This post briefly looks at the word bunk/bunkum/buncombe in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
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The Story in Finnegans Wake
I posted a new page today: The Story in Finnegans Wake.
It took me long enough to decide to write an overview! Enjoy.
Website Update
Just a quick update: the Tour Finnegans Wake section of this website has been fleshed out so that more posts (nearly all of my blog posts) are listed alongside the page numbers in the book. I have begun assembling posts under pages for each individual character as well. I’ll add to these in the weeks ahead, along with developing a page for motifs in the Wake.
I hope this section proves useful as a tool to explore and study the novel.
Illysus Distilling
I had the opportunity recently to visit the Great Jones Distilling Company in Manhattan and take a tour of their distillery. [No, they are not sponsoring this post] It was a marvelous time — an excellent tour I took with a friend — at the first distillery opened in Manhattan since prohibition (and it opened in…2021!).
The experience put me in mind of references to distilling in Finnegans Wake, which is what this post will be about.
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The Suspended Sentence 