Status Updates From Finnegans Wake

i hate myself

Footnote 1 ‘An ounceworth of onions for a pennyawealth of sobs.’

‘That’s a goosey’s ganswer you’re for giving me, he is told, what the Deva would you do for?’

‘First mull a mugfull of mud, son’

Footnote 5 ‘Tomatoes malmalaid with DeQuinceys salade can be tastily served with Indiana Blues on the violens’

I just noticed that the use of sidebars and footnotes only apply to pages 260-308. Why did he do this? Was it merely for absurdist reasons? Just as the text is largely though not completely obscure the footnotes and sidebars seems only partially related to the text referenced.

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Revenants, ghosts, specters… Tag urself I’m “Artist, Unworthy of the Homely Protestant Religion”

“Silence was in thy faustive halls, O Truiga, when thy green woods went dry but there will be sounds of manymirth on the night’s ear ringing”

“Words weigh no no more to him than raindrips to Rethfernhim. Which we all like. Rain. When we sleep. Drops. But wait until our sleeping. Drain. Sdops.”

Footnote 2: ‘Gamester Damester in the road to Rouen he grows more like his deed every die’