Tuesday 30 July 2019

Monday, 29 July 2019, Pages 566-568


Please note: As the Joyce Foundation is holding its annual workshop, there will be no reading next Monday, 5 August. The next reading will take place on Monday, 12 August.

The grouped last stopped at “pleaseyour!” (568.16)


Monday 29 July 2019

Monday, 22 July 2019, Pages 565-566

We stopped at “Areed!” (566.36)

Note: The week 4 to 11 August is the workshop week at the Foundation. Therefore there will be no reading of Finnegans Wake on Monday, 5th of August.

Sunday 21 July 2019

Monday, 15 July 2019, Pages 563 - 565

Our reading stopped at "... Holl Hollow." (565.2)

Last week we had read that HCE & ALP are disturbed in their bed by Shem, one of their sons, crying in his sleep. We also know that whatever happens in this chapter is reported in four ways, as seen by the four evangelists, who are here the four bedposts of the bed of HCE & ALP.

It is now Mark's turn. To read about what he sees, and about how he compares HCE's bum to Phoenix Park, go the the James Joyce Digital Archive edited by Danis Rose & John O'Hanlon at
www.jjda.ie/main/JJDA/F/FF/app/chks.htm
The relevant paragraph starts with "From this angle, the male partly masks the female." You need to scroll down a bit to locate the same.

Monday 15 July 2019

Monday, 8 July 2019, Pages 561 - 563

The reading stopped at "... backs of bannars." (563.13)

We are in the fourth chapter of the third book. It starts in a confused/confusing way, asking 'What was haas? Fog was haas? Too must sleepth. Let sleepth.' In other words, we are asked 'What was that? Was there fog?' and continues to state that somebody is sleeping too much before concluding, benevolently, let that person sleep!

A few things become 'clearer' as we proceed with the chapter. We find that we are in the house of Earwicker and Anna Livia Plurabelle. Here the couple is referred to as the Porters (because Earwicker sells port?). They are in their bed. There are at least two other bedrooms in the house. In one of them the daughter Issy (Buttercup) is sleeping. The twins - Shaun and Shem (here Frank Kevin and Jerry) are sleeping in the other. Frank Kevin is sleeping on the left side (heartsleeveside) and the other on the right side (codliverside). Frank Kevin is sleeping like the blissed angel he looks so like but the other one is crying in his sleep. His cries brings the parents to his bed side. The father is angry but the mother is full of care and concern. 

By the way the four evangelists/four old men are still around. Only they have become the four posts of the bed. According to Joseph Campbell.