Re: An example of interferring with someone else's rituals

From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_...>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 05:35:15 -0000

> Well, if you're both a literary scholar and an
> egyptologist, you might be able to get a little of
> it... "to pull a Horuscoup when Oldsire is dead..."

Sure, but you also need to know obscure references like the cyclical history of Giambattista Vico just to get through the opening: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." Not to mention a fair knowledge of the Late Roman Empire for passages like: "What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh!"

You need a guide to read Finnegans Wake and a "narrative map" to make sense of the Hero Plane.

Jeff