The first chapter is deliberately impenetrable, using obscure words from many different languages. I've seen commentaries that explain what it's supposed to mean, but it strikes me more as a tall mountain that exists to be climbed. It's more like you're translating it than reading it.
That said, if you can convince people to house rule it as a word-source for a Scrabble game, you can terrify people who want to challenge.
There's a way to read it that many people miss out on and that is to focus on the sound of reading it out loud. If you scrutinize the meaning of the words, sure, you might learn or discover something, but there's a ton of humor and play and fun to be had just by reading it out loud that most people miss trying to "understand" it.
That said, if you can convince people to house rule it as a word-source for a Scrabble game, you can terrify people who want to challenge.