Last night on the radio, a recording of ex-Crowded House Neil Finn in interview mode prompted an interesting comment about music-making. Finn said that you occasionally have to go through hours and hours upon ages of working through a huge body of material in order for the most naturally simple song or piece of music to emerge. That is how he and brother Tim came out of many hours of playing with the foundation chords and melodies for "weather with you".
Tim Finns are clearly partyng in my subconscious: or my "subnesciousness", as Glugg experiences on p177 of the 2010 edition of Finnegans Wake. After ages of Finning around and starting work on my thesis, something juicily obvious emerges from Campbell's famous "Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake". On page 121 Campbell interprets the children's games chapter, and explains that Glugg sweaths a Dedalus-like oath to Silence, Exile and Cunning. Seeing the three words thus reprised in a Finn context makes you reread with Finn-wise eyes. I'm asking, suddenly, if the names HCE doesn't harken humorously somehow to the SEC of Stephen Dedalus's mantra.
It's that, and it's also just a result of basic overdosing on anything Joycean.
Tim Finns are clearly partyng in my subconscious: or my "subnesciousness", as Glugg experiences on p177 of the 2010 edition of Finnegans Wake. After ages of Finning around and starting work on my thesis, something juicily obvious emerges from Campbell's famous "Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake". On page 121 Campbell interprets the children's games chapter, and explains that Glugg sweaths a Dedalus-like oath to Silence, Exile and Cunning. Seeing the three words thus reprised in a Finn context makes you reread with Finn-wise eyes. I'm asking, suddenly, if the names HCE doesn't harken humorously somehow to the SEC of Stephen Dedalus's mantra.
It's that, and it's also just a result of basic overdosing on anything Joycean.
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