Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury

innegans ake xtensible lucidation reasury

Hello, my name is Raphael Slepon and I will be your guide to this site, dedicated to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. The next tour is just about to start, so why don't you join in. You may be thinking that you don't need no silly guided tours, what with you being such a seasoned web surfer, thank you very much. Tip. You may be thinking that you can march off right into the search engine page, which, let us be frank, is what you are after, and figure it out all by yourself. Tip. Well, maybe you can, but it's way more likely that you'll just get lost in its multitude of options and end up all bitter and frustrated. So why don't you reconsider? Please, pretty please...

Let me welcome you to the site. The tour will take about 15 to 20 minutes to complete in its entirety. Please walk this way; mind your hats going in. Actually, we should really start right here, in the foyer, to figure out what this site is all about and what's with the weird name anyhow.

This site houses a collection of  82,259  notes on James Joyce's last work, Finnegans Wake, gathered from numerous sources (all listed on the bibliography page). It also houses a search engine to allow you to search the entire collection of notes. To better understand this site we should