Do not be cross with poetry

[shemthepenman]

I just got my copy of Finnegan's Wake from the library this morning and here's the first bit of the introduction:

"There is no agreement as to what Finnegan's Wake is about, whether or not it is "about" anything, or even whether it is, in any ordinary sense of the word, 'readable.'"

Well, this should be an interesting 628 pages!

i predict either you give up after a few pages, or stubbornly, against your will, continue to the end. . . or really enjoy the strangeness of it all and read it with glee as it changes your very perception of what writing is, and what it can do. in any case, as Bob Dylan once said, good luck, i hope you make it.

what edition do you have?