Finnegans Wake Grappa discussion

Not much of a stretch. But I'm working on my hypothesis. The words here are standard English words. The sentences are long, snake=like, what she calls "drag-net", perhaps syntactically closer to something like Proust than Finnegan. Nevertheless, its opium climate puts it rather near the night=mood of The Wake ; identify of opposites, etc. It moves no more quickly than The Wake, and it dwells exhaustively upon whereitis as longasitneeds. Reading Miss MacIntosh with knowledge of The Wake is proving an advantage.

Reading Miss Mac has become ten times easier since starting the Wake - I read fifty pages this week and it took me nearly two months to read the first seventy!
And yes, while the echoes of Proust were there for me from the very beginning. I've suddenly started noticing more and more parallels with the Wake.
She is like something that was dragged out of the dark river long ago and now is going with the river.