Finnegan's Wake

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

boy, when you think you're "right," you think you're right.  

So naturally, I'm absolutely certain that this will be wrong.  But if you 
want to hear it, I'll tell.

To follow your example:

	Now everybody--//A screaming comes across the sky.

[//, marks the "end" of the text on pg.760.  The rest, we know.]

So here is a call to join in song.  We might traditionally hear a chorus, 
but instead we get a dash--signalling a pause, a SILENCE.  This silence 
is the entrance to the text on page 3, as the V-2 strikes before it's 
heard (represented here by the pause, the dash, the absence.)  Silence, 
and then -- "A sceaming comes a cross the sky", the sound that follows 
the silence we've experienced before (on 760,) and . . . "It has happened 
before, . . ."  "It is too late."  The mandala structure that is 
emblematic of the War continues to function even in attempts to represent 
the War in fiction.

Yes, I know we're speaking of "different" bombs.  So if you care to 
disseminate this argument on those grounds, it's okay by me.  But I think 
one could make an argument regarding the ultimate measure of the 
distinctions and find that it's equally horrific, a matter of scale, 
which, as I see it, is relevent to the structure of the text throughout 
(sorry to "dredge up" that fractal-chaos thing.)

Just some observations.  

Bonnie