Finnegans Wake has 164,000, to read it over 28 years you’d need to read 16 words a day, they’re some lazy shite
Thought they would be moving on to Ulysses after, but no! They just started FW again. Hmm.
somewhat soporific, so…
This would have been a perfect Waterford whispers headline.
Thought I’d get into the thread before the anti-intellectual comments began, but, no: not quick enough.
Fair play to them. Anyone who’s a gone through a book that’s truly challenged them knows that they can be reread ad infinitum and still be rewarding.
> Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as “more a performance art piece than a book club”, and also referring to it as “a living organism”, a “hootenanny”, and a “choir”.
Sounds like they were reading it in just the kind of spirit Joyce would approve of.
They’ll be onto House of Leaves next
To quote my father who’s a big Joyce head, “I’ve read more shaggin’ books about Finnegans Wake than I have the actually book.”
That book is a capsule of the time and a lot of it will never truly be deciphered as all the people it is referencing are now dead. Ulick O’Conner gave examples of how some parts were just references to a rugby game he seen with the name of two brothers part of it. The book is perfect for today’s world strangely enough as a lot of references that can be deciphered still have the advantage of being unravelled with the internet and talking to other people across the world. A book that was of its time and ahead of its time; not a single person has ever had the command of language like Joyce, nobody can touch him when it comes to wordsmithing.
I’ve always had it on my list to read….but this puts me right off!!
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Finnegans Wake has 164,000, to read it over 28 years you’d need to read 16 words a day, they’re some lazy shite
Thought they would be moving on to Ulysses after, but no! They just started FW again. Hmm.
somewhat soporific, so…
This would have been a perfect Waterford whispers headline.
Thought I’d get into the thread before the anti-intellectual comments began, but, no: not quick enough.
Fair play to them. Anyone who’s a gone through a book that’s truly challenged them knows that they can be reread ad infinitum and still be rewarding.
> Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as “more a performance art piece than a book club”, and also referring to it as “a living organism”, a “hootenanny”, and a “choir”.
Sounds like they were reading it in just the kind of spirit Joyce would approve of.
They’ll be onto House of Leaves next
To quote my father who’s a big Joyce head, “I’ve read more shaggin’ books about Finnegans Wake than I have the actually book.”
That book is a capsule of the time and a lot of it will never truly be deciphered as all the people it is referencing are now dead. Ulick O’Conner gave examples of how some parts were just references to a rugby game he seen with the name of two brothers part of it. The book is perfect for today’s world strangely enough as a lot of references that can be deciphered still have the advantage of being unravelled with the internet and talking to other people across the world. A book that was of its time and ahead of its time; not a single person has ever had the command of language like Joyce, nobody can touch him when it comes to wordsmithing.
I’ve always had it on my list to read….but this puts me right off!!