In I.1, there’s a brief catalogue of all the goods that go into ALP’s “nabsack.” This includes
boaston nightgarters and masses of shoeset
I always just took this to be a reference to Boston, Massachusetts, a place that many Irish people emigrated to, mixed with garters and shoes.
But it’s also, the annotations inform me, chaussettes, the French word for socks.
Continue readingI recently had the opportunity to see The Lion King on Broadway with my daughter. It was the first time I had seen it, and the first time I heard the song “He Lives in You.”
As I found myself humming it this week, I realized that it sums up a major idea of Finnegans Wake, that we each embody the past. An Eternal Story plays through all of history, and it is present right here, right now, in each of us.
In this post, I explore this idea and discuss the one sentence I found in the Wake that contains the name “Simba.”
Continue readingThis post discusses some images of gorges and voids in Finnegans Wake.
Continue readingThis post continues a series that began with this post and this post.
Finnegans Wake I.3 examines the case against HCE and what we can learn about his fall since its details have been lost in the distant past.
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The Suspended Sentence 