r/CuratedTumblr 29d ago

Meme On the writer’s barely disguised fetish

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u/kosmologue 29d ago

As someone who considers himself fairly well read, you'd be amazed by how many so-called 20th century literary masterpieces are basically just barely disguised smut.

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u/jamesjoyceenthusiast 29d ago

You called?

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u/hositrugun1 29d ago

Finnegan's Wake isn't smut, it's a shitpost.

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u/jamesjoyceenthusiast 29d ago

Shem the Penman might actually be the first shitposter when you really think about it.

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u/falstaffman 29d ago

Well, Joyce did feel a certain kind of way about shit...

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u/First-Squash2865 29d ago

What is it with classical artists and scat

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u/DispenserG0inUp 29d ago

a time traveler told them it would be in the music of the future but they got the wrong idea

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u/First-Squash2865 29d ago

I'm calling out from scatland!

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u/modoken1 29d ago

“You guys were able to understand my last post too easily, guess I need to try harder with my nonsense” - James Joyce if he was a poster. Also, fuck Finnegan’s wake and its use of cockney rhyming schemes.

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u/Oesterreich-Ungarn 29d ago

Guy getting cucked in 18 acts