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So as promised, we’ll be starting with our reading group on Finnegans Wake. Schedule will be a chapter per week, and I’ll start a new thread each Monday.

Seeing as this is the first week we’ll be reading pages 3-29 based on my penguin addition.

Something to consider for discussion is how Joyce uses differing languages in order to order to capture imagery better. For instance his reference to Aristophanes The Frogs.

>> No.10477830

I think we should do one sentence per thread, so the book really sinks in.

>> No.10477835

>>10477819
This will die before there is a second thread. /lit/ couldn't even get halfway through Don Quixote, what makes you think a fucking Finnegans Wake group is sustainable?

>> No.10477850

I doubt this will be upheld but what sentence are you ending on?

>> No.10477860

No one's fucking reading Finnegans Wage

>> No.10477866

>>10477850
riverrun

>> No.10477870

>>10477830
Your idea would be the most pleasurable, albeit impossible, way to enjoy this book. That's the essence of its greatness.

>> No.10478016

>>10477860
Bet that senpai.

>>10477850
Hubbub caused in Edenborough.

>> No.10478020

>>10477835
Well I’m reading it either way, so I’ll always be around to make the threads.

>> No.10478077

fuckin boring I'm not even going to get started cause I know lit won't even make it halfway through

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>>10477819

I'm not planning on participating, but I wish you luck. Take my (You) and my content.

>> No.10478121

>>10478077
That’s the spirit anon!

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10478170

Also, for anyone who may be interested: If you go to this web page

http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v

And be patient (it takes a little while to load), you will be able to go to any page in the Book of Kells and zoom in on any bit that you want. Specifically, if you navigate to "folio 8r", (leaf #8, "recto"-a page which is on the right-hand side of a book when you see it in its normal context), then you will find the page from which the Penguin cover's detail derives.

I actually became so interested in this a while back that I read two books all about the Book of Kells (dad's), including a finer big green edition.

>> No.10478539

>>10478170
Really cool, thanks for the info dude.

>> No.10478560

Cool! I actually just ordered it and it's arriving thursday so I'll start then.

>> No.10479526

>>10478560
Awesome! It’s worth it.

>> No.10479907

http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm

Here's an annotated web version.