Monday, 28 October 2013

Today we read as far as 100.36: Hush ye fronds of Ulma!

Favourites of the day:

Mumpty! Mike room for Rumpty! (99.20)

...rayheallach royghal raxacraxian variety...  (99.27)

...pureede paumee bloody proper.  (99. 30)

Achdung! Pozor! Attenshune! Vikeroy Besights Smucky Yung Pigeschoolies.  (100.5)

... aslike as a snake comes sliduant down that oaktree onto the duke of beavers,...  (100.11)

...was at his best a onestone par-able,... (100.26)

a venter hearing his own bauchspeech in backwards (100.27)


And, another type of favourite: the way that, in the last paragraph of p. 100, a figure gradually comes into focus: that of Einstein

Monday, 21 October 2013

We stopped at 99.15: "... had devoured him. C. W. cast wide."

Favourites of the day:

Big went the bang: then wildewide was quiet: a report: silence: last Fama put it under ether.... (98.2)
(Fama: Pheme, from Greek mythology, - a personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath scandalous rumours. 
Source: http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter4/fw04.htm#98)

(badoldkarak-ter, commonorrong canbung) (98.9)

Batty believes a baton while Hogan hears a hod yet Heer prefers a punsil shaper and Cope and Bull go cup and ball. (98.29)

From golddawn glory to glowworm gleam. (99.1)

We were lowquacks did we not tacit turn. (99.1)

Monday, 14 October 2013

We stopped today at 97.24: "... to ongoad and unhume the great shipping mogul and underlinen overlord."

Favourites of the day:

Harik! Harik! Harik! The rose is white in the darik! And Sunfella's nose has got rhinoceritis from haunting the roes in the parik! (96.1)

So all rogues lean to rhyme. (96.3)
(All roads lead to Rome OR All rogues learn to rhyme.
From: http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter4/1024finn4.htm)

... in Milton's Park under lovely Father Whisperer and making her love with his stuffstuff in the languish of flowers and feeling to find was she mushymushy,... (96.10)

Well, all right, Lelly. And shakeahand. And schenkusmore. For Craig sake. Be it suck. (96.23)

special mentalists (96.32)

urbiandor- bic (96.36)

Let us celebrate!

On Monday, 14 October, the Finnegans Wake for Beginners group is celebrating its 1st anniversary. Everybody who has felt enough of a beginner to stay on and those who feel like celebrating, please note! We will be going for a "quick" drink to the Rössli Bar in the old town after the reading. Do join!

Monday, 7 October 2013

We read today as far as 95.36: "... that time living and lying and rating and riding around Nunsbelly Square."

Favorites of the day:

The solid man saved by his sillied woman.

The elm that whimpers at the top told the stone that moans when stricken.

Ah, furchte fruchte, timid Danaides!

Well and druly dry.

So pass the push for port sake.

... before he caught his paper dispillsation from the poke,...

A paid of sycopanties with amygdaleine eyes, ...

So help her goat and kiss the bout.

Fine feelplay we had of it mid the kissabetts frisking in the kool kurkle dusk of the lushness.