Why arent you sacrificing your life for art like Joyce did with

i dont like farts

>>9617778
>real men act exactly like the drone bees in a beehive
Well cucked my friend

>tfw you have to compete with FW in order to earn your spot in literary history
I'm going to die in insignificance

>>9617836
>believing literary accomplishment is linear
>literally intellectually cucking yourself
>not knowing that most people think Finnegans Wake is unreadable trash and that the only people who don't will probably think anything written after 1990 is irredeemable trash

Consider me triggered

>>9617805
someone hasn't read Aurelius

>>9617847
I have and I prefer Catallus.

>>9617847
I have and I prefer Epicurus.

>>9617767
how do i read it? it makes no sense

i also gave up on Ulysses after pg40

Joyce was just a mad man i think

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>>9617852
I stand corrected. Nice. I just checked out Catallus myself. I'm working through Seneca in Latin now, so that'll be a while. It really sinks in on the re-reads.

>>9617857
I love how Seneca quotes Epicurus pretty much every chapter.

>>9617862
I haven't read Wake yet but Ulysses definitely makes sense anon. It might take you two read throughs to get a general gist, but it should be re-read and re-read

>>9617874
Good on you for learning Latin. Catallus will be a nice departure from the Stoics. Honestly Aurelius seems very wise but I am not naturally stoic so I don't try to force it anymore.

>>9617874
>but it should be re-read and re-read
I think it's written only for people who have a full time ambition of becoming an author or a critic. You need a degree in arts to get what he's saying. Impossible for a hobbyist like me. I'll stick to the Russians or maybe Pynchon.

>>9617900
>gets pynchon and not joyce
ridiculous.

>>9617911
with great difficulty i manage Pynchon on a rainy Sunday afternoon somehow. But Joyce is incomprehensible to me....i'm a brainlet perhaps

>Bhagafat gaiters
He's an absolute madman.
Oh and I'm learning I probably should have learned some Irish history before starting.

>>9617900
My man I fell into Ulysses with no prior literary experience except The Odyssey (which was my reason for reading it) and with no idea of its reputation, and I fell in love despite the confusion. Took a long time for my first reading, and my last reading took a week.