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Originally Posted by summer
It was probably Thurston since he writes the worst lyrics in the band, and James Joyce (at least Finnegans Wake) is an awful, awful writer only praised for his "avant-garde" bullshit, so.. yeah, probably Thurston.
Idk, I may eventually get to reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners, or even Ulysses, but fuck something as pretentious as Finnegans Wake. Though wherever the Secret Girl lyric is from, I do enjoy that line, at the least.
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Wow. You've just pressed about thirteen of my anger buttons. Your judging the best writer of the 20th-century on the basis of a book you haven't read because it's (your quotes) "avant-garde"(a movement, so far as I know, Joyce wasn't involved in). I mean, I really don't care to tell people that over-earnest bollocks of 'man, you need to read [x]', but you may as well say that Ovid is pretentious for writing in a language that no-one speaks any more.