>be Finnegan>wake up
I'm reading this now, it's slow going but enjoyable.
>>25298878How are you enjoying it i don’t understand a word
>>25299052you simply aren't erudite enough, pleb. meanwhile, my turtleneck-wearing friends and I will be puffing our pipes and chortling about simpletons like yourself.
>>25298877https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(ceremony)
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>>25298878>>25299052Is it actually as incomprehensible and abstract as people make it out to be? or is there an actual coherent through-line and everybody's retarded because they just don't like weird shit?
>>25299131>incomprehensibleJoyce worked on it for 17 years. It was planned and edited relentlessly, but he was aiming for something more than most people are willing to put any effort into understanding. In his own words:>I might easily have written this story in the traditional manner [...] Every novelist knows the recipe [...] It is not very difficult to follow a simple, chronological scheme which the critics will understand [...] But I, after all, am trying to tell the story of this Chapelizod family in a new way.>[Finnegans Wake would be written] to suit the esthetic of the dream, when the forms prolong and multiply themselves, when the visions pass from the trivial to the apocalyptic, when the brain uses the roots of vocables to make others from them which will be capable of naming its phantasms, its allegories, its allusions’.
>>25299143Gotcha, yeah that's kinda what I figured. Any time something gets experimental in some way people claim incomprehensible. I mean for all I know I might struggle with it as well but I had a hard time believing it was actually a bunch of abstract thoughts where the reader is supposed to find their own interpretation or some shit
He is the Kojima of books
>>25299052There are annotation websites that elucidate things, that's why it's taking me so long because I'm stopping every few lines to check something. But even without understanding it it's an enjoyable read because of the musicality of the text and endless inventiveness.
>>25299269nick land is the kojima of books, joyce is the real deal
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!
>>25299269kojima makes overpriced action figures with pandering movie references for disney adults, you'd have to be a permanent adolescent to find him good
>>25298877I finally visited Howth Castle and Environs a couple months ago after seeing that opening sentence countless times over the years
>>25298877Finnegan is WOKE?
finna gonna get woke nigga
>>25299528Death Stranding is genuine kinoMetal Gear is garbage
>>25300045Yeah uh kino
>>25299052Your IQ is too high, or too low. Only you know which.
>>25299131This anon >>25299143 is basically correct.Here's a flow-chart of the story
>>25300045>Death Strandingforgettable 4/10 genre fiction, has more in common with toddler rattles than joyce
>>25300051>>25300103>filteredYou love to see it
>>25300143Hello /v/eddit!
>>25300143you will never be smart and you will never fit in here
>>25299052let the words wash over you like ocean waves and take what you can. the meaning sinks in all the same
>>25298877be Finn again
Unreadable slop
finn finna go back to sleep tho
>>25299143>Finnegans Wake would be written] to suit the esthetic of the dream, when the forms prolong and multiply themselves, when the visions pass from the trivial to the apocalyptic, when the brain uses the roots of vocables to make others from them which will be capable of naming its phantasms, its allegories, its allusions’.Interesting concept and admirable goal but he didn’t pull it off
>>25299269Uhh that would be pynchon actually
