What the actual fuck is this shit? Is this supposed to be a story?

>>9685188
it's not fucking hard. you're a brainlet. start with the greeks, pleb.

>>9685188
It's not nonsense. Joyce wasn't kidding when he said he could justify every word. Use this website and remember to have fun: http://www.finneganswiki.com/

>>9685188
Language. Puns.

People like >>9685200 who act like it's straightforward have totally missed the point of the book (or more likely haven't read it at all).
Think of Finnegan's Wake like the internet. There can be massive expanses of meaning behind like every sentence, some of which must have been implemented retroactively just because I can't even Joyce being that smart.
Finnegan's Wake is kind of a culmination of a life, so its all almost references to himself.

>>9685542
>totally missed the point of the book (or more likely haven't read it at all).
I think they aren't particularly sincere, have you thought of that possibility? They might very well have got the point of the book, they're just trying to get a rise out of people like OP, and people like you.

eyyy OP, I finished this book not but the other day, and if you wanna get a bit of an appreciation for it read chapters I.7 and I.8, con pazienza, and use fweet.org. It's better than the 'usylessly unreadable Blue Book of Eccles'.

He's Courting Eternity!

Some of it requires reading it aloud, some of it requires knowing some linguistics, some of it is about Dublin and some of it is private speech bound to be obscure. No idea if the story is linear, considering the ending is beginning might suggest so.

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>>9685188
Meshua, my fine dandy! You've arrived at the right tavern! The rooks are howling in the west as buttercream coagulates my heart; and thou. Thus Thou havest arrived in time for mail delivery here at Masada, my dear Sulamit. Take a seat, will ya lad. Gimme dat boipussy.

>>9685188
>Portrait
Hell yeah

>Ulysses
Hell yeah

>Finnegans Wake
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