Do not be cross with poetry

[Lizzie]

I just got my copy of Finnegan's Wake from the library this morning and here's the first bit of the introduction:

"There is no agreement as to what Finnegan's Wake is about, whether or not it is "about" anything, or even whether it is, in any ordinary sense of the word, 'readable.'"

Well, this should be an interesting 628 pages!

i predict either you give up after a few pages, or stubbornly, against your will, continue to the end. . . or really enjoy the strangeness of it all and read it with glee as it changes your very perception of what writing is, and what it can do. in any case, as Bob Dylan once said, good luck, i hope you make it.

what edition do you have?

So, basically your prediction will come true no matter what I do! Well played

I have to get somewhere with it because one of my best friends is from Northern Ireland and she's been after me for a while (about two months now) to start Ulysses. So, I feel like I have to make some kind of effort. I am, however, terrified that maybe I won't like something that everyone is saying is so brilliant. If I don't like it, what does that make me? I jest, but only partly.

Edition? I don't know. It's Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, does that help? It's light blue.

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Please don't start to draw blood you guys.

Nobody's the enemy here.

If everybody thought like you, the gracile Australopithecines would've never slaughtered their robust cousins and we'd still be snoozing by the fire, eating a balanced diet of protein and complex carbs, mating without a second thought, getting lots of exercise, and dying in the company of our loved ones. Progress would've never happened.

Mmmm, carbs, sex, and a warm, cozy bed.....yup, that's my utopia! Accurate.

Although, my utopia also includes Netflix and indoor plumbing.