Anyone can make up an interpretation though. I find it funny when scholarly people make up convoluted, intellectual interpretations of text, or lyrics, or movies, “explaining” what they mean - only for the author to turn around and say it’s bollocks.
I could do a well-written 2000 word essay on...
As I say, I did try it myself but unreadable doesn’t really do that “novel” justice. Pretentious shite from a man who was going through a mental health crisis at the time post-Ulysses, and high on cocaine and morphine. It can’t be understood because it’s meaningless.
I grew to like Manford from his lockdown YouTube streams, specifically where he played the entirety of one of my favourite games “Broken Sword”. He’s quite witty and inoffensive.
However, I do wish he would stop popping up in my other big love than the Albion, musical theatre. He obviously...
I’m only going off what David Renwick wrote in Jonathan Creek :lol:
He has Jonathan asking Maddie “have you ever read Finnegans Wake?” and Maddie shakes her head, so he says paraphrased “nobody has, it’s practically unreadable. But everyone is always adding an apostrophe in, where Joyce...
“Finnegans Wake” (no apostrophe, by the way!) was mentioned once in a Jonathan Creek episode and described as practically unreadable. I took this as a challenge and sure enough, absolutely impossible.
Got about 30 pages in and bowed out with my tail between my legs.
I think I’m right in saying that dangerous criminals sent to psychiatric hospitals on average spend considerably longer in mental health facilities than they would’ve done in prison. Usually because rather than a fixed term of imprisonment, then early license/day release after a set period with...
£130 for Sunset Boulevard to see Glenn Close at the Coliseum
$250 for a gala performance of The Phantom of the Opera in Vegas
However much Glastonbury was, if that counts
About £500 for Michael Jackson “This is It” (refunded)
Meanwhile, there’s a whole bunch of stuff up on YouTube. Really enjoying this compilation:
And he’s quite good in an episode of The Bill as, what else, a talk radio presenter: