Ulysses

>>8736457
Because they haven't read it.

Lightweight intellectuals, heard it today.
People like you.
I only read a bit over 2/3s...
I think I missed one of the most important bits but also skipped one of the lamest bits, probably. I'll probably finish it one day.

James Joyce is like the lotr books, a journey.
I've heard that the other book is "better", with some of the same characters.

>BLOOM: (Desperately.) Wait. Stop. Gulls. Good heart. I saw. Innocence.
Girl in the monkeyhouse. Zoo. Lewd chimpanzee. (Breathlessly.) Pelvic
basin. Her artless blush unmanned me. (Overcome with emotion.)

w-what did he mean by this

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Nearly everyone on this board starts Ulysses as a meme. They've heard it's long and complicated and lewd and about cucking, and that it's part of the "code" of being a successful /lit/izen, so they try to tackle it.

Then they realize it's actually incredibly hard and doing a lot of weird things, so they give up, and just read the Wikipedia article.

I've actually been reading Ulysses for months now as part of a class in graduate school. It really is as fantastic as /lit/ says it is, but they couldn't tell you why to save their lives.

>>8738209
I think its telling me to find a good monkey h NOW

>>8736457
>be edgy pseudointellectual
>want to prove intelligence to self
>google "hardest book to read"
>discover ulysses
>purchase ulysses
>read first half of ulysses
>hardly understand any of it
>give up on second half
>go around telling people who couldn't give a shit that you've read the worlds hardest book and that therefore you're a genius in every respect

>>8738259
Which is funny because Finnegans Wake is orders of magnitude harder to read.

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>>8736457
Because the majority of people who like any book are pseudo intellectuals

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>>8738370
There's plenty of faggots that do the same with Finnegans Wake, see pic related

>>8738259
>be edgy pseudointellectual
>want to prove intelligence to self
>google "hardest book to read"
>discover ulysses
>purchase ulysses
>read first half of ulysses
>hardly understand any of it
>give up on second half
>go around telling people the book is shit and only pseudo-intellectuals like it

The only pseudo-intellectual is the person who calls others pseudo-intellectuals because he doesn't personally like something.

>>8739001
>hardest book
>not Finnegan's Wake

>>8738209
cum in pussy

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>>8738217
>It really is as fantastic as /lit/ says it is, but they couldn't tell you why to save their lives.

I feel like you should be able to express yourself. This feels like a cop out.