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. . . What tongues had they tales to tell?

The misfired misquotation, referring us to yet another source but never getting it right, prepares us for the complete breakdown of any system of synchronization. The "filthy eye of flesh," digesting its "pittance,"



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ing" for the "staring eye" to see here than "the chair in its solitude": her and her rags of sky and earth. . . .

The Drama in the Text, Beckett's Late Fiction pg.128/130

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I like books on beckett. (DIGRESSION:: But better than books on Beckett may be books on Finnegans Wake -- I was thinking an incy-wincey bit about david lynch films, after viewing eraserhead and mulholland drive, both for the umpteenth time, and finding myself finally with an ounce or so of non-plusedness -- perhaps, I thought, the Lynchian film is too susceptible to freudian-based explanations/interpretations, and the films are exhausted at the (quite quick)end of this sort of appraisal (INLAND EMPIRE may be not so susceptible, except:) -- it may be that films are inescapably freudian, being visual (and when they reckon with dreams . . . &tc), but another problem may be that everything I have ever seen of a university film studies course is hitchcock and freud stuff right away as though it is a given -- and I suppose jungian archetypes are there too (the hero's journey, &tc) -- I dislike these thing a bit because the freudian-or-whatever persepctive seems to be taken as a given into which the film is fitted and, as it were, "solved" (in so much as the basis of the theory is "an interpretation") (INLAND EMPIRE is not available to this sort of thing, so it is not all films -- another stoic core-preserving film: Bergman's The Silence maybe? Tarkovsky's Stalker?)

And I thought that many books do not suffer the same routine in their analysis, the approach is more varied. There are Freudian and Jungian and Lacanian &tc discussions of Beckett's Trilogy, for example, but they never seem to finish something, they always sort of get confused at the end. Perhaps words have a prevailing ambiguity, compared to visuals.

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Favourite books about Finnegans Wake:

A Tour of the Darkling Plain - letters between Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen (no wiki or anything for her?) before any industry was built up around "wake scholarship" -- like an olden day LOST forum

On the Void of to be: Incoherence and Trope In Finnegans Wake -- this is not necessarily a good book, I don't really know yet, but I found it funny that for the first month as an owner of it, I thought the title was "on the void to be", and after discovering the correct title (by reading the cover without the word popping away) I found the "of" weird and annoying but now I am very fond of it.

The role of thunder in Finnegans Wake, specifically about the ten thunder words, by Eric McLuhan, son of Marshall
-- substantially available on/in googlebooks --? --(it turns out not (substantially not). damn the tantilising google books!)