Here Comes Everywagner

At last, a post by another member of our group! True, she didn't post it here, but I can link to it. Her partner Robin is doing a year long blog in celebration of Richard Wagner's bicentennial, and asked Leslie to write a couple of posts on the Joyce-Wagner connection. The first part is here.

And then I suppose you're going to want to go back and read Wagner Tripping from the beginning...

James Joyce’s historic sojourn in Nice recalled - Book News | Literature & Books Reviews & Headlines |The Irish Time - Tue, Jul 16, 2013

Yesterday was the anniversary of Joyce's start on Finnegans Wake!
He started to take notes musing about a new work there.

A mixed assembly of diplomats, city councillors, writers and a rock star gathered on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice yesterday to commemorate James Joyce’s brief stay at the Hôtel Suisse in 1922.... Read more: James Joyce’s historic sojourn in Nice recalled - Book News | Literature & Books Reviews & Headlines |The Irish Time - Tue, Jul 16, 2013:

'via Blog this'

(From left to right) Ambassador Paul Kavanagh, John Montague, Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi and Bono at the inauguration of the plaque to James Joyce on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

Contemporary Wake Humor

"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