It's not quite April 15th here yet (and many Americans may be adding "Thank God", as it's also tax day) but Ed has sent our group a post about its other significance which is that it's the day the Titanic sank. Of course there is a Joycean significance to all of this. The "Mr. Browne the Jesuit" of Finnegans Wake was an actual man who was on the Titanic but did not go down with it. Read all about it HERE.
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...
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