From "Finnegans Wake" (James Joyce)

No other lovers of James Joyce here? While I've never been able to get through Finnegans Wake, I have read Ulysses - twice, and now listen intermittently to an audio version. The audio version is very good, very cheap on Kindle. The dialogue, the Irish voices, make for easier comprehension, with the "stream of consciousness" passages read in a different tone. Being audible, I look forward to the passage where Leopold Bloom holds back a fart as a well groomed lady passes him by in the street. Eventually, the lady gone, he lets rip. Should make for interesting listening.

As Joyce once said when his book was facing censorship/banning:- "If Ulysses is unfit to read then life is unfit to live."

Another passage to look forward to is the long long long unpunctuated monologue of Leopold Bloom's wife Molly at the end of the book. Will that final "YES" be orgasmic?

It reminds me of the story John Lennon told of his first meeting with Yoko. At an art exhibition of her work, he saw a ladder in the middle of the floor. He climbed up, seeing a very tiny word written on the ceiling. Reaching the top, looking intently, he read :- "Yes". John said that had the word been "no" it would have been the end of the relationship.

Well, that's enough waffling.

Here is another:-

Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear