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Steve Fly Examines "The Entourage Effect at Finnegans Wake"
The multi-talented artist, author, thinker, and eminent Wakean named Steve "Fly Agaric 23" Pratt has been a prolific creator for many years. In my earliest days of reading blogs, I fell into a wormhole...
View ArticleA Tribute to Austin Finnegans Wake Reading Group Member Richard Lee Price...
Memory is not an eye that returns to the past; it is rather the power that allows us to see what is, in its essence, outside of time .... - Ermilio Abreu Gomez (quoted by Richard Lee Price in his novel...
View ArticleRenowned Educator and Finnegans Wake Scholar John Bishop Has Died
The retired Berkeley professor and legendary James Joyce scholar who wrote Joyce'sBook of the Dark, John Bishop, passed away on Friday May 15th, 2020 after suffering complications due to Covid-19. He...
View ArticleLatest Examples of Reading the News inside Finnegans Wake
"News, news, all the news." - FW p. 28.21"old the news of the great big world" - FW p. 194.23-24Ever since the coronavirus shut everything down, our local Finnegans Wake Reading Group transferred to...
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16 June 1904 and the Letter in Finnegans Wake
James Joyce and Nora Barnacle in 1929.It cannot be overstated how important Nora Barnacle Joyce was to the career and life of her loving companion James Joyce. The annual Joycean holiday Bloomsday...
View ArticleVideo: Binaries & Bibliomancy: Finnegans Wake as the Western I-Ching
(contributed for Maybe Day 2020 http://maybeday.net/)This essay was originally presented at the 2019 James Joyce Symposium in Mexico City and earlier this week I recorded it as a video for the virtual...
View ArticleVideo: Anthony Burgess - "Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake" (1973)
In this extraordinary video, Anthony Burgess walks us through the basic plot points and features of Finnegans Wake while hanging out inside a pub. He even sings the Ballad of Persse O'Reilly. Check it...
View Article"the mystery of himsel in furniture" FW 184.10
"Was that voice ourselves? Scraps, orts, and fragments, are we, also, that?"- Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts One relatively simple line from Finnegans Wake has been kicking around in my head for a...
View ArticleRare Recording of James Joyce Society Meeting in NYC featuring Joseph...
This recorded meeting of the James Joyce Society of NY took place on Oct 23, 1951 at Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan. This a must-listen for Wakeans. Joseph Campbell provides a good introduction to...
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Notes on Delmore Schwartz (Part 2)
Continuing from Part 1 here. Brooklyn poet Delmore Schwartz in 1938."as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times for ever and a night till his noddle sink or swim by that ideal...
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The Portal
Illustration from William Blake's Jerusalem Some observations on the Gate or Portal in Finnegans Wake I.3Towards the end chapter 3 (book one) of Finnegans...
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Beyond the Portal: Further notes from reading FW Book I.3-4
The text of Book I.3-4 of Finnegans Wake is so inexhaustibly rich (the word for it on pg 91 is "inexousthausthible") that my notes on this part of the book keep growing the more I think on it and each...
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"So This Is Dyoublong?" Living inside the World of the Wake, Part 1
"He ought to go away for a change of ideas and he'd have a world of things to look back on." - Finnegans Wake p. 160This past summer, in the midst of a breakup from a long-term relationship and needing...
View ArticleJoyce's Birthday and Sylvia Beach
February 2nd, 2022 marked 100 years since the publication of Ulysses by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. The day of 2/2/2022 was also the 140th birthday of James Joyce. Ten...
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52 Wave Words in the Wake
A list of 52 Wave Words in Finnegans Wake. An attempt to read Finnegans Wake only for the wave lines.(See also Several Short Videos of the Sea from my iPhone.)...
View Articlefrom "The Hideous Hidden" by Sylvia Legris
1, PlummetWITNESS THE SPECTACLE OF THE WAKING BODY.WHEN THE BODY IS AWAKE THE SOUL ACQUIESCES TO EYES, TO EARS, TO LOCOMOTION AND TOUCH.WHEN THE BODY STIRS, THE SOUL FOLLOWSIN THE BODY'S ORBIT....
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Notes on Ulysses, Pomes Penyeach, and Textual Materiality in Finnegans Wake
It's evident that by the time he got to Finnegans Wake Joyce's unit of attention had narrowed to the single letter. He had fully absorbed the great lesson of his seven years with Ulysses, that what he...
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Anatomy Lecture
The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Tulp (1632), Rembrandt. On pg 241 of Finnegans Wake there's a reference to this painting by Rembrandt in "Aasdocktor Talop's onamuttony legture"where Joyce places himself...
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Reviews of Five (Mostly) Recent Books on Joyce, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake
Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland (2022) by John McCourtLast year in June, I was in Dublin for the James Joyce Symposium at Trinity College where I presented a paper. That was my third...
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Guardian Observer Celebrates the Galaxy of Wake Reading Groups
Print edition of the UK Observer/The Guardian from Sunday Nov 12, 2023. Courtesy of Peter Chrisp.The Sunday edition of The Guardian newspaper, The Observer, prominently featured an article about the...
View ArticleFind the Others: The Lightning-Struck
"Remember the lightning-struck? Those who experienced something profound and rare, so they sought out others who had felt what they felt? Other than the coded messages of their newsletter, there’s...
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The Solstice Maybe Wake Night
Maybe the longest night of the year is the night on which the dreamworld of Finnegans Wake unfolds? A remark by Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson in their Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Venice Wake Reunion Event in Los Angeles, CA on Joyce's...
28-Year Book Club Conquers Literary EverestGains National AttentionPress Event: Reunion Party is Set for Friday, February 2, 2024, Venice, CA, on the birthday of James JoyceJan. 18, 2024 - (Venice...
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The Influence of Whitman on Joyce & Finnegans Wake
Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle; that the reader is to do something...
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"So This is Dyoublong?" Living Inside the World of the Wake, Part 2
I was on an extended stay in Dublin a few years ago and found myself in a shared space somewhere out in Leopardstown on the outskirts of the city. The Leopardstown horse racing course is mentioned...
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