Monday, 17 December 2018, Pages 519 - 520

The reading stopped at "... ye, ay or nay?" (520.31)

We shall continue reading about the inquisition regarding Earwicker in the new year, on Monday, 7th January 2019.

To usher in the new year of reading Finnegans Wake, we shall go to the James Joyce Pub after the reading. It will also be an occasion to bid farewell to our Charlie.

Have a nice Christmas and a good start to 2019!

Monday, 10 December 2018, Pages 517 - 518

The reading stopped at "Hull hopen for christmians?"  (518, last line)

Monday, 3 December 2018, Pages 514 - 516

Our reading stopped at "...finister started?" (516.36)

The inquisitor (one of the four inquisitors) asks Shaun to reconstruct the funeral games, as briefly as he can, inexactly the same as mind's eye view, when the old man (Earwicker?) was on his ars, the lady (ALP?) was with the lamp, and the boy (Shaun?) was in the barleybag.

Shaun is not very keen on answering because, as he says, he was drunk all lost life. But he gives in when the inquisitor starts with the opening, 'Once upon a grass and a hopping high grass it was.'