Mastodawn

"James Joyce's notoriously complex masterpiece Finnegans Wake draws on an estimated 60 to 80 languages. Rather than writing in standard English, Joyce invented a unique, polyglot language to mimic the fragmented, shifting nature of a dream or the half-awakened mind...." #Drunk #LLM

Stephen Gutknecht 3d ago

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Insight into #JamesJoyce - #writer #Paris suffering when #Germany was raging in #MassDehumanization against the slightest difference in language, customs, gestures, rituals, thinking. #BoozeWriting the emotions of toxic #Dublin and toxic #Europe #HateWorship

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/16/bloomsday-a-history-of-dedication-and-heavy-drinking

Bloomsday: a history of dedication and heavy drinking

From the tribute of devoted fans to heavy sessions by Samuel Beckett and Flann O’Brien, the day of James Joyce’s Dublin epic has become a global phenomenon

The Guardian