Thomas Moore and Finnegans Wake
The names of all the original airs of all of Thomas Moores melodies are in FW. Moore arrived in Bermuda in 1804 and wrote of its beauty
Oh! could you view the scenery dear
That now beneath my window lies.
FW and the Book of Kells
James Joyce used many models for the development of Finnegans Wake, one of them is the book of Kells. You see in this particular section, the Tunc page both underlying structure and spirals of detail. This is the same for FW, which does have an underlying structure (I just havnt been able to find it just yet and many accretions of detail.
Riverrun
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs. Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to
tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in
vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe
Return to the Wake
After some time away from FW I have started weaving my way back into it again. Lets try again shall we? just wondering if there is anyone else in Bermuda that have an interest in this work of James Joyce written during the last 16 years of his life. If your out there (particulartly in BDA) let me know.
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