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Originally Posted by Silent Dan Speaks
Finnegans Wake on the other hand, that book just intimidates me far too much. I'm not sure I'll ever read it.
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If you ever try "Finnegans Wake" (it's worth the effort I think, although I haven't touched the book in some time now) the best guides are "Our Exagmination round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress" by the likes of Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams and some others (twelve), and the ideal guide is "A Skeleton Key for Finnegans Wake" by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson (mostly Joseph Campbell's ideas though.)
I began reading it just because of the challenge, and then I began enjoying the task. You never finish it though. If you want to say, "OK, I did it," that's practically impossible. But it's an entertaining enterprise, if you take it calmly...