/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.528196]

that's right

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[Anonymous No.529068]

Hahahaha, nice, what's the name on the template?

[Anonymous No.529079]

Someone post the Finnegans Wake one. That was funny.

[Anonymous No.529114]

[Anonymous No.529177]

Awesome.

[Anonymous No.529296]

>>529079

:3

[Anonymous No.529300]

Template, FFS

[Anonymous No.529323]

[Anonymous No.529335]

>>529323
Thanks, I almost shit myself in anger.

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[Anonymous No.529400]

>>529335
lol y u mad tho?

[Anonymous No.529407]

it's a double entendre for those less gifted than this guy.

[Anonymous No.529422]

[Anonymous No.529434]

>>529422
so much win

(it's funny because Kafka was Dutch)

[Anonymous No.529438]

>>529434

lolwut

[Anonymous No.529442]

>>529422
Would be better if it read, "Kafka? Only my annotations in the Esperanto edition will do."

[Anonymous No.529443]

[Anonymous No.529446]

>>529407
im less gifted.
explain

[Anonymous No.529458]

>>529442
i think it's just talking about people who insist that translations are completely worthless and that one should always learn the original language.

[Anonymous No.529469]

>>529458
the only book that i've read both the original and translated versions of is Cyrano annnd.... the original was a batrillion times better. but i guess it's different for something poetic and gay as oppose to simply storytelling whatever fuck it

[Anonymous No.529472]

>>529446
Think "Marquise De Sade" and then consider her theory of sex and how she might actually be in the bedroom, which I can only assume was crazy and controlling.

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[Anonymous No.529476]

>>529473
I love this one

[Anonymous No.529478]

[Anonymous No.529493]

re: Difference and Repetition

[Anonymous No.529499]

[Anonymous No.529517]

>>529499
lol

I love these

[Anonymous No.529519]

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[Anonymous No.529521]

>>528196
If I every see this kid, I'll kill him.

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[Anonymous No.529547]

Who's making these? They're not half bad. They've got references I doubt most of /lit/ would even get.

[Anonymous No.529549]

>>529472
I've always thought that people's sexual behavior tends to be the opposite of their normal behavior (that is, she would probably be a sub).

[Anonymous No.529557]

research Nathaniel Branden and the NBI.

[Anonymous No.529567]

>>529547
agreed.

they're pretty decent. I don't get 2 of them though:
>>529407
>>529422

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>>529567

see >>529472 and >>529458 respectively

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[Anonymous No.529593]

>>528192
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[Anonymous No.529607]

Why is this guy supposed to be bad, exactly? I love him.

[Anonymous No.529616]

>>529607
everything he says is a form of boasting.

[Anonymous No.529619]

man FUCK d.h. lawrence.

Women in Love = worst godawful book ever written.

[Anonymous No.529622]

[Isabelle Huppert !!IRpnwIFOnYO No.529624]

>>529499

I laughed. Good job.

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>>529616
Yes, but I like thinking he can back it up.

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[Anonymous No.529675]

>>529664
Even so, it's douchey and yet stokes our own ego when we get the references.

[Anonymous No.529678]

>>528194
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[Anonymous No.529683]

>>529622
dostoYevsky

[Anonymous No.529688]

>>529683
should've written it in cyrillic right

[Anonymous No.529712]

>>529688
a "y" would suffice

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[Anonymous No.529755]

>>529750

I lol'd.

[Anonymous No.529790]

>>529750

awesome.

[Anonymous No.529823]

>>528196

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>>529823

Scott?

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[Anonymous No.529867]

>>529841
except Poe is good, even if it isn't the most difficult.

[Anonymous No.529868]

>>529864
spelling fail, I suck

[Anonymous No.529869]

Oh my god, I love this guy.

[Anonymous No.529876]

>>529864
good one. Its almost a Deleuzian allusion to the deluge delusion.

[Anonymous No.529920]

>>529876
bump

[Anonymous No.529921]

>>529519

I would have written it as:

>La Recherche du Temps Perdu?
>Je les ai retrouvés avant-hier soir.

[Anonymous No.529950]

>>529675
Perhaps, but what it reminds me of, at least the good ones, are things like Mortimer Adler offhandedly referring to Gone with the Wind as "a piece of ordinary, light fiction," or Saul Bellow, in his defense of himself after being condemned for saying there was no "Tolstoy of the Zulus or Proust of the Papuans," saying that after the interview he had remembered that he had, in fact, read a Papuan novel entitled whatever it was titled.

