Ahead of its time indeed …

… Finnegans Wake – the book the web was invented for | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The public domain meant that the Wake could more easily enter the world beyond print culture. There is an excellent annotated version of the text online which, when I discovered it, led me to think that the book, like other supposedly difficult modernist texts such as Eliot’s The Waste Land and The Cantos of Ezra Pound, is like an early iteration of hypertext.