Friday, March 12, 2010

Same Argument, Different Delivery

I have two small notes of interest to post, so without further delay:

My brother had a dream about something (several that night in fact that I don't remember well enough to recount here) and when he woke up, he proceeded to tell me about them all, only to wake up for "real" moments later and see that he had been dreaming about telling me his dreams. It was three in the morning and he had to wait until later to tell me about it.

And I found a Finnegans Wake reference in Uncanny X-Men #255

Pyro: Trust a lawyer to love Joyce.
Stonewall: Ultimate precision of language...
Pyro: It's gibberish, mate!

That was it, but it was enough to catch and comment on.
And whether you agree or disagree with Stonewall, he later died in that same issue. (I don't know what that says about Chris Claremont's take on Finnegans Wake...)
Anyway, I've been reading X-Men from the beginning since last summer (a rather daunting task but well worth it!) and I could have read this months ago or years from now and just passed over it as random dialogue, but I caught it. And I blogged about it. And for some time now I will remember it. But what are the chances that I read this issue while in this literature class?
(Probably one in two.)

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