Thursday, 19 December 2013 (FW 255.15)

Tonight we read as far as: 
Bearara Tolearis, procul abeat! (255.15) 

Info: We are meeting on Thursday, 2 January, as quite a number of people have said they'd like to and it looks we're going to make a reasonably sized group.

A couple of favourites tonight were:

Thursday, 12 December 2013 (FW 254.23)

Tonight we stopped at: Sourdanapplous the Lollapaloosa? (254.23) 

Some favourites:

1
for ancients link with presents as the human chain extends (254.8)

2
Irenews eye-to-eye aye witnessed 

3

4

The mar of murmury mermers to the mind's ear, uncharted rock, evasive weed. (254.18)

Thursday, 5 December 2013 (FW 253)

Tonight we reached the bottom of page 253: 
how accountibus for him, more blue? 


Some favourites of the day:

1

Nor that the mappamund has been changing pattern as youth plays moves from street to street since time and races were and wise ants hoarded and sauterelles were spendthrifts, no thing making newthing wealthshowever for a silly old Sol, healthytobedder and latewiser. (253.5)

2 

I will stick to you, by gum, no matter what, bite simbum

(253.12)

3
by mortisection or vivisuture, splitten up or recompounded (253.34)

(Fritz Senn was reminded of Frankenstein.)

Thursday, 29 November 2013 (FW 253.5)

Tonight we stopped at: I once was otherwise. (253.5)

Some favourites of the day:

1

shyly bawn and showly nursured, exceedingly nice girls can strike exceedingly bad times (252.21)

2 

but one's only owned by naturel rejection. Charley, you're my darwing! (252.28)

3

So sing they sequent the assent of man. Till they go round if they go roundagain before breakparts and all dismissed. They keep. Step keep. Step. Stop. (252.29)

4

He dares not think why the grandmother of the grandmother of his grandmother's grandmother coughed Russky with suchky husky accent since in the mouthart of the slove look at me now means I once was otherwise. (253.2)

Thursday, 22 November 2013 (FW 252.13)

Tonight we stopped at: - Grassy ass ago. (252.13)

Some favourites of the day:
1
If he spice east he seethes in sooth and if he pierce north he wilts in the waist. (251.14)

2

Still he'd be good tutor two in his big armschair lerningstoel and she be waxen in his hands. Turning up and fingering over the most dantellising peaches in the lingerous longerous book of the dark. (251.22)

3
let his beexaspirated, letters be blowed! I is a femaline person. O, of provocative gender. U unisingular case. (251.30)

4

5
As he was queering his shoolthers. So was I. And as I was cleansing my fausties. So was he. And as way ware puffiing our blowbags. Souwouyou.

Come, thrust! Go, parry! Dvoinabrathran, dare! (252.1)

6

(Martin Wheeler suggested there is a Monty Python ring to this sentence.)

Thursday, 14 November 2013 (FW 251.10)

Tonight, we stopped at: pitiless age grows angel hood (251.10)


Some favourites of the day:

a burning would (250.16)
(for: an indecent wish)


If you cross this rood as you roamed the rand I'm blessed but
you'd feel him a blasting rod. Behind, me, frees from evil smells! Perdition stinks before us. (250.24)


Led by Lignifer, in four hops of the happiest, ach beth cac duff, a marrer of the sward incoronate, the few fly the far between! (250.35)


Get up, Goth's scourge on you! (251.1)


He stanth theirs mun in his natural, oblious autamnesically of his very proprium (251.4)
(Speakers of German will appreciate selbstvergessen in "autamnesically".)


For all of these have been thisworlders, time liquescing into state, pitiless age grows angelhood. (251.9)

Thursday, 1 November 2013 (FW 250.10)

On November 7 we stopped at

"Spickspuk! Spoken." (250.10)


A few favourites of the day:

Some were amused by:
Avis was there and trilled her about it. (250.1)

Speakers of German got something out of:
Willest thou rossy banders havind? 
(Willst du Rosenbänder haben?) (250.3)


Many liked Fritz's hint that:
A window, a hedge, a prong, a hand, an eye, a sign, a head and keep your other augur on her paypaypay (249.16)
spells heliotrope when the words are considered as the names of Hebrew, or Phoenician, letters: window (H), hedge/fence (E), prong/ox-goad (L), hand (I), eye (O), sign/mark (T), head (R), augur (Auge) (O), pay (P)  
(cf.  A Wake Newslitter; cf. also Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) 

Most were appalled at:
He finges to be cutting up with a pair of sissers and to be buntings of their maidens and spitting their heads into their face pails. (250.08)

Thursday, 31 October 2013 (FW 248.35)

On October 31 we stopped at

"pick them in their pink of panties" (248.35). 


Some favourites were:

My bellyswain's a twalf whulerusspower though he  knows as much how to man a wife as Dunckle Dalton of matching wools. (248.21)

(Note: The English chemist John Dalton published the first scientific paper on the subject of color blindness, 1798)

I've a seeklet to sell thee if old Deanns won't be threaspanning. (248.26)

Underwoods spells bushment's business. So if you sprig poplar you're bound to twig this. 248.29) 

let henker's halter hang the halunkenend. (248.14)

To those who've seen the FW memory games at the Foundation, this illustration may make sense: 

Own favourites and comments may be poster here, too.

Thursday, 24 October 2013 (FW 248.6)

On October 24 we stopped at 248.6:

"she'll prick you where you're proudest with her unsatt speagle eye."

One favourite was: 

He knows for he's seen it in black and white through his eyetrompit trained upon jenny's and all that sort of thing which is dandymount to a clearobscure. (247.32)

For this passage:

Prettimaid tints may try their taunts: apple, bacchante, custard, dove, eskimo, feldgrau, hematite, isingglass, jet, kipper, lucile, mimosa, nut, oysterette, prune, quasimodo, royal, sago, tango, umber, vanilla, wisteria, xray, yesplease, zaza, philomel, theerose. What are they all by? Shee.(247.35)

see one possible interpretation, which is to read the colours (27, possibly 28 if "feldgrau" is taken to contain two colours/letters from feld+grau) as referring the the girls' undergarments (offered by Ron Ewart during the reading, visualized by Sabrina Alonso for this blog):

Objections, approval, alternative readings may be posted here, too.

Thursday, 17 October 2013 (FW 247.7)

On October 17 we stopped at 247.7: 

"the besterwhole of his yougendtougend"

One favourite was: 

"Bettlimbraves" (246.33)

battling braves; brav is Bettli (mother to infant) (Swiss German)

Thursday, 10 October 2013 (FW 246.14)

On October 10 we stopped at 246.14:

"the ring in her mouth of joyous guard, stars astir and stirabout."

Some favourites:

But meetings mate not as forsehn. (245.22)

So who over comes ever for Whoopee Weeks  must put up with the Jug and Chambers. (246.01)

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You will here find page and line number of how far the Thursday Finnegans Wake group has read. You're welcome to post your own comments, favourite quotes, suggestions and things you'd like to share.

October 3 stopped at:

245.17  "It goes. It does not go."

Some favourites:

The time of lying together will come and the wildering of the nicht till cockeedoodle aubens Aurore. 

Panther monster. Send leabarrow loads amorrow.

[Hear: Pater noster. Sed libera nos a malo.]

Elenfant has siang his triump, Great is Eliphas Magistrodontos and after kneeprayer pious for behemuth and mahamoth will rest him from tusker toils. Salamsalaim.