This post continues my discussion of The Mookse and the Gripes from the last post.
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The Mookse and the Gripes, Part 1
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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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.
Continue readingBloomsday, 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 