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I had a very vivid dream last night where I learned that James Joyce invented the skateboard, first using the term in Finnegans Wake. I have been googling terms like "Joyce + skateboard" all morning. Results: No. James Joyce did not invent the skateboard.

James Joyce continues to pop up in new issues of Harley Quinn comics as an over-sexed weirdo. I'm here for it, even if the result is slightly off-putting.

At the end of Joyce's Finnegans Wake chapter 3, the text morphs into a movie theater scene, ending with "To be continued" and a mock production company:

Federals' Uniteds' Transports' Unions' for Exultations' of Triumphants' Ecstasies.

It's an acrostic — FUTUE TE — Latin for "fuck you". 🫶

No. No to all of this.

This is peak "Finnegans Wake" IRL. Read from the beginning — it’s all here: looping cycles, abrupt shifts, mangled language, pure madness. The veil is thinner than we think.
Incredible. No notes. From a 1979 Peterborough Standard. #tremony #jamesjoyce #joyce #finneganswake

Finnegans Wake has ten 100-letter "thunder words" — the last is 101. They're the voice of God, crashing in like a thunderclap. Most mix “thunder” in different languages, but the fourth, set in a scandalous trial, swaps stormy roots for filth — a different clap, if you catch my drift. #finneganswake

Here's @davidlasky.bsky.social Boom Boom Comics #2. From the end of Ulysses' Cyclops episode, the cover is a perfect tribute to Jack Kirby — it dropped the year Kirby passed. Lasky’s a living legend in indie comics and a Joyce fan: www.laskycomics.com/graphicdesign

#jamesjoyce #davidlasky #ulysses

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I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.

Get yourself someone who writes you letters with the passion of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. *pulls at collar* Yowzer! Happy Valentine’s Day!

New research to show Joyce wasn’t just blowing smoke when it came to Finnegans Wake: A study analyzed punctuation patterns and found the Wake consistently followed a similar pattern to how our brains think and rivers flow.

🔗 phys.org/news/2024-08...

#JamesJoyce #Fractals #FinnegansWake

Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce were an unlikely duo — Hemingway admired Joyce’s intellect, and Joyce just thought Hemingway was a cool dude.

When Ulysses was banned in the US on obscenity charges, Hemingway famously ran a smuggling ring to illegally sneak in copies.

It’s James Joyce’s birthday. And two things I love is JJ and punk.

So, here’s a reading from Finnegans Wake with an original(!) score from the Minuteman himself, Mike Watt.