This motherfucker... -James Joyce content-

[smile_man]

http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce ... fa6ac7142d

MASTER of the english language.

[nad]

Awesome.

I've been reading Finnegans Wake for the last 5 years or so, which means I'm currently on about page 12. The first time I tried to read it (having little idea what was in store), I got about a page in before cackling madly. That's when I noticed the face on the cover winked at me. Not on drugs. Not without sleep. It was real. I never laughed at Joyce again. The man was clearly on some devious plane of existence that few others dared to dream of, let alone ascertain membership therein.

[devnulljp]

I've been on Finnegan's Wake for about a decade -- best time to read is when you're completely sleep deprived, it makes perfect sense then.

[DarkAxel]

well fuck!

[nad]

At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.

[Achtane]

Only a legendary badass can wear glasses over eyepatch. This man is a hero.

[dubkitty]

I've been reading Finnegans Wake for the last 5 years or so, which means I'm currently on about page 12.

yes i ROFLed and yes i cleaned the monitor and yes and typed in a few more words and giggled and yes and yes

[Gearmond]

a lot of my friends like poetry.
on the whole, i don't and think that at best its needlessly arranged prose that might rhyme

whenever they argue i just say "I'm sorry; Ulysses." "what about flarfism?" "Ulysses" "what about codified imagery like D.A. Levy?" "Ulysses" "what about the use of language for purely aesthetic purposes rather than communicative?" "Ulysses"

anything poetry can do prose can do just as well, better, and often first.

[culturejam]

No way that is Joyce. It made sense the first time I read it.

[snipelfritz]

a lot of my friends like poetry.
on the whole, i don't and think that at best its needlessly arranged prose that might rhyme

whenever they argue i just say "I'm sorry; Ulysses." "what about flarfism?" "Ulysses" "what about codified imagery like D.A. Levy?" "Ulysses" "what about the use of language for purely aesthetic purposes rather than communicative?" "Ulysses"

anything poetry can do prose can do just as well, better, and often first.

I'm pretty sure that poetic meter is one of those things that doesn't really exist, but people just pretend they understand it for the sake of looking smart. An "Emporer's New Clothes" kind of thing, y'know?

Haven't read Joyce, should try. I've got overdue copies of Kafka's The Penal Colony and Lord Jim by Conrad to return anyway. Kafka and Conrad, both the shit. Kafka was just depressed, but Joseph Conrad was super bad ass.

[morange]

[futuresailors]

I knew I liked that summbitch.

No way that is Joyce. It made sense the first time I read it.

Haven't read Joyce, should try. I've got overdue copies of Kafka's The Penal Colony and Lord Jim by Conrad to return anyway. Kafka and Conrad, both the shit. Kafka was just depressed, but Joseph Conrad was super bad ass.

Pick up Dubliners. You'll actually know what's going on most of the time.

[culturejam]

I ran up against Ulysses, and it wasn't pretty. I rank that and Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" as the two most difficult-insane things I've ever attempted to read.

[Gearmond]

a lot of my friends like poetry.
on the whole, i don't and think that at best its needlessly arranged prose that might rhyme

whenever they argue i just say "I'm sorry; Ulysses." "what about flarfism?" "Ulysses" "what about codified imagery like D.A. Levy?" "Ulysses" "what about the use of language for purely aesthetic purposes rather than communicative?" "Ulysses"

anything poetry can do prose can do just as well, better, and often first.

I'm pretty sure that poetic meter is one of those things that doesn't really exist, but people just pretend they understand it for the sake of looking smart. An "Emporer's New Clothes" kind of thing, y'know?

Haven't read Joyce, should try. I've got overdue copies of Kafka's The Penal Colony and Lord Jim by Conrad to return anyway. Kafka and Conrad, both the shit. Kafka was just depressed, but Joseph Conrad was super bad ass.

no, meter is an actual thing. its just so ingrained, that we don't notice it.

take for example: there once was a man from natucket

[snipelfritz]

no, meter is an actual thing. its just so ingrained, that we don't notice it.

take for example: there once was a man from natucket

I've just never been able to comprehend it so I just lash out

I don't get how something you should be able to infer from written text can be ingrained. If someone to whom English is foreign(but they understand) didn't know what a limerick was, how would they know what syllables are and aren't stressed. I can read anything with whatever stresses wherever the fuck I like if only for the sake of being defiant but more important for the sake of personal phrasing and sensibility. Or is it just that you should know the meter based on the genre? The whole thing makes me I enjoyed English, especially the more in depth we got, but meter always just seemed like some inside joke that was never explained to me properly.

Maybe THAT is why I only got a 3 on my AP Lit exam.