6. Hofstadter: GEB, Tristram, Joyce
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This article is from the Hofstadter and GEB FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu with numerous contributions by others.
6. Hofstadter: GEB, Tristram, Joyce
| in GEB the author comments that GEB contains "Shandean
| digressions". (Page 748)
|
| the adjective "Shandean" comes from this book
| The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.
| (1759-67) by Laurence Sterne
|
| which is considered to be one of the strangest books ever
| written. the entire book is available online at
| <http://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/~masaru/TS/contents.html>.
|
| one literary work DRH probably had in mind when he wrote GEB is
| "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. the book begins as
| follows:
| "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to
| bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of
| recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
| Sir Tristram, [...]"
|
| http://search.go2net.com/crawler?general=Finnegans+Wake
| http://www.mcelhearn.com/joyce.html
| http://cal.bemidji.msus.edu/English/Morgan/SharedTexts/FWpage.html
| http://www.con.wesleyan.edu/~polson/finnegans.html
| http://plaza13.mbn.or.jp/~FWKEY/FALLtxt.htm
| http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/jj/fwake2.html
| [one more link by Jorn here]
|
| characteristics GEB and "Finnegans Wake" share:
| long, inspired by Carroll, contains puns and hidden
| tricks, constant allusions in form and content, end of
| book points to the beginning, special emphasis on
| certain initials ("GEB", "EGB" in GEB; "HCE", "ALP" in
| FW), etc.
|
| for more parallels see
| http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/tanaka/GEB/GEB_FW.txt
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