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Gaunab posted:Stephen King wrote an extended child orgy scene in one of his books and no one seemed to care. Stephen King is a hack though.
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The Dennis System posted:Didn't Joyce just write a bunch of nonsense and people only pretend to understand or like it to seem smart?? That's Finnegan's Wake, but yeah, white people are pretty dumb and gullible.
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Sheep-Goats posted:This is the kind of poo poo you say once at a party and no one wants to talk to you afterwards. Yeah, Ulysses wasn't that dense. Wake is the literal pile of incomprehensible garbage that even his wife thought was insane. Falun Bong Refugee fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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whoflungpoop posted:you dont have to be smart to understand ulysses Anthropology major.txt.
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it then dont cuz yeah its a lot of work if you dont really care but like anything else in the world it isnt about smarts its about getting out what you put in
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whoflungpoop posted:idgi No one expects you to. It's not you're fault.
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whoflungpoop posted:when its in literature its an author surrogate I'm keeping this for the Star Wars VIII thread.
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"Stately plump Buck Mulligan" is the moment you know you're in for it.
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Nanomashoes posted:lol if you think loving Dubliners is dense or a slog. I notice that you didn't refute that it was joyless.
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Finnegan's Wake isn't even in English, by the way, for those uninitiated or not in AP English.
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:Hm, yes I've got an encyclopedic knowledge of all of the great works of western art, literature and culture over the last two thousand years and I can speak fluent English, Italian, German, French, Latin and Greek let me use all of those to make an unintelligible mess about farts and looking at naked statues and jerking off in a latrine which will be the apex of the written word for the next century. What white people actually believe.
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Salinger definitely was though.
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Seriously, it never stops being hilarious reading about humanities majors attempting to justify flushing 40k down the toilet by pretending to understand Joyce.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:anyone who attempts to use James Joyce to sound smart should be shot on sight That's letting them off pretty easy.
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