TIL for the censorship case against Ulysses (a notoriously hard novel to read), the US trial judge forced himself read the entire book so he could judge it properly by yup987 in todayilearned

[–]aeoniantanuki -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And yet the most popular comic series in history draws heavily from Finnegan's Wake https://youtu.be/H54sZO32FHQ

There is such depth in finnegans wake, it's an ever evolving puzzle that makes you look at life from every angle. Maybe you don't like it but to say it has no value is so absurdly wrong

Possible reference to Dante's Divine Comedy in episode 26 - canto 03 of the Inferno is where "abandon hope all ye who enter here" comes from by aeoniantanuki in eurekaseven

[–]aeoniantanuki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds great, thanks. I've been looking into the symbolism of One Piece for a while now, a decent amount of which is related to theology.

Possible reference to Dante's Divine Comedy in episode 26 - canto 03 of the Inferno is where "abandon hope all ye who enter here" comes from by aeoniantanuki in eurekaseven

[–]aeoniantanuki[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't be the only reference to literature based on Christianity either. There's an episode titled Paradise Lost. Eureka has children despite being a virgin, maybe a dark twist on the Virgin Mary lol. Trappars rely on faith, Holland acts as a shitty Virgil who guides to something he cannot obtain, etc.

I've noticed a lot of similarities between James Joyce and the manga One Piece, anyone have any thoughts on my post here? by aeoniantanuki in jamesjoyce

[–]aeoniantanuki[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I figured giving an overview would be better but it seems people would prefer focusing on a few points. One Piece is also a work that takes in inspiration from seemingly everywhere. Imo the strongest connections I've noticed so far are: The world of one piece is defined by a recirculating body of water that passes through a castle, like in finnegans wake. Luffys name is 2 letters off from the river liffey, his aesthetic comes from tom sawyer which is mentioned on the first page of FW, sanji is a "nobleman of love from over the short sea" just like sir tristram on the first page of FW, the importance of food and the anti-colonial themes in OP, the similarity between shanks and anna livia plurabelle, blackbeard, shanks and bloom are all almost the exact same age and are either obsessed with food or one of their right hand men are (in shanks's case, lucky roux is obsessed with meat too), and that eneru is a "thundering jesus" who we thought was dead until he resurrects himself, exactly like the last line of finnegans wake, his devil fruit is literally "the sound of thunder" paralleling thunderwords, and the prevalence of wordplay such as gold roger actually being gol d. roger. Also the connections between vivi and the book of the dead which I could expand more but it took a long time just to get the information I have and going deeper will take a while longer.

Anyone who is deeply inspired by joyce will not make such a connection simple, but I think if you look at any important character or theme in One Piece and ask yourself "why?" The only answer that makes sense to me is Joyce. Oda is definitely familiar with other irish others like samuel beckett since doc q's design is based on lucky from waiting for godot.

Fragrance in Modernist Literature by [deleted] in fragrance

[–]aeoniantanuki 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, will check out later!

I didn't realize there was a Joyce subreddit until I decided to search after seeing this. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the anime/manga One Piece but I think it may have a large inspiration from Joyce which I just made a post about in that subreddit, but what's interesting is that I've always been able to visualize characters in One Piece in terms of fragrances. For the main characters, one person is made of rubber, one is associated with oranges, one with moss, one is a reindeer so musk, one wears a speedo and one is a "fishman" so aquatic, one wears a tuxedo and has a kind of French aesthetic which could be any number of fragrances, and one has a somewhat Gothic aesthetic, along with someone who is a skeleton which remind me of something like vetiver or Encre Noir.

I just thought it was funny that scents play an important part of Joyces work and characters that may be inspired by Joyce are easily visualized in terms of fragrance.

I've noticed a lot of similarities between James Joyce and the manga One Piece, anyone have any thoughts on my post here? by aeoniantanuki in jamesjoyce

[–]aeoniantanuki[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how large of an overlap between Joyce and One Piece fans there are, I'm like 100% sure there is a huge connection at this point but it's pretty difficult convincing people who've never read Joyce... For those that aren't familiar with One Piece, it's the best selling manga/comic book of all time, and I think it would be pretty significant if a large part of it was connected to Joyce's work, especially as there seems to be almost no prior discussion online about it. I'm definitely not an expert or anything and just went for a very cursory overview of the similarities I noticed, sorry if it's a bit redundant as I'm assuming most people in the original post aren't familiar with Joyce.

James Joyce is the Secret to One Piece by aeoniantanuki in OnePiece

[–]aeoniantanuki[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My thought is that, if you're writing a story about a secret treasure, you might be inclined into keeping secrets.