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As an illustrating example, a few years back I read Robert Anton Wilson's essay that put Finnegans Wake in a Taoist sort of perspective (and as well the "Prometheus Rising" references). In those days, it made sense. I mean, it would fit perfect like a glove. Not only the "quantum cubist" and taoist angle, wich as also beautifuly nice, but it was something beyond that that made more sense wich would also include the quantum approach. And recently I went back for some more Joyce (Ulysses and FW) and it wouldn't read like that anymore. I don't know... Some mojo got stripped away.
I remember the themes, concepts and paths that would come along as I read them, but mostly I remember because I would vaguely write some of them down and I've been reading these old annotations. But something is lacking, some puzzle piece that could make it all come back as a coherent all and a fluid reading along those lines.
The themes I'd vaguely written down:
Body talk, metatextual applied to mysticism (kinda like GM does), hero's journey, qabalah, narrative, language, Les mysteries, story and myth as "goin' down and under" and the thing in between all of them, some conscience of archetypal images and proto-myth-story-structure, and man's relationship to them from all around history and contexts (from cavemen and their gods, going through medieval journeys until storytelling of nowadays). A conscience of some mercurial plasma made of language and infinite possibilities, fire stoled from the gods but somehow with an humility to resituate in a paradoxical human-only sphere and senses (and body!) that was priceless. There was for me a feeling in Ulysses as in, if you have read this one you've read all of them. And the only logical next step would be Finnegans Wake. I mean, I couldn't understand how this irish common man would be so shamanistic-like, but there it was.
I... I... Could anybody help me? I really don't know how. Maybe with text passages, a specific angle for to look at, rhythym or links, I don't know. Quite frankly, this is the only place with intelligent people where I can see to look for help.
There was more. And I know there's a lot more than I perceveid, so don't hold back on anything you could bring to the discussion. Maybe even spawn other discussions as well, who knows...
PS: I'm suprised with the fact that this forum doesn't have millions of Joyce's topics. There's so much Morrisonians aspects in his works (as I vaguely remember...). |
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