Thursday, 23 May 2019 (541.25)

Please note that the group is meeting this coming Thursday, Ascension Day, 30 May 2019.


The last reading stopped at: “Neederthorpe” (541.25)

Here is an excerpt from one of Fritz Senn's essays about Zurich allusions in Finnegans Wake relating to the passage we have just read:

“An einer anderen Stelle: 'I made praharfeast upon acorpolous and fastbroke down in Neederthorpe', scheint jemand im Zürcher Niederdorf zusammengebrochen zu sein; Zürich wird dabei kosmopolitisch mit Prag und Athen verbunden. Die Festlichkeiten, die sich zugleich überall und an ganz spezifischen Orten abspielen, sind hier offenbar mit Eßtabus durchsetzt.”

From: Senn, Fritz. “James Joyce und Zürich”. Nicht nur Nichts gegen Joyce (Zürich: Haffmanns, 1999), 74.


Some favourite passages from the reading were:

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Thursday, 16 May 2019 (540.12)

The last reading stopped at: “Moonis.” (540.12)

Some favourite passages were:

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With thanks to A.

Thursday, 2 May 2019 (539.16)

Please note: There will be no reading next week. Instead, our resident scholar, Akram Pedramnia, will be giving a presentation about her ongoing research on Thursday, 9 May at 7 p.m. You can find more details on the flyer posted below.


The last reading stopped at: “suntry clothing?” (539.16)


Some favourite passages were:

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“Ous of their freiung pfann into myne foyer.” (538.26)

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“Evilling chimbes is smutsick rivulverblott” (538.31)

3

“that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A. G.” (539.5)