Finnegan's Wake

RantWoman heard in passing this afternoon that James Joyce went blind late in life and that another famous writer (Beckett?) spent a lot of time reading for him as he was writing Finnegan's Wake. RantWoman herself has a sort of twitchy relationship to the whole idea of being read to; for purposes of this meditation, RantWoman simply notes that the reading / scribing must have been quite a fascinating exercise to have resulted in the multi-lingual density of Finnegan's Wake.

Finnegan's Wake is one of those books RantWoman made a couple well-meaning attempts to read before filing the whole effort in the "maybe someday" category. The current Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce offers a few crumbs of insight that might hypothetically lead RantWoman through some of Joyce's thickets, but RantWoman may also just leave the whole matter to others.