>As he lie in the darkness, contemplating the day, it dawned

>Hello, my name is James Joyce and this book is called Dubliners. It is a collection of short stories that I think nicely sum up my impressions of the good people of Dublin. Hope you enjoy!
How did this hack ever find someone willing to publish such schlock?

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>He walked out of the church with his jacket collars turned up against the breeze, Finnegan's Wake was over, but how many more would there be?

>>8802544
kek

>>8802487
>His wife did not love him anymore. Maybe becuase she was The Dead.

Maybe is sounded better in original irish?

>>8802544
>As they hear the cock's crow rising above the soot encrusted roofs of Chapelizod, one by one the Finnegans wake.

Endgame of literature, my ass.

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>20 years have passed since the last Compson died, but some still say if one goes to the site of the former Compson estate--now long since demolished-- while the honeysuckle is in bloom, you can still hear the sound and the fury of Benjy's cries.

>Faulkner
>not a hack

Christ, I'd rather read Goosebumps.