Penguin-Holt-Penguin
jd
wescac at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 17:33:54 CDT 2006
It's also very fun to pull out late into a night of drinking among
friends and try to re-create Joyce's reading as shown in the
previously posted mp3, like some mad leprochaun on speed.
On 8/2/06, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I don't profess to understand FW any more than the next reader, but its
> style washes over you and can be quite beautiful after you've been reading a
> few hours.
>
> Plus, the wordplay is fun merely for its abundance of potential band names
> or album titles:
>
> uniswoon
> Sin Showpanza
> by the wrath of Bog
> dulsy nayer
> Blott
> A bad attack of maggott
> gameboy
> magic fluke
> The Mod needs a rebus
> friskly shorties
> tragic jester
>
> oh, the list goes on ...
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
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