A Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake (yes, that Joseph Campbell)
Finnegan’s Wake is a puzzle I am still trying to solve. Seems like it’s a lifetime’s work.
Interesting note: (maybe a spoiler? - but not really)
the last line - A way a lone a last a loved a long the -
completes the first line - 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.
That was the first thing I noticed when I opened the book and I have been hooked ever since.
Finnegan’s Wake is neck-and-neck with Gravity’s Rainbow as my “desert island” book.
