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> What fool reads all of Finnegans Wake out loud? Well I heard it said from Joyce experts that reading Finnegans Wake and Ulysses, which was intended to be rea
by jahnu 3y ago
> What fool reads all of Finnegans Wake out loud?
Well I heard it said from Joyce experts that reading Finnegans Wake and Ulysses, which was intended to be read out loud, is an important part to unlock some of the meanings.
- thenerdhead 3y agoMay even consider his blogs are also to be read out loud because he himself writes out loud.
- Two9A 3y agoI've just been catching up with Corey Olsen's exploration of Lord of the Rings, and he makes the same point regarding Tolkien: the man thought in alliterative prose, and there are some places where it stands out even to the eye, but you can catch a lot more of the alliteration by reading passages out loud. The example that brought it up was towards the end of the attempt to climb the Redhorn: "Soon they all stood once more on the flat shelf at the head of the steep slope where they had felt the first flakes of snow the night before." (The F in 'before' might not line up with the previous F's unless you've been reading out loud.)