Thread 24673552

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Anonymous 8/27/2025, 5:55:31 AM No.24673552 >>24673572 >>24674005 >>24674078 >>24674208

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The female Joyce.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 6:03:28 AM No.24673572

>>24673552 (OP)
It doesn't matter much

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 11:48:43 AM No.24674005

>>24673552 (OP)
she cute

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 11:50:34 AM No.24674008

Joyce had a sense of humor though.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 11:51:48 AM No.24674009 >>24674011

>t. never read The Making of Americans
Woolf is great but there is not even a debate here.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 11:54:12 AM No.24674011

>>24674009
reading 5 pages of that turd book is enough lol

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 11:55:34 AM No.24674014

I prefer H.D., and Mary Butts.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 1:04:04 PM No.24674078 >>24674082 >>24674120 >>24674132

>>24673552 (OP)
>I have been amused, stimulated, charmed interested by the first 2 or 3 chapters–to the end of the Cemetery scene; & then puzzled, bored, irritated, & disillusioned as by a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. And Tom, great Tom [TS Eliot] thinks this on a par with War & Peace! An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating. When one can have cooked flesh, why have the raw? - Woolf's diary

>illiterate
>underbred
>self-taught working man

She hated Joyce and looked down on him for being Irish.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 1:08:04 PM No.24674082 >>24674104

>>24674078
She did a lot of jealous seething in her diary, she understood what a diary was for. The influence of Ulysses on her writing is undeniable, she knew what was good.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 1:19:20 PM No.24674104 >>24674113

>>24674082
Her view of Proust was the opposite, however; also, her Common Reader essays (2 volumes) are monuments of literary appreciation
>she knew what was good
Then she knew what was bad, as well

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 1:29:27 PM No.24674113 >>24674544

>>24674104
she stuck up her nose for the potato but kneeled before the frog. as others have noted, the wannabe aristocrat didnt want to accept that a plebian mogged her, effortlessly, her work is filled with sweat.

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 1:38:25 PM No.24674120

>>24674078
I lost interest at the exact same point lel

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 1:48:44 PM No.24674132

>>24674078
>She hated Joyce and looked down on him for being Irish.
Based

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 2:35:21 PM No.24674208

>>24673552 (OP)
Joyce mogs this bitch doe

Anonymous 8/27/2025, 5:12:34 PM No.24674544

>>24674113
I don't know, Dalloway reads effortlessly enough, but anyone who's actually read her knows how dispiriting Proust's work was to her as well (she felt that he stifled not just her creativity, but her desire even to write) whereas she simply dismissed Joyce
>stuck up her nose [at] the potato
She positively revered Swift, adored Wilde, etc.