"The first thing I did after I heard about the highly classified NSA PRISM program two years ago was set up a proxy server in Peshawar to email me passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. A literary flight of fancy. I started sending back excerpts from Gerard Manley Hopkins poems...I acknowledge now, of course, that the venture was not the wisest idea. "
http://www.warscapes.com/literature/cryptogams-nsa
Finnegans Wake as Opera
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Can you imagine an opera based on *Finnegans Wake*?
It's a book full of echoes of operatic arias and Irish popular songs. Joyce
borrowed from Wagner the id...
2 weeks ago
Thanks, Ed! That is great stuff.
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