legsbrewster reblogged your photo: theparisreview: “Finnegans Wake is long, dense,…
Still plucking up the courage for this.It’s just like getting in cold water (say, at the Forty Foot). If you think about it and ease your way in, it’s torture. Just jump!
I remember this!
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“The Sonnets in their repeated punning on Shakespeare’s first name make the embedding of the poet himself into the sequence plain. …Whatever their biographical secrets, the poems have an emotional intensity and poetic complexity that make them among Shakespeare’s greatest achievements.”
Read the full Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on the life of William Shakespeare, made free until June in conjunction with Poetry By Heart.
Image credit: Shakespere [sic]. Engraved from the Chandos portrait. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d95cdec119acb26da0fea24ea1f016e8/tumblr_mmhrpcYnnK1rl35vno1_1280.jpg)
“The Sonnets in their repeated punning on Shakespeare’s first name make the embedding of the poet himself into the sequence plain. …Whatever their biographical secrets, the poems have an emotional intensity and poetic complexity that make them among Shakespeare’s greatest achievements.”
Read the full Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on the life of William Shakespeare, made free until June in conjunction with Poetry By Heart.
Image credit: Shakespere [sic]. Engraved from the Chandos portrait. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library.
From James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (p. 349)
Are they on telly?
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Good question: may I sugg est it’s a dream telly? I do believe, we’d have to do some research, that the first televisions were just about starting round about the time JJ was writing his dream book. what say you?:
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I’d think it cool if it was - I think Joyce certainly has all the technical terms suggesting electronics of some kind, although of course this may be a dream. The electronics of the mind? The idea of circuits (loops, almost) in the brain - a jittery telly broadcasting half remembered thoughts. Maybe Taff and Butt do work at the pub as barmen, but they’re in HCE’s dreams.
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Those are interesting speculations. I’ll do some reading, soon enough to see whether JJ saw television.If I remember rightly Harry Levin in James Joyce does connect Joyce’s work to radio and film; so why not television. I like your phrase ‘a jittery telly broadcasting of half-remembered thoughts’. After all, a dream is jittery is it not? the things that happen in my dreams range from embarrassing to fantabulous!
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If the pair are in the book any earlier I must have missed it! Interesting to link Joyce to film - that chapter of Ulysses which looks on many of the characters across Dublin was very cinematic too. Maybe a lot of his work borrows from/influenced cinema - you get the idea of split scenes, voice-overs and other cinematic techniques. (Same with Mrs Dalloway, I recall.)
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From James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (p. 349)
Are they on telly?
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Good question: may I sugg est it’s a dream telly? I do believe, we’d have to do some research, that the first televisions were just about starting round about the time JJ was writing his dream book. what say you?:
(via closertoo)I’d think it cool if it was - I think Joyce certainly has all the technical terms suggesting electronics of some kind, although of course this may be a dream. The electronics of the mind? The idea of circuits (loops, almost) in the brain - a jittery telly broadcasting half remembered thoughts. Maybe Taff and Butt do work at the pub as barmen, but they’re in HCE’s dreams.
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My all-time favorite collection of short stories—The Dubliners by James Joyce.
“hevinscent houroines”
- heaven-sent heroines
- heaven-scented heroines
- women of a mere hour: “hour-heroines”Reminds me of a line from a sonnet by Keats, on a “fair creature of an hour”.
<3 the wake
basically every word in it requires to be parsed on its own terms.
people would enjoy it much more if they approached it like a 600 page poem rather than a novel
It gets easier as one goes on - I think the ‘first’ page was the one which took me the longest. I agree with you - one does get into a lovely flow of words, phrases and sentences, which doesn’t get dull as the rhyme, metre and line lengths (or rather, sentences) are all constantly shifting. Although it can be difficult from stopping yourself from wanting to know exactly what is going on but perhaps if you spent all your time looking for literal description the book wouldn’t be any fun. When there is stuff which is easier to decipher, great - when not, tough, I suppose!
closertoo said: Tell them what Joyce told everyone: it ‘s a dream bk written in a dream language and that the language accordindly is not the same as that which we speak or write and think in as the night !
This answer will then lead to another question: “So, what actually happens in Finnegans Wake’? To which my answer may well be: “Earwicker rolls over in bed!”
theyweremonsters said: just say the first thing that comes into your head and you’ll probably be right!
Settlements and City Strategies by Olalekan Jeyifous
This series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models.
A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered
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Joel-Peter Witkin, Woman Once a Bird, Los Angeles, 1990
Pretty much an automatic reblog when Van Gogh pops up on my dash.Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), Olive Orchard, 1889, oil on canvas, 28 5/8 x 36 1/4 in. (72.7 x 92.1 cm).
