The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoord-enenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. Rot a peck of pa’s malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe totauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all’s fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. 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. The beauty of Finnegans Wake is the extraordinary way that Joyce stays afloat, producing a unique masterpiece of levity and poetry.What follows is an excerpt from Finnegans Wake (Book 1 Chapter one) At the centre is a Dublin family in a story which loosely parallels Sophocles’ Oedipus, playing out the internal world of the ‘replacement child’ who fears he was responsible for the siblings' deaths. Joyce's love affair with language has him playfully crafting his own elaborate Book of Kells, in which punning and parody distract from the grief which underlies the work. Placing Finnegans Wake in a timeless dream world gave Joyce space, but within a carefully boundaried structure. Orshould they, like Joyce, go into exile? The author describes the fearsthat plagued Joyce and how a proleptic imagination, and his phenomenal memory, gave him a sense of control. This can create lasting guilt and confusion in the surviving child: do they have the right to an existence of their own. Asensitive, bright and impressionable child, he had much to contend with, including being a ‘replacement child’, born into his parents’ grief at losing other children. The author considers James Joyce's immersion in Finnegans Wake as his way of controlling his imagination and holding together emotionally.
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