How far in is the twitter?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
Brb, going to remedy my ailing German and Italian, pick up proper Ancient Greek and Latin then dabble in Irish Gaelic, Norwegian and Old English before reattempting to read the whole thing, bemoaning my lack of Sanskrit and Hebrew all the while.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
From my infrequent use of Twitter i think the account i follow tosses up excerpts at random, not necessarily reading from "beginning" to "end"
I mean that's not inappropriate
But another aspect of that knot i was talking about is that reading FW as atomised chunks feels as wrong as it's right, it's doing the book a disservice to imagine it's not moving or goung anywhere even if where it goes is an endless return
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
That account does do it from beginning to end, one passage at 10 min intervals.
If you want to know where it is just Google the passage.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
ah right. Good. riverrun.
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
Delmore Schwartz’s cat
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
I was wacthing a thing on Joyce on the i-Player last night (presented by Angelica Houston, obv.). No-one on it really speaks up for FW.
― fetter, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
Huston presumably got the gig cause of the dead
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Yes and it was bad bad. Only liked Frank McGuiness' comments iirc
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
b) i got no idea what form a reading group might take or how we might proceed - but those aren't reasons not to do it
― govussy blues (gyac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
We could probably do Book 1 on a section by section basis. That'll be untenable later on but it's a way to start.
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
From googling it seems the twitterfeed is on page 458. Anyone have any thoughts on that page?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
From Chapter 3, Episode II. Good episode. With the crackling and the chawing and all that.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link
If you’ve been enjoying the #Bloomsday Words & Music on @BBCRadio3 this afternoon, listen out for our programme on Tuesday: we get caught up in Finnegans Wake. @DrMatthewSweet with Eimear McBride @FaberBooks, @FinnFordham @NellLybeck https://t.co/gJlhOOe1bs— BBC Free Thinking (@BBCFreeThinking) June 16, 2019
Listening to this last night
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 June 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
Very nice account of a reader's journey with it.
https://lithub.com/finnegans-wake-at-80-in-defense-of-the-difficult/
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 July 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
An excellent piece on Wake reading as communal act, and also as almost a cult-like dimension of it:
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/on-finishing-finnegans-wake/
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 May 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/breaking-james-joyce/
Her other essay weaves her life with Joyce's (and also shows that the 27 year reading of FW was roughly 13 years spent on 2/3 of it!) It could be too much for anyone but her but I really liked it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 May 2021 08:04 (two years ago) link
I saw the movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059179/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0). I needed the subtitles, but I think I got all the allusions.
"One joke" could be a poorly-told knock-knock joke, or it could be a masterful telling of "The Aristocrats." I haven't tried to read FW, but I assume it's towards the Aristocrats end of this spectrum.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 22 May 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link