[ExI] outing myself

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat

Subject: Re: [ExI] outing myself

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> To Dave and Dan and whoever:  it was a sendup, a parody, a satire -
overstating indeed!  Sorry if you are miffed.
>
> We're cool. I was just a bit surprised.

>...We're cool too. (I mean Bill W and I. No conflict with you, Dave.:) No
need to worry about me being thin-skinned.

>...Regards,  Dan
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The joke's on me!  I totally fell for it, and I am still down there: I agree
with the literal commentary of BillW's parody.  I really do think Finnegan's
Wake is a literary joke.  It's a novel-length version of Jabberwocky, but
far less clever and less meaningful that Lewis Carroll's popular poetic
wordspew.  Joyce played a big practical joke on the literature professor
class, and the silly goofs took the bait.

The above isn't satire or parody, or even self-effacing humor (ja I know, I
do stuff like that all the time (but not this time.))  I really am calling
bullshit on James Joyce.  I am really claiming that book is almost entirely
meaningless, and if literature professors wish for me to slog thru it to try
to find meaning, I will cheerfully wordspew back to them that Finnegan's
Wake is a brilliant vision of the future where confusion mingles with hope
for uploading into a silicon-based simulated existence, cleverly disguised
as utter nonsense.

spike