Thursday, 17 December 2015 (FW 355.33)

The group has reached "his couch in fore" (355.33). Note that there will be no readings during the festive holidays. The group meets again in 2016 on 7 January.

A few of the night's favourites:

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Thursday, 10 December 2015 (FW 354.28)

The reading stopped at "the magpyre's babble towers scorching and screeching from the ravenindove" (354.28).

"the magpyre's babble towers" and " the ravenindove" feature in one of the FW memory games I made in 2013. Each set works with particular passages from the Wake:

 

 

A small stock of the memory games is still available for  CHF 45.– each. For more information contact me directly at sabrina.alonso@bluewin.ch, or Fritz Senn at fritzsenn@me.com

A few more favourites from the reading:

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"a hurdly gurdly Cicilian concertone" (354.14)

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Re: Thursday, 3 December 2015 (FW 322)

Ron Ewart has brought an excerpt from Fim Fordam's book Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake which explains a few things about the passage just read ("The annihilation of the etym…", at p. 322). The only way to upload the excerpt here was to insert it as a series of images. To read it click these five (an enlarge on your screen if necessary):

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Thursday, 3 December 2015 (FW 353.32)

The reading stopped at: "someseat of Oldanelang's Konguerrig, by dawnybreak in Aira" (353.32).

Some favourites were:

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Thursday, 26 November 2015 (FW 352.34)

The reading group took a break at "connundurumchuff" (352.34).

A favourite, which we owe to Andreas's watchful eye (who stood in, again. Thanks, A., again!):

Thursday, 19 November 2015 (FW 352.7)

The reading stopped at "the ward from us" (352.7).

Trusted updater A. (despite being in a foul mood and finding everything tedious) managed to wrench a favourite from the evening's read. Thank you, A., again.

Thursday, 12 November 2015 (FW 351.13)

The group stopped at "… our Chorney Choplain, blued the air" (351.13).

Our faithful updater during the blogger's absence from the reading group has sent a reference to a rich favourite. Here's a visual rendering:

Thank you, Aindrias! 

Thursday, 5 November 2015 (FW 350.15)

We stopped after BUTT's bracket (or stage directions) ending "lord for cremation the whyfe of his bothem was the very lad's thing to elter his mehind\)" (350.15).

James Joyce Pocket Calendar 2016

The Joyce Pocket Calendars for 2016 are out. The Calendar records as many datable events from Ulysses, Portrait, Dubliners and Exiles as we could find. 

We have a limited batch of 50 and (thanks to a sponsor we found for this lot) are able to make them available for CHF 25 a piece (or $ 25 / EUR 23 / £ 17), plus postage. Orders can be placed through Fritz Senn (fritzsenn@me.com) or directly with Bill Brockman (uxb5@psu.edu) or Sabrina Alonso (sabrina.alonso@bluewin.ch). 

Thursday, 29 October 2015 (FW 349.12)

We read as far as "glitteraglatteraglutt, borne by their carnier wale" (349.12).

Some of the night's favourites were:

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Thursday, 22 October 2015 (FW 348.11)

The group stopped at: "all them old boyars that's now boomaringing in waulholler, me alma martyrs" (348.11)

It liked these:

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higheye was in the Reilly Oirish Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall somewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stilstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards. (347.8)

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the heptahundread annam dammias that Hajizfijjiz ells me (347.18)

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Boxerising and coxerusing (347.29)

Thursday, 15 October 2015 (FW 346.34)

Andreas Flückiger informs us that last week's reading stopped at 346.34: "lest he should challenge himself, beygoad, till anguish" and that the group's favourite was: "...find your pollyvoulley foncey pitchin ingles in the parler" (with an allusion to 'parlez-vous français') at 346.18.

Thursday, 8 October 2015 (FW 346.13)

We stopped at: "Phone for Phineal toomellow aftermorn and your phumeral's a roselixion.\] (346.13)

A couple of favourites were:

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Thursday, 1 October 2015 (FW 345.26)

We read to: "proffering into his pauses somewhot salt bacon" (345.30) but will pick up again from: "BUTT (\he whipedoff's his chimbley phot" (345.26).

Some of this lively night's favourites were:

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4 (Despite (or maybe because of) Ron's apologies during explanation and elucidation of this passage, before, during and after the reading session, this has now, we're afraid, become an unmentionable.)

Thursday, 17 September 2015 (FW 345.3)

We stopped at "I hadn't the arts to" (345.3). 

Please note that there will be no FW reading this coming Thursday, 24 September. Instead, David Vichnar (former scholar at the Zürich Foundation) will speak at 7.30 p.m. about:

"A perfect signature of its own"

Joyce's Materialist Poetics and its Legacy

Friday, 18 September 2015 (FW 331.1)

This collage picks up the one from 11 June 2015, in which the current blogger was at a total loss as to what to do with the Knock-Knock-joke but wanted to at least acknowledge the passage, even if only minimally. Hence the minimalism of the collaged image.

Now, after having listened to Jim LeBlanc speak about the same passage at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation on 8 September, and after talking and collaborating with him on developing the collage, here's the new one:

Jim is a librarian and Director of Library Technical Services at Cornell University, Ithaca (USA). In his talk, he examined the effects of Joyce's narrative technique on readers of Finnegans Wake, especially those that push us towards the threshold of interpretation. He was interested in the ways in which intertextual correspondences both disrupt and enable our attempts to read Joyce's most challenging work.

Thursday, 10 September 2015 (FW 344.12)

We are now at "his cultic twalette" (344.12).

Some favourites included:

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"Never you brother me for I scout it, think you!" (343.19)

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"when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having after his brokeforths" (343.31)

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"Of manifest 'tis obedience and the. Flute!" (343.36)

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"Which goatheye and sheepskeer they damnty well know." (344.5)

Thursday, 3 September 2014 (FW 343.18)

An alert reading, undiscouraged by the inscrutability of tonight's passage, has let us through to "made spoil apriori his popoporportiums" (343.18)

Thursday, 28 August 2015 (FW 342.17)

A lively reading, which ground to halt at "Gurragrunch, gurragrunch!" (342.17)

Some favourites were:

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Thursday, 20 August 2015 (FW 341.21)

The reading stopped mid paragraph, "with the paddocks dare and ditches tare while the mews was combing ground" (341.21). It will be pick again from the square bracket: "[\Up to this corkscrew bind" (341.18).

To anticipate a detail, be prepared to hear an echo of the "The Wearing of the Green" at 342.21-2. For a token of the original song go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsoeoEFwnUI

Some favourites of the night were:

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Thursday, 13 August 2015 (FW 340.24)

We stopped at: "Guards, serf Finnland, serve we all!" (340.24)

Thursday, 6 August 2015 (FW 339.23)

United efforts (the group was joined by this year's workshop participants) have brought us to: "Say mangraphique, may say nay por daguerre!" (339.23)

Thursday, 30 July 2015 (FW 338.24)

Note that the next reading (6 August) will take place together with this year's workshop participants. All other reading groups are cancelled for the week due to the workshop.

We stopped at: "that slimed soft Siranouche" (338.24)

Thursday, 23 July 2015 (FW 337.26)

We have now read to: "So these ease Budlim!" (337.26).

A couple of favourites here:

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Thursday, 16 July 2015 (FW 336.32)

We have made our way down "to our illicterate of nullatinenties" (336.32).

Some favourites were: 

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