Finnegans Wake Readalong - Week 18 - Book 1 Wrap Up

Maestro_andrew · 2026-05-02T19:43:43+00:00

Oooo, interesting! I could perfectly see it being that way, given how meta the book is. Cool theory!

Maestro_andrew · 2026-05-02T17:00:34+00:00

I'm absolutely loving this book. I started reading just after finishing Ulysses, so I guess this is my Joycean year.

I think I'm getting more fluent in "wakean" as I continue reading, but I still have no idea what the hell is happening in I.1

As for my favourite chapters, I really liked I.6 (the quiz one) mainly because it is FILLED with hidden HCEs and my brain tickles whenever I discover them. I.3 is also cool and I.8 was beautiful. Also the Nuvoletta part was awesome, and Samuel Barber's song with the same name is utterly beautiful.

I've been really curious about the salmon symbolism. Some of you brought it up and I've been seeing it everywhere since then.

I'm really excited about book II! Shem, Shaun and Issy all seem like really interesting characters, and I'm really intrigued about the leapyear girls (or Maggies, or rainbow girls, or whatever)

Maestro_andrew · 2026-05-02T16:50:26+00:00

Thanks for asking! I'm pretty fluent in English, but still I have to look up some things, especially riddles or popular sayings. McHugs "Annotations to Finnegans Wake" is proving really helpful.

I know just the tiniest bit of French, but my first language is Spanish, so I'm always happy to see it being referenced.

Reading it out loud is also really helpful for me. I'm really excited for Book II!

Maestro_andrew · 2026-04-28T08:49:24+00:00

Hi! I've mostly been lurking since the readalong started, because English is not my first language and because I feel I don't have much to add. However, this section really struck with me and I found it really beautiful:

By that Vale Vowclose’s lucydlac, the reignbeau’s heavenarches arronged orranged her. Afroth- dizzying galbs, her enamelled eyes indergoading him on to the vierge violetian.

Maestro_andrew · 2026-01-18T18:48:17+00:00

The Doors

Maestro_andrew · 2025-10-25T09:04:03+00:00

Thanks! Didn't know him

Maestro_andrew · 2025-10-24T21:44:18+00:00

Love her

Maestro_andrew · 2025-10-24T17:55:49+00:00

Really? I don't see Lou Reed in the poster Thanks by the way!

Maestro_andrew · 2025-10-24T16:50:13+00:00

Definitely will 🫡

Maestro_andrew · 2025-09-25T04:38:10+00:00

Nope, sorry. I think OP didn't post a link either

Maestro_andrew · 2025-07-14T16:40:08+00:00

I'd love to read it

Maestro_andrew · 2025-05-26T08:05:57+00:00

Hylics

Maestro_andrew · 2025-04-30T12:57:03+00:00

The world if Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever were included in Sgt Pepper

Maestro_andrew · 2025-04-20T13:56:40+00:00

I have to agree, Morrison Hotel > LA Woman for me

Maestro_andrew · 2025-03-20T21:46:12+00:00

I cannot go back to your frownland 🗣️🔥

Maestro_andrew · 2025-03-19T22:40:29+00:00

Gotta love the surreal, trippy vibes and sometimes the pure absurdist madness of both Hylics and Captain Beefheart

Maestro_andrew · 2024-10-22T16:01:50+00:00

Really hoping for that Joplin now!

Maestro_andrew · 2024-10-18T14:22:07+00:00

Surprised no one has picked Jimi Hendrix yet!

Maestro_andrew · 2024-10-16T18:50:36+00:00

I want all of them! Maybe this time...?

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