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James Joyce, more like Fuck Ireland

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Why do you feel the need to discuss this, really? Can't you just disregard obnoxious faggots?

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Watson got married to a woman (not that that proves anything.)

certain things they did were normal for platonic male friends of the day but would seem gay as hell now. Times were different then. only 2 decades earlier Abe Lincoln slept in the same bed as a man every night for like 5 years. this was considered normal at the time and only the rich had a bed to themselves.

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because i dont give a fuck hahahahahahahhahahahaha hahahahahahahha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah \m/

>>7328956
Because egg & dairy animals have existences that are 10000x more torturous and inhumane than feeder animals who are just fattened then slaughtered.

It would actually be more ethical to only eat meat and avoid eggs and milk.

Because I don't think animals deserve my moral judgement as much as humans do.

That said, I don't think animals deserve to be tortured, but being humanely put down for food? Don't see the issue.

Week-end catch up incoming...

Favourite scenes so far? First time readers?

Did the whole time Slothrop was at the Casino remind anyone else of Mondaugen's story from V?

On a broader level, Slothrop seems to be the archetypal Pynchon character of the book, on the same lines as Stencil, Oedipa, Doc Sportello. For no real reason I've assumed this is Pynchon the character/his version of himself, so that's how I always imagine the characters in my mind.

ulysses reading group when

d'Annunzio's god-tier
Calvino's comfy, especially if you get his fuck off book of fairytales

what is good prose supposed to mean

>>7328878
at least easily readable and enjoyable

>>7328728
I tried reading the first pages. Awfully written. It's some kind of bad-taste-o-meter if you find girls with that book on the street.

Wasn't that bad during the first few chapters until they actually hook up and then it's just annoying. I just HAD to end it/be over with it because I always need to finish what I start.

Patrician teir

pointless namedropping.

I tried to read Derrida once, and Hegel is not even close to him in terms of difficulty.

Deguy should be in there

He puts the sticky in the thread and shitposts all over it.

>>7328670
rewrite it in an .xlsx

>>7328670
lets say you did. you don't though

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>>7329095
wtf did you just about me you piece of shit

>>7328632
good intro to philosophy as it pertains to "real life" and not just armchair intellectual masturbation.

Never read because motorcycle fetishism seems like baby boomer bullshit.

>>7328809
So a shitty Nietzsche then?

I almost want to like Franzen just to spite the SJW cunts, but I couldn't even bring myself to finish The Corrections, it was just inane.

>>7328647
This is one of those cases where the enemy of my enemy is still not my friend.

If the official reason to hate Franzen is because of the typical SJW bullshit then no, I don't throw my fedora in the pile. I will abstain from judgement.

I only will say he is bad on the grounds that he is a bad writer.

Franzen has the biggest balls of any famous living "literary" author. /lit/ might sneer at most modern-day authors because they didn't have the foresight to publish 100 years ago, but Franzen deserves a serious read to see where "literary" is going.

>>7328612
small journal that I keep nearby to jot notes in and pg numbers

sometimes larger entries in the journal if i think of something particularly large/difficult to explain and it interrupts my reading which kinda sucks, but its sort of a lose/lose situation

Character names, brief description, and map of how the characters relate to one another.

>>7328633
>>7328637
downs syndrome, illiteracy

just underline key passages and make one word notes in the margins. character maps and other such bullshit are maybe useful for children's lit like lotr and harry potter, but if you need to lean on them to keep up with real literature you're in the wrong ballpark.

>>7328568

Lol read the plot summary on Wiki then tell people you read it. It works everytime and people think you're genius

>>7328568
Don't read this until you are ready. It will break you if you read it at the wrong time.

But if you ever reach the point where you can read it (you'll know the feeling when it happens), it will change your life

It's a novel about form and language, trying to autistically understand the plot is besides the point.

>not becoming a great writer first and receiving an honorary phd

>>7328589
>not being the first ever "legitimately illiterate" NY Times bestseller

>spending ten to fifteen years learning to regurgitate one of a million different lexicons of jargon to three people who will ever listen, so that you can spend the rest of your life writing papers in that jargon or you will be fired and have to suck penises for money
>conducive to being a good writer

ALL academics are great writers, the constant grind to publish absolute horseshit in an ivory tower built of smaller ivory towers or die of AIDS really fills your soul with ideas for novels that speak to and from the zeitgeist

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>It's a greentext thread on the "intellectual"/"art" (/his/, /lit/, /sci/, /biz/, /pol/, /v/, /g/) boards

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>title of book is a quote from Shakespeare

I bet you're the type of /r/books-browsing pseud who thinks 'pretentious' stands alone as a valid criticism of a book, and that 'Shakespeare is overrated'

>quoting from Homer

Nobody does this, though.