Finnegans Wake Grappa discussion
You might be a Finnegan if ....
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Nathan "N.R."
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Feb 18, 2014 10:31AM
... I hand you an apple saying "Thin it slicely" and you do.
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... you have, as they say in Bostonmess, a wackéd sense of humour.
You turn on the evening news and mutter such things as "loose yer blather, skites of all strikes and slyzes."
... you still believe that ZZ Top has a song about a Super Sonic Sleeping Bag.
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "... you still believe that ZZ Top has a song about a Super Sonic Sleeping Bag."! ha!...
Last time you wanked you thought about Anna Livia...
... the last time you wanked you thought about the maggies in fønix park...................
...the last wank verged on being a bit too ensectuous...
Your last wank was as the first and the first as the last.
There is infinite mileage in this wank thread I think...
.... you still think its funny to sing "Here comes the bride/ all fat and wide."
...the words "lettuce turnip and pea" indicate to you a group of people preparing to micturate.
... someone asks you when the pubs open and you say, They have at five open. [true story!]
When you read in the paper about North Korea your brain whispers "war-mongers" then "mongoloids" and finally "warmongoloids".
... you call a spat a spate , a herz a hurt , aclumb aclimb , ondta daëmon Socrates.
...one of the security guards at the National Archives where I work always calls me "Mr. die Welt", which is pretty Finneganean. But he's from North Africa and speaks his native African tongue (which name I do not know), English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German, so he's a bit of a Finneganean himself...
....you hate show-tune type songs but when this one shows up on Twin Peaks you just hit the ceiling with pure perverted pleasure :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohV3_...
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "....you hate show-tune type songs but when this one shows up on Twin Peaks you just hit the ceiling with pure perverted pleasure :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohV3_..."It's been so long since I've seen that. Manymercis! Too good.
....you can't play Scrabble because hearing the repeatedly repetitious Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword leads you into the temptation of doing some violence.
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "....you can't play Scrabble because hearing the repeatedly repetitious Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword Thatsnotaword ..."
I'm imagining a scrabble board full of FW words....we could try it here - a specially adapted version of words with friends...
Fionnuala wrote: "I'm imagining a scrabble board full of FW words....we could try it here - a specially adapted version of words with friends..."And we even have a FW Concordance for Scrabble Players!
http://www.rosenlake.net/fw/FWconcord...
You get through the work day by dreaming up theories about what could be the import of the letters N & R.
Ashley wrote: "You get through the work day by dreaming up theories about what could be the import of the letters N & R."Yep.
My guess has always been "No Relation."
my best guess is that it bears no relation to the letters i and j nor to the hollywood persona john wayne. what's your best theory/guess?
Nameshielder's Ricqueracqbrimbillyjicqueyjocqjolicass...
...you think there's nothing grammatically incorrect with the sentence, "Is this book* seriously over-rated or did I didnt** get the message in this book*?" Or better, you'd seek to improve upon it by expanding "did I didnt" to "did I didnt I" because you like the symmetry better. *The antecedent here is the Salinger book :: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... But it sounds like the kind of thing that could become the kind of thing called a meme.
**...and you curse Arno Schmidt for stealing all those punct-you-ashun points and ponts and punts and pints and pants and pents-n-judies....;:../'
... when you're reading any other book, no matter how good it is, you find yourself thinking "why aren't I just reading Finnegans Wake"...
...when you see a word beginning with an 'H' followed by one beginning with 'C' you look for an initial 'E'. (did we do that one yet here?)
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "...when you see a word beginning with an 'H' followed by one beginning with 'C' you look for an initial 'E'. (did we do that one yet here?)"and don't forget the same with an A an L and a P
Geoff wrote: "and don't forget the same with an A an L and a P "Yes! But she's much softer, less demanding, and I don't feel the frequent compulsion to trace out her letters as I find myself doing with The Man. [this has been a pure report in regard to a mere subjectively oriented caprice]
...you pick up your groceries at the local A&P and wonder what's up with the ampersand'd L.
...you find yourself unable to write the simplest words without moving the letters about - I just wrote Satireday for Saturday and it suited because I was writing about Swift!
...you sea amongbooks that the Wake needs a reading and your feets ache of soaking and yuur brows yearn for kneading
..you find yourself arsing and babeling and celescallating in present participles(love your line, J)
...someone tells you they're a hod-carrier and you sing them the ballad of Finnegans Wake.
...you can't help but address your audience as "laities and gentlenuns" (I.6) !
...your favorite character in The Tale of Genji is Her Cloistered Eminence.
a stranger on social me'd-ya calls FW a "curio" and a "novelty" and you feel like someone insulted your dead Ma and now ya gotta take him outside and teach him to keep his damn fool opinions to his damn fool self.
Jonathan wrote: "a stranger on social me'd-ya calls FW a "curio" and a "novelty" and you feel like someone insulted your dead Ma and now ya gotta take him outside and teach him to keep his damn fool opinions to his..."... you'd consider calling that "curio"-guy the philandering man in the lavender flannels.
