Comments for Finnegans Web & Wiki

Comment on Scholars, Students, Teachers and Addicts: Welcome Back! by Jonathan Lin

Jonathan Lin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:24:36 +0000

Hey All!
I love books and everything to do with them. I’ve never actually visited this site until now. While I was back in university, my prof talked about this site (as a group annotated version of Finnegans wake) so now, years after graduation, I’m following up on my promise to my dear teacher. I’m here to enjoy the words and hopefully to help out! I am a computer guy on the side, so I might be interested in finding out how to best use this great resource we have here.

Comment on Scholars, Students, Teachers and Addicts: Welcome Back! by Jonathan Bateman

Jonathan Bateman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:22:27 +0000

Hey,
A friend of mine wanted to read this book but she didn’t feel she had the fortitude to do it alone so we started a book club to pool our collective ideas as we read through it. We have plowed through the first two chapters and are currently working on the third. It is diffcult.

Comment on Scholars, Students, Teachers and Addicts: Welcome Back! by Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:11:20 +0000

I come to this site frequently and having even made a few revisions. It would be such a great tragedy if it were to go away. Keep up the good job. I’m a physics grad student that started reading FW about 4 years and just finnished reading all the words last year.

Comment on Scholars, Students, Teachers and Addicts: Welcome Back! by Kenneth Rosen

Kenneth Rosen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:28:43 +0000

Holy Crumb (the eponymous Robert and I were both born on August 30, and hail from adjoining Philadelphia neighborhoods, I think) where the hell are the comments. All three are me! But I find reading the Wake has gotten easier with age. You spend a lifetime transcending anxieties about meaning, meaningfulness, when its all a recirculus vicus and riverrun.

Comment on Scholars, Students, Teachers and Addicts: Welcome Back! by Kenneth Rosen

Kenneth Rosen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:37:37 +0000

AH! I am awaiting moderation. In Africa it is said that with an intensification of moderation, patience, one can cook an elephant in a part!

Comment on About by Kenneth Rosen

Kenneth Rosen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:31:00 +0000

I wish I knew more about these technologies–a URI, an RSS–but I am grateful for the existence of this site and will endeavor to share its presence with others.

Comment on Scholars, Students, Teachers and Addicts: Welcome Back! by Kenneth Rosen

Kenneth Rosen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:28:09 +0000

I am a retired professor, poet, aspiring novelist. All my life I have drawn inspiration and courage from the spirit of modernism Joyce represents. Twenty, maybe thirty years ago, I gave a paper roughly along the lines of FINNEGANS WAKE being the ignored elephant in the tent of modernist and contemporary literary studies. It was a tree that fell in the forest with a thundering crash heard only by the mouse that had chewed on the last miniscule rootlet holding it aloft, me! I discovered this site by Googling “mildew lisa,” in case I needed it in German for the first sentence of my novel, THE GOAT’S MIRROR, which I have been revising for the past several years, latest revision prompted by a lingering winter cold which for the last two weeks has kept me from the shed behind my house where I can build a fire in my woodstove and consider my opening gauntlet and other options, but the rose-tinted scales that brighten my assessment of my accomplishments deteriorate during a layoff like this–I’m a former long distance runner, the kind of fellow who used to believe that if he missed a day’s ten mile run, he’d fall out of shape and never recover (great fan of Stephen Dedalus running an oval for Simon’s stopwatch with his arms stiffly at his sides!)–and this anxiety, the need to return to the foul rag and boneshop where I’ve been farting around, as I say, for a year or more, has carried over to my noveleering. I am immensely gratified by your site, sat and listened to a fellow reading page one (technically page three) of the WAKE, and tingled in ecstasy, a mouse in blue cheese!

Comment on THREE YEARS!!! by Stephen Kullas

Stephen Kullas — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:47:46 +0000

I would just like to thank everyone/anyone who has contributed to this site. As a 17 year old High School student simply attempting to read this book on his own, these wikis have been invaluable. Thank you all!