This post looks more closely at the word “Amsad,” which appears in III.3 as an anagram for other words that I quoted in my last post.
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Bushes Have Eyes, Don’t Forget
This post reflects on the motif of looking and watching in Finnegans Wake.
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I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
–Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
This post looks at the concept of doorways in Finnegans Wake and in literature more broadly.
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About two years ago, I was writing a piece where I wondered if my creativity had gone out. Perhaps, I speculated, I had become nothing more than a “keeper of the flame” that burned back in the day, editing my old pieces of writing, planning to publish my older work, etc.
But then I was struck by the thought that my creativity hadn’t left me at all. I was writing so many new, creative things still, especially when it came to explicating Finnegans Wake. Why couldn’t scholarly writing be considered creative as well?
I’m not tending a flame, I thought. I’m the kindling. The fire burns from inside me, not unlike a phoenix.
This post looks at this idea in HCE’s speech in II.3, where he defends the Russian General.
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The Suspended Sentence 