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Evan
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"Beauties never answer and the rich never pays." Twas ever thus. No truer. I have done it. The Wake can be done, and glad I did. It's baffling, but beautiful -- the most musical and symphonic book of them all. and the last three pages have more character development and humanity than all of Gaddis' The Recognitions. Will contemplate awhile before posting thoughts, such as they may be.
— May 23, 2026 09:55AM
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Evan
is on page 645 of 656
I'm at what I call "the laying up before Moscow" stage of a long-traversed epic, slowing down as I spy the golden dome ahead. This happens, often. I should finish fast, but I stop for awhile. I don't know if this is part of my completion fear or procrastination tendencies or not. It never stops me from completing, which I always prove, outlasting the naysayers. Anyway, about a half hour of reading left.
— May 22, 2026 10:19AM
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Evan
is on page 630 of 656
1/8th inch thick tiny sliver of pages 'tween me fingers and the finish and a brick of pages in the past and the Wake is all but conquered, or a least a surface reading. It is a deep mine that cannot be tapped in one go. The gems I did get, though, were precious.
— May 20, 2026 10:41AM
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Evan
is on page 600 of 656
I have got this! The code has opened up. There are pages where I completely understand it now. OMG! What a book! Holy shit! Joyce you absolute genius. Greatest, book. ever. Only days away now. I'm going to fricking cry I tell ya.
— May 18, 2026 09:36AM
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Iana Dashkovska
is on page 166 of 628
let us be tolerant of antipathies
my true Bdur!
— May 17, 2026 12:57PM
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my true Bdur!
Evan
is on page 580 of 656
"For sleeking beauties I spinned their nightingveils, to slumbred beast I tummed the thief's air." Damn, that is gorgeous. This section is a tour de force of HCE painting a massive portrait of the town and the people, his accusers; the idea of casting stones without sin. Incredible, masterly, perplexing, but great.
— May 17, 2026 11:37AM
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