RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeM to Babel Tower@lemm.ee · 3 days agoDON'T PANIC, It's only Finnegans Wake climbing of Babel Tower. Page 3 of Irish author James Joyce's storybook, the opening page of Waking all the Finnegans, "Ordinary Men"pinwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down11
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDON'T PANIC, It's only Finnegans Wake climbing of Babel Tower. Page 3 of Irish author James Joyce's storybook, the opening page of Waking all the Finnegans, "Ordinary Men"pinwww.youtube.comRoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeM to Babel Tower@lemm.ee · 3 days agomessage-square2linkfedilink
minus-squareRoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeshieldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agothe opening page of Waking all the Finnegans, “Ordinary Men” Here Comes Everybody Pink Floyd “Us and Them” song lyrics: Us and them And after all We’re only ordinary men Me and you God only knows it’s not what We would choose to do In November 1923 Joyce expanded the “Here Comes Everybody” sketch into a full-scale, albeit episodic, narrative of a carnivalesque HCE and his possible sexual malfeasance … and the gradual, farcical destruction of his reputation by malicious slander … In “Here Comes Everybody” HCE acquires his agnomen and in the extension he loses it. This section forms … the “kernel draft” of chapters 2-4 in Book I of Finnegans Wake. (Crispi & Slote 13)
the opening page of Waking all the Finnegans, “Ordinary Men”
Here Comes Everybody
Pink Floyd “Us and Them” song lyrics:
Us and them
And after all
We’re only ordinary men
Me and you
God only knows it’s not what
We would choose to do
In November 1923 Joyce expanded the “Here Comes Everybody” sketch into a full-scale, albeit episodic, narrative of a carnivalesque HCE and his possible sexual malfeasance … and the gradual, farcical destruction of his reputation by malicious slander … In “Here Comes Everybody” HCE acquires his agnomen and in the extension he loses it. This section forms … the “kernel draft” of chapters 2-4 in Book I of Finnegans Wake. (Crispi & Slote 13)