Book I

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

 


Book II

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4


Book III

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

 


Book I

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

 


 

Book I

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

 

 

Not much of an explanation thisahere. Just a few wellchosen words, something quite ordinary.

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       Reading of Finnegans Wake doesn't have to be (and is not intended to be) "years upon years of delving in ditches dark". Although analysis, etymology, and meaning of words seems to be indispensable for understanding of Wake, luckily, there is another cant to the questy:

 

 

And here is the story re'furloined notepaper which represents the whole book, and which may be called:

 

 

    These glosses are some kind of anchor for focusing reader's attention on the text. Clicking of underlined word doesn't present all possible meanings of that word, it gives only a hint, possibility to see through the fog. Like in hologram picture, after few readings of the book, paysage will start to present itself, with gradual sharpening of its features. And after years upon years some peerer or peeress will detect that the fourleaved shamrock was more recurrent wherever the script was clear... 

 

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      Chapters from Book I (resolution 1024X768) are freshest as they are product of work in year 1999, and they contain many revisions, corrections and updates comparing to the chapters in resolution 800X600 (from 1996). 
      Chapters from Book II and Book III which are posted in small installments during previous months are an early versions from years 1996, 1997 and 1998 - final version is most likely heading to be a commercial one, with an appropriate explanation (" imagine the freedom of no more back pain...")

 


 

gloss:

    - a word inserted between the lines or in the margin as an explanatory equivalent of a foreign or otherwise difficult word in the text.

    - superficial lustre, a deceptive appearance, fair semblance, plausible pretext.

    - a layer of glowing matter

    Talcott Parsons' idea of glosses: A gloss is a total system of perception and language. For instance, this room is a gloss. We have lumped together a series of isolated perceptions--floor, ceiling, window, lights, rugs, etc.--to make a totality. But we had to be taught to put the world together in this way. A child reconnoiters the world with few preconceptions until he is taught to see things in a way that corresponds to the descriptions everybody agrees on. The world is an agreement. The system of glossing seems to be somewhat like walking. We have to learn to walk, but once we learn we are subject to the syntax of language and the mode of perception it contains... - C.C.

 

 

 

 

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