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is basically like reading a dream. and i mean that in a literal sense. i'm about 130 pages into it and will probably finish it by christmas. i've been wanting to read this book since i was a tween and so far it hasn't disappointed. it's also the first book i've picked up since finishing war & peace about a week ago. anyway, this is a pointless post. i won't have the internet in my new apartment for maybe two weeks so i just felt like making a topic here while i can. :( i miss you, xltronic.com/mb. |
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you reminded me - you have a new story I haven't read. got the thread bookmarked. will read after I finish the stuff for tomorrow. have a good two weeks! write something for a comeback! |
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thanks. i've actually already been working on something. any americans who live in the state of maine should look for a zine called inkblot, which has one of my older stories in it. the date on it says october, though, so i don't know if it's still available. |
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Good luck! I'm reading Portrait of the Artist atm. |
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while on the subject of dreams: last night I must've dreamt a weird one, cause I woke up while I was tearing up my duvet with my teeth. I managed to rip a hole in it and there were feathers all over :( |
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you were probably neglected by your mother as a child |
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yeah, probably. mother-wolf didn't pay me much attention :'( |
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flabby ref to freuds dream interpretation theories. it always leads you back to your mother. silly man. |
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finnegans wake is fuckin bonkers!! it only ever makes sense to me whilst extremely high or drunk or both...... here is the full text online:) http://eldar.cz/myf/txt/joyce_-_finnegans_wake_v1.0.txt |
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"Portrait of the ArtisT' think i read that a while ago , has it got stuff about him in boarding school, and shagging a prostitute in it? the only thing i properly remember about it is a rugby ball being described as a "muddy orb" |
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I read a bunch of assays about FW recently, but there is no polish translation yet. Although I think I would understand as much from the original. I mean not a lot. |
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Don't feckin bother. Kiss the blarney. Drink some guiness. English drink by the way. |
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That's the one, not sure about the prostitute bit yet, you're probably right. I prefer Ulysses so far, although tis still good. |
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I really liked Portrait of the Artist, whough reading Joyce in another language than english is like reading whole different book I guess. Did you reach the part which has Dedalus sitting next to the tracks with an older guy? Loved that story. |
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I haven't yet. Sounds like the story in Dubliners with the old pervert guy he meets. JJ is the fookin man, although I can't look at him in the same way since I read his dirty letters that someone posted a while back! |
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It was in Dubliners??? Haha, strange cause I haven't read it. I must have read it separately and connected it with Portrait.... Were you surprised by the content of the letters? They somehow fell in place for me. C'mon, the last chapter of Ulysses... |
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Oh you have to read Dubliners! Its amazing, studied it pretty intensely. Its essential. Maybe that story is in Portrait also, I know the one in Dubliners was inspired by a personal experience so maybe its in both Haha I guess you're right, although I was uncomfortable with some of his fetishes, ie shit :S |
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smellow yellow furrow |
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I like prostitutes. |
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I live in Maine, I don't get inkblot magazine though. Do you live in Maine? |
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i'm about 130 pages into it and will probably finish it by christmas. with all due respect, fuck off. bullshit. either bullshit or you'll have read it and not understood it. it's not meant to be read, it's meant to be studied. |
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james joyce.. the man who invented "squarepusher" swear |
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HE ROCKS MY CASBAH |
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Noone understands FW fully, therefore I see no harm in reading it as an amateur and catching 2 linguistic alusions/variations a page. It's very fun when you notice some clues and can connect them in logical way. Even if you get just a tiny fraction of them. |
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it's a silly and beautiful book written in wordplays and puns. it's fun to read so i read it for fun. |
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redrum doesn't know about fun |
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I started Portrait of the artist but I don't think I was prepapred for it because I must have read the first 20 pages every day for 2 weeks and then gave up. But one day... maybe when I finish Dracula which is fuggin awesome |
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reading finnegans wake is actually like being a child again, completely innocent in relation to the world around you. i'm a little over 300 pages into it at the moment, having recently finished the most difficult chapter so far (though it was only 'difficult' in the beginning before it 'clicked'). i'd probably finish it next week but i'm heading up to york university until friday and can only bring a book for casual reading (finnegans wake may not require study, but it does require some concentration). |
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i have the internet again. also 480 pages into the wake. |
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wish i had known about this - ill be in maine in less than a month !!! |
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scup_bucket - where do you live? |
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i just finished reading finnegans wake. to me the plot is an allegory for the relationship between charles lutwidge dodgson and alice pleasance liddel. the book is beyond beautiful. easily the most personal book i've ever read. i love it, love it, love it, even more than ulysses, exiles, a portrait of the artist as a young man and dubliners. combined. i highly recommend it to anyone who has already read his earlier works. i think it'll add a lot to rereadings, which i plan to start on next year. |
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way to go man, don't let the naysayers discourage you... seems like the sort of thing you keep engaging for the rest of your life... exciting stuff. |
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sneak attack plug: some bits of my were inspired/influenced by finnegans wake. |
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Ugh, the very first paragraph with weird apostrophies and intentional mispelling of america, combined with the unnecessarily humungous length makes this very repelling. It feels like something an idiot teacher would make me read in school. No shiggidy thanks. |
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