Is there a list of things I need to read before I take this on?
All of it
Literally everything
Also become fluent in French, German, Arabic, and Old English
>>7706945
the entire western canon
Nobody actually gets the book, just read it and have fun
>>7706945
Try it first. If you enjoy it and want to keep reading after a few dozen pages, you're good. Otherwise read his other works first, in ascending difficulty
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02/16/16(Tue)22:24:40 No.7706507
First: you are going to have to learn Greek. I reccomend taking a native speaking lover.
Then:get in shape. Master cleanse hot yoga and run a couple 5k's.
Try to volunteer at a hospital or soup kitchen. If you are into Ayn Rand, serve in the military.
Raise a puppy and snap its neck when you have house trained it.
Go in a safari or become a bufighter. Drink absinthe and SlimFast.
You should buy a rice cooker and a garlic press. If you aren't vaccinated and circimsized , get on that...
>>7706964
Right on all accounts except for circumcision
Joyce had an eye patch and so should your cock
>>7706945
Just read Joyce's three other major books beforehand and it'll be manageable so long as you pace yourself and are comfortable with the idea that it's not meant to be read or understood like a conventional book.
>>7706959
did joyce read the western canon tho?
>>7706980
Duly noted
http://youtu.be/7o7Gqc6kv0Y
I wish McKenna had done a lecture on the psychological distortions of 'As You Like It'.
If you think about it, it's always being played as low comedy, even low gender comedy a la Bugs Bunny. It would be fantastic if the play were produced in a woolier form.
I suppose the Wachowskis are talented enough to produce 'As You Like It' but it would probably wind up as a queer mess.
>>7706996
he wrote the western canon
>>7706996
>did
>the
>guy
>who
>invented
>college
>go
>to
>college
>hmm?
>ok
Nothing. There's no reason to try and understand any of it, especially since you'll just look everything up anyway
If there's any single person that understands every reference in Finnegan's Wake, without looking them up, they have probably wasted their life.
>>7706996
Yes.
>>7707877
This tbqhwy familia
