In re-reading Ulysses, I was struck by the word “unlikelihood” occurring in a significant place (Stephen’s Shakespeare theory, Chapter 9). The word has a prominent place in the Prankquean episode in Finnegans Wake , where a variant of the word is one of the PQ’s rejoinders to Van Hoother.
This post looks at the word “unlikelihood” in Finnegans Wake and Ulysses.
Continue readingI recently had the opportunity to see The Lion King on Broadway with my daughter. It was the first time I had seen it, and the first time I heard the song “He Lives in You.”
As I found myself humming it this week, I realized that it sums up a major idea of Finnegans Wake, that we each embody the past. An Eternal Story plays through all of history, and it is present right here, right now, in each of us.
In this post, I explore this idea and discuss the one sentence I found in the Wake that contains the name “Simba.”
Continue readingThis post briefly looks at the word bunk/bunkum/buncombe in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Continue readingI posted a new page today: The Story in Finnegans Wake.
It took me long enough to decide to write an overview! Enjoy.
The Suspended Sentence 