Saturday, August 27, 2016

Finnegans Wake and Crayons

   
   "Finnegans Wake and Crayons"
   
   Mr. James Joyce, the literary master of the 20th Century, sweetly surmised the only arms used by a bard are:  silence, exile, and cunning.  So near to being blind at times, like unto Milton and Homer, he had to write much of Finnegans Wake in bright, brilliant crayon.
   No apostrophe was used in the title, possibly, because this would mean Finnegan is an individual, and that he is dead (hence his wake).
   I fondly fancy his words in the book:  "First we feel.  Then we fall."
   Joyce might further say:  "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
   Mr. James Joyce died due to a perforated ulcer, as goes the illusion-like biology of it all.