Finnegans Wake “Shem the Penman” Ch.7 Intro (34m) +Audio Read (18m) Joyce’s Pompous Paradox
Channel: Rhythms Riddle
Date: 2023-08-29

“Every telling is a tailing, and that’s the he and the she of it” —James Joyce, FW. 
⭕️••••🍀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: "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce! It's a cosmic whirlpool of literary allegory; an imaginative enigma of creative profusion and 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‼️ —It’s architectonic theme is about nothing less than the origins and flowering of civilization!!
 ⚫️Finnegans Wake. James Joyce. Copyright 1939. Printed 1958 by Viking Press.
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❗️CAUTION❗️Do Not Attempt Finnegans Wake alone. You will be instantly repelled. 
⚫️🍀Everything in the Wake is riddled, muddled and puzzled, including time, words, narrative style, syntax, myth, number. allegory, etc.  This one book is unequivocally the paragon of Paradigm-Shifters. 
💎🍀💎 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. Ulysses is an excellent book... one of the greatest English novels.  If you haven’t read it, you’ll surely be shipwrecked in the Wake.  
⚫️🍀 And if you can’t tolerate long introductions, you’ll never be able to withstand the slow pressure of the Wake . Finnegans Wake is actually more rooted and tied-in to the corpus of literary history —ancient, modern, and medieval —than practically any other book. —- It is full of allegory, metaphor, solipsism, juxtaposition, parallax, and subtle referential cues throughout. Even so, you can skip to the last quarter for a free laugh! 
🎈More resources are further available to you in my YouTube playlist, Finnegans Wake.
 🍀Hear Joyce himself reading from the Wake.: 
 https://www.bitchute.com/video/hGpQ9CJjrfmg/
⚫️Many of my ideas are elaborated from those previously articulated  by Terence McKenna, and also by Joseph Campbell’s “A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake” Copyright 1976. Buccaneer Press. 
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In today’s reading, Joyce takes half a page to say Shem stinks like a pig. The reference to the Turk is a reference to his father, “The Dane” who even presumably has disowned him on account of his reek! 
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