James Joyce - have you read any of his work?

dan185

Well if you haven't, get on this wonderful collection of love letters he wrote to a former bae.

NSFW TEXT


http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce72385-b146-4bf2-9d2e-0dfa6ac7142d

Littlekittylou

Yes the Dead the Dubliners and a lot of Ulysses but never those letters though. I will take a look.:)

Littlekittylou

Wowsers!

GAAman

"Bae" and Joyce together.......

DEFTLEFTHAND

Dubliners

dan185

GAAman wrote: »

"Bae" and Joyce together.......

I rather think Joyce would go along with such terms, he is after all a man who wrote this in the early 20th century.

"You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I ****ed them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."

Littlekittylou

It's RUDE!! :eek:

Tail Docker

No.

danslevent

Just the Dubliners, some were good and some didn't interest me.

I've read Dubliners and Portrait Of the Artist as a Young Man.

I enjoyed Dubliners, the first few are dull but the ones in the middle and towards the end are more interesting.
Conversely I really enjoyed the first half of Portrait of the Artist.... but the section with the big sermon in the middle was a bit of a chore, and from that point onwards the titular artist becomes a bit of an ass.

I have a copy of Ulysses that's been sitting on my desk for the past two or three years....I'll get around to someday, I swear! Doubt I'll ever try Finnegan's Wake though, ain't nobody got time for that.

Menas

I got most of the way thru Ulysyses when I was younger and cleverer. Its a bit mad...and dirty in parts.

Aidric

dan185 wrote: »

I rather think Joyce would go along with such terms, he is after all a man who wrote this in the early 20th century.

"You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I ****ed them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."

She must have been drinking Satzenbrau

Banjo String

Joyce?

Big John Joe ftw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbAK6TIjvp4

TheBeardedLady

Dubliners and POAAAAYM. Can't remember either of them but I finished them both so I must've liked them. Read those letters too....if ye know what I mean. ;)

Edit: we probably weren't supposed to read those letters, I'm guessing. Like an old skool "Fappening" scandal.

Menas

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

Read those letters too....if ye know what I mean. ;)

No....please elaborate!

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sh1te and onions.

Fred Swanson

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Tin Foil Hat

I tried Finnegan's Wake. I'm not convinced it's not a massive piss take.

It starts like this, for those of you who don't know. Yes, in mid-sentence.

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. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passencore
rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of
Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's
rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's
gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice
from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet,
though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not
yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone
nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by
arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the
aquaface.
The fall
(bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntro
varrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait
oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian
minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the
pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of
humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of
his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock
out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green
since devlinsfirst loved livvy.

For fukk sake James. Cop yourself on.

Cantremember

dan185 wrote: »

I rather think Joyce would go along with such terms, he is after all a man who wrote this in the early 20th century.

"You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I ****ed them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."

Bae is a word for the young, not an old fart like Joyce. The only thing I'd conclude from your quote is that Joyce could contribute very well to an AH thread on farting, sharting and arse wiping. And that's about it.

FrKurtFahrt

Dubliners, to my mind, is accessible and often achingly beautiful. Portrait Of An Artist takes time, but repays. Ulysses is an ongoing study. Finnegan is indecipherable. Everything else can wait.

Tin Foil Hat

If four hundred monkeys typed on four hundred keyboards for four hundred years, they would have come up with Finnegan's Wake.

bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!

Stupid fukkin' monkeys!

Sir Osis of Liver.

Nora could do with an ould wash.

Cantremember

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Nora could do with an ould wash.

Fcuking barnacle on that one.

Copa Mundial

I've read Dubliners. Couldn't really enjoy it as it was for college, so it was more of a dissection job than for leisure.

policarp

Trying to understand Joyce is like trying to do Crosaire crosswords.
When you have it, you have it

Straylight

Wtf is a bae?

And no, I haven't read any Joyce, life's too short for that nonsense.

Menas

policarp wrote: »

Trying to understand Joyce is like trying to do Crosaire crosswords.
When you have it, you have it

I am going to re-use this quote, it sums Joyce up for me!

ToddyDoody

dan185 wrote: »

Well if you haven't, get on this wonderful collection of love letters he wrote to a former bae.

NSFW TEXT


http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce72385-b146-4bf2-9d2e-0dfa6ac7142d

Its nothing to do with what he actually wrote though. Its the fact he's from Dublin.*

*was from Dublin, now dead

Buona Fortuna

Never read Joyce or even been remotely inclined - until now

He does write filth well. With an energy and an earthiness - what's his horniest read?

Greenmachine

Reading the "Dubiners" at the moment actually. I have read about 30-40 pages of "Finnegan's wake" too, that is pretty difficult reading.

