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A screaming came across the sky... ETA-- Have to call that out as inaccurate, though, as GR is very comprehensible, if sprawling. Compare: GR: A screaming co
by scarmig 13y ago
A screaming came across the sky...
ETA--
Have to call that out as inaccurate, though, as GR is very comprehensible, if sprawling. Compare:
GR:
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
It is too late. The Evacuation still proceeds, but it's all theatre. There are no lights inside the cars. No light anywhere. Above him lift girders old as an iron queen, and glass somewhere far above that would let the light of day through. But it's night. He's afraid of the way the glass will fall--soon--it will be a spectacle: the fall of a crystal palace. But coming down in total blackout, without one glint of light, only great invisible crashing.
vs
FW:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passen-core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa’s malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
- reeses 13y agoGah, no one expects Finnegan's Wake. Ulysses (sort of) rewards the patient reader. FW abuses her.
- audreyt 13y agoThe Chinese translation makes it much, much more accessible to the general public, though: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/finnegans-wake-follows-tocqueville-onto-chinese-best-seller-list/ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/finnegans-wake-... A page from the Claybook, for the Abcedminded among us: https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/333859568796958721/photo/1 https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/333859568796958721/photo/...
- reeses 13y agoI have been eliminating paper books from my library in favor of electronic versions, but I am strongly motivated to put this on my bookshelf. You have not experienced Finnegan's Wake until you have read it in the original Mandarin.