Thoughts?

Of course it is. There’s a subject and there’s a participle. That’s all that is required.

For fucks sake, the pseuds are really coming out today.

Difficult to explain but fun

> a sentence that ends with "the" is a sentence

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I honestly can’t expect you to understand, even if your mother gave you a more retarded name somehow, like ‘the’.

>A sentence cannot end with "the".

Not him but surely it can't. "The" is an article, meaning it applies to nouns. If there is no noun following the article it's inappropriately placed.

That’s not the full sentence anyways.

>A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Holy shit that's some excellent prose right there. Maybe I should read the Joyce fellow.

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The sentence fragment as it appears on the last page is
>A way a lone a last a loved a long the
But it is commonly accepted that this selfsame final sentence is the first half of the book's first sentence, turning the entire thing into one giant loop, echoing the cyclicality of the eponymous Irish folk song.
The most genius part of it is you get one final ALP (Anna Livia Plurabelle) if you read 'a long the' in tandem with the metatextual 'PARIS' label that always appears at the bottom in proper editions.

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commodius vicus is not even english

No way

In this case it’s a proper sentence. Technically ‘the’ is being used as an adverb, not a verb or adjective.

When ‘the’ is used adverbally it is acceptable by modern MLS standards

>Hey, user, I noticed you're having a bit of trouble reading Finnegans Wake, so I made a few notes to help you in your reading.You're welcome!

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there are other opaque writers but why is Joyce such a meme

he didn't like the english, so he made fun of their language.

because communists are idealists who want to tinker and work for 1000 years on building a useless but perfect creation that lasts for a few seconds.

and they had little representation in literature, so they selected joyce and pushed him hard, because he was a fag, anti-christian, anti-british (at a time when they tried to have a workers revolution in england), he was cosmopolitan and therefore internationalist in his bent, he had an eyepatch so he kindled the pirate image of a fiendish rogue doing small evils for a greater good.

remember most people including those who shape our culture are largely superficial thinkers who use emotions to make most of their decisions.

How the fuck do you expect me to read this dumb ass book, it's a waste of time and a meme

It should be a crime to print this book

based and truthpilled

it's supposed to make you think of vicious commodities, and how we barter freedom away for shiny trinkets. which is what the romans brought to the isles and the british (the plague of imperialism) and they brought to the indians (both types) and the chinese are now bringing to the world.

if you're really vague you can have your writing mean nothing and everything.

>The night air bitter scalds my tongue, I walk along the ambleway thick bramble lay side, hurried pace unmatched by graceful drunkards stumble by by

it's very low iq writing, because ur just trying to fit words to a rhythm.

this is all bullshit, fuck off

Well the Roman evocation also comes from the commodius/Commodus similarity

stfu, sinbad is the best you swine.
You'll be imprisoned in an island you bastard

I've been reading Finnegans Wake for two years now and have never done a psychedelic substance.

it literally translates to a comfortable living. the entire book is supposed to be about how small towns are destroyed by industry, which then destroys all the local character and personality of the people.

sounds reactionary

Thank you daughter.

That's from Ulysses

sinbad is from le comte de monte cristo

What the hell happened to Yea Forums? Half the people in here seem like they genuinely weren't even aware before this thread that Finnegans Wake was written in a wordplay/pun/phonaesthetics based conlang.
I can understand saying it's shit but that's the entire thing it's (in)famous for.

i don't read anglos

I have been visiting since (I think) 2014 and it wasn't much better.

Joyce is just an annoying tripfag shitposter

I wish I could filter him irl

I read it.

The board skews young and many keep immigrating from /pol/ so they only know about the books circlejerked over there

I read it with a shit ton of annotations. It was genuinely a lot of fun.

Fantastic pseud detector

which edition/publisher?

Can somebody just please explain what the fuck this book is about?

A man saw two or three girls pissing in a public park, while unbeknownst to the peeping man he was being peeped on by three or four soldiers who duly report the peeping done by the peeping man who peeped on two or three girls making piddles in the park.

Pretty sure it’s the other way around, and the man wasn’t pissing

I never said the man was pissing. And if it's the other way around wouldn't the man be pissing?

I mean to say it’s HCE consuming farts

you are so obtuse it's ridiculous. this is your brain on /politics/.

Joyce is EASILY one of the most innovative, experimental, talented writers of the last 200 years in English. Very few have EVER reached the heights of genius seen in Ulysses in any language, let alone English. Joyce is both the peak of modernism and the beginning of post-modernism, your shitty "communist" take is so out of left field it's laughable. If anything, to understand Joyce one must understand Irish nationalism and the failures of the gaelic revival. Joyce is not a political writer in that politics is not the whole of the human condition and thus neither is Joyce's writing. I suggest you actually read all of his works, read some supporting literature and think before you talk. no one needs your garbage commentary on this board

Actually the reason modernism ended and postmodernism began is Kafka. He BTFOd classical art, namely, tragedy, into oblivion by means of centering his writing method around a stream of Deus Ex Machinas, showing the writer isn't bound by any rules of internal consistency whatsoever by force of ability to mention something haven't been mentioned before - thus accomplishing modernism's mission in full. Moreover, he did it in a clearly intentional, self-referential way, thus being the originator of fourth wall breaking artistry and making reader's existence the central part of his narratives.

bla bla bla bla
fucking normies man

>Kafka
>normie
If anything, Joyce was a normie.

Normies don’t write Finnegans Wake

Have you read the post you are answering to? With what word does the sentence end? Fucking hell people in here are retarded

Any normie could write a random brainfart. This is typically called "shitposting" nowadays. At leadt, in this place.

you gay atheist postmodernist communists are the worst

>because he was a fag
literally and demonstrably untrue
>anti-christian
Incredibly shallow interpretation. Joyce's relation with Christianity/Catholicism was complex to say the least.

>Any normie could write a random brainfart
No normie's brainfart would be as intricately designed as Finnegans Wake.

You haven't read all that many scientific papers, I gather.

As schopenhauer said: There are times in which progress can be reactionary, and reactionary action can be progresive.

The only two parts of your post that actually relate to me are "you" and "(You)".

this thread makes my vagina a desert

was joyce popular or was he an industry plant? how much do you actually know about his personal life.

> was complex to say the least
if this is your original phrasing and word choice that says the most.

you might be spit this cringe inducing bukkake at me, but i prefer to avoid cum swapping with open double digitarians.

This and Gravity's rainbow should all be burned and removed from history
Postmodern is the new Entartete Kunst

>et cetera
>vis a vis
>au contraire
>de facto

as a conlanger, I love it for its language
as a reader, I hate it for its opacity
I tend more towards liking it than disliking it, but I have to be in the mood for aesthetic gibberish to really enjoy it

There have always been oblivious people on here. Around 2010 I signed up for a Joyce class knowing nothing about him other than people on here talked about him a lot. The big difference is that zoomers have no inhibitions toward posting about anything regardless of how much they have to say.

Pseudest comment ever, well done.

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The whole ending is really affecting t.b.h. Anna Livia flowing into the sea, knowing she'll never see her husband again, and he won't even realise she's gone ... brings a tear to the eye.

Ireland.

Ah, so you were just projecting all along. Got it.

Cuckoldry

typical stemfaggot.

>lol art is for normies am i right

shouldn't you be posting on reddit?

there's nothing in the rulebook saying it can't end with "the"