Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Notes on Delmore Schwartz (Part 2)

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Continuing from Part 1 here .    Brooklyn poet Delmore Schwartz in 1938. "as were it sentenced to be nuzzled over a full trillion times...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Rare Recording of James Joyce Society Meeting in NYC featuring Joseph Campbell, Padraic Colum

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This recorded meeting of the James Joyce Society of NY took place on Oct 23, 1951 at Gotham Book Mart in Manhattan. This a must-listen for W...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

"the mystery of himsel in furniture" FW 184.10

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"Was that voice ourselves? Scraps, orts, and fragments, are we, also, that?" - Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts   One relativel...
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Saturday, September 19, 2020

Video: Anthony Burgess - "Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake" (1973)

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In this extraordinary video, Anthony Burgess walks us through the basic plot points and features of Finnegans Wake while hanging out inside...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Video: Binaries & Bibliomancy: Finnegans Wake as the Western I-Ching

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(contributed for Maybe Day 2020  http://maybeday.net/ ) This essay was originally presented at the 2019 James Joyce Symposium in Mexic...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

16 June 1904 and the Letter in Finnegans Wake

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James Joyce and Nora Barnacle in 1929. It cannot be overstated how important Nora Barnacle Joyce was to the career and life of her lovi...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Latest Examples of Reading the News inside Finnegans Wake

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"News, news, all the news." - FW p. 28.21 "old the news of the great big world" - FW p. 194.23-24 Ever since t...