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More on PROJECT: Finnegans Wake

October 20, 2009. 12:15 PM NYC

I’d like to thank everyone who took part in today’s reading of Book IV of Finnegans Wake. Please be sure to contact me to confirm the location where you read, and share your thoughts regarding the experience. This information will be summarized and made available on the Project:  Finnegans Wake page.

I read the opening of Book IV in New York’s Central Park, on the path that runs by the pond by Central Park South. It was a beautiful day. This is a fairly quiet spot, but I did have a steady stream of tourists, dog walkers and office workers out for lunch.

October 20, 2009. 12:30 PM NYC

Depending on the feedback I receive from today’s reading, I hope to organize additional, more ambitious readings with an eye toward completing performances of the entire book. Please leave a comment on this page if you would like to receive updates by email. (Comments are read, but not published without your permission).

I look forward to hearing from you.

- apc

Update for October 12, 2009:

Since we announced the October 20 reading, we have had more people interested in participating.  The chart we are using is below. If you send an email or leave a comment on this page, we will send you a section. That, or just choose your own and let us know which section you have selected. You should practice to be sure you can complete your section in 10 minutes. We expect to have Book IV covered and doubling up should be fine.

Reader  Pages

I       593-596, line 16 (596.16)

II      596.17-600

III     600-603.16

IV      603.17-607

V       607.16-611

VI      611-614.16

VII     617-620.16

VIII    620.17-624

IX     625- end

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The University of California at Berkeley has made Hubert Dreyfus’s class on Heidegger available as a podcast. Professor Dreyfus has also provided some useful notes and a reading list. One of the books he recommends, William Blattner’s Being and Time, A Reader’s Guide, is particularly lucid.  That particular book and Professor’s Dreyfus’ lectures compliment one another very well.

That said, the kindest thing that can be said about Heidegger as a human being is that he was deeply flawed man.  Rüdiger Safranski’s biography is also a good introduction to Heidegger while addressing his behaviour in Nazi Germany. 

Another quick introduction to Heidegger is available in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

http://librivox.org/ulysses-by-james-joyce/

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The result is Silence/Stories, a print ready 66 page pdf file that includes the stories, images and bios of the contributors. Contributors represent a wide array of backgrounds. Some worked with John Cage. Others wrote about him, or used some of his methods and ideas in their own work.  (Full disclosure – this post was written by a contributor, although not one of those referred to in the previous  two sentences). Some stories include anecdotes or responses to John Cage, and others describe “Cage influenced listening.”  You can downdoad the PDF here  or here.

All the books in the James Joyce Scholar’s Collection are out of print, but below are links to a few you might explore after getting through my original recommendations.

A Classical Lexicon for Finnegans Wake
The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake: A Structuralist Analysis
A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
Joyce-again’s Wake: An Analysis of Finnegans Wake
The Sigla of Finnegans Wake
Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake
Third Census of Finnegans Wake
The “Wake” in Transit

All this assumes, of course, that you have actually read Finnegans Wake, the book.  If you haven’t bought a copy, the full text is available here, courtesy of Trent University. You can find an interesting, annotated version of Finnegans Wake at finwake.com.