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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    In response to a suggestion from pianist/campaigner Ian Pace via FB, Finnigans Wake and associated 'guides'. Trouble is, I can't find my favourite example of the latter, nor even the right word which describes a reference work which offers the meaning of references in the text of, say, the bible. Help! As if reading the Wake was not hard enough on one's word association facility.

    [As I hit the 'post' button, I remembered, "concordance". That's what comes of being an atheist. ]
    Last edited by Bryn; 09-04-20, 10:32. Reason: Update.

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    • Joseph K
      Banned
      • Oct 2017
      • 7765

      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      In response to a suggestion from pianist/campaigner Ian Pace via FB, Finnigans Wake and associated 'guides'. Trouble is, I can't find my favourite example of the latter, nor even the right word which describes a reference work which offers the meaning of references in the text of, say, the bible. Help! As if reading the Wake was not hard enough on one's word association facility.

      [As I hit the 'post' button, I remembered, "concordance". That's what comes of being an atheist. ]
      The one I have is 'Annotations to Finnegans Wake'.

      You could try Anthony Burgess's book, which I think (I don't have it) simplifies the novel into something more readable...

      (incidentally - I've never actually finished it )

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
        The one I have is 'Annotations to Finnegans Wake'.

        You could try Anthony Burgess's book, which I think (I don't have it) simplifies the novel into something more readable...

        (incidentally - I've never actually finished it )
        How can one finish an ouroboros like Finnigans Wake?

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
          The one I have is 'Annotations to Finnegans Wake'.
          I got that, back in the early '80s. It's up in the loft, somewhere. It's been there since I moved back here three decades ago. There is a useful concordance online, http://www.rosenlake.net/fw/FWconcordance/ . I'm using the Penguin edition of FW at the moment, my old Faber copy having gone missing. I see the Kindle version of the Penguin is only 99p. However, the whole text, in plain text, is available online.

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          • gradus
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 5607

            Ronald Blythe, At The Yeoman's House a brief but fascinating book about Bottengoms Farm, Blythe's house that he inherited from the painter John Nash. The house is in Wormingford on the Essex/Suffolk border, a lovely unspoilt place still. In short, a place to lose yourself.

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            • Joseph K
              Banned
              • Oct 2017
              • 7765

              Originally posted by Bryn View Post
              How can one finish an ouroboros like Finnigans Wake?

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              • Pulcinella
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                • Feb 2014
                • 10921

                Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                Finished the latest Hilary Mantel yesterday, so have started reading The Deptford Trilogy again (bought 14 October 1983, in Old Aberdeen, I wrote in the front).
                Taking a break after the first two of the Robertson Davies trilogy (Fifth business, The manticore; World of wonders awaits!) to re-read James Agee's A death in the family, to which Knoxville: Summer, 1915 forms a sort of prologue.

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  Joyce: Finnigans Wake and related guides, etc., in association with an FB group set up by Ian Pace, https://www.facebook.com/groups/678054696306225 . It's many a year since I last worked my way round it.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                    Joyce: Finnigans Wake and related guides, etc., in association with an FB group set up by Ian Pace, https://www.facebook.com/groups/678054696306225 . It's many a year since I last worked my way round it.
                    Oh, let me know if you fancy joining the group. I can then invite you in.

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                    • Joseph K
                      Banned
                      • Oct 2017
                      • 7765

                      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                      Oh, let me know if you fancy joining the group. I can then invite you in.


                      Count me in, Bryn.

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                      • Bryn
                        Banned
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 24688

                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        Oh, let me know if you fancy joining the group. I can then invite you in.
                        Best you PM me with your FB details, I think.

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                        • muzzer
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2013
                          • 1192

                          I’ve just finished Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson. I started it in I think the right mood for what it appeared to be and finished it not entirely convinced tbh. But a quite amazing AbeBooks seller has got a copy of Margaret Drabble’s biography of AW to me in super quick time even allowing for current times so I look forward this weekend to immersing myself accordingly.

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                          • MrGongGong
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 18357

                            A book about cheesemaking

                            and this rather wonderful thing which is FREE to download (with thanks to the EU Interfaces and other projects..... ) and has contributions from many significant people including a chap called Richard


                            »From Xenakis’s UPIC to Graphic Notation Today« by Centre Iannis Xenakis and ZKM. Download the digital publication here as a PDF file!

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                            • LMcD
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                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8457

                              The Blue Guitar by John Banville.

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                              • Rjw
                                Full Member
                                • Oct 2012
                                • 117

                                The Goose Cathedral by Jocelyn Brooke.

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