yes, this is a big reason I followed you. it's infectious to see you talk about godzilla.

this really gets to me. twitter is.. awful with it. but facebook was, probably still is, too. you'd think republicans don't even exist.

(I just think it's *really* well-crafted! worthy of study for aesthetic value alone. and those who know a lot about specific periods of history-- not me!-- who study the book tend to find it a great springboard for making sense of history.)

I definitely don't think the book has an easy explanation, is the thing. each individual word, or a sentence, has several explanations, and the whole book is a strange interplay of tons of that. I don't think the book holds true enlightenment or anything; it is art for art's sake and proud of it.

I've read the Wake in full only a few times in ten years, though I regularly reread select chapters and love reading the scholarship-- there's a wealth of it on the internet.
Tangerine Dream also made an album about it!
and I love this guy's illustrations:
www.wakeinprogress.com

I'm disposed to believe the Ellmann biography when it describes Joyce as being pretty serious about the Wake, and getting downright hurt when people assume he was having a joke or writing nonsense. The book has a lot of structure and meaning to it, it's just.. buried in the past. It's like poetry.

amtsadam, sir, to you. <3