Finnegan's Wake

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

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> >        Now everybody--//A screaming comes across the sky.
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> >[//, marks the "end" of the text on pg.760.  The rest, we know.]
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> >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.
> >or maybe  -  just a thought here  - the apocalypse, the collapse, has
> >already happened and we just don't realize it yet
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> Mathew Jacobson
> Green Mountain Forest Watch
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> A few keep going over to the titans every day... 
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Matthew-I think the notion of the apocalypse--that it's already 
happened--is implied, esp. by the famous "it is too late."

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