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[jd]

The Bishop book I own, and I like it quite a bit.  I need to re-visit
it / FW soon...

Malign, I don't think you can bash Ulysses, Dubliners, Portrait, but I
can understand FW-bashing, as there is very little if any hope of a
reader ever understanding it without an external book teaching them
how to do so, if in fact after reading that guide they bother to look
to the original text at all.  I can see how people might have qualms
with that.  It's not like how some people call GR dense, either,
because at least, if you throw everything else to the wind, the
individual words can be understood.  Personally, I'm glad it was
written and published, but I'm also glad that there's only one.

On 8/2/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> << That is a very good point.  How the HELL does one edit Finnegans Wake?
>   How did he even write it?  And finally, how the hell did he convince
>  anyone to publish it? >>
>
> If you write Ulysses and Dubliners anything you write gets published and
> rightly so (almost wrote "writely").
>
> Joyce died editing Finnegans Wake.  A monstrous, awful task and he was nearly
> totally blind.  I
>
> You can't bash Joyce and claim literate intelligence.
>