Status Updates From Finnegans Wake

As my friend Julio puts it in his review: Literally no subject and no Indo-European language is left out of this magnum opus; an apparent attempt to put an end to the novel. Joyce wants you to hear colors and see noise. If you can't understand it, well, Joyce once told his wife Nora, "Listen to the sound of the words. It is more important than the content."

I’m craving art and depth and epiphany so here goes.

Joyce language is corrupting me so that regular English no longer makes sense. I'll never be able to read a normal book again. It has been a good run, Goodreads. (lol)

Chapter 2.2, the most difficult very likely in all of English prose. Four layers going on at once, as if the single layer before wasn't already coded and multilayered. I'll take it slow and still have no clue. But it's an inexplicably beautiful thing for the craftsmanship alone.

Pg 324: ‘Warmer towards muffin bell,Lull.”

At this rate I'll never finish T-T

from lacksleap up to liffsloup

Whew! Chapter 2.1 was a toughie. I consulted a guide after reading it just to get my bearings. But you know what? I respect this a thousand times more than the Gaddis. No doubt this is a masterpiece.

Sherlook is lorking for him. —Hail many fell of greats! Horey morey smother of fog!

We begin again, I hope. finnegan beginnagen.

The Wake keeps quaking my whirled. It would be quite a quake-jape if we had whirled peas.

Your exagmination round his factification for incamination of a warping process. Declaim!

1.7

Fresh horrors from Hades! Shaun describes Shem’s lowness/filthiness/darkness/wrongness/hybridity until Shem, “haunted by a convulsions sense of not having been or being all that I might have been or you meant to becoming,” narrates: “no longer will I follow you obliquelike through the inspired form of the third person singular and the moods and hesitencies of the depodent but address myself to you”

Of the many modern terms and phrases Joyce invented prophetically, in this section we have "Harley Quinn," and "googling".

The older sisars (Tyrants, regicide is too good for you!) become unbeurrable from age

A king off duty and a jaw forever

Uraliens & Ormuzd