NP - Finnegans Wake
Bekah
bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 19 22:24:22 CST 2011
On Dec 19, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> That's fantastic, Bekah! I doubt that I'll ever do it, although it's
> encouraging to hear you did.
>
> what is your favorite part or passage?
There were hundred of little phrases which were a wonderment - how clear they were and so often very funny. It's a very funny book. Just dip into it any old place and read a couple pages - don't try to understand it - just let it flow - the understanding will be there when it's ready. I'm rereading parts now.
Page 409:
Goodbye now, Shaun replied, with a voice pure as a church-
mode, in echo rightdainty, with a good catlick tug at his coco-
moss candylock, a foretaste in time of his cabbageous brain's
curlyflower.
Page 300 -
Want to join the police. You know, you were
always one of the bright ones, since a foot
made you an unmentionable, fakes ! You know,
you're the divver's own smart gossoon, aequal
to yoursell and wanigel to anglyother, so you
are, hoax!
Bekah
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