The Mookse and the Gripes takes place in FW I.6, the quiz chapter. This post explores this section of Finnegans Wake.
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Longtong’s Breach
In 2020, during my first re-read of Finnegans Wake since about 2006, I ran across a sentence that I later described as “overwhelming” me, such that I had to put the book down.
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The page Tour Finnegans Wake is now active with functional links. My hope is to organize my posts on the Wake by page number so that the blog can be a useful tool for someone studying the novel.
Right now, most of my posts pertain to Book I, but I hope to explore more of the novel as the blog develops.
Enjoy!
Bloomsday, 2023
I’ve been re-reading Ulysses in preparation for Bloomsday (my first re-read in almost twenty years), and all sorts of new ideas are occurring to me as I read it again after my study of Finnegans Wake.
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The Suspended Sentence 