Finnegans Wake

[Jake Martin]

Hmmm.  Just to make things more complicated, why does it seem that 
these "circular" fictions, which in theory could, I suppose, consist 
of no more than one or two sentences (or fragments, or words), tend 
to be so bloody long (vis. Finnegans Wake, GR, Powers' Goldbug 
Variations).  Is it just that we muscular pynchon-l subscribers favor 
the extended (or, selon Medelson, "encyclopedic") text? (If I don't 
need a forklift, it ain't worth pickin' up.)  Borges' "Circular 
Ruins" is effectively circular, but not in sense that we seem to be 
requiring. (//)