So what should I read before I read this, really? >inb4 the

You're not going to have any luck reading Finnegans Wake unless you make serious work out of it. Knowing what it's referencing is half the battle. I can't give you the knowledge to make sense of Finnegans Wake unless I already have that knowledge. If you are a serious student of Joyce and want to take the book on either pick up a guide (which is surely equivalent to asking for help online) or do the research yourself.

That said, here are some safe bets for required reading:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses
Greek and Roman myth in general
Egyptian myth
The Holy Bible
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
perhaps Ulysses?

and I guess the implicit question in my post is this:

do you really think anyone on /lit/ has read Finnegans Wake and could therefore be able to help you?

Vico's New Science, dummy.

my diary desu

>>8974440
HAHAHAHHAHAAAA HAAAHAHHHAAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAA

There's a finnegan's wake reading guide on the internet somewhere that basically dissects it line for line, search for that I don't want to because I don't care to.

>references, the book.

Wow so smart. Shit story though.

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So what should i study before I solve this, really?
>inb4 basic maths
>inb4 it's too much so just solve it with a plebby guide
Don't be plebs, /lit/, and tell me what should i actually study before it, specifically.

>>8974859

that's really easy. all you have to do is subtract the dx from both sides and distribute the 0 from the bottom of the inner bar and then divide by the -5. the answer is 6.

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>>8974872
>/lit/ in charge of math

>>8974859
>maths
go fucking drink some tea and shove fucking crumpets up your ass, piece of shit

>>8974904
stop it's cute when they do that