/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21779286]

If you think this book is complete nonsense, justify yourself. There is so much Wake scholarship quite simply proving otherwise that it's absurd this myth still persists on this board.

[Anonymous No.21779360]

>>21779286
There's also alot of scholarship saying that it's wrong to throw faggots and trannies off rooftops.

[Anonymous No.21779369]

>>21779286
>scholarship says x therefore it's true
bugman mindset

[Anonymous No.21780551]

>>21779286
It's a big commitment and life is too short.

[Anonymous No.21780575]

Literally the only person capable of understanding Finnegans Wake was Joyce. The rest of us have to content ourselves with "skeleton key" editions that barely scratch the surface of whatever the fuck Joyce was trying to do here.

[Anonymous No.21780576]

>>21779286
"Complete nonsense" is a cope people use to dismiss what they can't understand. In reality it probably "makes more sense" than most books insofar as it gets to the essence of what language is: an illusion, signifying everything and so nothing, noises and sounds that we arbitrarily agree contain such and such meanings. The book is essentially a lifelong commitment, something you read every year or so after having learned a new language or studied a text to which it refers. Reading isn't supposed to be simple or easy; in fact, the most rewarding books are usually the most difficult, and this one is no exception.

[Anonymous No.21780601]

>James Joyce

8 December 1909: 44 Fontenoy Street, Dublin

My sweet little whorish Nora,

I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck up in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue come bursting out through your lips and if I gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over me with a whore’s glow in your slumbrous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometime too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your hot drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.

Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.

JIM

[Anonymous No.21780652]

>>21780601
What was the "one lovely word" that Nora underlined?