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The last word in Finnegans Wake:

Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thous- endsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the

A fun article on the fun article:

The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200109-is-this-the-most-powerful-word-in-the-english-language

Bio of Harriet Shaw Weaver

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-english-woman-who-bankrolled-james-joyce-1.4098075?mode=amp
From the Irish Times

The English woman who bankrolled James Joyce 

First Joyce and later Ireland were beneficiaries of Harriet Shaw Weaver’s generosity.

Halloween themed Joyce parody

On McSweeny’s


https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/warren-zevons-werewolves-of-london-by-james-joyce

The tragic earwig

I picked up this little gem from Clint Carroll on the Reading Finnegans Wake Facebook group.

I read that earwigs undergo “incomplete metamorphosis” ... a process called hemimetabolism. The earwig has no pupal stage and does not molt. Our earwig, then, old HCE, is incapable of complete metamorphosis or transformation. He simply is regardless of the costume he wears in the Wake or the particulars of the time or setting he finds himself in. He simply is ... like the earwig ... and this is why ALP’s speech in Book IV is so heartbreaking, so very lovely and generous and merciful.

Table of Correspondences

sigla	∃	∆	⊥	⊏	∧
dreamtime	HCE	ALP	Issy	Shaun	Shem
in real life	Mr Porter	Mrs Porter	Isabelle	Kevin	Jerry
organ	ear	heart	eye	right testes	left testes
nature	mountain	river	stream	right bank stone	left bank tree
art	architectural	epistolary	cinematic	political	literary
Egypt	Osiris	Isis	Nut	Horus	Set and Thoth
Rome	Caesar	Calpurnia	Cleopatra	Brutus	Cassias
Eden	Adam	Eve	Lilith	Michael	Satan

Note: couldn't find an HTML entity for E rotated 90 degrees to the right, so used the alternate sigla for HCE.

Now why didn't I think of this?

I've already sent this link out to our own group, but for any Wake fan that happens to drop by I thought I should mention it here also. In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the publication of the Wake, Susie Lopez put up an article on Literary Hub about her experience of annotating the Wake for her own edification and enjoyment. It looks fabulous.

Here's Finnegans Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult

Finnegans Wake in Santa Cruz, 2.0

All current members of our Santa Cruz Wake group happened to be in town for our last meeting, and, not without effort, one courageous individual managed to get us to stand still long enough to take a picture for this rare occurrence. (Tip!)