I recognise that reference!
*claps*
I recognise that reference!
Jonathan Diaz
Blake Cook
It’s more than that bruv
Hudson Gutierrez
explain
Joseph Foster
They referenced me!
*claps*
Noah Cox
Ulysses more like useless
Julian Wood
I got that fart joke
*claps Jimmy Fallon style*
Zachary Collins
*eats a ant*
*stands on hind legs*
Ayden Mitchell
HAHA LIKE IN THE GREEK MYTHS LMAO
Hudson Martin
>tfw I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that Joyce peaked with Dubliners and steadily got worse
The experimentation and the references are CLEVER, and they prove he's SMART, but do they actually make Portrait and Ulysses any GOOD? I honestly am starting to think they do not.
Isaiah Brooks
What a joke this board has become
Lucas Clark
Portrait goes into philosophy of aesthetics and the formation of an artist though, it’s not just references
Jacob Wright
Yeah, which is why I think Portrait is better than Ulysses but worse than Dubliners, and that, overall, Joyce follows a downward trajectory in terms of the quality of his work. And of course he hits his absolute nadir with Finnegans Wake. I want to strangle every dumb cunt on this board who tells me that it's incomprehensible "on purpose."
Blake Perez
That's quite enough for me.
Jaxson Parker
I love this book haha. Haha I can open it to any page and read delectable prose without any context or even knowing the references haha. Literally I never even read the Odyssey haha or understand a lot about Greek mythology but Joyce still manages to write something that's super fun to read haha. That bit about Bloom being paraded around the streets had me in stitches lol, for example. Ulysses is a great book. I would never recommend it haha, not to someone irl, but it is a really, really great book.
Cooper Gutierrez
Max pseud book
Nolan Reed
Max pseud post
Easton Bailey
what makes something good?
Sebastian Diaz
using allcaps for emphasis doesn't make you Pound
Lucas Hall
>VALIDATE ME VALIDATE ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME I'M SMART. LOOK LOOK I READ THE BOOK YOU TOLD ME TO READ PLEASE VALIDATE ME
You're a joke.
Gabriel Walker
there is no italics option on this site
Adam Evans
Is it possible, that Joyce pulled the same type of shenanigans that, say, Lou Reed did for the album Metal Machine Music? Not sure what made me think of this, but seems fitting.
Cameron Cruz
No appreciation for aesthetics. YouTube video essays have turned art into nothing more than puzzle boxes for these people.
Kevin Moore
Literally skip chapters 9 and 14
Ian Thomas
Nausicaa be like