In re-reading Ulysses, I was struck by the word “unlikelihood” occurring in a significant place (Stephen’s Shakespeare theory, Chapter 9). The word has a prominent place in the Prankquean episode in Finnegans Wake , where a variant of the word is one of the PQ’s rejoinders to Van Hoother.
This post looks at the word “unlikelihood” in Finnegans Wake and Ulysses.
Continue readingThis post looks more closely at the word “Amsad,” which appears in III.3 as an anagram for other words that I quoted in my last post.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThis post discusses some images of gorges and voids in Finnegans Wake.
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The Suspended Sentence 