On site: Thursdays, 7-8.30 pm, Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich, hosted by Fritz Senn.
Finnegans Wake on Thursdays
Sunday, 30 March 2025
Reading Groups
27 March 2025 (270.1)
The last reading stopped at: postconditional future. (270.1)
One favourite passage was:
“Is love worse living?” (269.F1)
Sunday, 23 March 2025
Thursday, 20 March 2025 (268.15)
The last reading stopped at: “booksyful stew” (268.15)
A favourite passage was:
The law of the jungerl. (268.F3)
Sunday, 16 March 2025
Thursday, 13 March 2025 (267.11)
The last reading stopped at: “spilleth peas” (267.11)
One favourite passage was:
“parapets all peripateting” (266.5)
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Thursday, 6 March 2025 (266.2)
The last reading stopped at: “makes hobbyhodge happy in his hole.” (266.2)
One favourite passage was:
“a selfreizing flower” (265.7)
Monday, 3 March 2025
Thursday, 27 February, 2025 (264.25)
The last reading stopped at: “vale of Spring.” (264.25)
One favourite passage was:
“Startnaked and bonedstiff.” (264.F1)
Friday, 21 February 2025
Thursday, 20 February 2025 (263.27)
The last reading stopped at: “original sun.” (263.27)
One favourite passage was:
“excellent inkbottle authority” (263.23)
Sunday, 16 February 2025
Thursday, 13 February 2025 (262.19)
The last reading stopped at: “Sow byg eat.” (262.19)
A favourite passage was:
“Apis amat aram. Luna legit librum. Pulla petit pascua.” (262F5)
Friday, 7 February 2025
Thursday, 6 February 2025 (261.13)
The last reading stopped mid-paragraph at: “mosoleum” (261.13)
One favourite passage was:
“trumpeted by prawns” (261.6)
Monday, 3 February 2025
Thursday, 30 February 2025 (259.10)
The last reading reached the end of II.1 (book II, chapter 1): “Mummum.” (259.10)
A couple of favourite lines were:
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“Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!” (259.7)
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With thanks to Pascal Ihle
Saturday, 25 January 2025
Thursday, 23 January 2025 (257.30)
The last reading stopped at: “Upploud!” (257.30)
One favourite was:
Lukkedoerendunandurraskewdylooshoofermoyportertooryzooysphalnabortansporthaokansakroidverjkapakkapuk (257.7)
Friday, 17 January 2025
Thursday, 16 January 2025 (256.36)
The last reading stopped at: “gueroligue stings the air” (256.36).
The “cutletsized consort” drew considerable attention. It seems only right to give her a stage here, too. Find the usual collage, followed by a few AI-generated images based on the consort’s measurements as indicated at 255.31.
Sunday, 12 January 2025
Thursday, 26 December 2024
Holiday Break
Please note that the reading group will take a break over the holidays. The first reading in 2025 will be held on Thursday, 9 January.
Sunday, 22 December 2024
Thursday, 19 December 2024 (254.28)
The last reading stopped at: “Merodach!” (254.28)
Among the favourite passages were:
“those three stout sweynhearts” (254.2)
“heavy Humph with airy Nan” (254.14)
Sunday, 15 December 2024
Sunday, 8 December 2024
Thursday, 5 December 2024 (252.28)
The last reading stopped at: “Charley, you’re my darwing!” (252.28)
The Zurich James Joyce Foundation had a visit from Paul Ingendaay, who was preparing a podcast about its two reading groups for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Listen to the podcast, featuring an interview with Fritz Senn and with Martin Mühlheim, here or by clicking the “Bücher” icon below (provided by reading group member and journalist Pascal Ihle).
Monday, 2 December 2024
Thursday, 28 November 2024 (251.24)
The last reading stopped at: “book of the dark” (251.24)
With thanks to Rahel Huwyler
Friday, 22 November 2024
Thursday, 21 November 2024 (250.17)
The last reading stopped at: “breath must leap no more” (250.17).
One favourite passage was the following riddle:
As Ursula Zeller pointed out, Fritz Senn has written a short piece about this passage: The riddle “is easily solved”, he writes, “when the words are recognised as the names of Hebrew, or Phoenician, letters” (5)“A window, a hedge, a prong, a hand, an eye, a sign, a head and keep your other augur on her paypaypay” (249.16).
Fritz Senn’s essay can be downloaded here.
Digitized article courtesy of Ian Gunn, JoyceTools,
https://www.riverrun.org.uk/joycetools.html (covered by Creative Commons).
Sunday, 10 November 2024
Thursday, 7 November 2024 (248.28)
Please note that there will be no reading on 14 November. The next reading will take place on Thursday, 21 November.
The last reading stopped at: “a way as any” (248.28)
A couple of favourite passages were:
“Split the hvide” (247.31)
“his eyetrompit” (247.32)
Sunday, 3 November 2024
Thursday, 31 October 2024 (247.30)
The last reading stopped at: “a smuggler for lifer.” (247.30)
A couple of favourite passages were:
“Bettlimbraves” (246.33)
“Teapotty. Teapotty.” (247.15
Sunday, 27 October 2024
Thursday, 24 October 2024 (246.32)
The last reading stopped at: “Jour d’Anno.” (246.32)
One favourite passage was:
“gegifting her with his painapple” (246.28)
Sunday, 20 October 2024
Thursday, 17 October 2024 (245.35)
The last reading stopped at: “one's the number” (245.35).
