Monday, December 07, 2009

RIP ...

... Liam Clancy: Irish folk singer.

A good many years ado, I saw Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, and at one point Makem announced that Liam would recite all of Finnegans Wake. Well, he didn't do that, but he did recite the first four pages. And that was the first time I really got it, the beauty, the music of the language in that most odd book. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord and may perpetual light shine upon him.

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