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Round two. Joyce, you magnificent linguistic lunatic. We're doing this again.
I first attempted Finnegans Wake earlier this year, and while I thoroughly enjoyed its linguistic gymnastics, I didn't have the time to appreciate it then.
Now, with a month of Avant Garde art study underway, it seems the perfect time to return to Joyce's extraordinary literary fever dream.
— Nov 04, 2026 02:31AM
I first attempted Finnegans Wake earlier this year, and while I thoroughly enjoyed its linguistic gymnastics, I didn't have the time to appreciate it then.
Now, with a month of Avant Garde art study underway, it seems the perfect time to return to Joyce's extraordinary literary fever dream.
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Round two. Joyce, you magnificent linguistic lunatic. We're doing this again.
I first attempted Finnegans Wake earlier this year, and while I thoroughly enjoyed its linguistic gymnastics, I didn't have the time to appreciate it then.
Now, with a month of Avant Garde art study underway, it seems the perfect time to return to Joyce's extraordinary literary fever dream.
— Nov 04, 2026 03:16PM
I first attempted Finnegans Wake earlier this year, and while I thoroughly enjoyed its linguistic gymnastics, I didn't have the time to appreciate it then.
Now, with a month of Avant Garde art study underway, it seems the perfect time to return to Joyce's extraordinary literary fever dream.
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Best of luck!
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Good luck. Are you using a guide alongside it? I used Anthony Burgess's "Here Comes Everybody".
Phil wrote: "Good luck. Are you using a guide alongside it? I used Anthony Burgess's "Here Comes Everybody"."No, I'm not. Thanks for the tip!
That is quite an old (and covers Ulysses and Portrait of an Artist too), so there might well be better ones now, more focused purely on Wake. I'm not sure i jave the stamina to read FW again, but I'm definitely glad it was written.