Top 10--FW

[David Casseres]

Susan sez

>To second this, I think the great thing about FW is how much a
>litmus test of one's own mind it is.   Joyce made a book almost
>entirely of open-endedness, which is astonishing.  Then some people 
>started "deciding" what FW was about, one text in particular, and so 
>the rest followed suit.  I really regret that I learned FW through a 
>class, because now I'm biased to whatever is there, seeing mainly the 
>template I was taught.  Really, the way to do FW is to let it glide
>past you--take it slow at first, and think of it as watching the
>static on a tv screen ("tuned to a dead channel," heh)...i'll be jealous
>of the integrity of the hallucinations that will eventually appear
>for those who do it this way.

Right you are!

I seem to remember that on the testimony of Joyce's housekeeper, he 
laughed maniacally the whole time he was writing Finnegans Wake.



Cheers,
David