Hi Max, I've 'used' Finnegans Wake but never read it in its entirety. My father did, over a long period of time, along with a book that was a commentary or decoding. An enormous amount of work was done on the book; I've never been up to that, focusing instead on my own stuff; they seem mutually exclusionary. Perhaps you might decode your decoding, for example the eternal question of the bridge - why is this of concern to you? I remember taking a year of Chaucer in college, and what it meant to fall into that. But more to the point I had a year of Blake with S. Foster Damon, one of the world experts on the poet at the time. We literally waited impatiently to see what he would say about Tiger Tiger Burning Bright; Damon came into the classroom and said "I have no idea what this means" and went on to the other poems. In some ways it was a bypass; in some ways it was Zen. His reply fascinated me. -
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