GRGR1: Discussion opener for section 1

[Basileios Drolias]

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, David Evers wrote:

> Do the words `your sound will be the sizzling night' occur in FW?

i just 'greped' my electronic Finnegans wake copy and the phrase does not 
appear there (unless of course Joyce changed it completely). Anybody with 
an electronic copy of Ulysses? 

On another thing I do not know if you people have noticed in the second 
paragraph the reference to the CRystal Palace fire in 1933(?) which was 
in fact a great spectacle for all those witnessing it. The destruction of 
the palace was sort of signifing the end of the British empire, and i 
think this "end of the superpower" theme for britain appears again in GR. 

basil