Screwed Up People Make Great Art
From Striking 12, GrooveLily’s musical take on New Year’s Eve and The Little Match Girl.
for Wallace Stevens
(after reading an essay on Wallace Stevens)
dying and being
red and purple
western sky
More on PROJECT: Finnegans Wake
after the reading
We have put up a summary of the October 20, 2009 reading in the section of bend of bay devoted to PROJECT Finnegans Wake.
While this is an ongoing project, I am preparing a “readers group edition” based on some of the initial feedback. If you would like to take part, leave us a comment. Visit PROJECT Finnegans Wake for more information.
- apc
If you have never read Finnegans Wake, the full text is available here.
More about Finnegans Wake on bend of bay.
Finnegans Wake in our bookstore. (bend of bay’s commissions benefit this program).
Project Finnegans Wake: 10/20/2009 Reading!
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.
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PROJECT Finnegans Wake – October 20, 2009
There will be a partial performance of Section II PROJECT Finnegans Wake on October 20, 2009. This version will be confined to Book IV and will start at 5:15 GMT (12:15 in New York). Be on the lookout for our readers. They can be anywhere.
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
If you would like to take part in this or future readings, contact bend of bay.
Cattle
The Angus and the Highland
both fall under the general
definition of cattle.
Cattle are bovine farm animals
domesticated and raised for
milk, beef or other purposes
such as sport or work.
The male is first a bull calf.
It becomes a bull.
If castrated, a steer.
A steer becomes an Ox.
The female is first a heifer calf.
It becomes a heifer, then cow
These, then, are cattle.
For Cotton Mather
We who are old are marvelously blessed by the use of glasses. Inexcusable the ingratitude of mankind to bury in oblivion the name of that benefactor, the inventor, the original fashioner of glasses, when there stand on record innumerable murderers oppressors and thieves under the name of conquerers.
for E. E. Cummings
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
Neither could Leonardo
And what I want to know is,
What do think of that, Mr Sprat
