James Joyce can go kick rocks.

These are a series of two emails that I sent to Professor Sexon, the first one I was full of hope for the book Finnegan's Wake and then after sending the email I proceeded to 'crack the book' only to find 'BINK BANK BONK' in capital letters in the middle of the random page I had flipped to. 'BINK BANK BONK' really? Don't get me wrong it's funny but its almost mocking at the same time. Stupid James Joyce has written 'BINK BANK BONK' and I now have to find a deeper meaning of it? Yes I am having trouble with just the first page, so no I most likely will not be reading Finnegan's Wake for this class and, as a person lacking religious interest, I find it astonishing that I, in my heart of hearts, know I would much rather read the Bible.


HOPE:

Professor Sexson,

You said in the course description that anyone who could read Finnegan's Wake and do so in a way that satisfies you would receive an automatic A in the class. Now I am not committing to anything quite yet because if I did I would most definitely be pushed to the edge, purposefully wreck my car, and be found crying whilst on hallucinogenics circling the book in the middle of the road. However I can't help brainstorming ideas of how I would go out proving to you that I read the book and actually got something from it.
So from what you have mentioned in class I have gathered that there is a little bit of 'everything' in this text from hell-- a little romance, comedy, tragedy, etc. Maybe I could try to find each one of these themes in the book and describe what makes that part of the book whatever theme I claim to see?
Also I could use each day that I have to blog as a summary of whatever pages I have read in the book? Say every 50 or so pages I read I blog them?
Just ideas I wanted to share, I hope I am not wasting your time, I am just having trouble deciding how to go about reading and hopefully somewhat mastering this monster-tard book within the time given.






HOPE CRUSHED:



Professor Sexson,

I just attempted to master a page. ONE PAGE! It was like a different language. I will be reading this same page for the rest of the night trying to understand what it means and it probably means something stupid like 'pass the salt'. I am sorry to bother you again or question your genius but I am curious why you assigned this book? Was it to show us just how terrible High Brow is? I am sure you get a lot of silly e-mails from all your Literature students-- we do like to write-- so I will make this the last of the silly ones.

Thank you again for your time,

Abby Teeter