[Dixielandjazz] Free Form Music

[Charles Suhor]

Thanks for making some great points with a light touch, Tony. I love the idea of Burgess having done "A Shorter Finnegans" --didn't know about that--but it won't be high on my bucket list. I never noticed the lack of an apostrophe, but I'm not surprised that Joyce didn't use it, since he wrote the last 45 pagers of "Ulysses" as an run-on sentence. Makes e. e. cummings look like a ruddy conformist.

Charlie

On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Tony Davis wrote:

> On 19/10/14 22:08, Charles Suhor wrote (in part):
>> I publicly confess that I found Faulkner’s "Absalom, Absalom" and Joyce’s "Finnegan’s Wake" unreadable. But I won't dismiss those works as nonsense or be flippant about the authors or readers who can respond to them with pleasure. 
> 
> Charles, if you haven't come across it, can I recommend "A Shorter Finnegans Wake" (note the lack of an apostrophe - that's important), edited by Anthony Burgess; in Burgess's own words an "attempt to bring a great masterpiece to a wider audience".  I'm sure you'd find it illuminating and rewarding.
> 
> I haven't yet read Ulysses to the end, but it's on my bucket list, as is being able to play the last chorus of West End blues perfectly.  But life's too short for me to want to dabble in free form jazz.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony Davis
> 
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