Monday 28 September 2015

Monday, 28 September 2015, Pages 264 - 266

We have reached "Schein. Schore" (266.8).

Next week, there will be a screening of the film Pablo Ventura made during the trip to Dublin earlier this year: Monday, 5 October, at the Foundation after the reading.

And, if you're in the mood and have time, join the group for a celebratory drink after the reading on Monday, 26 October: we've been going, stumbling, sinking and swimming for three years now.


Tuesday 22 September 2015

Monday, 21 September 2015, Pages 262 - 264

We reached "Ever a-going, ever a-coming."(264.10)

Amongst what we read, there was/is  a nice description of Finnegans Wake:
"Hearasay in paradox lust." (p. 263)

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Monday, 14 September 2015, Pages 259 - 262

Read till "O really?" (262. 10 in middle column)

The following is an excerpt from the entry on Finnegans Wake in Wikipedia:

'Chapter II.2 follows Shem, Shaun and Issy studying upstairs in the pub, after having been called inside in the previous chapter.[50][51] The chapter depicts "[Shem] coaching [Shaun] how to do Euclid Bk I, 1", structured as "a reproduction of a schoolboys' (and schoolgirls') old classbook complete with marginalia by the twins, who change sides at half time, and footnotes by the girl (who doesn't)".[52][53]Once Shem (here called Dolph) has helped Shaun (here called Kev) to draw the Euclid diagram, the latter realises that he has drawn a diagram of ALP's genitalia, and "Kev finally realises the significance of the triangles [..and..] strikes Dolph." After this "Dolph forgives Kev" and the children are given "[e]ssay assignments on 52 famous men."[54] The chapter ends with the children's "nightletter" to HCE and ALP, in which they are "apparently united in a desire to overcome their parents."[55]'

Friday 11 September 2015

Monday, 7 September 2015, Pages 257 - 259

We completed chapter 1 of part II of the book.

The chapter ended with the remarkable prayer: "Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!"

Next week we shall be starting with page 260.

Thursday 3 September 2015

Monday, 31 August 2015, Pages 255 - 257

We shall be continuing on 7th September from "While, running about their ways,..." (257.3)

One of the passages we read today had famous Irish writers' names in disguised  - if not distorted - form. See the paragraph starting from "Home all go." (256.11)