A Quick Intro to Finnegans Wake (James  Joyce) + Example Reading💎
Channel: Rhythms Riddle
Date: 2023-06-08

🍀Buckle Up‼️ Today I’m reading for you a few pages from the hardest book in the world!!! It's an exceedingly difficult, dense, illusive and highly unorthodox piece of literature. Truly a Great Riddle, and one of the 23 Wonders of the World:  it's "Finnegans Wake by James Joyce! 
 🌈💧☀️Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Copyright 1939. Printed 1958 by Viking Press.
—-“Every tellings in the tailing, and that’s the he and the she of it” —James Joyce, FW. 
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❗️WARNING❗️ ‘I’m reading for you today a gnarly  bramble patch clipped from the maze-garden of  a very perplexing book! —It's a cosmic whirlpool of literary allegory; an imaginative enigma of creative profusion and a shrine of mixed sense.  A History of Histories. A book of smoke. A book of Thunder. A sprinting farce! A legend for all Legends. —A Bible of Fairy Land‼️ 
🍀 This one book is unequivocally the paragon of Paradigm-Shifters.  (Stuff that one up your sleeve, Parrot!!) 
🍀You will firstly need to be a Joyce fan, and to be already familiar with Ulysses, which is Joyce’s  more-comprehensible “day book” -twin to this night book, this shady, lucid and opaque dream script.  Even if you loved Ulysses, FW is almost impossible to approach!  Ulysses is hard enough as a book. But it really is an outstanding novel on its own. One of the best! You at least have to have read it before you’ll even remotely glean the strange Double-Helix approach one necessarily needs in order to simply begin the first page❗️
❗️CAUTION❗️ Do Not Attempt to read Finnegans Wake alone. You will be repulsed immediately. 
🍀 And if you can’t tolerate long introductions, you’ll never be able to withstand the slow pressure of the Wake. Even so, you can skip to the last quarter for a free laugh! In today’s reading, you might see Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell” swell to the lens of the mocking bush. 
🍀We must keep ever in mind that we’re dealing with an ambitiously dense book.  Finnegans Wake is  actually more rooted and tied-in to the corpus of literary history —ancient, modern, and medieval —than practically any other book of the modern era! It’s codes are more pregnant, and its references are most manifold. 
🍀(And so it is dense. Dense in every way.  Linguistically, psychologically, philosophically, historically, symbolically, metaphorically, literarily, practically, narratively, referentially, architectonically, technically, stylistically, etc. etc.)
🍀Many of these ideas are elaborated from those previously articulated  by Terence McKenna, and also from Joseph Campbell’s “A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake” Copyright 1976. Buccaneer Press. 
💛🍀Everything in the Wake is riddled, muddled and puzzled, including time, words, narrative style, syntax, myth, number. allegory, etc. As it seems to me, Book 1 Chapter 7 makes for a bit easier place to begin this baffling encyclical, —which takes for its theme nothing less than the entire origins and flowering of civilization!  Such is Finnegan’s dream.
🎈More resources are further available to you in my YouTube playlist, Finnegans Wake.
 🍀Listen to Joyce reading it here: 
 https://www.bitchute.com/video/hGpQ9CJjrfmg/

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