Pre-ramble: These musings were inspired by reading one of the essays in Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art by Leo Steinberg. The essay in question, Picasso's Sleepwatchers, raised certain resonances with Finnegans Wake. The book is vitally interesting in a general sense far beyond looting for quotatoes. A remainder floated into my awareness in the tail end of winter nap reverie.
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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