Fweet (February)

I open at random and read until exhausted, usually about two-plus pages. I read auxiliary literature. I return to favourite passages, yielding fresh meanings. This has been going on since I was 17, reading this book. This February I attend, for the first time, a reading group that meets one Saturday afternoon per month in Multi-Purpose Room 2 of a Carlton library. Seventeen or so readers read aloud paragraphs, then bring their knowledge, and that of auxiliary literature, to bear on words heard and seen. In two-plus hours that’s about two-plus pages. Now there’s Fweet: Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury...