Unequivocally prove you read and understood picrel
I understood it more than you ever will.
>>24694502>Ulysses thread>Gravity's Rainbow thread>Infinite Jest threadWhat the heck is going on?And no, I have not read Ulysses or even attempted it.
>>24694509Not if that's as deep as you went. But... it really is required. Everyone needs to understand you have to read that book along with the novel.
>>24694502I got a boner to "Nausicaa" and parts of "Circe."
How does oxen of the sun looks in traslation. The chapter is all about the evolution of the english language, how do you translate something like that
>>24694502I read it when I was 15 and dropped off at around 140 pages; to this day I don't know what it was about.
>>24694502>putting your copy through the spin cycle so it looks like you've read itOldest trick in the book.
>>24694976I don't understand having an affectation for used-looking books. I own a ton of books and I actively try to keep them in good condition. Seeing the covers or the pages curl on the softcovers bothers me and if there was a way to prevent it, I would. Breaking a book's spine is basically a mortal sin for me.
>>24694502But I haven’t read it. I got about two sentences into portrait of an artist though
Met him pike hoses, the transmigration of souls.
>>24694502Did Bloom really jerk off to that girl? I don’t really think that his thought process really resembled a man trying to get off, but he did mention his foreskin hurting.
>>24695104The firework imagery was lost on you, I take it?Gerty can see he's jacking off, and flashes her bloomers to help him.
>>24695111Too be fair, I don’t think of fireworks when I jerk off, I think of T&A.
>>24694904each paragraph corresponds to a parody of a stylethe parody is achieved by word choices and grammarone would have to do their best para by parabut it would give the feeling of english changesif it were to be an evolution of the language of translation, one would have to select equivalent authors to match the ones joyce choseit's doablesounds like a fun projectyou'd probably learn a lotjust ask your favorite LLM about x language's So&so and make judgment callsor do it by researchwhatever
>>24694976jail>>24695006also jail
>>24695104jerx off, falls asleepreal class act
>>24695104His shirt got wet, dumbo
>>24694502I didn't and I don't care to
>>24695093Molly, is that actually you?t. Leopold
>>24695946ick
>>24694502I just finished a section about a third of the way in that consists of several fragments which are all happening more or less simultaneously, with several characters recurring among the segments. The first section has Father John Conmee walking around town and greeting everybody. His name is repeated again and again and the repetitive interactions are friendly and genteel to the point of being stupid. The final section has the local British governor and other prot Brit ruling class types riding around town in a carriage, and various townspeople again (sometimes, sometimes not) genuflect to them.The reason why the section begins and ends with these two similarly maudlin, nauseating segments is because Joyce is repeating his idea that Ireland is a pathetic country that is ruled not by one, but two masters: the Brits run their political life, while Rome runs their spiritual life. In particular, the priest knows everyone in town, and everyone in town knows the priest. The priest has a great deal of social power (and the Brit rulers of course have hard power).
>>24694502It's Joyce showing off his literary abilities under the veneer of stream of consciousness. What's it about exactly? Dasein.
I coomed to the beach scene and at least fantasized about the two bar girls in that music chapter. Maybe I could have coomed more but some chapters I did not get at all. The funeral scene is life affirming. Stephen Dedalus is the perfect self insert for any reader.
>>24697622It's about Bloom trying to recover from being cuckolded.
All of Joyce works are public masturbation. He is HCE.
It should have remained banned.
