#MELANIE FIONA GIVE IT TO ME RIGHT PLUS#

(The old decade having run out with ten, eleven initiates the new. The number is now to run through the entire night of Finnegans Wake, usually in combination with eleven, the number of restart after finish. I fear Joyce’s number games will pass me by in FW too, though Campbell has warned me that: Well, no, I’ve read Ulysses four times, most recently not so very long ago, and this snippet and its significance has passed me by. Law of falling bodies,’ which ran through Bloom’s thoughts of the entire day.

Oh, yes, and I should be familiar with the James Joyce bio as well.Īnd should I accomplish all that, even then, my Senior’s vintage memory will let me down… I was quite miffed to read in Campbell’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake, Unlocking James Joyce’s Masterwork that:Įvery reader of Ulysses will recall the ‘thirty-two feet per second, per second.

#MELANIE FIONA GIVE IT TO ME RIGHT PLUS#

Tindall in A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake says FW is tough if you only have one language (like he does) because the text is liberally sprinkled with Latin, French, German, Italian, Gaelic and Danish, plus ‘a little’ Russian, Czech, Finnish and Hebrew. Already I know that to do that I would need to take a course in Irish history, locate and read and internalise a Roman Catholic Mass missal, and learn half a dozen more languages than I’ve already toyed with. It’s daft, too, because there’s no way anyone can ‘complete’ Finnegans Wake. It’s quite extraordinary, the sense of triumph I feel at having completed Chapter One of Finnegans Wake.

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