Finnegans Wake Grappa discussion

"The easiest book in the world... seriously. With scholars unable to ever reach consensus on what the book is or how it should be read or even if it actually has value, you can simply ignore them." -gr'er

I am increasingly less enamoured of this sentiment. Incrrrreasingly. But if it's enough to jump=spark a reading, well then....

Do these people have the The Voynich Manuscript in mind?

"Why scholars can’t resist the uncrackable Voynich manuscript :: Studying it has been called ‘academic suicide,’ but an astonishing range of researchers have fallen under a mysterious document’s spell"
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014...

I know what Finnegans Wake is abôut.

Let's use the Hawkes=enemy rubric ::

plot ;; Birth, Marriage, Death, Thunder ;; Guilt, History, Names

characters ;; HCE, ALP, 101 children, 29 strumpets, a couple of cads ; Guilt, History, Names ; Everyone else.

setting ;; Howth Castle & Environs ; d. dirty dublin ; Ourland and Everywherelse ; Guilt, History, Names.

theme ;; see "plot" ;

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "I know what Finnegans Wake is abôut."

additions to theme/plot: guilt, history, names of people and places and things and events; in the Wake though all of these could also be considered characters and settings.

Geoff wrote: " Guilt, History, Names"

It ruins the symmetry, but I went with it anyhow.

Geoff wrote: "in the Wake though all of these could also be considered characters and settings. "

Reminds me of Barth's comment re: Burton's Anatomy ; that it can be read as a novel, treating the four humours as characters. And why not indeed?

Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Geoff wrote: " Guilt, History, Names"

It ruins the symmetry, but I went with it anyhow."

Sometimes symmetry is more important than putting all that content in, but, what's done is done! ;)