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Reference your review of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile...
Last week Vichy was the hastily fortified ghost capital of a rapidly dissolving Government. Outside the town, French Forces of the Interior were in control. Telephone & telegraph lines were cut, road and rail traffic halted. Inside, the futile skeleton of what had been Marshal Petain's Government click-clacked through motions of governing which were really a dance of death...
...SKELETON KEY TO FINNEGANS WAKE-Joseph Campbell and Henry Mor ton Robinson-Harcourt, Brace...
...Skeleton Key is likely to be of help to readers of Joyce. It is also likely to stir up plenty of controversy. James Joyce's theme and dreams are usually so elaborately interwoven that even the most prominent incidents and characters invite multiple interpretations. "Indeed," conclude the authors, "the baffling obscurity of Finnegans Wake may be due to [Joyce's] determination to muddy the track of his narrative with a thousand collateral imprints, lest we trace him to the scene of his own life secret, which he yet describes in compulsive half-revelation." Campbell and Robinson offer...
Embarrassing Moment. In Toronto, Ont., a University of Toronto professor X-rayed a royal Egyptian lady mummy in the Royal Ontario Museum, found it was the skeleton of an antelope...