"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
Thus begins James Joyce's virtually impenetrable masterwork Finnegans Wake. For reasons of which I'm not really aware, I've been taken by a desire to revisit FW for the first time since I was an undergrad. That class was actually one of my favorites--Yeats and Joyce it was called. We read a full anthology of Yeats, as well as Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and portions of FW. Maybe I just need to read something that is not explicitly theological over the summer before the seminary reading onslaught begins anew in the fall.
Two students from my Barth class plan on reading six pages a day of the 10,000-page Church Dogmatics until they finish it...four and a half years from now. Although Joyce wrote FW in his own secret language, I think I prefer its 600 pages, however much I enjoyed Barth (and I did). I read the first 10 pages last night and am cautiously confident that I decoded at least the basic plot.
Thus begins James Joyce's virtually impenetrable masterwork Finnegans Wake. For reasons of which I'm not really aware, I've been taken by a desire to revisit FW for the first time since I was an undergrad. That class was actually one of my favorites--Yeats and Joyce it was called. We read a full anthology of Yeats, as well as Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and portions of FW. Maybe I just need to read something that is not explicitly theological over the summer before the seminary reading onslaught begins anew in the fall.
Two students from my Barth class plan on reading six pages a day of the 10,000-page Church Dogmatics until they finish it...four and a half years from now. Although Joyce wrote FW in his own secret language, I think I prefer its 600 pages, however much I enjoyed Barth (and I did). I read the first 10 pages last night and am cautiously confident that I decoded at least the basic plot.
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