Joyce | McLuhan | Bosch
Perhaps it is in the nature of the Wake itself, that to think of it is to realize it is everywhere. Searching for Campbell and Morton's Skeleton Key at Henderson's, pausing over Burgess' Re Joyce. No Skeleton Key. Purchasing McLuhan's Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village. Scanning through War and Peace, noticing the annotations from FW. It can only be the Wake. It is.
French rêver: to dream
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.Discussions of the zoetrope brought the discovery of Mat Collishaw's Garden of Unearthly Delights. Since then, several references to Bosch's masterwork.
This from War and Peace in the Global Village:
When print was new in the sixteenth century, Hieronymous Bosch painted the new confusion of spaces resulting from the Guttenberg technology invasion of the old tactile world of medieval iconography. His "horror" pictures are faithful are a faithful artistic report of the pain and misery that result from a new technology.
