The problem with PhD students these days is that they cannot work with incomplete information. They act like junior sophomore students. Then just study Evelyn Waugh.
Your non-sequitur threshold is pretty low for a James Joyce fan. I like to give some background and context to my thesis.
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Vladimir Nabokov, who had also admired Ulysses, described Finnegans Wake as "nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room [...] and only the infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations redeem it from utter insipidity."
yeah, sounds logical.
yeah, sounds logical.
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It has nothing to do with the book, but 'Finnegans Wake' was an Irish Pub in downtown Hamburg for a long, long time.
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Reeperbahn?It has nothing to do with the book, but 'Finnegans Wake' was an Irish Pub in downtown Hamburg for a long, long time.
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No, not on the ReeperbahnReeperbahn?It has nothing to do with the book, but 'Finnegans Wake' was an Irish Pub in downtown Hamburg for a long, long time.
. Börsenbrücke 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany. It's across the street from Hamburg's city hall.If you take a look on Google streets it's still being shown. The place closed sometime between 2010-2021.
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FW for the rest of ye.
With references to Ibsen, danes, norvegans and other scandinknavery.
Of course, AB wrote A Clockwork Orange.
1132 == Rising and falling (32 ft/sec/sec).
With references to Ibsen, danes, norvegans and other scandinknavery.
Of course, AB wrote A Clockwork Orange.
1132 == Rising and falling (32 ft/sec/sec).
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Relying on a complex etymology, Vico argues in the Scienza Nuova that civilization develops in a recurring cycle (ricorso) of three ages: the divine, the heroic, and the human. Each age exhibits distinct political and social features and can be characterized by master tropes or figures of language. The giganti of the divine age rely on metaphor to compare, and thus comprehend, human and natural phenomena. In the heroic age, metonymy and synecdoche support the development of feudal or monarchic institutions embodied by idealized figures. The final age is characterized by popular democracy and reflection via irony; in this epoch, the rise of rationality leads to barbarie della reflessione or barbarism of reflection, and civilization descends once more into the poetic era. Taken together, the recurring cycle of three ages – common to every nation – constitutes for Vico a storia ideale eterna or ideal eternal history. Therefore, it can be said that all history is the history of the rise and fall of civilizations, for which Vico provides evidence (up until, and including the Graeco-Roman historians).
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The Viconian cycle consists of three recurring phases: (1) the Theocratic or Divine Age of gods, represented in primitive society by the family life of the cave, to which the voice of God (thunder) has driven mankind; (2) the Aristocratic or Heroic Age of heroes, charactized by incessant conflict between the ruling patricians and their subject plebeians; (3) the Democratic Age of people, in which rank and privilege have finally been eradicated by the revolutions of the preceding age. These three ages are typified by the institutions of birth, marriage and burial respectively. In Vico, they are followed by a short period of chaos caused by the collapse of democratric society, which is inherently corrupt. Out of this chaos a new cycle in initiated by the ricorso, or "return", to the Theocratic Age. In FW, Joyce elevated the lacuna between successive cycles into a fourth age: the Chaotic Age. Vico's theory is applied to the image of the history of mankind as depicted in Earwicker's dream.
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Paul Lynch becomes fifth Irish writer to win Booker Prize with novel 'Prophet Song'
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1126/14185 ... -kilraine/
He has spoken about how the book, which describes an Ireland sliding into autocratic rule and violence, was inspired by the instability being witnessed around the world in recent years.
The book, which was the bookies' favourite, describes a divided country ruled by a right-wing nationalist government.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1126/14185 ... -kilraine/
He has spoken about how the book, which describes an Ireland sliding into autocratic rule and violence, was inspired by the instability being witnessed around the world in recent years.
The book, which was the bookies' favourite, describes a divided country ruled by a right-wing nationalist government.
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Shirley not; that only happens in countries like NL and IL.Paul Lynch becomes fifth Irish writer to win Booker Prize with novel 'Prophet Song'
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1126/14185 ... -kilraine/
He has spoken about how the book, which describes an Ireland sliding into autocratic rule and violence, was inspired by the instability being witnessed around the world in recent years.
The book, which was the bookies' favourite, describes a divided country ruled by a right-wing nationalist government.
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100th anniversary of the Montgomery Street ("the Monto") pogrom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monto
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. Yeats
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. Yeats