May 292011
 

Wake in Progress documents the mesmerising beauty of one passionate person’s quixotic attempt at illustrating Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce’s experimental masterpiece of some eight hundred pages.

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The website must be one of the most incredible  and beautiful things I have ever seen!

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And since the novel’s closing sentence is one of my personal favourites, I’ll include it as well:

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Perhaps its magic lies in its sense of infinitude. And how beautifully the illustration with the underlain map captures it!

Thank you, Mr. Crowe, for your brilliant and devoted effort!

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