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Originally Posted by kacir
What language is [Finnegans Wake] written in?
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It's not Middle Gibberish? Old Twaddle then, perhaps?
Apparently (I learned this while earning my Marital B.S. in Victorian Literature, i.e., listening to my wife talk about earing her Ph.D. in the same -- she actually managed to
read the deuced thing, and claimed to understand it, yet), it's supposed to make sense if you pay attention to the sounds of the ... letters (not to say words) and let them suggest actual words to you.
It should be noted, that the first part of the book reportedly takes place after the last part, as in, they tie right together chronologically.
Truly he must have been
mixing his laudanum.
