“so far 2025 feels like being awake during surgery”
night of “Good Friday”, start of Easter Weekend. April 18, 2025.
“so far 2025 feels like being awake during surgery”
What does understanding and comprehension of James Joyce’s work feel like? "like being awake during surgery”
James Joyce Experience, Dublin Day, Dublin Night.
The metaphors exposed, the connections made, the merging, the joining, the medium waves, the nightmare of history of our Pale Blue Dot, from which we all try to awaken - and we all try to World Wide Wake.
What does understanding and comprehension of James Joyce’s work feel like? "like being awake during surgery”…
“Joyce is, in the Wake, making his own Altamira cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind, in terms of its basic gestures and postures during all the phases of human culture and technology. As his title indicates, he saw that the wake of human progress can disappear again into the night of sacral or auditory man. The Finn cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age, but if again, then let’s make it a wake or awake or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream. He discovered the means of living simultaneously in all cultural modes while quite conscious.” - “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published in March 1967
At least during surgery you know that the work they’re doing, while painful, is necessary for healing; this is more like staying conscious during a bear attack.
While technically still surgery, this feels more like being awake while someone harvests your organs.