A LENS FOR THE WAKE.

Stephen Dilks provides insight into Beckett’s career and relationship with Joyce through a detailed exagmination of this short passage from Finnegans Wake:

…the farther back we manage to wiggle the more we need the loan of a lens to see as much as the hen saw. Tip. You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy? You says: It is a puling sample jungle of woods. You most shouts out: Bethicket me for a stump of a beech if I have the poultriest notions what the farest he all means. Gee up, girly! The quad gospellers may own the targum but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne.

(Via wood s lot.)

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