[ExI] Joyce

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:02 AM 1/30/2008 -0500, John K Philistine wrote:

>It was my understanding that the word "Wake" did not mean stop sleeping
>but referred to an Irish funeral. It was also my understanding that Joyce
>got the title from an old comic song in which Finnegan wakes up in the
>middle of his own wake, the song is called Finnegan's Wake. Yes it had
>an apostrophe.

Right; I thought this base-level of the pun was self-evident. As I 
said earlier, Joyce's method in this most difficult and complex of 
all written artworks often used puns and analogies and overlays and 
collages, linguistic and imagistic bricolage (repurposing) of the 
insight-kindling sort our mutual hero Doug Hofstadter delights in.

>If I am correct about that (and believe it or not I have
>been known to be wrong) then my third grade English teacher would
>still give Mr. Joyce an F for a title like that.

Do you really wish to judge all written art by the standards of the 
third grade? Or the sixth and seventh, in the case of Harry Potter?

Damien Broderick