tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post1703836616245146553..comments2024-03-27T11:58:09.945-06:00Comments on Finnegans, Wake! : "the mystery of himsel in furniture" FW 184.10PQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post-83933049395097069522020-12-11T05:45:55.189-06:002020-12-11T05:45:55.189-06:00Seeing the word “furniture” sets off Bishop Berkel...Seeing the word “furniture” sets off Bishop Berkeley alarms.<br />Here’s his famous statement of his Idealist philosophy, with “furniture” representing “all the stuff in the world” –<br />“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.” This gets a nudge also in the St. Patrick and the Druid passage in Book IV (“zoantholitic furniture” [611.14]), where the Druid Balkelly (Berkeley) mostly seems the more Shem-like of the two antagonists.<br />Steve Pantanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761364979921723353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post-48817097949963840482020-11-02T15:56:57.182-06:002020-11-02T15:56:57.182-06:00Thank you for this. I wasn't familiar with th...Thank you for this. I wasn't familiar with this sentence which so well describes my current state. "Self-exiled" by the quarantine, "nightlong shaking" over the horrors of politics (although blue and red rather than white and red), and "noondayterrorised" by an apparently ineluctable virus. Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05080767128939690601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post-43164313819935911552020-10-21T14:44:50.171-05:002020-10-21T14:44:50.171-05:00Lots of fun at Finnegans Wake! Re: the flotsam and...Lots of fun at Finnegans Wake! Re: the flotsam and jetsam of a life, going to estate sales of which there are multitudes every week is quite enlightening and full of ghosts for those who can see. Thanks.Duncan Echelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16297085762069762643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post-62226596322747520372020-10-13T21:41:39.564-05:002020-10-13T21:41:39.564-05:00This Lewis quote is amazing, thank you!This Lewis quote is amazing, thank you!PQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14491626995530401441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post-29627596977151411102020-10-12T05:17:54.222-05:002020-10-12T05:17:54.222-05:00Love your Hansel idea PQ. The Digital Archive quot...Love your Hansel idea PQ. The Digital Archive quotes a mysterious note which sounds like the source 'Pap's ape writes/ story in furniture'. Another mystery to solve! Joyce is also parodying Wyndham Lewis's description of Ulysses as a mass of dead clutter: 'Lewis wrote that Ulysses 'lands the reader inside an Aladdin's cave of incredible bric-à-brac, in which a dense mass of dead stuff is collected, from 1901 toothpaste, a bar or two of sweet Rosie O'Grady, to pre-nordic architecture. An immense nature-morte is the result. This ensues from the method of confining the reader in a circumscribed psychological space into which several encyclopaedias have been emptied....It is a suffocating, moeotic expanse of objects, all of them lifeless, the sewage of a Past twenty years old.'Peter Chrisphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11206688095197843271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244755472982220611.post-88909252806145677072020-10-11T04:43:56.664-05:002020-10-11T04:43:56.664-05:00see also (Ulysses as a) "catalogue of Dublin&...see also (Ulysses as a) "catalogue of Dublin's street furniture"Tim Finneganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17247114925548095003noreply@blogger.com