A reading marathon …

… Finnegans Wake (Modern Library #77) – Reluctant Habits.

Finnegans Wake is a young man’s game. I would recommend attempting it before the age of forty, when there is still the time and the hunger to unravel the arcane wisecracking. Perhaps my mistake was reading this book on both sides of forty, with one foot steeped in bountiful possibility and the other more aware of mortality and the grave.

I have missed the opportunity by some 36 years.