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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Category Archives: Close Reading
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.
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.
Continue readingThe Baffling Yarn Sails in Circles
Finnegans Wake II.3 is the longest chapter in the book: it’s nearly 1/6 of the length of the whole work. It’s also the densest chapter. The study chapter (II.2) may be the hardest to read, but I think this chapter is as dense as it gets. Words seem more packed with meaning than usual. The narrative, such as it is, continually confuses the present with the past. More so than any other chapter, it is a microcosm of the whole book.
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The Suspended Sentence 