Search Details

Word: riverrun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Dream Logic. With such details in mind, and with Burgess' assurance that Joyce was not a deliberate mystifier but "an intellectually superior writer unwilling to compromise with subject matter of great complexity," the reader is presumably in shape to cope with the first sentence of Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funagain | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...riverrun, past Smith and Leverett, from swerve of shore to coast of Gold, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation to a galexcellent group of mourners, reJoycing in common upperoom Adamatmosphers, performing last rites to a singleaf of "Finnegan's Wake" tothetuneofatwotoo solid hourangue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abra Cadabra Fails to Make Sense From Finnegans Wake | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

...riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |