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I got Gilligan's Wake for its quality of language and for the novelty of it all, but did not finish the book. Most of my reading of FW has been in short bursts, rifling through the text as a form of bibliomancy. I doubt the co-respondences between the the two Wakes is all that close. There is such a depth of content in Joyce's work, I doubt that anything could get all that close to FW. John Lennon's various writhings have similar verbal qualities---FW on training wheels.
I used to be involved in a reading circle that read from Finnigan's Wake and hearing the text aloud makes a huge difference. So much more of the content and verbal effects comes across when the book is read aloud. Particularly in the second half of the reading, after the bottles have been opened and passed around.
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From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
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> > Unfortunately for the two of you, there's Tom Carson's "Gilligan's Wake", a 
> version veteran tubeaholic and DEA Field Agent Hector Zuniga might appreciate.
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> did you like it?  
> I thought it was well done, but kinda sad rather than the romp it could have 
> been.  OTOH I suppose delving into the real life sources for the archetypes on 
> the Island dredges up 20th century history and makes it hard to be upbeat
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> I could read GW, so there is one major difference (the abnihilisation of the 
> etym is not practiced in GW to any great extent)
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> but are there real correspondences between GW and FW?  I didn't notice any but I 
> know next to nothing about FW -- does each character own a part of the book in 
> Finnegans Wake as in GW?  
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