I want to give ogre a hug
It's okay, Buddy
Submitted 10 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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atmur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
flicker@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m so sympathetic to this ogre.
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Persen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As far as I know iq 17 is terrible.
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
10-12 is human average, so I’d say it’s not for the purposes of understanding the underlying themes of Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
IQ only tests your ability to take standardized testS, it has no real ability to quantify intelligence. But in Fallout, intellect 17 is BALLER.
pleb_maximus@feddit.de 10 months ago
It’s game Ogre, man! Game Ogre!
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The allegories are coming out of the walls man.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
It’s all ogre for him
papalonian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m gonna steal this ogre for an NPC.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I read this in Grog’s voice and I high key love it. The idea of him describing “surface level themes such as nationalism” is hilarious.
And the title comment is the icing on the cake.
The_Lurker@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nobody understands Finnegan’s Wake.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anything written as a drunken dare is going to be completely impenetreble.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Open any random page and start reading. Spiral time.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just switch to TV ogre. It’s twice as fast as books.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Nah reading gets you through most stories way faster unless the movie/show leaves out lots of details.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Skill issue Ogre, should have been born human
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 10 months ago
there’s an app for this now! AI rewrites text down to simpler language. Ogre can read Ulysses now.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 10 months ago
Source: BaalBuddy
He’s pretty gooood!
Lyre@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You know how when you’re studying literature you’re generally supposed to assume that everything is intenional and there’s nothing just thrown in for no reason … Well when you read Joyce, it’s really really hard not to feel like he’s just doing things for the sake of being pretentious and obtuse.
Klear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He’s probably being pretentious and obtuse intentionally and for a reason.
flicker@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sometimes the reason is because the author is pretentious.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 months ago
Sometimes the curtains are just fucking blue.
huginn@feddit.it 10 months ago
… But not when Joyce writes them. Don’t worry he’ll reference it again in 200 pages and if you haven’t figured out what theme they represent you’ll miss the fifth layer of context that actually inverts the meaning of the current paragraph.
(Ok he’s not that obtuse but I wouldn’t ever use death of the author/blue curtains on Joyce)
iagomago@feddit.it 10 months ago
never found Joyce to be pretentious (the man knew what he was doing, and definitely succeeded in doing so) or obtuse (I mean, how many writers you can think of that could pull out the mastery of language and human sensibility out of nowhere like he does). I might be biased because I believe Ulysses saved my life: it’s definitely one of the funniest, most touching, humane books I have ever had the pleasure to read. I’d push Ogre to keep up with the good work.
Lyre@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The thing i always think about is that qoute from Virginia Wolfe where she likens the writing to a schoolboy doing stunts for the sake of getting attention. I remember thinking that was exactly how it felt while I was reading Ulysses, it felt like a highschool creative writer mashing things together without considering whether it was actually good or not.
However im not going to sit here and pretend im an objective critic. The book is obviously famous and important for a reason. I’m interested to know how it saved your life, if you feel like sharing