Andrew ShieldsMar 4
“Hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm” (“Finnegans Wake”, 133.24): A mantra for an evening, a possible phrase for a T-shirt. #111Words #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #FinnegansWakeReadingGroup #Basel #Tiedyes #TShirts #Mantras #Hallucination #Cauchemar #Cauchman #Ectoplasm #Visions #HCE #HumphreyChimpdenEarwicker #UlrichBlumenbach https://111-words.ghost.io/hallucination-cauchman-ectoplasm-finnegans-wake-133-24-a-mantra-for-an-evening-a-possible-phrase-for-a-t-shirt/
“Hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm” (“Finnegans Wake”, 133.24): A mantra for an evening, a possible phrase for a T-shirt

At tonight's meeting of the Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel, we came across one of the many triplets based on the initials of the novel's main character, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker: "hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm" (133.24). Last year, I made two tie-dye T-shirts with expressions from the Wake on them

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Andrew ShieldsOct 22
“One peculiar sore point in the past” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939). #111Words #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #FinnegansWakeReadingGroup #Basel #SorePoint #Birth #AdamAndEve #OriginalSin #Dubin #PhoenixPark #Trauma https://111-words.ghost.io/one-peculiar-sore-point-in-the-past-in-james-joyces-finnegans-wake-1939/
“One peculiar sore point in the past” in James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939)

At the Finnegan's Wake reading group in Basel this evening, we discussed a phrase that is unusually simple for James Joyce's 1939 novel: "return to one peculiar sore point in the past". First, we saw this "sore point" as birth, but later, one participant suggested seeing it as Adam and

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Andrew ShieldsOct 9
Definitely not “an ideal insomnia” (Finnegans Wake 120.14). #111Words #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #FinnegansWakeReadingGroup #Basel #Teaching #Insomnia https://111-words.ghost.io/definitely-not-an-ideal-insomnia-finnegans-wake-120-14/
Definitely not “an ideal insomnia” (Finnegans Wake 120.14)

At last night's session of the Basel Finnegans Wake Reading Group, we arrived at a phrase about the reader of James Joyce's 1939 novel, "that ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia." When I got back home later, I was tired after a long day, so I decided to get

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Andrew ShieldsNov 27, 2024
“And so they went on […] keen for the worry”: An evening with the Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel. #111Words #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake #FinnegansWakeReadingGroup #Literature #CloseReading https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/and-so-they-went-on-keen-for-worry.html
“And so they went on […] keen for the worry”: An evening with the Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel

At our Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel this evening, we took up where we had left off last time: "And so they went on, the fourbottle ...