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Subject:RE: It's Not Finnegan's Wake From:"Miller, Alan" <Alan -dot- Miller -at- prometric -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Mar 2003 08:01:55 -0500
Did he not say also that since it took 17 years to write, it should take 17 years to read?
About the only thing of any lasting value to come of it, IMHO, was "quark." (Who said physicists have no sense of humor?)
Al "Who read it in college in somewhat less than 17 years" Miller
"Chief Documentation Curmudgeon"
Prometric, Inc., a part of The Thomson Corporation
Baltimore, Maryland
www.prometric.com
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-- Hanlon's Razor
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From: David Handy [mailto:david -dot- handy -at- automsoft -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:08 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: OT: It's Not Finnegan's Wake
Ladies and gentlemen --
You have stirred am amateur Joycean from his slumbers.
The book's title is Finnegans Wake. [No possessive apostrophe!]
And the book is not a giant prank. Or if it is, it writing it was a curious
way for a rich man to spend the last seventeen years of his life, weathering
discourgement from almost all his friends (who naturally found his drafts
unreadable) and often excruciatingly poor eyesight.
You know the old story about someone asking a mountain climber why he
climbed Everest, and getting the response "because it's there"? I think
Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake simply because he could. It may be a heroic
failure. But not to have written it would have been a form of artistic
abdication. IMHO.
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