The last reading stopped at: “thing mud.” (18.16)
A couple of favourites were:
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With thanks to A.
Gut aftermeal! See you doomed. (17.16)
litters from aloft (17.28)
The last reading stopped at: “one dabblin bar.” (16.35)
One favourite was:
With thanks to A.
Here have sylvan coyne (16.30)
The last reading stopped at: “(Succoth)” (13.28)
One favourite was:
With thanks to A. for the update.
And so. And all. (Succoth.) (13.28)
The last reading stopped at: “cocked by a hin.” (12.17)
Some favourites were:
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“there'll be iggs for the brekkers come to mournhim, sunny side up with care.” (12.14)
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“to steal our historic presents from the past postpropheticals” (11.30)
The following illustrations show the way in which people living in 1900 imagined the year 2000 to be. Seen from today's point of view, we may be looking at some “past postpropheticals”:
The rural postman
Find more images on Paleo-Future.
With thanks to A.
The last reading stopped at: “Dalaveras fimmieras!” (9.36)
One favourite passage was:
With thanks to A.
“Voutre.” (9.14)
The last reading stopped at: “git the band up.” (9.9)
One favourite passage was:
With thanks to A.
Assaye, assaye! (8.26)
The last reading stopped at: “pinnyweight” (7.25)
One favourite passage was:
the brontoichthyan form outlined aslumbered (7.20)
The last reading stopped at: “fuddled, O!” (6.28)
The group has just started a new round of Finnegans Wake. It stopped the reading at: “phoenish.” (4.17)
A couple of favourite passages were:
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With thanks to A. for the update.
the regginbrow (3.14)
the pftjschute of Finnegan (3.19)
The reading group at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation has just completed its third round of Finnegans Wake. It is starting a new round of the book right away on Thursday, 21 January 2021.
The Thursday Wake readings with Fritz Senn began in 1986 and are open to anybody curious enough to want to give the book a try.
To give ALP the last word for the time being, click here to see a PDF of the list below.
The last reading stopped at: “letting on to meself always.” (627.21)
One favourite passage was:
This blog never tries to explain Joyce's text, but merely to illustrate some of its passages. It is breaking with tradition, then, to add the following, but the Edwardian ad may be worth doing so:
John Gordon notes that, in Joyce's time, “belladonna juice was a cosmetic for dilating the pupils and enhancing the eyes. Both women and men used it when they wanted to make an effect” (John Gordon's Finnegans Wake Blog).
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The last reading stopped at: “Scieoula!” (626.13)
We are taking a break over holidays. The next reading will take place on Thursday, 7 January 2021.
One favourite passage was:
With thanks to A.
Why, them's the muchrooms, come up during the night. (625.19)
The last reading stopped at: “Finglas since the Flood.” (625.13)
One favourite passage was:
With thanks to A., as always.
The last reading stopped at: “where the sterres be.” (624.10)
With thanks to A. for the update.
The last reading stopped at: “He's reading his ruffs.” (623.20)
Among the favourite passages was the line below.
We're leaving it to the reader to decide which of the visual renderings is to be favoured. Feel free to leave an anonymous comment.
With thanks to A. for the update.
The last reading stopped at: “to ball you out.” (622.24)
One favourite was:
With thanks to A. for all the updates
The last reading stopped at: “opennine knighters” (618.24)
One favourite was:
The cad with the pope's wife (618.4)
The last reading stopped at: “uttering foon!” (617.19)
One favourite was:
The last reading stopped at: “a pulltomine” (615.24).
One favourite was:
The last reading stopped at: “Forget, remember!” (614.22)
This comparatively dense passage contains a great number of potential favourites. Here's one that is at least easy to visualize:
The last reading stopped mid-sentance at: “ruinboon pot before” (612.21)
The last reading stopped at: “the Phoenican wakes.” (608.32)
One modest favourite was:
As well as a more ambitious passage:
Signs are on of a mere by token that wills still to be becoming upon this there once a here was world. (608.26)
The last reading stopped at: “lovesoftfun at Finnegan's Wake.” (607.16)
Some famourites were:
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Nuotabene. (606.13)
O ferax cupla! (606.23)
The last reading stopped at: “Yee.” (606.12)
Favourite passages were Kevin's
his ...
... altar super bath (605.14) ...
... bath propter altar (605.21) ...
... altar unacumque bath (605.32) ...
... his tubbathaltar (606.2) ...
... that handbathtub (606.7)
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Fancy Free is a one-act comedy by Stanley Houghton, amusingly wicked, mildly provocative but light-hearted (publ. c. 1912):
Fancy, a married woman, has run away with her lover, Alfred. The opening of the play finds her writing to her husband, Ethelbert, from a hotel to tell him she has left him forever. To the couple’s great surprise, they run into the husband, who has himself run away with his lover Delia and is staying in the same hotel. None of the four seem too perturbed, however, and start to discuss their situation and one another’s shortcomings. Finally, Fancy pairs off with her husband again and Delia starts to attract Alfred's interest. The play closes with Delia’s words to Ethelbert “Do you know, you've got the most delightfully wicked eyes”.
To see more about The English Players’ performances in Zurich, find an essay here.
misflooded his fortunes (589.27)
the grand tryomphal arch (590.9)
fancy, they were free! (588.36)
