Joyce's wakeful Ouroboros
The unfinished last sentence of Finnegans Wake loops into its first, joined together here (3 times). However, I didn't loop it around with the book's tail end in the mouth of its opening sentence, like the well known Ouroboros snake symbol.
I don't really read through with much progress in Finnegans Wake, but just dip into one part or another now and then to laugh at and puzzle over Joyce's many layered wordplay.
In another far easier, fragmented, collage like novel that I am reading straight through now -- Reader's Block (c1996, 193 p.) -- its author, David Markson, points out what should have been obvious to me long ago about Finnegans Wake, that there is no apostrophe, so in the title Finnegans is plural and Wake is a verb.
The edition that I most often read in is The Restored Finnegans Wake, edited and with a preface and afterward by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, which has the crazy cover shown here.
This collage was made mostly with the iPad apps TypeDrawing and Procreate.
Joyce's wakeful Ouroboros
The unfinished last sentence of Finnegans Wake loops into its first, joined together here (3 times). However, I didn't loop it around with the book's tail end in the mouth of its opening sentence, like the well known Ouroboros snake symbol.
I don't really read through with much progress in Finnegans Wake, but just dip into one part or another now and then to laugh at and puzzle over Joyce's many layered wordplay.
In another far easier, fragmented, collage like novel that I am reading straight through now -- Reader's Block (c1996, 193 p.) -- its author, David Markson, points out what should have been obvious to me long ago about Finnegans Wake, that there is no apostrophe, so in the title Finnegans is plural and Wake is a verb.
The edition that I most often read in is The Restored Finnegans Wake, edited and with a preface and afterward by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, which has the crazy cover shown here.
This collage was made mostly with the iPad apps TypeDrawing and Procreate.