Oh, yes, and I should be familiar with the James Joyce bio as well.Īnd should I accomplish all that, even then, my Senior’s vintage memory will let me down… I was quite miffed to read in Campbell’s A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake, Unlocking James Joyce’s Masterwork that:Įvery reader of Ulysses will recall the ‘thirty-two feet per second, per second. Tindall in A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake says FW is tough if you only have one language (like he does) because the text is liberally sprinkled with Latin, French, German, Italian, Gaelic and Danish, plus ‘a little’ Russian, Czech, Finnish and Hebrew. Already I know that to do that I would need to take a course in Irish history, locate and read and internalise a Roman Catholic Mass missal, and learn half a dozen more languages than I’ve already toyed with. It’s daft, too, because there’s no way anyone can ‘complete’ Finnegans Wake. It’s quite extraordinary, the sense of triumph I feel at having completed Chapter One of Finnegans Wake.
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