Status Updates From Finnegans Wake

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Initial impression: the prose reads as if Benedict Cumberbatch was pronouncing every word like he pronounces “penguin” and also the Italian song imitating how English sounds.

It’s got the childlike rhythms and rhymes of limericks and fairytales that are both playful and soothing—fascinating in contrast to the heavy sexual undertones!

“only a fadograph of a yestern scene” is so beautifully lyrical.

“Not a duckindonche divulse from bath and breakfast.”

i miss ulysses

Nothing stuck out this page

Tata mi to kupił dla żartu, bo było tanie. Przez najbliższe 20 lat będę czytać po jednym zdaniu i przetwarzać, a wy, drodzy widzowie, będziecie świadkami tego iście magicznego wydarzenia

‘Creedless croonless hangs his haughty’

‘If he spice East he seethes in sooth and if he pierce north he wilts in the waist.’

‘So now be hushy little pukers’

finished book 1. dit is echt zo peak

‘They pretend to helf while they simply shauted at him sauce to make him prich.’

‘So if you sprig popular you’re bound to twig this.’