February (1922), so maybe we could open the docs in December and close them and have the book published by February 2022?

>> No.19016370

bugs.. easy on the lather

>> No.19016436

>>19016367
Another thing: I noticed for the most part that the large majority of annotations in the Moby-Dick version were clustered towards the beginning and began to dribble out around 1/3rd the way in; I was thinking that, one way to prevent this for the /lit/ annotated Ulysses was to only have one chapter open for annotation at a time; so for week one, only the first "part" is open on Google docs; after that, we close it and open the second part and so on and so forth, so that hopefully the annotations will be spread out evenly throughout the book.
I would also really like for this to be a serious reference edition; as far as I know, the only public domain version of Ulysses is the 1922 text; maybe we could have an appendix that outlines all the major differences between the versions (original 1922 vs Bodley Head vs Gabler, etc)? I would also really like for the annotations to be extensive: every hidden meaning, every allusion, every detail tracked down and marked; perhaps we can get an anon to draw a map of Dublin and the paths of all the separate characters, everything; this would have to be the most complete edition of Ulysses that ever hit presses, ever. At the same time, Ulysses itself is a long-ass book, and with all of the extensive annotations and appendixes, I don't know how long it could run too; I know that the maximum page count for Lulu's paperbacks is 800 pages and I can easily see the book running longer than that if we typeset it well. I also know that the majority of the annotations will probably be shitposting (some shitposting is fine, this is /lit/ obviously but again, if we're going to make the most complete reference edition of Ulysses ever we can't mess around in terms of page-count), but that's just how it goes. I almost wonder if it would be better to just put together an "editorial team" of 10–15 anons instead of opening the documents up for the entirely of /lit/ to shit all over, I don't know

>> No.19016459

>>19016436
I didn't realize there was actually a plan in motion to do this, I made this thread as a joke.

>> No.19016468

>>19016459
There is no plan as far as I know; I'm just spitballing what I would like to do if /lit/ ever actually decided to make an annotated version of Ulysses

>> No.19016529

>>19016436
This would take much longer than December-February and would require the diligent work of several neet turbo autists, but it would be incredible

>> No.19016620

Do it. I'll buy a copy. Include Joyce's correspondence with Nora Nora Barnacle.

>> No.19016641

>>19016436
>I almost wonder if it would be better to just put together an "editorial team" of 10–15 anons
why not do this but just write an original /lit/ novel; it would be really cool to see 15 anons autistically working together to write some massive doorstopper like the tunnel or against the day; i've seen what the autists here are capable of, if you can get 15 of them working coherently together on something, writing and doing research and bouncing ideas off of each other, you could really produce something nice. it would have to be something coherent though; i doubt theres anybody who has read through the entirety of those doorstoppers /lit/ produced like legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra or that other one. this would have to be a coherent, autistically researched novel, but damn what a project it would be. i remember reading somewhere that pynchon was going to write a massive sprawling book set during the american civil war but i guess he dropped it or never started it or something. maybe /lit/ should write it for him

>> No.19016793

>>19016641
>i remember reading somewhere that pynchon was going to write a massive sprawling book set during the american civil war but i guess he dropped it or never started it or something.
That's Mason & Dixon, retard.

>> No.19016802

>>19016330
Next year for the 100 year anniversary?

>> No.19016839

>>19016802
Bloomsday would be a good publish goal

>> No.19016849

>>19016793
believe me, it wasnt mason and dixon. i think the rumor came largely from the fact that pynch had said he had 4 larger novels, and so far only 3 of them (plus several smaller ones) have been released, and he's covered the period of almost every american war (mason and dixon: revolutionary war, against the day: ww1, gravity's rainbow: ww2) except the american civil war

>> No.19016851

>>19016330
Stately plump Bugs Bunny...

>> No.19016856

>>19016802
Shit, you're right; motherfucker we'd have to start this thing right now if we wanted to have any semblance of enough time to finish it before that publication date. Fuck.

>> No.19017139

>>19016436
Anon, I think you're greatly overestimating /lit/ here

>> No.19017354

>>19016641
>maybe /lit/ should write it for him
Yes please, that would be amazing

>> No.19017838

>/lit/'s first novel has its own TV Tropes page
wtf?
>https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLegacyOfTotalitarianismInATundra

>> No.19019215

>>19016436
that's boring as fuck, retard, we want to shitpost not make some shitty "serrious" annotations

>> No.19019248

>>19016436
you gotta pay me if you want me to do all that shit, bitch

>> No.19019255

>>19017838
that's when /lit/ was still cool, now it's all shills forcing themselves to be memes here

>> No.19020610

do brothers karamazov next ty

>> No.19020675

>>19016641
Already done.
Shelby Foote has done a better job than anybody else will in this century

>> No.19021525

One thing I remember from the Moby-Dick is that a lot of people were contributing who hadn't read it. I think there are very few people here who have read Ulysses AND want to shitpost about it, so making it clear that you don't have to have read it to annotate will get more anons working on it - but the few people who care about Ulysses a lot probably won't be happy that's the case.