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07-25-2020, 09:14 PM | #71061 (permalink) |
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Also, I forgot (things about it will always pop up now and then):
It’s best to not start the book at the beginning. A good place is at Book I, Chapter 5 (otherwise known as the “Mamafesta”). You won’t “miss” anything by starting there, because, like Vico, it’s cyclical. This may help some too: The Adventurer’s Guide to Finnegans Wake |
07-25-2020, 09:18 PM | #71062 (permalink) |
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McLuhan with Tom Snyder
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07-25-2020, 09:21 PM | #71063 (permalink) |
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There’s no other book that I understood so little of and still enjoyed so immensely. I feel like you have to surrender to it in a way that’s similar to how you have to surrender to an acid trip. Don’t worry about anything except the sentence you’re on. I remember when I came across “Love loves to love love.” and I felt like mother****er yes! I haven’t read Finnegans Wake perhaps because I’ve been told it’s even crazier. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was sane enough to where I could at least pretend to understand some of it.
Kind of related: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is A hella difficult book that’s extraordinarily rewarding to read carefully and slowly enough to unravel its meaning.
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07-25-2020, 09:30 PM | #71064 (permalink) | ||
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This segment of Ulysses made a big impact on me both as a reader and writer at the time. One of those moments where you have to stop reading for a second just to let it sink in.
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07-25-2020, 09:54 PM | #71065 (permalink) |
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...and because you started there (I/5), don't necessarily think that you go thru the book in order. Yeah, after a little over 100 pages (I/5 thru I/8), you might find it more comfortable to jump to II/4, then III/4 and other places that I’ll suggest after you get that far - ending with the most intense section of II/3 - known as “The Pub.”
Ulysses: James Heffernan is the greatest guy that you’ll want to get to know when it comes to Ulysses. He has a 12 hour course about it that’s absolutely fantastic. He lives and breathes this work and has good insights into it. An excerpt about the “Calypso” chapter is here: Last edited by rostasi; 07-25-2020 at 10:16 PM. |
07-25-2020, 11:18 PM | #71066 (permalink) | ||
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Wait, Frown. You've actually read Finnegans Wake?
What do you feel that you get out of reading it? Quote:
Anyway, I've read about the first 20 pages of Finnegans Wake and couldn't do it. Quote:
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07-25-2020, 11:34 PM | #71067 (permalink) | |
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rostasi and Innerspaceboy are the MB experts for Finnegan's Wake afaic, I'd be interested in their more informed perspective.
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07-25-2020, 11:40 PM | #71068 (permalink) |
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