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:

1
"Never you brother me for I scout it, think you!" (343.19)

2
"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)

3
"Of manifest 'tis obedience and the. Flute!" (343.36)

4
"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)