>step 1. don't be a disgusting monolingual pleb >step 2. don't be a filthy uncultured prole >step 3. use a companion guide
Joseph Allen
>he can't even into French >he wants to understand complex multilingual puns and referenes
Carter Young
> buying books to read books
no thanks
I'm sorry, in Burgerland for thousands of miles all around me, is my own country. So the pressure to learn another language is not there in society. Do I regret not leaning a language when I was young? Abso-fucking-lutely. Can I do anything about it? Probably not.
It's best to learn a language if you immerse yourself in it, and as of now I have no means of doing that.
John Rogers
Of course it's not too late and you can use the internet to achieve a fair amount of immersion. Especially with languages relatively close to English, such as French.
Christian Rodriguez
>monolingual Does it even matter, when most words in FW are made up bullshit
Camden Torres
>he fell for the meme
Kevin Walker
Of what use is this book if no one can actually comprehend it? Does being incredibly difficult make something "good"? I know I'll get at least a few replies saying ">brainlet cant understand bilingual puns" but I mean come on. No one can actually read this and enjoy it
Carson Adams
I'm OP an I'm starting to feel this way.
Asher Lopez
Pull up a dictionary, you fucking inbred
James Gray
It's written to be like a dream. Just let it wash over you, make associations based on what you can understand, keep an eye out for puns and double meaning.
Or just don't read it if you think it's a waste of time.
Jonathan Foster
You are so unbelievably unlileable, holy shit
Jackson Rivera
>i cant enjoy x, therefore no one can x, because i am the best!
Jacob Perez
Is there a dictionary for made up words now?
That's my current strategy friend
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Wyatt Robinson
It's gibberish for christs sake. It's literally for the most part idioglossia, which means you pretty much have to either be James Joyce or devote an absurd amount of time studying it to actually understand what is happening and what is trying to be conveyed
Zachary Mitchell
Way more important than being multilingual is having a really good mind for wordplay to read this book
Ian King
>or devote an absurd amount of time studying it to actually understand what is happening and what is trying to be conveyed Or as has been suggested, get a guidebook from one and/or of the many people who had a potentially 80 year head start on this task that is far over your head and soul
>This doesnt make sense to me! >Ths doesnt make sense!
Isaiah Taylor
nice bait though, is this your first day?
Jayden Cox
Would reading this book on LSD or mushrooms pay dividends?
David Parker
define dividends
Nicholas Cooper
transcending to a realm of wet windy farts
Gavin Martin
Your trip indicates you have an inflated ego and seek to argue with people by belittling their intelligence instead of actually responding to their point. You could have distilled your post to "get a guidebook" to which I would counter that if you need a separate book to guide you along with reading another book is the book really a masterpiece of literature or more just an experiment in making obscure and affected prose at the expense of making the entire thing unnecessarily difficult.
Nicholas Ward
>not realizing that Marshall McLuhan's career was translating Finnegan's Wake into English
Michael Butler
>stop being a pleb >buy a companion Nice contradiction senpai. OP just needs to stop and fucking think while reading, it isn't hard.
John Young
>>I'm sorry, in Burgerland for thousands of miles all around me, is my own country. You might want to learn Spanish.
Evan Allen
>or devote an absurd amount of time studying it to actually understand what is happening and what is trying to be conveyed Or as has been suggested, get a guidebook from one and/or of the many people who had a potentially 80 year head start on this task that is far over your head and soul
>This doesnt make sense to me! >Ths doesnt make sense!
Alexander Collins
Don't read it, senpai.
Andrew Robinson
Read it out loud.
Leo Davis
Robert Anton Wilson claimed it was highly compressed, with multiple layers of meaning embedded in each word. to demonstrate, he deconstructed the word "thuartpeatrick" in several different ways, but in my opinion Joyce was just being lazy.
Nolan Cook
>he deconstructed the word "thuartpeatrick" in several different ways, but in my opinion Joyce was just being lazy. >Every single word has multiple meanings >Works on text for 12 years >lazy >i guess you can say that it took him 12 years is a sign of laziness >touchee
James Sanchez
You can't eat steak before you've grown teeth. Sorry but start with baby food. There are people on this board and irl who've been reading their whole lives, that's who the book is for and that's who will enjoy it. Sucks to play catch-up but for real do your Bible and your mythology and entry-levels and come back to it in a decade.
Chase Martinez
>but in my opinion Joyce was just being lazy.
Someone here is being lazy, that's for sure.
Austin Carter
Fun fact: Finnegans Wake is the cheapest physical book I've ever bought. Cost me 0.85$, a new wordsworth edition. I never read it though, books aren't puzzles to solve, so Joyce and his linguistic puns can go fuck themselves
Eli Thompson
>a new wordsworth edition.
you spent 0.85 too much desu
Michael Bailey
>that it took him 12 years My bad: "Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death"
>write a shitty book about nothing in particular real quick, fuck it just claim it's about dreams or whatever >spend the next 12 years replacing every word with a more obscure word from a different language >add some references that only you and dog can understand >and something about irish """""""""culture""""""""" >DUDE MASTAPISS
Anthony Sullivan
/thread
Justin Diaz
See Its pure pottery, pure beauty, its lovely, its music, (though there is likely depth whether you know it or not), its pure spirit, its pure timeless spirit
Alexander Barnes
>nasal voice mumbling non-existent words You have a very strange definition of beauty
Andrew Robinson
Most of the hatred for Finnegans Wake comes from well-read people.
Cameron Mitchell
Finnegans Wake is a bottomless pit for people to throw their resources into as sacrifice to Joyce's Ego.
Mason Myers
>I didn't develop myself because the society didn't force me to >I'm not going to develop myself because it's not as easy as it could be when I was younger You have to go back to /r9k/.
Dylan Sullivan
Don't read Finnegans wake then. It's clearly not for you. You're complaining that one of the most difficult books ever written is too hard, and then making up excuses for why you can't read it. Clearly your desire to read it isn't high enough to warrant the effort, so don't bother. You're not the target audience. Do something more interesting with your life. Have you considered the orthodox church?
Jordan Robinson
Who says I can't read it now and come back to it again?
Nathaniel Cruz
I think the only person he ever meant to understand it was his daughter
Try developing schizophrenia and see if that helps you
Jose Cruz
Why would you read such garbage in the first place?
Joseph Campbell
for the challenge
Oliver White
>See Its pure pottery, pure beauty, its lovely, its music, (though there is likely depth whether you know it or not), its pure spirit, its pure timeless spirit >no?
>See Its pure pottery, pure beauty, its lovely, its music, (though there is likely depth whether you know it or not), its pure spirit, its pure timeless spirit >no?
>See Its pure pottery, pure beauty, its lovely, its music, (though there is likely depth whether you know it or not), its pure spirit, its pure timeless spirit >no?
>See Its pure pottery, pure beauty, its lovely, its music, (though there is likely depth whether you know it or not), its pure spirit, its pure timeless spirit >no?
Jordan Scott
>touchee I knew you were a woman.
Jaxson Morris
>>touchee >I knew you were a woman. >Anticipating to see this scientific evidence being implied that the humorous use of the word 'touchee' guarantees womanhood >and/or is this one of those, I cant like pink things