Top 10--FW

[RICHARD ROMEO]

--yah;  is scary.
There are some good reference works available:  A SKELETON KEY TO 
FINNEGANS
WAKE by Campbell & Morgan;  also a couple of interesting and informative
works by (dare I say the name) Anthony
Burgess (stop cringing, mittelwerke):  JOYSPRICK and RE-JOYCE.  All three
are available in
university libraries (one POSITIVE aspect of .edu) and can really help 
open
this work up
to the tutored & untutored alike.

~G~
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Greg.  Skeleton Key is pretty lousy.  The intro article is informative 
but the rest of the book pretends to "translate" FW, basically destroying 
everything that's great about it.  Same with Burgess' books.  Let's face 
it--get a copy of the Annotations (you'll learn the seven deadly words in 
every language) and Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop.  I've gotten 
thru the first book and was beginning to learn its rhythms and various 
themes.  Takes a lot of sweat but it's well woth it.

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org