Once upon a time, in a distant age, during the ancient days, when Adam toiled the earth and his wife spun sylvan waters, when the mountainous man was adored by all and the first true lover who ever gazed upon his beloved with devoted eyes, and all lived in harmony with one another, Jarl van Hoother held his regal head high in his lofty abode, selfishly rejecting warmth.
Finnegans Wake
It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld, when Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts, when mulk mountynotty man was everybully and the first leal ribberrobber that ever had her ainway everybuddy to his lovesaking eyes and everybilly lived alove with everybiddy else, and Jarl van Hoother had his burnt head high up in his lamphouse, laying cold hands on himself.
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Thanks again for the valuable sharing: apart from a few short passages I had never faced reading such an obscure text⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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It should have been done ages ago, but all the currently available versions contain more footnotes than actual prose. Even after removing the foreign language idiosyncrasies and streamlining Joyce’s prose, the stream-of-consciousness concept of the novel makes that it is still a difficult read.
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I agree with you: also the stream of consciousness technique, if not perceived well, makes reading difficult.
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It’s a novel that grows in your mind and in the end, everyone walks away with his own interpretation of the text.
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👍🙏💐
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