Why I cannot (and will not) persist in my attempt to read FINNEGAN’S WAKE
Posted on June 26th, 2010
Here is a typical “sentence” from James Joyce”s Finnegan’s Wake:
“It is the circumconversioning of antelithual paganelles by a huggerknut cramwell energuman, or the caecodedition of an absquelitteris puttagonnianne to the herreraism of a cabotinesque exploser?”
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Muses, Madmen, and Prophets – A Review
Posted on May 14th, 2010
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets
by Daniel B.
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Review – Muses, Madmen and Prophets
Posted on February 4th, 2010
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucinations by Daniel B. Smith
The Penguin Press
ISBN 978-1-59420-110-3
Hardcover
Let’s begin with Socrates, Muhammad, William Blake, and Teresa of Ávila, just to name a few significant people from a potential list of millions.
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On the Reading of a Dictionary
Posted on January 5th, 2010
I’m about to embark on one of my strangest reading challenges: a dictionary. This, however, is not your ordinary dictionary. This is instead S. Foster Damon’s extraordinary 1965 publication (as revised in 1988), A BLAKE DICTIONARY: THE IDEAS AND SYMBOLS OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
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