October 8, 2004
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Behush the Bush
James Joyce statue, Zurich“There’s where. First.
We pass through grass
behush the bush to.”
– Final page of
Finnegans Wake“… we all gain an appreciation of how each of us can
provide readings that others are blind to and how each of us is
temporarily blind to other feasible readings. Reading the text
becomes a communal act of discovery….
No
one has much to say, for now, about the grass reference….”– Reading Finnegans Wake (1986)
The phrase “snake in the grass” seems relevant, as does the opening of Finnegans Wake:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s….
Related material:
Serpent’s Tail Publishing,
and, for Matt Damon,
whose birthday is today –