0byme75341jo28

Jim needs a bit of help methinks.

OakeyDokey

I've heard about the love letters but never read them. I knew Joycey was a filthy little dude. I was on a serious Joyce kick back in 09. I read everything I could get my hands on from him. Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man, lots of poetry - Chamber Music. Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake I had to read with readers guide and still don't know what to make of Finnegans Wake, I don't think anyone will ever fully understand that.

joe swanson

Nope I haven't read any and have no plans to either

WoollyRedHat

He hasn't released anything of note in a long while, just living off his former glories now.

branie2

Bits of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses

Berserker

I haven't and no amount of money in the world would make me do so.

RDM_83 again

Have opened them and given up, if I want to pretend to be an intellectual I'd just natter on about Flann O'Brien at least his books were readable and slightly funny

Wibbs

blackguard/blaggard is a word that should come back into more use. I'd throw frig in there too for good measure. F*ckbird is a keeper too. He seems to be well acquainted with the bald man in a rowboat, that by too many accounts is still oft lacking these days and with the interwebs ye've scant excuse lads. Though he was a tad more scatological for my personal tastes. A fart had him going more than the sight of a boob.

ireland.man

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Have opened them and given up, if I want to pretend to be an intellectual I'd just natter on about Flann O'Brien at least his books were readable and slightly funny

I'm disagree. I think Joyce's Dubliners allows us to explore the meaninglessness of consciousness, especially when observed through a Foucauldian perspective of governmentality and power. Phenomenological discourses evident in Joyce's works allow us to witness precultural paradigm of reality and prestructuralist semanticism, thereby providing an opportunity for deeper-sounding, intellectual sh*te-talk.

mass_debater

joe swanson wrote: »

Nope I haven't read any and have no plans to either

Good man, always a rebel

Rothko

Yeah, I've read Dubliners, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and Ulysses. Really enjoyed them all but Finnegan's Wake looks like it'd be impossible to get through.

eisenberg1

ireland.man wrote: »

I'm disagree. I think Joyce's Dubliners allows us to explore the meaninglessness of consciousness, especially when observed through a Foucauldian perspective of governmentality and power. Phenomenological discourses evident in Joyce's works allow us to witness precultural paradigm of reality and prestructuralist semanticism, thereby providing an opportunity for deeper-sounding, intellectual sh*te-talk.

That's easy for you to say...:D

ProudDUB

ireland.man wrote: »

I'm disagree. I think Joyce's Dubliners allows us to explore the meaninglessness of consciousness, especially when observed through a Foucauldian perspective of governmentality and power. Phenomenological discourses evident in Joyce's works allow us to witness precultural paradigm of reality and prestructuralist semanticism, thereby providing an opportunity for deeper-sounding, intellectual sh*te-talk.

Well said that man !

I've read Dubliners and Portrait and enjoyed them very much. Started on Ulysses a few times, but never made it past the first 20 odd pages.

When my nephew turned 30, he and a few mates did up a list of things to do before they turned 40. Reading Ulysses was one of them. So they joined a Trinity book club, that got together one night a week to read a chapter of Ulysses. Each night, they went somewhere new that was mentioned in the book & had a few pints at or near the spot, which really added to the overall craic factor.

Having it be a Trinners thing, sounds fierce high falutin altogether. But he said that the group was made up of a lot of very average Joe's like him, who were always curious about the hype surrounding Joyce, but found him too hard to tackle on their own. It took them about 6 months to get through it all, but he said it was one of the best things he ever did.

0byme75341jo28

Started Ulysses once, got about 100 pages through and was actually enjoying it. It's a fierce tough read though, I was wrecked after 20 pages.

diograis

don't you need to know a bit of homer before starting ulysses? ulysses is latin for odysseus so one would assume..?

Anyway a nice old man told me in Easons to stay away from Finnegan's wake, looks he was as baked as a cake when he wrote it.

catallus

He kept himself pretty sozzled on white wine, is what I heard.

MadYaker

I made an attempt at Finnegan's Wake, got about 100 pages in and decided f*ck it, life is too short for this.

darkdubh

MadYaker wrote: »

I made an attempt at Finnegan's Wake, got about 100 pages in and decided f*ck it, life is too short for this.

Harldly anyones read Finnegans Wake,its virtualy unreadable.I got through Ulysses,took me about six months but it was worth the effort.Its more accesable than its reputation suggests.

anncoates

I liked him before he was mainstream.

Reoil

dan185 wrote: »

bae.

Stop using the internet.

mariaalice

Only the Dubliners which I like, my husband loves the short stories as well and often re reads them. The John Huston film The Dead is his favourite Christmas film although I think its gloomy it does capture the mood of the story very well.