Thursday, 23 March 2017 (421.10)

The reading stopped at: “not mentioningahem?” (421.20)

Favourites among the list of (mainly Joyce's own) addresses were:

1

2

3

With special thanks again to A.

Thursday, 16 March 2017 (420.24)

The last reading stopped mid-paragraph at “Jetty Pierrse” (420.24)

Some favourites were:

1

2

3 

A photograph taken by Bill Brockman at the Lake of Zurich in 2015 illustrates a third passage:

Thursday, 9 March 2017 (419.16)

The reading came to a halt at “Corneywall!” (419.16)

Some favourites were:

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2

3

Thursday, 2 March 2017 (418.19)

The reading stopped at: “prompollen” (418.19)

Two snippets from the passage just read feature in the Finnegans Wake memory games I made in 2012:

1 From the model Djoytsch:

↓

He was ameising himself hugely (417.28)

2 From the model m'm'ry:

↓

So saida to Moyhammlet (418.17)

3 Not in the memory games but also a favourite of the night:

With thanks to A. for this week's update and pick of favourites!

For more information about the memory games contact sabrina.alonso@bluewin.ch  

Thursday, 24 February 2017 (417.22)

The reading stopped at: “jadeses whipt!” (417.22) 

Some favourites were:

1

He had eaten all the whilepaper, swallowed the lustres, devoured forty flights of styearcases, chewed up all the mensas and seccles, ronged the records, made mundballs of the ephemerids (416.21)

2

Was he come to hevre with his engiles or gone to hull with the poop? (416.31)

3

with Floh biting his leg thigh and Luse lugging his luff leg and Bieni bussing him under his bonnet and Vespatilla blowing cosy fond tutties up the allabroad length of the large of his smalls. (417.17)

With thanks to A. for this update!

(As soon as rheumatic joints allow handiwork again I'll resume making the collages.)

Thursday, 16 February 2017 (416.20)

The last reading stopped at: “heartily hungry!” (416.20)


Find excerpts of Hansruedi Isler's excellent translation of THE ONDT AND THE GRACEHOPER into Swiss German, VOM ONTOMEIS UND EM GNADGÜMPER, by clicking the link below:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6EFm7E5vpx8Vzg1OVBIaFJyVmM

Courtesy of Hansruedi Isler © Zürich 2005.

Some favourites at the reading were:

1

2 ...he loftet hails and prayed: 

3

4

(With renewed thanks to A. for the regular updates and pick of favourites.)

Thursday, 9 February 2017 (415.20)

The reading stopped at “day as gratiis!” (415.20).

Some favourites were:

1

2

3

With thanks to A. for this week's update.

Thursday, 2 February 2017 (414.29)

The group happily jogged along (as A. describes it) to: “waspering pot” (414.29)

Some favourite were:

1

2

3

There's an excellent translation of THE ONDT AND THE GRACEHOPER into Züridütsch by Hansruedi Isler. Find excerpts of his VOM ONTOMEIS UND EM GNADGÜMPER by clicking the link below:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6EFm7E5vpx8Vzg1OVBIaFJyVmM

Courtesy of Hansruedi Isler © Zürich 2005.

And thanks to A. for this week's update.

Thursday, 26 January 2017 (431.31)

The reading stopped or, in Ron's words, sagged into silence at: “fumiform” (431.31)

Some favourites here:

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2

3

With thanks to Ron for this week's update!

Thursday, 19 January 2017 (412.29)

The group left off at “buon apartita!” (412.29)

Some favourites were:

1

To listen to “Stride la vampa” from click:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4Xob9ON-o

2

3

(With thanks for updates to A.)

Thursday, 12 January 2017 (411.27)

The reading group reports another enjoyable read and coming to a halt at: 
“Well, so be it!” (411.27)

Some favourites were:

1

There's no sabbath for nomads and I mostly was able to walk, being too soft for work proper, sixty odd eilish mires a week between three masses a morn and two chaplets at eve. (410.32)

2

Weak stop work stop walk stop whoak. Go thou this island, one housesleep there, then go thou other island, two housesleep there, then catch one nightmaze, then home to dearies. (411.6)

3

His hungry will be done! On the continent as in Eironesia (411.11)

4

Hek domov muy, there thou beest on the hummock, ghee up, ye dog, for your daggily broth (411.18)

Thursday, 5 January 2017 (410.27)

The reading stopped at “my beloved” (410.27).

Some favourites were:

1

2

3

Thank you, A., for picking up your valuable posting of updates and group's favourites in the new year.

Thursday, 29 December 2016 (409.25)

The last reading stopped at “emollient” (409.25).

The next reading will be on Thursday, 5 January 2017.

Thursday, 22 December 2016 (408.23)

The last reading stopped at “Dizzier’s feedst” (408.23).

The next reading will be on Thursday, 29 December.

Some of the last reading's favourites were:

1
“His handpalm lifted, his handshell cupped, his handsign pointed, his handheart mated, his handaxe risen, his handleaf fallen.” (407.23) 

2
“How all too unwordy am I, a mere mailman of peace, a poor loust hastehater of the first degree, the principot of Candia, no legs and a title, for such eminence, or unpro promenade rather, to be much more exact, as to be the bearer extraordinary of these postoomany missive on his majesty’s service while me and yous and them we’re extending us after the pattern of reposiveness!” (408.10)

3
“Those sembal simon pumpkel pieman yers!” (408.20)

(With thanks to Marion Sommer)

Thursday, 15 December 2016 (407.17)

Next reading: Please check this page toward the end of the week (around Friday 23) to see if there will be a reading between Christmas and New Year. It will be determined this coming Thursday (22 Dec), at the reading. If not, the reading will resume on Thursday, January 5.

Thursday, 8 December 2016 (406.19)

The reading stopped at: “soppositorily petty, last” (406.19)

Some favourites from Shaun's gormandising were:

1

2

3

With renewed thanks to Marion Sommer for sending an update and a choice of favourites.

Thursday, 1 December 2016 (405.14)

The group read about Shaun's appearance and stopped at: “if ever was!” (405.14)

Favourites were: 

1

2

My thanks go to A., with gratitude for his relentlessness in sending updates about the group's progress.

Thursday, 24 November 2016 (404.14)

Last Thursday, the group tackled Book III/1 and got as far as “the lad do!” (404.14).

They found some quite lyrical (Bunyanesque) passages with the usual spicy undertones. These were some suggested favourites:

1

2

3

With special thanks to A. for this great pick!