http://www.bendofbay.org/2007/04/09/reading-finnegans-wake-part-ii/ more than words Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bendofbay.org/2007/04/09/reading-finnegans-wake-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-3403 bob griffin Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:08:11 +0000 http://www.bendofbay.org/2007/04/09/reading-finnegans-wake-part-ii/#comment-3403 I happened to run across your website while browsing. Comment? Uh, well, I probably hold the Guinness record for taking more than a half century to read the book. In the aggregate, including all the backtracking, I have read it hundreds of times. Riverrunning the book again, I find that each old/new page takes on a new mosaic. I (sort of) started as a grad student in 1958, when I dropped in on Thornton Wilder's Finnegans Wake Society in New Haven, and was puzzled by what the wisemen referred to as the work's "grids." That was back in the olden days when a student's toolkit was used to assemble what we then called "meaning." Occasionally, I was spurred on by arguments with my old friend, Joe Campbell. Now in my retired dottage, I can lose myself for hours in those glorious pages. I happened to run across your website while browsing. Comment? Uh, well, I probably hold the Guinness record for taking more than a half century to read the book. In the aggregate, including all the backtracking, I have read it hundreds of times. Riverrunning the book again, I find that each old/new page takes on a new mosaic. I (sort of) started as a grad student in 1958, when I dropped in on Thornton Wilder’s Finnegans Wake Society in New Haven, and was puzzled by what the wisemen referred to as the work’s “grids.” That was back in the olden days when a student’s toolkit was used to assemble what we then called “meaning.” Occasionally, I was spurred on by arguments with my old friend, Joe Campbell. Now in my retired dottage, I can lose myself for hours in those glorious pages.

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