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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like to slowly unveil my power level to bookstore staff just to keep them in check
    >"Are you looking for anything?"
    >"Yes, please show me where you keep your Wallace"
    >"Wallace? like David FOSTER Wallace? Whoa, cool, I thought you were gonna ask for that Steve Jobs biography or something. Yeah man, Infinite Jest's right over here.
    >She hands me a copy of Infinite Jest
    >her: "So you like Wallace huh, yeah me too, have you read Brief --"
    >I hold up a single open hand while she is speaking, immediately silencing her, then turn to a random page in the book
    >I smile quietly to myself as I read the entire page, occasionally snorting cryptically
    >After finishing the page I close the book and hand it back to her, still smiling
    >Me: "He's terrible, isn't he? Absolutely awful. Put that book back and please show me your Joyce"
    >She puts back Infinite Jest with an alarmed look on her face, then takes me to the Joyce section of the librairie
    >Her: "Joyce? Yeah I read part of Dubliners in my 400-level community college English class. Do you, uh, d-do you think he's good--"
    >"Read this"
    >I have shoved Finnegans Wake under her nose
    >"Out loud"
    >her: "ba...babba......bababadgharf....bababagargrfap--
    >I rip the book out of her hands and stare directly into her eyes
    >me: "Completely wrong, it's bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk is portmanteau of various thunder-related words from languages all across the globe; in this context it represents Eve's tragic fall to Satan and the subsequent collapse of Eden. It is perhaps the single most important, emotive, and creative word ever spoken in the entire history of human speech, literally transcending language, and you cannot even read it."
    >I throw Finnegans Wake in her face and inform the store manager that he has hired an illiterate
    >I leave the store with a copy of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception under my coat, unpaid for

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      i kneel

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gem

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gotta agree with Nabokov on this one. Seems like a book that may have been fun for Joyce to write, but it sucks ass to read for anyone who isn't a weirdo. I know it has actual meaning and literary value, but the act of simply reading FW unassisted for a long stretch is probably one of the least interesting (and least meaningful) activities I can think of.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It should be read aloud . If you do it over and over you start noticing patterns and meanings

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I took a class for this once.
    >One of the students in the class was ESL exchange from Taiwan
    > the teacher warned him multiple times on the first day that the book relies almost entirely on a solid grasp of both written and spoken english due to all the wordplay.
    >kid was adamant it would be fine
    >professor excited to see how a foreign speaker would interact with the polyglot text
    >week 1
    >Taiwanese kid does not come to class
    >sends email to whole class
    >”Here’s my version of Joyce’s Wake”
    > it’s just a bunch of misspelled words and talking about shit
    >never comes to class again

    Anyways I’m glad I read it in a group and with the guidance of a published wake scholar. Attempting it otherwise would be ridiculous. It’s a work made solely for autistic academics. All that said, it’s one of my favorites and was incredibly fun in the context I got to read it in.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >taking a class on the masturbatory "look how smart I am" literary diarrhea of an actual coprophage
      How else do you enjoy wasting your time?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        i'm not quite autistic enough to go further than the first two or three pages on the finnegansweb wiki point by point trying to actually "get" it but i think the audiobook is fun to listen to sometimes

        going on IQfy

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          if anyone in this thread gives a shit here's a download for that full recording

          anonfiles dot com slash P2Q0jbt1z5 slash Finnegans_Wake_Naxos_Audiobook_PDF_zip

          there are many recordings of sections on youtube and elsewhere but as far as i've seen this the only full length recording of the entire thing

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            there's a few versions I was able to find for free, there's the Marcella Riordan/Barry McGovern version (which is the version from the yt vid), the Patrick Healy version (which is being sold for €275.00 so I'm glad somebody ripped it because that price is unhinged), and the Marcella Riordan/Jim Norton version (abridged).

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Thank you for sharing that link, sincerely. I'm going to slowly work my way through the text with that recording.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Beethoven." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Joseph Campbell's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading the Wake, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the Wake. It had surpassed all of Joyce's other works in my estimation. Ulysses, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Wake. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from the Wake, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Cope

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

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  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    it was plenty fun for joyce to write, i'm sure. twenty fricking years for a literal meme

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >buying Finnegans Wake
    >seems to be a problem when the checkout girl scans it
    >asks me to please accompany her to the backroom
    >realize i have impressed her with Finny's and she's going to blow me
    >before i know it two heavies are hooking me up to a polygraph test and make me admit I had no intention of reading the Wake
    >tfw banned from the store now

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      chekced.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >go to book store
    >ask attendant where I can find a copy of Finnegan's Wake
    >she gets really mad at me for saying it with the apostrophe and has the bouncers escort me out of the shop

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I fricking hate current era bookstore bouncers, back in my day they were much nicer

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Excerpt from 'Apostrophizing the Feminine in "Finnegans Wake"': " Sexual difference, for instance, is figured in the Wake as the suppressed feminine of the apostrophic structure, a violation of rhetorical and grammatical codes—indeed, a resistance to and subversion of these phallogocentric laws. A rational (masculine) logic constructs its "sense" against an irrational (feminine) "nonsense" and figured through the gendered familial structures of the Porter family. To follow the (missing) apostrophe of the Wake is to follow its simultaneous suppression and reinforcement, to learn how the family is structured around sexual difference, a structure that can operate only through the repression of (the knowledge of) sexual difference."

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >saying it with the apostrophe
      wat

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I saw James Joyce at a bookshop in Zurich yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for fart letters or anything.
    He said, “In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje in pelted thongs a parth a lone who the joebiggar be he?”
    I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk.” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen grilled mutton kidneys in his hands without paying.
    The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
    When she took one of the kidneys and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each kidney and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    A girl I had a crush on and her dad wanted to a do a reading group with me and this after I said I was interested but I blew it with for not wanting to go hunting since I don’t like guns and I blew it with her because of promised to stop smoking weed and she smelled it on me one day. Very IQfy and very attractive girl who loved quoting Shakespeare and in retrospect I regret it somewhat

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Blew it with him* for not wanting to go hunting

      It was just going to be the two of us, I think maybe he was hoping to get to know me better

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >you: "this isn't fun"
    >me: "never has been"
    >*bang*

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