luka

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he got in tocuh the other day we were talking about this trump term as the triumph of moldbug, land etc
 

Benny Bunter

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I just wondered, cos with the type of mind he has and the way he reads things could potentially yield interesting results if applied to Prynne
 

luka

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In some ways prynne poems are designed to gum up the gears of the grapejuice machine which is why i thought it would be good for him to read it.
 

Benny Bunter

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Yeah, I can't see anything of Joyce in Prynne, there doesn't seem to be any connection between the two, strangely. They're both supremely weird, and have read everything, but don't appear to have anything to do with each other.
 

Benny Bunter

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No Prynne/Joyce overlap seems to exist. This strikes me as odd. You might expect there to be one as they're both taking language to its limits, and I'm assuming Prynne will have definitely read Joyce, but they seem almost to belong to different universes.

I can occasionally see traces of other figures from the Joyce era, like pound and eliot, in Prynne, but not Joyce himself.

I suppose the big difference is Joyce combines and invents new words, whereas Prynne's words are all real, however strange and unfamiliar they are.
 

version

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'Ithaca' is a bit like Prynne. The episode of Ulysses done as a series of questions and answers about water, etc.
 
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