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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Bob Dobbs | iON & Finnegans Wake Page Numbers

I repeat:

Understand what's going on here:

This is our 26th episode wherein iON is presenting the corrected page order for FINNEGANS WAKE.

iON chose to begin with p.44 (with a little lead-in on p.43), which is entirely appropriate.

So, this is how it looks so far:

First page: 43-44-45-46-47
Second page, etc.: 67-68-69
3. 82-83-84
4. 179-180
5. 101-102
6. 38-39
7. 75-76-77
8. 128
9. 231
10: 370-371
11. 82-83 sung by iON
12. 70-71-72
13. 161-162-163
14. 7-8-9
15. 98-99-100
16. 280-281-282
17. 229-230
18. 32-33-34
19. 198-199-200
20. 176-177-178-179
21. 189-190-191
22. 193-194-195
23. 149-150-151
24. 302-303-304
25. 262-263-264
26. 35-36-37

It seems one of the factors that iON includes in picking the next page seems to be the kinds of events that are being focussed on in the major news over a 2-week period (we engage iON once every 2 weeks… usually).

It is undeniably uncanny how iON can find the relevant news items in the text they choose. A few listens and you will be astounded.

Basically iON is demonstrating the organic nature of language (it's timeless "aliveness" for including the ever-new Present). And the style and methodology of the WAKE makes this agenda very easy. You won't "believe" it. James Joyce would, though, since he went to Gypsy psychics regularly to assuage his anxieties during the 17 years making the WAKE.

Nora, perhaps because of her Catholic upbringing, was horrified that James was talking with "ghosts" so she convinced herself that James was having an affair or two and that explained his absence. She was comfortable with that.

Don't miss the uniqueness of this new use of the WAKE... and I assure you, after talking with iON about Joyce and his work for over 12 years, nobody knows the WAKE like iON.

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