Wow. I feel much better about not being able to understand Finnegans Wake. His advice on not reading the book on your own terms but letting the book work on you was pretty helpful. Reading the book out loud, he said it was a sort of song, is the way i'm going to approach Finnegans Wake.
He also cleared up the idea of Eternal Recurrance for me. Nietzsche's quote, once he explained it, made a lot of sense. The idea that fragmented things, becoming, and strict forms, being, are all intertwined and not seprate things but the same; and that Eternal Recurrrance is the approximation of becoming and being.
One thing that stuck with me after class was one of his last comments about Shakespeare and how when someone reads Shakespear than that person becomes a part of Shakespeare and Shakespear a part of them. I think this is were the Eternal Recurrance theme and the theme of life as literature and fiction go hand in hand. Anyone or anything that I have, can, or will relate to will become a part of me and I will become a part of them. That's pretty amazing. Everything in this Universe is a part of me. I am a part of everything in this Universe. Makes sense to me since I am physically made up of the same atoms that make up anything and everything. Throughout the day I thought about this and it gives me hope that there can be sameness amongs all the people in the world and the world itself. Call me optimistic, but in Vico's theory at the end of the age of humans comes the age of gods.
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