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>>530002
lol spelling

fuck fuck fuck

[Anonymous No.530009]

>>530002
i think i would punch someone in the stomach if they fucking spoke to me like that

[Anonymous No.530010]

>>529993

Doing it wrong.

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[Anonymous No.530036]

>>530010
according to...

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[Anonymous No.530040]

>>530036

Every other example in the thread.

[Anonymous No.530045]

>>529177

Wait, I haven't read it yet, but there are no foot notes in my edition of Ulysse.

Am I fucked?

[Anonymous No.530046]

>>530038
u mean dr. faustus?

[Anonymous No.530053]

>>530046

That's part of the jok-

>u

I see I'm wasting my time here.

[Anonymous No.530055]

>>530045
Not really.

[Anonymous No.530067]

>>530055

>i'll just go ahead and subtly boast in a thread where subtle braggadocio is being satirized

[Anonymous No.530070]

>>530067
You may be looking too deep into this.

[Anonymous No.530086]

>>530067
Yeah, I wasn't bragging, I usually send people to Penguin Classics if they want a well-notated book, but the Penguin Modern Classics for Ulysses doesn't appear to even have footnotes.

[Anonymous No.530088]

>>530070
not as deeply as you understand your un-annotated ulysses

[Anonymous No.530096]

>>530086

i'd be fucked with out footnotes, i admit it.

[Anonymous No.530105]

>>530045 here

At least I bought my unannotated version of Ulysses used.

How useful are they? What more do they bring?

If I read this fucking long book, I don't want to realise afterward that I didn't get anything because I lacked footnotes.

[Anonymous No.530109]

>>530086

Neither does Vintage, iirc. And Joyce crams his works full of so much stuff, it's hard to read him and not take away something, with or without footnotes.

>>530045

Just read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before Ulysses and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.530113]

>>530105
Unless you're really confused about a word or really intrigued by an allusion, you probably shouldn't be following every footnote anyway. Footnotes are best for second-reads.

[Anonymous No.530125]

>>530113

>second-reads

Second reading of Ulysses? considering how slow I read, I doubt so.

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[Anonymous No.530141]

>>530125

I'd say it's damn necessary to read it at least twice.

Will you remember that in 1 sentence around page 100 about Bloom forgetting his house key is important to remember in the penultimate chapter around page 700 (in my edition)? Or that a woman Bloom talks too is referenced in a completely unexpected way during a hallucination in the Circe chapter?

[Anonymous No.530157]

>>530141

I'm the kind to notice that, precisely because I read awfully slowly, re-read a lot if I feel references are made, and because I take a shit ton of notes.

But I have little (no) experience of novels of this size, so I don't know...

[Anonymous No.530162]

>allusions

god, Stephen was a pretentious little prick with his fucking allusions.

[Anonymous No.530170]

>>530157

Oh fuck. Have fun...

I read it, just took it as it came and didn't dwell over the details until I reread it.

Once you get to the Oxen of the Sun God chapter, I think you'll give up on notes. Here's a taste:

>Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitable by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipollent nature's incorrupted benefaction.

[Anonymous No.530178]

>>530170

Is this a note or part of the text?

[Anonymous No.530180]

>>530105
Pick up the Bloomsday Book to read along with Ulysses. It's like sparknotes but for people who can read.

[Anonymous No.530182]

>>530178

Part of the text, dawg. A few paragraphs later in the same chapter:
>And the learning knight let pour for childe Leopold a draught and halp thereto the while all they that were there drank every each. And childe Leopold did up his beaver for to pleasure him and took apertly somewhat in amity for he never drank no manner of mead which he then put by and anon full privily he voided the more part in his neighbour glass and his neighbour wist not of his wile. And he sat down in that castle with them for to rest him there awhile. Thanked be Almighty God.

[Anonymous No.530193]

>>530170
Jesus Christ, that all makes perfect sense until you try cramming it all into your active memory at once.

[Anonymous No.530229]

>>530182
Borrowing style from Song of Roland then? Not that difficult.

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[Anonymous No.530238]

>>530229
well joyce is settin em up and your just knockin em down. sonofabitch, the kid's gonna make it after all.

[Anonymous No.530243]

>>530229

Well that's only one of-- fuck I don't know how many authors he parodies in that chapter. But good job nonetheless.

[Anonymous No.530302]

>>529407
Honestly the first thing that came into my mind was Bioshock ...

[Anonymous No.530965]

>>530232
fuck that shit

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[Anonymous No.531475]

>>529524
This one's probably my favorite.