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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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 readingThis post reflects on my last post and briefly offers an alternate way of conceiving the equations that I discussed there.
Continue readingThe math problem comes in Finnegans Wake II.2 occurs right after Shem/Dolph shows his brother how to draw the two interlocking circles that I discussed in my last post. This post explores the math problem itself.
Continue readingYou can read the previous entries on this subject here and here. In those posts, I sketch out the idea that the naked body is a symbol in the Wake for art, while clothing is a symbol for the facts of reality. The Wake suggests that, in a sense, fiction is “truer” than fact, for art contains the patterns that repeat with variations in life, the same anew.
This post extends my thoughts on this subject.
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