Isn’t that true for ANY form of art when it comes to shallow consumers? The very people who would avoid the David Foster Wallace notes / James Joyce cross-references in shallow understanding also attracted to the most shallow rumors of HCE (We continue our journalistic investigation into the HCE Affair)? “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 (University of Toronto professor)
“Interesting how the shallowest Joyce readers are always so aggressively obsessed with his sexuality” - https://old.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/comments/1jl24mt/found_in_another_sub/mk0evmb/
Isn’t that true for ANY form of art when it comes to shallow consumers? The very people who would avoid the David Foster Wallace notes / James Joyce cross-references in shallow understanding also attracted to the most shallow rumors of HCE (We continue our journalistic investigation into the HCE Affair)? “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 (University of Toronto professor)
“We continue our journalistic investigation into the HCE Affair. The last ten pages of Chapter 3 comprise an episode known as The Battery at the Gate. Following his condemnation in the court of public opinion―as expressed in the Plebiscite―HCE takes refuge within his tavern. But he continues to be abused both verbally and physically.”