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Posted by Allen770 on October 30, 2004, at 8:07:30
Especially, _Finnegans Wake_?!!?
--Allen
Posted by Dr. Bob on October 30, 2004, at 23:27:31
In reply to Any James Joyce fans?, posted by Allen770 on October 30, 2004, at 8:07:30
> _Finnegans Wake_
I'd just like to plug the double double quotes feature at this site:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#amazon
The first time anyone refers to a book, movie, or music without using this option, I post this to try to make sure he or she at least knows about it. It's just an option, though, and doesn't *have* to be used. If people *choose* not to use it, I'd be interested why not, but I'd like that redirected to Psycho-Babble Administration:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020918/msgs/7717.html
Thanks!
Bob
Posted by alexandra_k on October 31, 2004, at 10:14:58
In reply to Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans?, posted by Allen770 on October 30, 2004, at 8:12:59
I liked Dubliners, but I think that is all I have read of Joyce. Is Finnegans Wake the notoriously hard to read one? I know he wrote something that was notoriously hard to read, and so I tried to read it because I can be peverse like that :-)
Didn't get past the second page...
My favourite playwrite is Sam Beckett. Especially Happy Days. I was trying to get hold of End Game, but haven't been able to..
Posted by vwoolf on October 31, 2004, at 10:14:59
In reply to Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans?, posted by Allen770 on October 30, 2004, at 8:12:59
I love "Portrait of the Artist", and Yeats is one of my favorites. And believe it or not I have just finished Proust's Recherche (probably the only person I know who has).
But right now I'm swooning over Sons and Lovers. I wish I could write like that.
Posted by Allen770 on November 1, 2004, at 15:49:17
In reply to Re: Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans? » Allen770, posted by alexandra_k on October 30, 2004, at 23:58:44
Is Finnegans Wake the notoriously hard to read one?
(A) Yes; as _Ulysses_ is called a "day book," _FW_ is the "night book . . ."
My favourite playwrite is Sam Beckett. Especially Happy Days. I was trying to get hold of End Game . . .
(A) I like him, too! (I played HAMM in _Endgame_ as an undergrad at Kent State Univ.)
I saw several proformances of several of his later works (the only title I remember is "Happy," and that's the one w/the "Big Mouth"--I think!) in Dublin, Ireland, 1996.
Posted by alexandra_k on November 4, 2004, at 19:20:22
In reply to Re: Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans? » alexandra_k, posted by Allen770 on November 1, 2004, at 15:49:17
Is that "Happy Days"? That one is my favourite :-) I haven't seen any of his plays performed, but like theatre of the absurd stuff.
Posted by alexandra_k on November 4, 2004, at 19:21:03
In reply to Re: Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans? » Allen770, posted by alexandra_k on November 4, 2004, at 19:20:22
Posted by Allen770 on November 7, 2004, at 19:32:12
In reply to Re: Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans? » Allen770, posted by alexandra_k on November 4, 2004, at 19:20:22
> Is that "Happy Days"? That one is my favorite :-) I haven't seen any of his plays performed, but like theatre of the absurd stuff.
(Allen) Actually, it's "this" one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802130763/drbobsvirte00-20
to the play (in Two Acts) "Happy Days" and here's a url for a Beckett DVD set (which includes the play, as well--I just might order that, too, altho I have an old video cassette tape that a friend dubbed for me, a decade ago!) and I'm sure you could find a lot more.
http://www.playsondvd.com/pierogmodern.htm
BTW? "Happy Days" is NOT, as I "wrongly remembered," the "play" w/the Big Mouth; in fact, I'm not even sure if the one I was thinking of is even a play, at all, but a short film/video, as Beckett was very much "into" in his later years.
(((Off topic: I just found this "cool banner" on another site the other day displaying--a la Mount Rushmore! <== just kidding--w/the busts of Sammy Beckett, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and G.B. Shaw, and I remembered that Ireland, a country about the same size as INDIANA, has had more Nobel Prize winners for Literature than ANY OTHER COUNTRY on the planet . . . It must be in the water; or? The Guinness.)))
Slan leat,
--Allen
Posted by alexandra_k on November 9, 2004, at 23:39:40
In reply to Re: Any James Joyce (or Irish lit//W.B. Yeats) fans?, posted by Allen770 on November 7, 2004, at 19:32:12
This is the end of the thread.
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