David found a YouTube video of James Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake. I don't count this as scholarship because it's the author. I can't figure out where he's reading from, but it seems crystal clear in comparison to reading it on the page. If I can find the page, I think this might be a real key. I have felt from the beginning that this is something that needs to be heard instead of just read.
Anyone know what part of the book this is from?
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This passage, read by Joyce, comes from page 213 (Part I, Episode 7)of Finnegan's Wake. It begins, "Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you
every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look,
look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root.
And my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at?
It saon is late. 'Tis endless now senne eye or erewone last saw
Waterhouse's clogh. They took it asunder, I hurd thum sigh.
When will they reassemble it? O, my back, my back, my bach!
I'd want to go to Aches-les-Pains. Pingpong! There's the Belle
for Sexaloitez! And Concepta de Send-us-pray! Pang!. . . etc."
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