Journal of Provincial Thought, Issue 9. Sep 2008. Joyce's The Ondt & the Gracehoper (Finnegans Wake) cartoon parody

The Journal of Provincial Thought

jptARCHIVE Issue 9

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Second Introduction to the classic that needs no introduction

Most of you, of course, have read James Joyce's Finnegans Wake cover-to-cover more than once and longed in vain for a sequel. A certain jpt staffer is presently midway in his twenty-third reading since 1985; before then he unfortunately did not keep count of his many memorable campaigns through this mother of magnum opi. The only thing standing between the rest of you and the most exhilarating experience in literature is want of a massive, massive education. None more than we is happier ( yes, NONE MORE THAN WE IS HAPPIER) to present, for your edification in the

To First Introduction

scriptic cryptic--and that you cease to feel the freak at socials of the learned--the following installment of the celebrated J'Joycean kah-toon that once captured the imagination of an unhappy young Greek-comedies scholar named Stan ("The Man") Lee and changed forever the direction of his life-- and ultimately the lives' worths of millions of The Man's young Marvel Comics readers!

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jptARCHIVE Issue 9