What is it about this book that invites and engages the highest minds of every culture it contacts?
>Begin again, Finnegan- Finnegan's WakeEvery good rollercoaster needs a killer hook, and Joyce didn't miss with this literary shotgun blast of a meteor impact
>>25612066You didn't read the book.It's actually>Finn? Finn? Are you Finn?>Again
>>25612039Willingness to accept abstraction and sensory perceptions and to decipher and engage in something without a desire for one final answer. They are actually wise enough to know how to hang out in some esoteric expression without trying to wrap it up with a bow as being about one thing or another. They are not trying to get to a destination. They are already there at their destination by doing the journey.
>>25612066That's not the first sentence retard. The real first sentence is>It was a dark and stormy night.>>25612104This. People with taste immediately recognize how fecund and multifaceted and beautiful and mythical it is, and are more willing to bask in the inseperable whole that is a work of art than midwits are; midwits impatiently demand total comprehension and compartmentalization of all parts of something in order to make it smaller than themselves. Midwits or the artistically illiterate have egos that are too big, they must make everything smaller than themselves, and if they can't they dismiss the unshrinkable thing as "gibberish."
>>25612094Uh no..the opening stanza is>There was an old man named Michael Finnegan>He grew whiskers on his chin again>The wind came up and blew them in again>Poor old Michael Finnegan
>>25612145Can anything be considered gibberish then? At what point? Who has the authority? Are artists incapable of it? If so, how?
>>25612166I'm not sure, but Finnegans Wake specifically is certainly not gibberish.
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>>25612173the douchebaggery transcends gender swapping
>>25612170Proof?
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>>25612166>who has the authority:|
>>25613820Yup, Undeniable. like whole shit. I haven't ever understand this man's genius.I never will. He is the Genius of Geniuses
>>25612173TRANNYalso I thought it was just crossdressing.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAYOU FAILED THE EASIEST SHIT TESTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>25614381what>>25614388what
Bump fwiw
>>25612166>oh so you’re saying nothing is gibberish then?!?!?Stfu
>>25612039Why wouldn't intellectuals be fascinated by a novel that seeks to fully capture the dream state?
>>25616758How does it capture the dream state?
>>25617037I remember reading it feeling like some kind of spiritual experience, something about the sounds (anyone who isn't reading it aloud is missing out) and the ridiculous scenarios
>>25617037Characters and situations echo and reappear in different incarnations but recognizable forms and structures throughout the book, some charactersbecome multiple people at once. For instance, there is a crucial incident where HCE fools around with or possibly rapes a girl and his crime is witnessed by three soldiers. This happens again and again throughout the book but with different people and objects in different situations and in different levels of explicitness, sometimes it's very obvious that it's happening again and other times it's a very very oblique allusion.
>>25617120approaching the limits of retard>>25617156So it's not dreamlike
>>25617184oddly aggressive post
>>25617216>durr i came to 4chan for civil reactions to my being a pseudsorry your plebbit acct is banned retard but take the hugbox energy to blsky or wherever human sludge like yourself is tolerated
>>25617256and what content have you offered for discussion beyond a simple negative?
>>25612039it's pretentious garbage, like everything else Joyce ever wrote
