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SUMMARY:Sunday Afternoon Talks: FINNEGAN'S WAKE
DESCRIPTION:In preparation for St. Patrick's Day guest speaker John 
 O'Connor will discuss James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake".  He has been giving 
 lectures on this book for about twenty-five years and finds it edifying\, 
 inspiring and profound and at times frustrating.  John has a B.A. from 
 Bucknell University in English literature.  He explains\, "Some say 
 philosophy is discovering what isn't in the Wake.  But as Joyce liked to 
 say in risu veritas - in laughter there is truth.  Basically the Wake is 
 world history in the abstract written in puns and at least sixty-six 
 different languages.  I have deciphered some of it and I like to share what 
 I've found with others."\n\n     The Wake is loosely based on the 
 Irish-American song "Finnegans Wake" about a hod carrier who one day\, 
 drunk from liquor\, falls off his ladder.  His fellows\, thinking he is 
 dead\, throw a wake for him.  During the wake a fight breaks out in which 
 some liquor pours out onto the displayed body of Finnegan.  The alcohol 
 wakes him and he cries - "Damn your souls did you think me dead?!"  In this 
 case Finnegan is the actual Irish hero Finn MacCool who passes about 200 
 years before the coming of St. Patrick.  The fight at the Wake is actual 
 world history as it ensues not only after the death of Finn but also 
 includes ancient times as well.  As Finn wakes this volupkabulary (Joyce\, 
 419.12) is how he makes sense of the world.  The Wake is based a little bit 
 on typtology or the theory of spirit-tapping as well as on the Greek notion 
 that if your name is spoken you shall never die.  "Ho\, talk save us!" 
 (Joyce\, 215.34)\n\n     John will be doing an exegesis on a part of Book 
 II chapter II of the volume.  It is called the Study hour in which the 
 twins Shem and Sean the sons of Finn\, who have inherited bits of their 
 father but are neither quite the genuine article\, learn of the great 
 mysteries that have engaged man from the beginning: The Philosopher Stone\, 
 Woman\, Virtue\, Political Progress\, The Stars\, Reincarnation\, 
 Mathematics\, etc.\n\n                                                      
                               FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
LOCATION:Lovell Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Webmaster Stratford Library":MAILTO:webmaster@stratfordlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adults
CONTACT;CN="Webmaster Stratford Library":MAILTO:webmaster@stratfordlibrary.org
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