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Contents Sources Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake Combined Lexicon and Occasional Summaries from Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com) and Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake  100 Words [Note: My speculation will always appear in brackets so that you can easily ignore it.] Sources Pages 99.01Continue reading “(FW) Finnegans Wake: Throwing Whimsey around Like Blazes pp 99.01.”

In the afterglow of Bloomsday, revelers stow eyepatches and doff straw boaters or Plasto melons for another year. Ashplant staves unceremoniously repair to umbrella stands. After all, BloomsDAY is only one day on the circuit of an unimportant planet. Some celebrations elongate to a week for Joycean illuminati who travel far to expound about commasContinue reading “(N) Bloom-ing in the 21st Century: A Review of A Dead Man’s Ice Cream by Dr. Alfredo Herrero de Haro”

  Contents Sources Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake Combined Lexicon and Occasional Summaries from Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com) and Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake  100 Words [Note: My speculation will always appear in brackets so that you can easily ignore it.] Sources PagesContinue reading “(FW) Finnegans Wake: Throwing Whimsey around Like Blazes pp 98.01.”

Contents Sources Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake Combined Lexicon and Occasional Summaries from Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com) and Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake  100 Words [Note: My speculation will always appear in brackets so that you can easily ignore it.] Sources Pages 96.02Continue reading “(FW) Finnegans Wake: Throwing Whimsey around Like Blazes pp 96.02-97.02-2”

Albania 1 0.1% Argentina 5 0.5% Australia 31 3.0% Bangladesh 4 0.4% Brazil 11 1.1% Bulgaria 2 0.2% Canada 35 3.4% Chile 1 0.1% Finland 22 2.2% France 10 1.0% Georgia 8 0.8% Germany 11 1.1% Ghana 1 0.1% Greece 6 0.6% Hong Hong 2 0.2% Mourn with the Hong Kong People India 7 0.7%Continue reading “JamesJoyceReadingCircle ~Usage by Nation APR 2023.”

Contents Sources Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake Combined Lexicon and Occasional Summaries from Glosses of Finnegans Wake (finwake.com) and Roland McHugh’s Annotations to Finnegans Wake  100 Words [Note: My speculation will always appear in brackets so that you can easily ignore it.] Sources Pages 92.33Continue reading “(FW) Finnegans Wake: Throwing Whimsey around Like Blazes pp 92.33 – 94.03”

Lucilla Macacchi introduced us to the Literary Quarter of Madrid, home to Cervantes, García Lorca and other lettered luminaries. There we talked about her most recent book,  MORIRE È UN’ARTE: Sylvia Plath e Anne Sexton, a blend of biography     and poetic exploration. The book is currently available in Italian (but is translatable fromContinue reading “(N) With a Legendary Poet and Playwright in Madrid (and García Lorca isn’t bad either)”

Recently, the “Comfort in Travel” (Consolatio in Peregrinatione) luggage tag was observed in Gaudix, España where I joined other troglodytes in slack-jawed, slope-skulled hunting-gathering. When driving through the Spanish province of Granada, the passerby can’t help but notice the caves dotting the Sierra Nevadas. Bronze Age settlers in the area may have been the predecessorsContinue reading “The Semi-Unofficial Luggage Tag Adds a Subterranean Episode to Its Odyssey”

The activity on the website lagged in March as I spent half a month away from the keyboard. I’ll do better this month. Despite my sloth, readers from 41 nations used the site. For this, I am grateful. Here are the results for March… Afghanistan 0.0% Algeria 0.0% Albania 0 0.0% Andora 0.0% Azerbaijan 0.0%Continue reading “(JJRC) James Joyce Reading Circle Readership by Nation March, 2023”

Contents Log A Key to Pagination [Page nn-] The page begun at the previous monthly session but not completed. [Page nn] A full page completed. [Page nn+] a page with one paragraph completed but the page incomplete. Sources Campbell and Robinson’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake Tindall’s A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake CombinedContinue reading “(FW) Finnegans Wake: Throwing Whimsy around Like Blazes pp. 88.04- 89.01”