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"A woman could never write Finnegans Wake or Ulysses"

  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Ineluctable modality

    Fuck I don't even know what those words mean without context much less in a sentence :ohnoes:

    This is good advice though, I'm bad at reading and would need a strategy.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      4 years ago

      Here's Burgess, ReJoyce, page 22:

      The thing to do is to forget that the field of the novel is as limited as the cult of the contemporary best-seller is making it, and to consider that Joyce may be within his rights in turning language into one of the characters of Ulysses (perhaps in Finnegans Wake the only character). In Ulysses, the poeticising and the pastiche and parody serve, as we shall see later, a dramatic enough purpose; they also deepen the human characters by adding to their ordinary human dimensions the dimension first, of history, then of myth.

      • Rem [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        So basically don't worry and just vibe with it :cat-vibing:

      • livingperson2 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I love learning that I am not the only living person to have read that book. We should do a whole thread on Burgess some day.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          4 years ago

          I'm down. The people who dig Joyce's fart humor will love Inside Mr. Enderby.

          • livingperson2 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            The chapter about Shakespeare in Enderby's Dark Lady is fucking magnificent.

    • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      You can also skip most chapters and come back later without missing too much. Like Wertheimer said, a lot of people get real frustrated at Chapter 3 and give up, but I personally think you can just skip it, especially for a first go through.