tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post7147563440168761488..comments2023-11-03T15:50:56.001+01:00Comments on POET IN RESIDENCE : Finnegans Wake reviewed (part 1)Gwil Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-85184062818602144402010-03-03T18:07:17.930+01:002010-03-03T18:07:17.930+01:00Good, innit?
What's it all about? I often thi...Good, innit?<br /><br />What's it all about? I often think of this passage:<br /><br />Gricks may rise and Troysirs fall (there being two sights for ever a picture)for in the byways of high improvidence that's what makes<br />lifework leaving and the world's a cell for citters to cit in.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10038327546170560939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-80722151745373458062010-02-23T10:19:33.646+01:002010-02-23T10:19:33.646+01:00I must qualify what I said above for Joyce's b...I must qualify what I said above for Joyce's book is far more complicated than Carroll's Jabberwocky poem - to read the Wake you should have a broad knowledge of European languages and geography and a good knowledge of the German speaking areas of Europe, in particular Switzerland and the old Austro-Hungarian Monarchy city of Trieste (now in Italy) for example. There are quite a lot of Germanic puns in the Wake and you won't 'get' them if you don't know the lingosprache. But even so,read it for its bubble and squeak (that's a dish of fried cabbage&potato leftovers). Where will it all end? It won't! <br />There's a trick to pulling it off. Many, some haushalt names will limmatate and frail. (the limmat is a river in Switzerland).<br />Oneye go!Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-57502589220259371632010-02-22T21:53:30.691+01:002010-02-22T21:53:30.691+01:00Pat,
two good choices! I think ingusta sounds lik...Pat, <br />two good choices! I think ingusta sounds like an Italian digestive. Pour two glasses!<br /><br />Susan, yes, indeed it was with his Jaberwocky LC started the whole darned thing, and it is as he said: look after the sound and the sense will take care of itself. Where will it end? Now there's a question!!!Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-81835678205667063132010-02-22T21:23:31.295+01:002010-02-22T21:23:31.295+01:00Carroll started this whole thing. Where will it en...Carroll started this whole thing. Where will it end?ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-76602166324704967342010-02-22T19:56:51.359+01:002010-02-22T19:56:51.359+01:00Love the sogroot - I shall add it to my vocabulary...Love the sogroot - I shall add it to my vocabulary forthwith.(as I shall the word verification which is 'ingusta' - sounds so enthusiastic don't you think?The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-9928308422596853782010-02-22T18:05:14.548+01:002010-02-22T18:05:14.548+01:00thanks John,
"on the shoulders of giants one...thanks John,<br /><br />"on the shoulders of giants one sees beyond..."Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8881054030497725613.post-49174053438584446622010-02-22T14:12:30.125+01:002010-02-22T14:12:30.125+01:00great stuff
johngreat stuff<br />johnJohn McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306609410526737715noreply@blogger.com