One favourite passage was:
“pebble infinibility” (245.12)
Sunday, 13 October 2024
Thursday, 10 October 2024 (244.22)
The last reading stopped at: “Far wol!” (244.22)
One favourite passage was:
Sunday, 6 October 2024
Thursday, 3 October 2024 (243.8)
The last reading stopped at: “pur war” (243.8)
One favourite passage was:
Sunday, 29 September 2024
Thursday, 26 September 2024 (241.35)
The last reading stopped at: “his sodalites.” (241.35)
One favourite passage was:
“the ambersandalled” (241.15)
Saturday, 21 September 2024
Thursday, 19 September 2024 (241.1)
The last reading stopped at: “potatowards” (241.1)
One favourite passage was:
“parleyglutton” (240.27)
Saturday, 14 September 2024
Thursday, 12 September 2024 (240.4)
The last reading stopped at: “his grave.” (240.4)
One favourite passage was:
“pleasekindly communicake” (239.1)
Saturday, 7 September 2024
Thursday, 5 September 2024 (238.21)
The last reading stopped at: “colp her!” (238.21)
One favourite passage was:
“sainted youngling” (237.29)
Saturday, 31 August 2024
Sunday, 25 August 2024
Thursday, 22 August 2024 (236.18)
The last reading covered a jovial and colourful passage. It stopped at: “Anneliuia!” (236.18)
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Sunday, 14 July 2024
No readings 18 July - 8 August 2024
Please note that the Zurich Foundation is taking a break over the summer: There will be no Finnegans Wake readings from 18 July - 8 August. The first reading after the break will be held on 15 August.
Visitors are still welcome to drop in or to use the library throughout the summer (opening hours: 10 am - 5 pm).
Thursday, 11 July 2024 (234.15)
The last reading stopped mid-sentence at: “zvesdals priestessd” (234.15)
One favourite passage was:
“the kerl he left behind him?” (234.7)
Saturday, 6 July 2024
Thursday, 4 July 2024 (233.3)
The last reading stopped at: “cooked up” (233.3)
A couple of favourite passages were:
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“like a waft to wingweary one” (232.29)
“shaking the storm out of his hiccups” (232.34)
Saturday, 29 June 2024
Thursday, 27 June 2024 (232.5)
The last reading stopped at: “The worst is over. Wait!” (232.5)
With thanks to Rahel Huwyler
Friday, 21 June 2024
Sunday, 16 June 2024
Thursday, 13 June 2024 (229.26)
The last reading stopped at: “tiffin for thea” (229.26)
With thanks to Rahel Huwyler
Saturday, 8 June 2024
Monday, 3 June 2024
Thursday, 30 May 2024 (227.34)
The last reading stopped at: “the shameleast” (227.34)
One favourite passage was:
“while there's leaf there's hope” (227.17)
Sunday, 26 May 2024
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Thursday, 16 May 2024 (224.27)
The last reading stopped at: “showen drawens up.” (224.27)
A couple of favourite passages were:
“He luked upon the bloomingrund where ongly his corns were growning.” (223.31)
“cometh up as a trapadour” (224.31)
Sunday, 5 May 2024
Thursday, 2 May 2024 (223.8)
Please Note that there will be no reading on Ascension Day (Thursday, 9 May 2024).
The last reading stopped at: “four themes over” (223.8)
One favourite passage was:
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Thursday, 25 April 2024 (221.17)
The last reading stopped at: “Time: the pressant” (221.17)
One favourite passage was:
“she tells forkings for baschfellors” (221.12)
Sunday, 21 April 2024
Thursday, 18 April 2024 (216.5)
The group has reached the end of the ALP chapter (I.8): “Night!” (216.5)
One favourite passage was:
“My foos won't moos.” (215.34)
Saturday, 6 April 2024
Thursday, 4 April 2024 (213.10)
Please note that there will be no reading next Thursday, April 11. Ulrich Blumenbach will be speaking about his rendition into German of Finnegans Wake (see flyer below):
The last reading stopped at: “the life for mere.” (213.10)
One favourite passage was:
Sunday, 31 March 2024
Thursday, 28 March 2024 (211.34)
The last reading stopped at: “Dunboyne” (211.34)
One favourite passage was:
With thanks to Ron Ewart
“a niester egg with a twicedated shell” (210.35)
Saturday, 23 March 2024
Thursday, 21 March 2024 (210.32)
Please note: There will be a reading on Maundy Thursday (Gründonnerstag), 28 March 2024.
The last reading stopped at: “Helen Arhone” (210.32)
With thanks to Rahel Huwyler
Sunday, 17 March 2024
Thursday, 14 March 2024 (209.17)
The last reading stopped at: “I'll tale you true.” (209.17)
One favourite passage was: