Chabon on Finnegans Wake

This is such a terrific piece of writing. I just wanted to share it with the writers. Michael Chabon on James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. It is so worth a read. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jul/12/what-make-finnegans-wake/?pagination=false

Nice... a trip from Howth Castle to Vico Road will take you full circle (as far as land goes) around Dublin Bay and the mouth of the Liffey. Vico was the historian who gave us the circular view of history. "By a commodious vicus of recirculation," then takes us back to HCE, and begins the whole circle of history over and over again ina nightdream(with a whole lot of other allusions and connotations floating updownsideways simutltumultuously) There's funferall within; just be watchin' yer step atopthe tallwalls...
 
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