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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Diagram of Finnegans Wake (1946) |
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Instead of that chop suey you're writing you might try sensible books that people can understand.--Nora
On this day in 1923, James Joyce wrote to his patron, Harriet Weaver, that he had just begun "Work in Progress," the book which would become Finnegans Wake sixteen years later: "Yesterday I wrote two pages -- the first I have written since the final "Yes" of Ulysses. Having found a pen, with some difficulty I copied them out in a large handwriting on a double sheet of foolscap so that I could read them. . . ."
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