Reddit reviews Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake (Volume 1) (Mark H Ingraham Prize)

I get glimpses of genius from the "Wake". which flatters me to thinking i am the genius, when actually it's Joyce.

the parts i don't understand were something i used to blame on Joyce, but came to realize it's me not being as smart as i thought i was (something everyone eventually learns to deal with).

THIS helped a great deal. it's one man's take on the Wake, and not definitive. but it sure makes a damn lot of sense.

Reed it at your leisure, bon voyage, avec les-yeux, sans visage.

O but mainly unterstand that what it is is what many say it isn't: a real and truly werked out story of the night.

It contrails many entrained trains of thought, but is ultrameantly a cohesive multi-storied single story comprising many ministories, each a storey of our Tower of Bauble.

Real-eyes that eachant effery word/wort/world May or mightn't half/have/halve/haft multi-tipple meanings/minings/linings/leanings, both in Anglish and in other languishes.

And read outside of it a little bit which's been writ about it, and it'll hint at the wit both in it, and the lit which other wits have written in their interpreting of it. viz: Book of the Dark and to wit: Skeleton Key To Finnegans Wake

Pluck it up, and put it down, as required. Shelf it while you muddle or re-read other books. Go back into it from the front, or back into it from the rear.

Be open.