“Treating ‘life’ as an object to which we are more or less adequate excises crucial elements from life just at the very time that we are living it: such elements as sleep, rest, laziness, and the absence of labour, energy, and work. To say that these kinds of stasis are not living is not only to limit the plurality of life but to make it lopsided, tipping it towards the stresses that we find in modernity’s cult of perpetual activity.” LivingStasis Book:Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals Source: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals
“After all, nothing really adds up in the Wake. Because the form of everything changes so rapidly, it does not seem like the monetary world where the value of objects relies on a measure of constancy or predictability. Circulation of something whose form should be recognizable and authenticated (such as a coin or a note) seems impossible in the Wake. The economics of Finnegans Wake might boil down to something simple and silly, where Joyce passes off his own book as a fake, when, in fact, it’s real, a fake of a fake. Nonetheless, the economic issue remains a relatively unmined area in the Wake.” MoneyFake Book:Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals Source: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals
“It brings us to a confrontation with that important perception of Finnegans Wake, that its apparent sense of affirmation, plurality, and multiplicity shades into or hides a stronger idea of nullity. From the infinitely meaningful, universally affirming, it is a short step to the opposite, to indifference, to voids of meaning and value.” ValueMeaningNullity Book:Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals Source: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals