Monday, 15 February 2016, Pages 298 - 299

We read as far as "... it will be a lozenge to me all my lauffe." (299.29)

Or did JJ mean to say, "... it will be a lesson to me all my life"?

There are lots of mathematical terms on page 298. For example:
vectorious, ready-eyes, circumflicksrent, searclhers, elipsities, quarrellary, logos, characteristically, mantissa, sin, cosin, consecant, cotangincies, redtangles, abscisssan, limitsing, infinisissimalls...

Qued! (Quite  Easily Done)

My Lourde! My Lourde!

Monday, 8 February 2016, Pages 296 - 298

Our reading stopped at "So post that to your pape and smarket." (298.6), which is said to mean "so put that in your pipe and smoke it."

The idea is supposed to be that the two brothers peek from underneath now that ALP's skirt is lifted. As it is dark there, they have to light a match (And light your mech) quickly (Jeldy!). In this sense, we really ended our reading with the most appropriate sentence!

Monday, 1 February 2016, Pages 295 - 296

The group continued to decipher the book and stopped at "... in the plap of the pfan. (296.22)

The following is the explanation from finwake.com
plap: to come down or fall with a flat impact, and with the sound that this makes
pfan: Pfanne (German)

This last sentence embellishes the English language using words from Armenian and Gaelic ;-)

Monday, 25 January 2016, Pages 293 - 295

We stopped at "But to return." (295.15)

Imp: Fritz Senn will not be at the reading on next Monday. He said the group should meet and read on!

Monday, 18 January 2016, Pages 291 - 293

We stopped at the perfect place: "Tis perfect." (page 293, last line)

We were treated to
(a) more mathematical symbols: because  and therefore 
(b) grammar: half a sylb, helf a solb, holf a salb
(c) yet another Joycean version of the aria from Verdi's Rigoletto: pi u la gonna e mobile

Important to note:
We shall go to have a drink after the reading next Monday (25 January 2016) to wish good bye and good luck to Talia, the current scholar at the Foundation. Nikki has offered to reserve a table at the pub.  More details on Monday at the reading. It is hoped that many of you will join.

Interesting links:
It was the 75th death anniversary of James Joyce on 13th January. The following articles in various newspapers would certainly of interest to many. (Click on the title of the articles to read.)

From The Irish Times:
'Endlessly exciting in its impenetrability': 1939 James Joyce review

From The Guardian UK:
Billy Mills: Finnegans Wake, The book the web was invented for
Sian Cain: Is James Joyce's Ulysses the hardest novel to finish?

From NZZ:
Angela Schader's comment on the Ulysses article above: Lesefrust start Leselust?

Monday, 14 December 2015, Pages 283 - 285

The reading stopped at "... helve 's fractures." (285.22)

HCE and ALP's kid is (kids are?) still dealing with problems in Mathematics: geometry (triangles, circles, angles...), algebra, permutations and combinations, factorials all find their way into here. And of course, numbers in Finnish. We are also told what the answer to the first geometry question is. It is apparently found in the teacher's only (for teasers only) section of the text book. The only challenge is to make sense of the answer, and of course to decipher what the question is. 

Monday, 7 December 2015, Pages 282 - 283

Stopped at the last line on page 283: "... smear it out poison long." (283.32)

Part of what we read today was about arithmetics - numbers (of course in different languages) and units of measurements. Geometry and algebra made their appearances too as nucleuds (Euclid) and alegobrew!