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3546941 No.3546941 [Reply] [Original]

Look at me, I'm actually contributing original content for the /lit/ community.

What have YOU done to contribute to the international /lit/erati today?

>> No.3546945

Goddamn, the opening paragraphs of Lolita and Finnegans Wake are absolutely delightful to read.

>> No.3546951

>>3546945

>sages me

How does /lit/ feel about contributing less to culture than the average /b/tard?

>> No.3546953

Only a handful of people here will defend Finnegans Wake. New /lit/ hates anything that isn't straightforward.

>> No.3546954

>>3546951
Seriously man, just read them aloud. It's glorious.

>> No.3546958

So this is that Finnegans Wake you guys are so crazy about? My head hurts after reading that paragraph.

>> No.3546959

>>3546941

That picture is SO true. It describes lit really well. They'd rather read fantasy (bad fantasy, at that), than something real.

>> No.3546967

>>3546958
No pain no gain.

>> No.3546980

>>3546959
Except it's wrong. Fitzgerald and Nabokov are praised incessantly here, and Joyce is more typically dismissed as obscurantist.

And I really hate when people bring up FW, no one here actually has anything to say about it.

And I really don't get how you're here as often as you are, but still so thoroughly mischaracterize the board.

>> No.3546987
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3546987

The neckbeards need fedoras and weed

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3546990

>>3546980

Well, first of all, it's not me 'mischaracterising' the board, it's the OP. Secondly, I don't think either of us have. It's well-known how much this board loves fantasy. Also, they do criticise high-brow works, although not genuinely, mostly to look smart and curry favour (with strangers on an internet message board, lol).

>> No.3547005

The Joyce scholar John Bishop visited to talk about Ulysses in my Modern British Lit class. Finnegans wake is his specialty, and he said you guys should get the Joseph Campbell book as an intro to Finnegans Wake.

>> No.3547026

>>3546990
>this board loves fantasy
Why are you saying this? I assume it's sardonic, but that doesn't fit.

And there are a few who criticize the first two and many who criticize Joyce, but none of them are representative of the board.

>> No.3547071

>>3547026

Are we posting on the same board?

>Dark Tower
>ASOIAF
>LOTR
>Wheel of Time
>Sword of Truth
>Dresden Files

>> No.3547073

>>3546953
>Goddamn, the opening paragraphs of Lolita and Finnegans Wake are absolutely delightful to read.

New /lit/? Jesus fuck. Get out of this place.

>> No.3547077

I've been here for a year now and I've seen anybody call Lolita shit while saying Finnegans Wake is the best thing ever

>> No.3547092
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3547092

But no one's read Finnegans Wake

>> No.3547111

Is the last one Joyce? I've never read him because of you cunts but that rolls of the mindtongue pretty good. Would read.

>> No.3547112

>>3547077
I haven't read Lolita because of that paragraph. It's disgusting to read. I'm also not so big on pedophilia.

>> No.3547123

>>3547112
BUT DOOD THE PROSE! U JUS DONT GET IT PLEB!

UNLIMITED PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE!

>> No.3547130

>>3547112
Give Pale Fire a chance, and see if you should read Lolita.

Nabokov wasn't too keen on pedophilia, either.

>> No.3547140

>>3547123
I was referring to the prose of that paragraph. The way it's written.

>> No.3547142

>>3547140
YEAH WHATEVER PLEB, U JUS DON'T GET IT. THE PROSE IS MASTERFUL!

NABAKOV'S PROSE IS MAXIMUM!

>> No.3547161

/lit/ seems to be more into Ulysses than Finnegans Wake, by my observations.


STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:

-- Introibo ad altare Dei.

Halted, he peered down the dark winding stairs and called up coarsely:

-- Come up, Kinch. Come up, you fearful jesuit.

Solemnly he came forward and mounted the round gunrest. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding country and the awaking mountains. Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head. Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.

>> No.3547183

Judging by their use of "pleb" and "patrician", as well as their completely inaccurate representation of /lit/ I'm going to go ahead and assume OP is a recent /mu/ convert and should promptly return there

>> No.3547184

I post stuff from my blog which a couple of people read and critique for me. I don't really do images.

>> No.3547199

>>3547142

who are you impersonating? you're new to /lit/ aren't you?

>> No.3547201

but i like all of those opening paragraphs

>> No.3547471

>>3547199
It's ironic shitposting, commonly characterized by /mu/.