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20735811 No.20735811 [Reply] [Original]

What's the meaning behind it?

>> No.20735817

>>20735811
Who the fuck even knows, it's pretentious as all hell. At least Ulysses was actually really good.

>> No.20737175

finn again, wakes
it's the eternal recurrence. You need to be well read to pick up all the contextual stuff. It's no different than watching a Kevin Smith movie today.

>> No.20737180

this is what happens when you suck your own dick for 20 years. similar thing happened to Salinger but he just made this dopey ass family in his head instead.

>> No.20737187

>>20735811
Read Vico and Wagner.

>> No.20737368

Ulysses is your consciousness when awake. Finnegans Wake is your consciousness when you're asleep.

>> No.20738283

>>20735811
Read Vico and Wagner.

>> No.20738443

>>20735811
It’s a book. It has no meaning.

>> No.20739385

>>20735817
What's with lit's new obsession with calling everything they don't understand or didn't read pretencious?

>> No.20739838

>>20739385
You haven’t read the book.

>> No.20739856

I didn't know there was a Finnegans Wake thread already up. Someone answer my question:
>>20739810

>> No.20739898

>>20735811
Anthony Burgess sees HCE, through his dream, trying "to make the whole of history swallow up his guilt for him" and to this end "HCE has, so deep in his sleep, sunk to a level of dreaming in which he has become a collective being rehearsing the collective guilt of man."

>> No.20739954

>>20735811
Why does everything need to have a meaning?