Re: seymour's wake
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 01:51:53 -0400
> But Joyce said of FW that scholars would spend 300 years figuring this one
> out. :) Nothing makes that one easy :) I think a lot of time Dear Old
>James
> was laughing in his sleeve at us. I'm tempted to think sometimes that
>Ulysses
> is an 800 page dirty joke on us :)
(Tim awakening from deep slumber, en route to a glass of water, hence the
out-of-sequence nature here.)
I read once an exchange between James and his brother. His brother said,
of Finnegans Wake, "But James, this is unreadable." And replied James, "I
spent much of my life writing it. Let them spend their lives reading it."
May be an urban legend, but it always makes me giggle. Now off to make the
riverrun into my cup and down my throat....
(and back to sleep).
--tim