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Homework for Friday: Read 'The Dead' and pay attentions to the 'ohs' because the 'ah' is obvious. Blog how many diamonds you find. We need at least one diamond for everyone!

Looking at the poem, God's Grandeur by Hopkins it communicates something to the effect of the worlds changed with the grandeur of God. While reading this poem an image of God bent over the world, protecting it, or caring for it is evoked. (See an original sketch illustrating this on Lisa of the Little Legs' blog) Much like in The Wind in the Willows when Ratty and Mole see Pan holding the sleeping otter, Portly. Hopkins was a Jesuit priest, also had some issues, to put it nicely I suppose. Joyce had a Jesuit education. In Joyce's Ulysses Stephen Daedalus realizes everything has God in it in Ch. 3.

sublime - blend of terrible & positive

How did Joyce get from writing Dubliners to Finnegans Wake?

things are there in the everyday world, evolved out of epiphanies. Inevitability between Araby/The Dead linking to Finnegans Wake.

all human history is epiphanized - apply to all works of Joyce

Daylight language of Ulysses, with some nighttime language

Erin and Sam - furniture

So Erin found the Hero link where Joyce gets led to the theory of epiphanies through street furniture, an inventory of furniture (she also made a great link with Nabokov!), and for Emergent Lit. I am working with pages 183-4 of Finnegans Wake, and guess what my passage ends with:

"Tumult son of thunder, self exiled in upon his ego, a nightlong a shaking betwixtween white or reddr hawrors, noondayterrorised to skin and bone by an ineluctable phantom (may the Shaper have mercy on him!) writing the mystery of himsel in furniture."

I wonder if 'mystery of himself' could be 'history' - his story, his mystery

To end the class period we were all treated to an epiphany! Jennie Lynn performed the last few pages of Finnegans Wake. The performance was moving, beautiful, and emotional. Thank you Jennie Lynn!