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Finnegans Wake’s geometry lesson
The literary sensation that spring of 1939 no doubt was the publication of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. On May 4th 1939 FW was published simultaneously by Faber and Faber in London and by Viking Press in New York, after seventeen years of composition. In 1928-29, Joyce started publishing individual chapters from FW, then known…
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Lockdown reading : Bacon
In this series I’ll mention some books I found entertaining, stimulating or comforting during these Corona times. Read them at your own risk. In an attempt to raise the level of this series, I tried to get through the latest hype in high-brow literature: The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter. It’s an extremely…
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Lockdown reading : Centenal
In this series I’ll mention some books I found entertaining, stimulating or comforting during these Corona times. Read them at your own risk. The Centenal Cycle is a trilogy written by Malka Older. A Centenal is the basic political unit of a future micro-democracy. It is a neighbourhood consisting of 100.000 people which can vote…