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FreeMitya
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All right, so I've started my Joyce phase with Ulysses, but as I like to read a few books at once, I was thinking of picking up Finnegans Wake as well. It is both famous and infamous for its difficulty, so I'm going to borrow Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake from the library, just in case. Also, my godparents are good friends with an international Joyce scholar, and he's kindly give me his e-mail address in case I have any questions. However, as I believe in considering a variety of perspectives, I would like hear some of your thoughts on the novel (either those who have read it or are currently reading it). Any thoughts or recommendations would be appreciated. I know the most common advice from Joyce fans is to read it aloud, but that can be less than ideal in certain circumstances.
Some people spend their entire lives contemplating Joyce, so I'm very excited to start this!
For those completely unfamiliar with the novel, here is an example of it from the first page:
Some people spend their entire lives contemplating Joyce, so I'm very excited to start this!
For those completely unfamiliar with the novel, here is an example of it from the first page:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Amorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venisson after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy where sosie sisters wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jham or Shen shrewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
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