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If you're into poetry, modernism, post-modernism, meta-lit, art and/or music intersecting, come join me in the Coursera class, "Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (ModPo)." https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo It's like giant experimental carnival of poetry. Et al. Starts September 10, 2016 and so totally worth investigating.

I've taken a long, way too British-mystery-laden FW hiatus. And..."vibroverberates." It's good to be back.

"the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history"

All of these taxonomies of ones/twos/threes/fours/twelves/endless catalogs of infinite variation have been giving me such an evolutionary feel, then "this is all contained, I mean the system, in the dogmarks of origen on spurios." Some Darwin in the stew.

The mamafesta has out-meta'ed them all: how to read FW, authorial authority questions, writing as text-on-the-page, critic critique, form/message, eternal chimerahunting...I'm all of a bewilderbliss.

Couldn't resist. But ran across Attridge and Ferrer’s rough taxonomy dividing Wake analyses by those with “deconstructing” vs. “domesticating” tendencies, then domesticators with primarily transcendental, empirical or humanist approaches. The Skeleton Key is most aligned with transcendental domestication, which, being a scientist who appreciates a spot of post-structuralism, is not exactly my most compatible area.

After reading solo for 93 dizzying Wake pages, feelings mixed about breaking the exegesis seal.

If Catcher in the Rye got together with Ulysses and had a really big baby, it would be this book.