OT: It's Not Finnegan's Wake

[David Handy <david -dot- handy -at- automsoft -dot- com>]

Ladies and gentlemen -- 
You have stirred am amateur Joycean from his slumbers. 
The book's title is Finnegans Wake. [No possessive apostrophe!]

And the book is not a giant prank. Or if it is, it writing it was a curious
way for a rich man to spend the last seventeen years of his life, weathering
discourgement from almost all his friends (who naturally found his drafts
unreadable) and often excruciatingly poor eyesight. 

You know the old story about someone asking a mountain climber why he
climbed Everest, and getting the response "because it's there"? I think
Joyce wrote Finnegans Wake simply because he could. It may be a heroic
failure. But not to have written it would have been a form of artistic
abdication. IMHO. 

dh, from dublin

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