Can you offer any interpretations of page 118 from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake?

Question

Seriously, just this one page.

the page begins:
"the whole, the meaning of every word of a phrase," and ends "the hidmost coigning of the"

If you type "finnegans wake page 118" in any search engine this pagwe will appear.

Answer 1

Yes, vote for John B.

Answer 2

I left my only copy at my mothers house... (and I agree with the above statement as well)

When I get it, If the question is still here and open... I will come back and help you as I do not have it committed to memory... Yet!

I'm working on it... but simply not that good to date.

Maybe post the page if you can?


"it is not a miseffectual
whyacinthinous riot of blots and blurs and bars and balls and hoops
and wriggles and juxtaposed jottings linked by spurts of speed:
it only looks as like it as damn it!."

Here is your answer...


Sometimes I try and read Wake with a brogue... It helps sometimes to read it in character.

Sometimes I take it for what it is... In this case especially agree that here Joyce is a stream of consciousness writer... Where as in other novels it is much less prevalent. There are also books you can take out of the library and or buy that help with the made up words and the actual language accents and Irish/Italian/german/Latin... and whatever else he spoke translations... Sometimes certain words are a mixture of all of the above.

My favorite is;

contramagificant-
jewbangtangtiality. From Ulysses.

Which Joseph campbell broke down to a very elaborate description of a spiritual journey through Christianity, judiasim and philosophy...

I always consult Campbell for anything I do not understand of Joyce's mind.

Thanks for that information... I never could find this book online page for page.

Thanks so much!

Answer 3

I'd love to, but since the copy I have in front of me probably doesn't match your edition, it won't be helpful at all. What part of the novel are you at and what is happening ... it'll help me find the right page