1. There is another
ruckus over James Joyce. Denis O’Hanlon of Strawberry Beds, Dublin is suing
two other Joyce scholars and the Belgian publisher Brepols, claiming that their
four-volume set
James Joyce: The Finnegans Wake Notebooks
used his exegesis of the 50-odd surviving notebooks in which Joyce wrote random-seeming
words while working on Finnegans Wake.
Mr HC
Earwicker was unavailable for comment, but I found this amazing website
which attempts to explain all the strange words
in Finnegans Wake. That famous
first sentence:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.has 10 explanatory notes. Also this, the Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury. Mad, but in a good way.
2. Here is a sneaky
preview of David Bowie’s new book, Bowie:
Object. It may not survive long online – theft, copyright, lawyers, that sort of
thing – so read it while you can. Money quote:
My fading memories of those sessions are dominated by images of Eno hunched over the keyboard turning dials by imperceptible fractions, as amazed and delighted by the sonic textures he was producing as were Tony V[isconti] and myself.
“Do you know it has a logarithmic one volt-per-octave pitch control and a separate pulse-triggering signal?” said Eno, breathlessly.
I said, “Brian, if you hum it, I’ll sing it.”
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