Ben Leubner: Goodsafefirelamp!

I really enjoyed Ben Leubner's lectures about Finnegans Wake. He gave me a lot of insight about how one should go about reading the book. To be quite honest, when I first looked at the book I was a little scared. I had no idea how I was going to go about wrapping my head around such a book. Dr. Leubner's advice and insight was a relief. I find comfort in the idea of reading the book for the simple pleasure of the sound of the words. It was also a revelation that Joyce's words are not simply babbling but clever puns and misspellings that have meanings within the words; Goodsafefirelamp! meaning God Save Ireland, for example. The fact that we as a class spent the entire hour looking at a couple of lines in this massive book gives me an entirely new respect for the book.