Status Updates From Finnegans Wake

Resumed this after a short break. Coincidentally, the section I just finished was set around Xmas/NY celebrations, so very timely 😊

hetman unwhorsed by Searingsand

the crimes of Ivaun the Taurrible every strongday morn

faced flappery like old King Cnut and turned his back like Cincinnatus

lebriety, frothearnity and quality

independent of the lordship of chamberlain, acknowledging the rule of Rome

though his heart, soul and spirit turn to pharaoph times, his love, faith and hope stick to futuerism

you feel he is Vespasian yet you think of him as Aurelius

Banba prayed for his conversion, Beurla missed that grand old voice

partitioned Irskaholm, united Irishmen

‘(You appreciate?)’ is this directed to the reader? Who is the narrator anyway?

Reading gnostic texts, esoteric writings makes me classify Finnegan’s Wake as such. ‘Our breed and better class is in brood and bitter pass’

‘But Sin Showpanza could anybroddy which walked this world with eyes whiteopen have looked twinsomer than the kerl he left behind him?’ This is one of the more accessible sentences

‘Find the fringe for frocks and translace it into shocks of touch with show and show’(hiding sex in plain sight)

Why so many exclamation points and question marks?

Dearo, dear! And her illian! And his willyum! When they were all there now, matinmarked for lookin on. At the carryfour with awlus plawshus, their happyass cloudious! And then and too the trivials! And their bivouac! And his monomyth! Ah ho! Say no more about it! I'm sorry! I saw. I'm sorry! I'm sorry to say I saw!"

‘zawhen intwo’ only when I heard this in my head did I realize it meant sawed in two. Joyce challenges the mechanics of human communication at its most elemental.

‘Osso de Basco de pesco de bisco’ - can’t be read it must be spoken. Finnegans Wake is like scat

and sadder raven evermore

Joyce intentionally uses alternate words like meny for many. Are there several alternatives for one word? I will pay attention to that

I want to list here the many attributes of the writing. 1. alliteration