unknownknower Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - you don't seem to have better things to do, otherwise you would be doing them and not leaving comments about a book you don't like. if i look up something on youtube it's something i'm interested in, not something i think is rubbish just so i can bitch about it. this goes for everyone else...
27106204 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Cute, but again - bullshit. I studied Joyce at TCD and I would guess that I know considerably more about all this than you. The only reason I checked this out was to hear his voice again. It's as disappointing as the first time. For a guy who lived in Zurich, he sounds like a Galway farmer. BTW: chill the fuck out. I'm not suddenly 'challenged' by you and won't respond to your proprietorial, adolescent crap again. "I love F.W."! Tsk. Clown.
unknownknower Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Well, thanks very much for your comments. it was nice to be able to engage in such a sensible and rational manner on youtube for a change.
NGS712 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - 276106: It doesn't seem to me that unknown was refuting your opinion, but rather saying how stupid it is to go on a vid about something you don't like then criticize it. Why can't people just watch vids of things they like?
unknownknower Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - dear anjeli333, ngs712, kinbote123 (good name btw, nabokov?), and others,thanks guys for all your comments and occasional running battles ;-)i only posted this vid so other folks could hear ole JAJ rattling on and am getting sick of all the youtube trolls. so, i plan to delete all this in a wee while (once it gets to 10,000?). keep on thinking and reading.
harpponet Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - unknown knower, know thyself...great name.The passage about the grace hopper in Finnegan's Wake is incredibly full of pathos...one of the few passages I kind of understood. I think it's about, circumlogotively, his visits with his daughter to Freud and Jung...
barmbrackthecat Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - up their's unknownknower I love it.........
CCHC50H8 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - hes probably just too dense for you to understand or enjoy. james joyce is the greatest writer of the 20th century. hell of a guitar player too. finnegans wake isnt his best stuff i personally really like dubliners but its all really good. if you dont like james joyce you just dont get it. and it sounds like thats the problem you had with it. like i said hes a little dense especially for modern readers who shit over thompson and palahniuk and other easy entertaining stuff but joyce still owns.
27106204 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Please, don't pretend you like Finnegan's Wake. You're a young boy. Of course you like Dubliners. My twelve year old daughter likes it too. She also likes Roald Dahl. If there's one thing worse than listening to someone who inexplicably loves FW (Hugh Kenner, for example) it's listening to a pimply yank bastard talking back to the grown ups. Go out and get laid you fucking homo.
CCHC50H8 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - ya im 17 and 3rd generation irish american so thats probably part of the reason i like james joyce. but hes considered one of the greatest writers ever by a lot of people who arent irish teenagers. roald dahls chill bfg was a good book. i just genuinely thought it was a good story its not inexplicable. i dont have acne i think thats an unfair assumption. and our ages are irrelevant mr. grown up. i lost my virginity at age 13 and am attracted to woman but theres nothing wrong with gay people.
Kinbote123 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Why invoke age? You obviously don't know how to have an adult conversation.I was intrigued to check out your page and it seems that people everywhere don't like you.That must hurt. Sorry.
HigherPlanes Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - A pat on the back to anyone who can tell me what Finnegans Wake is about?P.S. Why do all Joyce scholars sound like arrogant assholes?
HigherPlanes Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Finnegans wake, in a way, is a story of writing. There are approx. 450,000 words in the English language and I believe that Finnegans Wake uses at least that many. It's a stylistic thing that you can't encompass without getting your feet wet.
dantaulapapamcmullin Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - don't all scholars sound like arrogant assholes?maybe finnegans wake is about the death of the irish language but maybe its about the death of the english language but maybe its about the life of the irish english language s
inmygenes Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - this is so amazingly awesome, i haven't read this yet, still on ulysses, but this is an amazing find!his accent is so thick, it was hard to imagine it before this.thanks for the wonderful post!
ELTALLERDEARTE Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - EXCELENTE
HigherPlanes Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - haha, I guess you're right. All scholars DO sound like arrogant assholes.
Guedingen Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - My dad used to be puzzled by the culchie accent - one of Joyce's little jokes, I suppose.
unknownknower Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - well, time's almost up on this. thanks again to all those who have enjoyed this post. btw it isn't hard to find the original mp3 used for this. just do a search.
CCHC50H8 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - that theorem is actually completely false though the odds are actually astronomical thatd hed even write anything comprehensive hed very very rarely even make more than a 5 letter word good joke though
murphicus Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Infinity is an awfully long time...
CCHC50H8 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - well i mean its really impossible to calculate something like that but i mean speaking purely theoretically its just improbable. its possible but just because it is a possible outcome doesnt mean it definitely would happen if you gave it enough time.
idiotmyshkin Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - erudition is a fake on the make, all false tolds, truth hide beneath red rocks, scabbby and piqued at like, the surf, the foam, the aphrodite in your breast, 'tis a machine work silico0ne sleuth in titters
lamedwufnik Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - Thank you very much, this is a jewel.
27106204 Says:
Jul 26, 2008 - My opinion is that the book is bullshit; something for the English department to explicate and defend. It's practically unreadable and readability is surely a basic prequisite of any 'masterpiece'. His earlier stuff is great, though. Ulysses is tough going in places, but at least it makes sense. This makes no sense at all, or so randomly that its practically autistic. Fuck this rubbish. I've got better things to do.