User:Tip

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About Tip:

  • a word found throughout the Wake whose meaning has been interpreted by some to be the sound of a tree branch tapping against the sleeper's window.
  • found on pages: 8,9,10,79,110,111,112,113,115,303,599 and multiple other times.
  • personally i believe that the mistress Kate has caught the hiccups!
  • I began using finnegansweb/wiki in June 2005


About David:

  • began reading Finnegans Wake in January 2002 (currently up to Book I, Ch.5)
  • first became interested about the book while reading Tom Robbins' novel, "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates"
  • current resources include
    • "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" by J.Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson(thanks now to the new re-released edition!)
    • "Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce" by J.Campbell,et al
    • "A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake" by William York Tindall
    • "Annotations to Finnegans Wake" by Roland McHugh
    • other various sources found in the local university library
  • currently lives in Raleigh, NC (Wake Co.)
  • interested in starting a local reading club for other Wake-fans.
  • to contact me in person, please visit the Tip:Talk page

Thanks for the tip!