tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657229330840382051.post1717998941223471613..comments2024-02-28T08:40:20.134+00:00Comments on From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay: Happy Birthday Finnegans Wake!Peter Chrisphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11206688095197843271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657229330840382051.post-57959651527004425252014-05-13T10:46:16.596+01:002014-05-13T10:46:16.596+01:00Thanks for explaining Mrs B - I wondered about tha...Thanks for explaining Mrs B - I wondered about that<br /><br />'"I said I would never be photographed in colour." From superstition???'<br /><br />Probably superstition, though he may have been sensitive about his brick red complexion.<br /><br />'The colour of his face is a bricky red, evenly distributed' Frank BudgenPeter Chrisphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11206688095197843271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6657229330840382051.post-12652071975479576542014-05-13T10:23:28.561+01:002014-05-13T10:23:28.561+01:00Wouldn't you agree that all editions of FW sho...Wouldn't you agree that all editions of FW should respect the brown color Joyce chose, for their covers?<br /><br />"I said I would never be photographed in colour." From superstition??? Or was it just a giant physical headache in those days?? (I'm reminded of the early Berkeley and Patrick vignette's color theory.)<br /><br />"Mrs B caught me" Wikipedia explains, I guess: "In 1935, Monnier arranged a marriage of convenience for Freund with Pierre Blum"?<br /><br />"what Time had to say" nb author was the infamous Whittaker Chambers, also very poorly proofed<br /><br />"staying power" In the context of the comparative gibberish of FDV's II.1-- http://fwpages.blogspot.com/2014/05/page-252.html --this phrase is sort of depressing: How much of FW's bulk is mere 'staying power' as opposed to the charm, expression, inspiration of most of FDV's Book I? So much of the 1930s stuff makes me doubt his art... and these memoirs reinforce that sense of petty narcissism (forgive me).<br /><br />Tim Finneganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17247114925548095003noreply@blogger.com