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Is this your doing, /lit/? Seriously, Ulysses? Seriously?

>> No.652750
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>> No.652755

Were you expecting something else? Hell, Pink Floyd is the best they could come up with for music.

>> No.652756

glorious.

>> No.652760

inb4 arse farts

>> No.652766

That's most likely from /tv/.

>> No.652767

OP what do you think would have been a better choice

>> No.652775

>>652767

not op

Shogun

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>my face when dsotm is greatest piece of 20th century music

>> No.652812

>>652760
oh god, i spend all my time trying to forget about nora barnacle's fat, dirty farts

>> No.652815

Everyone on /lit/ already knows that James Joyce is a high-brow troll.

I'm pretty sure OP's picture was made by some high school kid on /b/ or whatever.

>> No.652822

>>652815
no, we voted on it. like one judge said to the other, be fair but if you cant be fair, be arbitrary.

>> No.652825

>>652815
whoa, hold on, I thought Joyce was supposed to be amazing. I just bought Portrait of the Artist and will probably buy Ulysses too.

Why's he a troll?

>> No.652834

>DSOTM and Ulysses

KILL IT WITH FIRE

>> No.652835

>>652825
He's not. People who don't want to spend the time understanding, much less reading, Joyce call him a troll.

>> No.652839

>>652815
/tv/ seems more likely because the three works mentioned in it are generally regarded are good by critics but no one with any knowledge of those mediums would be any means call them the best; the only people to take it it seriously at all would therefore be those who posses very little knowledge regarding art but would insist that they know what they are talking about. Though this is very common on 4chan, and indeed anywhere on the internet and even IRL, /tv/ personifies this more than any other board.

P.S. - Am I using semicolon right?

>> No.652846

>>652839
>>652815
>>652766

There was a thread about this yesterday, Ulysses was chosen

Also yes

Also

>no one with any knowledge of those mediums would be any means call them the best

modernlibrarytop100criticslist.png

>> No.652853

>>652835

>Implying Finnegan's Wake is not one of the greatest troll works of the 20th century.

>> No.652856

>>652853
>implying that makes it less great

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>>652846
Ulysses was selected by the Modern Library editorial board, which, judging from some of their other picks, doesn't have very good taste in literature.

<- Also this.

>> No.652869

I honestly don't think Joyce intended it to be a troll but it turned out a troll nonetheless

>> No.652876

>>652868

>conflating random people on the internet and the organization itself

>> No.652887

>>652869

This is an actual quote by James Joyce:

>“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”

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>>652876

Random people being a group of dedicated Scientologists and Ayn Randians, literally the worst kind of people save for female Megan Fox fans.

>> No.653011

here's the real list you cunthounds

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

>> No.653020

>>653011
Both lists are shitty.

>> No.653022

>>652887
I guess that's kind of trollish

>> No.653025

For Video Game you should do for Polybius.

For Music you should go for Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

>> No.653031

>Music - not Blood on the Tracks
>Film - not Solaris
>Art - some modern art blank canvas shit

BEST BE TROLLIN'

>> No.653038

>>653031
Isn't The Sacrifice Tarkovsky's greatest

>> No.653040

I'm glad we went with Ulysses. It's not as laughable as DSoTM. Of course, we all have our own favorite which we consider the greatest, but joyce has been a common ground for /lit/. sort of the anti-ayn rand if you will. I voted for his letters to nora, personally. but i'm okay with Ulysses.

>> No.653049

>>653031
>>653038
Protip: Mirror

>> No.653095

>20th Century
>2001

wtf?

>> No.653100

>>652744
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>> No.653112

Ulysses was the right choice. I'm very curious to see if /v/ will reach some kind of consensus.

>> No.653117

>>653112

Andrei Bely's Petersburg is the credited response.

>> No.653119

All this proves is that people on 4chan don't know anything about anything.

>> No.653127

>>652741
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