On 29/6/06 13:32, "Nabokv-L" <nabokv-l@UTK.EDU> wrote:
Jansy: you write
We can be almost sure that no "Auto de [da — nyet?! -- skb] Fé" awaits these authors. I also fear that books, like "Ada, or Ardor" or Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" would prove rather difficult to memorize ( if we had to rely on a solution like the one proposed by Ray Bradbury...)
Many of us can indeed rattle off teems and tonnes of Finnegans Wake — for all its encrypted excesses (as noted by VN), FW does have a melodic, memorable flow for the gaelic ear and gob. One might note the same ‘formulaic’ patterns that helped the ‘preliterate’ Homeric bards.
I would agree, though, that Ulysses and Ada offer similar challenges to memorizers.
Stan Kelly-Bootle