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As SF Weekly noted yesterday, Lars Russell, a San Francisco-based writer, starting reading the entirety of Finnegans Wake out loud at Civic Center Plaza near the San Francisco Public Library. The work, Jocye's final piece, is, to say the least, idiosyncratic. Here's Wake's first sentence, which wraps around the to final sentence, making the magnum opus a circular work, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth :
riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.
Yeah.
We haven't read it. Most people haven't read. Graduate students trying to get into the pants of undergraduates typically claim to have read it. Have you read it? It's a very, very tough read.
Anyway, there was a Finnegans Wake book group, called Finnegan's Wake Popcorn, that recently disbanded. Russell here started reading it yesterday (Wednesday) and hasn't slept since. If you're near Civic Center, you might want to stop by to see if he's still at it.
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(claiming) to have read james joyce is almost like a badge of honor these days. i rarely hear people discuss the novels themselves.
but yeah, ulysses is like my favorite book evaaah.
It's not the worst idea I've ever heard in terms of wanting to draw attention to a beloved piece of literature (and, of course, yourself), but I don't understand the non-stop, non-sleeping aspect of it.
> but I don't understand the non-stop, non-sleeping aspect of it.
Perhaps sleep deprivation is the only method to fully comprehend it?
Funemployed activity #337 - channeling Andy Kaufman.
You beat me to the punch, emu. Kaufman was being tedious, boring and pretentious as part of a put on in an entertaining bit:
See it on the youtubes
Reading Joyce at the Civic Center is just tedious, boring and pretentious. If I didn't have a job, I'd go hang out and heckle him.
"Finnegans Wake". No apostrophe. This is probably important.
"Howth Castle and Environs", not "Howth, Castle and Environs".
oh. of course.
Just wait til the shrooms wear off.
It's actually a pretty funny book if you just take it a little at a time and don't worry about it too much. I like it.
hey Brock, were you at the Cass Mccombs show at the Great American the other night? If not, than there are 3 Brocks in San Francisco.... and that is just mind boggling.
In a related story, any dipshit doing something stupid can get a mention on any blog anywhere in this city for anything at all. Even being a purposeless, retarded douchebag. I'm sure his father and mother are kicking themselves for sending that asshole to the ACADEMY OF ART COLLEGE for 50 large a year so he can dick around and do absolutely nothing useful EVER.
I think I shall crap on a police car in the Mission just so I can become an instant celebrity. Maybe somebody can film me doing it so I can become important for a moment.
Or just another mindless douchebag with no purpose, point or clue. Kinda like that retarded moron. I shall seek him out and kick him squarely in his tiny nutsack for being a massive dipshit. I hope you have spent as much time reading this mindless blather as I did wasting my time watching that fucktard read a goddamn book which only drunkards, fools and hardcore Irish would bother reading.
our degenerates read finnegans wake! move to east palo alto if you want to defecate on police cars!
I shall seek him out and kick him squarely in his tiny nutsack for being a massive dipshit.
You should. The exercise & fresh air might help you reduce some of that stress...
Yes, you'll be a celebrity to all 15 people who read blogs. Congratulations.
You'd be better off witlessly trolling on SFist.
Witless would imply that nobody found my comments worthy of response.
I received 4 replies AND pooped on a police car in Fremont for good effect.
: )
p.s.
it's hard to be stressed out when you're up at 3am listening to rain in Burlingame.
He should join this group reading project...
http://www.bendofbay.org/2008/04/26/participants-needed-project-finnegans-wake/