In 2012, he devised a program to do just that. A quarter of a century later, he was drawn back to the novel because of an event celebrating the work of John Cage and the realization that no one in the world was memorizing the whole book. By 1987, he began performing the first chapter for guests at his apartment (he lived in San Diego at the time). At this point, around 1984, he decided to memorize the first chapter.

Once Kosaly-Meyer mastered that word-which is ugly to the eyes but sounds beautiful when it flows from his mouth-he began to wonder if that's the way he should approach the whole book, not as a reader but as a musician. 2014 Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, The Folio Society 2017 Ulysses, by James Joyce, The Folio Society 2020 Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion, English translation by Stewart Spencer, The Folio Society Books edit 1972, The Giant Jam Sandwich, set to verse by Janet Burroway, Jonathan Cape. If You've Read Finnegan's Wake When studying Joyce, it helps to take a philosophical approach By Susan Carini 04G Inscrutable Brilliance: Frontispiece by John Vernon Lord for Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, published by the Folio Society in 2014. I memorize the word sound by sound: bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk.' How do you read a 100-letter word, he wondered? 'But I'm in music school at the time, practicing the piano every day, and I realize the only way to read a 100-letter word is to practice it like I practice the piano. As to production value, both books are outstanding examples of Folio's edition both in binding and illustration. Abbey Pure has a slightly more shiny look. He was stopped by a 100-letter word in the middle of the first page. Finnegans Wake is indeed printed on Abbey Wove. At 25, he picked up Finnegans Wake and tried to read it.

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