Beyond the sigla
I was going to post this as a comment on the sigla post
but the fall word was truncated
FW sometimes called the first hypertext novel
The word novel is dubious in this place other than as its original a new thing
It also has the quality that each fragment contains the whole.
Even though I really like it, I do like Ezra Pound's slur
nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp can possibly be worth all that circumambient peripherization
HCE and ALP are dad and mum
Sean and Shem are the fighting boys
Issy is the daughter
you can start reading it anywhere
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonn-
thunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!)
of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and lateron life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since devlinsfirst loved livvy.
Now you can say you have read the first twenty four lines
5 comments:
as I read this, I reminisced of Seamus Heaney and NASA's Deep Space Voyage to High Latitudes over the Solar Poles. Then I figured out why...
Wow!
I am impressed someone found this. I think I have readership of one
You probably have a higher readership but no-one can comment here unless they are beta bloggers. Perhaps you should change your settings to allow anonymous comments. Having Site Meter (after your suggestion) makes me realsie how many people look (often for some time) but don't comment. Interesting, isn't it? I've tried quite hard with some Hobart bloggers to get a dialogue going, but while I comment on their sites, they never comment back. Maybe it's their fear of cyberstalkers, or maybe they don't like what I say, but why bother blogging if you don't like dialogue - or is that just me?
"Prolix" is a term that was used in Catch 22. That is how I describe myself now. Before I had a blog of my own, I would rarely if ever comment. I think you start from the TV paradigm of just watching. Once I received comments from all over I was off to the races. Now I read avidly reports of Delhi Bloggers meetings.
FK I believe you just like a natter.
Speaking of Catch 22, Kim Beazley's latest brainwave reminds me of nothing so much as the 'Great Loyalty Oath Crusade" in Catch 22. where the need to sign loyalty oaths( a spoof of Macarthyism)
threatened to stop all meaningful work until Major ___ de Coverley, a man with so awesome a face noone had ever dared to ask his first name, swept an oath away that had been placed in front of him and the whole campaign dwindled to nothing.
nattering is very productive procrastination
re Big Kim - I'm sure the cartoon galleries will fill with comic representations of such institutions as the Friday Sickie and flexitime
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