Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Day 7.

Page 9. More of the same. Still touring the museum.

Page 10. More museum touring until half way down the page. My guess? Finnegan hates the museum and all the remembrances of the war, as Joyce was well known to hate WW1. I read somewhere that the museum is a metaphor for the outhouse behind the pub. Maybe I'm imagining that.

Near the end of the page there's another reference to the Tales of Arabian Nights. If this another jab at Islam, Mr. Joyce? So far, I can't take anything in the book seriously. Should this drive-by jokes also be shrugged at?

There's reference to something called a gnarlybird and I don't know what that is.

And the Seven Rothchild children are mentioned as part of a field of ravens and blackbirds. That might make sense later, or it's just some anti-banking jab at the end of the page.

Page 10 end mid-thought.

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