On this June 16th, in the middle of another read through Ulysses, I find myself thinking of two Joyce quotes about Finnegans Wake.
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“We Live Inside a Dream”: David Lynch and James Joyce
The quote in my title plays a pivotal role in David Lynch’s movie Fire Walk with Me and in Season 3 of his show Twin Peaks. I was reminded of it recently when I came across a passage from Arthur Schopenhauer quoted by Joseph Campbell and Henry Robinson in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake. In discussing the way that HCE and his accusers often blend with each other in the Wake, they cite Schopenhauer’s description of the world as a kind of dream: “It is a vast dream, dreamed by a single being, but in such a way that all the dream characters dream too. Thus everything interlocks and harmonizes with everything else.”
This post reflects on the idea of dreams in the work of David Lynch and Finnegans Wake.
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In rereading Ulysses, I recently reviewed the passage where Mr. Bloom helps a “blind stripling” cross the street, and Bloom’s reflections remind me how central sense perception is to Joyce’s work.
In this post, I look at a few places where sense perception is important to Ulysses before turning to Joyce’s treatment of the senses in Finnegans Wake.
Continue readingA Rude Breathing on the Void of To Be
This post discusses some images of gorges and voids in Finnegans Wake.
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The Suspended Sentence 