Finnegans Web & Wiki

My wife and I binge-watched all of Vera over the last few months. We pined for similar rural crime shows, and Shetland was suggested. We’ve been watching Shetland for the last couple of weeks. Tonight we watched Season 3 Episode 1, in which Finnegans Wake played a role.

“Have you ever read Finnegans Wake?”
“Nobody reads Finnegans Wake. It’s a book people pretend to read.”

Last June, I was contacted by Liz Finnigan, Course Director for the English and History Undergraduate Program at Southern Regional College, Northern Ireland, asking for “permission” to reference this website for an upcoming book. Despite the nagging feeling that permission isn’t really mine to give — after all, all I did was set up a convenient framework, two decades of transient scholars having done all the real work — permission was granted enthusiastically.

And here we are now, the book has been published, and your humble narrator’s name is listed in the Acknowledgements, along with the name of this site right here.

Yet another chapter in the long list of interesting interactions which swirl around this book. I’m sure you all have similar stories of places and people the pursuit of the wake has introduced you to…

Perhaps you all should consider buying a copy of this book. The table of contents is available in the Amazon listing under “Read sample” if you’re interested in the Wake-related content.

Not sure what you think that slowly brute-forcing this site is going to accomplish, but (1) you’ll never get in, and (2) there’s no benefit in it for you whatsoever if you do. It is a colossal waste of your resources, and for what?

Cosmic Coincidence Control strikes again. Here I am in another compartment of my life studying Crowley’s Kabbalah, Tarot and yes, I-Ching correspondences, and blam, this pops up in a random rabbit hole. I felt it was worth sharing with you lovely people.

http://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/fringe-programme-2020/2020/5/25/readings-and-songs

… please just send it on over to me.  No questions asked. 

https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/missing-first-edition-of-finnegans-wake

The following item has been reported missing:

JOYCE, JAMES. FINNEGANS WAKE. (London; Faber & Faber; New York: Viking Press, 1939) 260 x 171 mm. (10 1/4 x 6 3/4″). 4 p.l., (first blank), 628 pp. FIRST EDITION. No. 206 OF 425 COPIES, SIGNED BY JOYCE. Original brick red buckram, gilt titling on spine, edges untrimmed and MOSTLY UNOPENED. In the original (very slightly soiled) yellow cloth slipcase, and housed in an extremely attractive modern dark red morocco-backed folding box. Remnants of bookplate glue on front pastedown.

Surfing Finnegans Wake with Terence McKenna

From Wikipedia: The song was commissioned by singer Janet Fairbank, who later became known for pioneering contemporary music. Cage chose to set a passage from page 556 of Finnegans Wake, a book he bought soon after its publication in 1939. The composition is based, according to Cage himself, on the impressions received from the passage.^[2] The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs marks the start of Cage’s interest in Joyce and is the first piece among many in which he uses the writer’s work.