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Re: VN and Finnegan's Wake (fwd)
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From: John Foyster <foyster@senet.com.au>
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> From: Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
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> I wonder if anyone would care to make a case for or against the following:
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> "Finnegan's Wake is nothing but a
> >formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a
> >persistent snore in the next room, most aggravating to the insomniac I am.
> >Moreover, I always detested regional literature full of quaint old-timers
> >and imitated pronunciation. Finnegan's Wake's facade disguises a very
> >conventional and drab tenement house, and only the infrequent snatches of
> >heavenly intonations redeem it from utter insipidity. I know I am going to
> >be excommunicated for this pronouncement."
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> So much of the book is chess-problemish, I'm surprised VN didn't warm to
> the puzzle aspect of it.
>
> Walter Miale
Against. It's Finnegans.
John Foyster
Adelaide, South Australia
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> From: Walter Miale <wmiale@acbm.qc.ca>
>
> I wonder if anyone would care to make a case for or against the following:
>
> "Finnegan's Wake is nothing but a
> >formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a
> >persistent snore in the next room, most aggravating to the insomniac I am.
> >Moreover, I always detested regional literature full of quaint old-timers
> >and imitated pronunciation. Finnegan's Wake's facade disguises a very
> >conventional and drab tenement house, and only the infrequent snatches of
> >heavenly intonations redeem it from utter insipidity. I know I am going to
> >be excommunicated for this pronouncement."
>
> So much of the book is chess-problemish, I'm surprised VN didn't warm to
> the puzzle aspect of it.
>
> Walter Miale
Against. It's Finnegans.
John Foyster
Adelaide, South Australia