@FW plot is surprisingly simple: a man runs a tavern and lives in a building with three stories. The bottom floor is the kitchen where the servants and cooks live. The middle is where Mr. Porter and his wife Anna live and the third floor is for the kids: Kevin, Jerry, and Isabel who has blue wall paper with stars (like my background)
&The fireplace connects all stories and is the conduit for any sound (the pipes squeal and whine and the faucets drip)
%During the day, Mr. Porter goes for a walk in the park and is approached by a young man who asks for the time (HCE and the Cad in the park)
#Traumarbeit - dream work
$The word and the sentence are the engineering building blocks of language and in FW they become the woid and the soundance "void and the sound dance"
!Electricity is what brought the recumbent figure of Finnegan back to life
*The language of cyberspace is hypertext (term cyberspace was coined by William Gibson in the novel Neuromancer)
@Ted Nelson named the giant database which was a potential link to all information Xanadu which was Citizen Kane's giant mansion that had everything in it
#Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John become Mama Lujo in FW
"Knowledge is an eroticized expression of the soul" -Plato
&The Earth of FW is a fallen giant. The groin area is Foenix park and the Willingdone museyroom
$Topsawyer - the person who saws on top
!Shem and Shaun become Cain and Abel/Jacob and Esau
@Low level materials become prime material in Finnegans Wake
#Eucharist is devouring the body of the god or eating that which was once alive
&The gnarleybird is the hen who gathers up the letter which has been torn apart
%Joyce composes his words and novel through root changing
$The Old Washer Woman is turned into trees and stones (tristram)
!Anna Livia remembers everything while HCE remembers nothing
*Anna Livia must wake the giant to once again begin the cycle
@Catholics believed you could say Father, Son, and Holy Ghost but the Orthodox believed that one must say by the father, through the son and the Holy Ghost because it eliminated that false belief that there are three deities instead of just one.
#Roratorio - different sounds overlapping
"It will remember itself from all sides"
"Upon this rock I found my church" Jesus talking to Peter (Peter means Rock)
@WATT is the name of one of the main characters in one of Beckett's plays. He works for Knott and is straing at a pot saying pot, pot but know knows that it's not a pot anymore. Something in his language slips
#Socrates asks for the meaning of a word. If you cover everyhting you can attain the meaning of a word but the meaning still escapes
&Wittgenstein published a book with seven points that supposedly solved the problem of meaning by delineating the limits of everything that is sayable. Anything that is outside of these limits people can't talk about
%But the more logical Watt becomes the more insane people think he is.
$The meaning of a word is its use - there is no essential meaning of a word. The idea of a meaning of a word parallels the idea of what a human being is - the soul.
!Putting words in dictionaries is like putting animals in the zoo. One is still taking the word out of context (animal out of its environment)
*As long as people believe in grammar, they will believe in God
