Jul 26, 2024
For three years (in the aughts) I lived on the beautiful Oconee river in Georgia. Only now, I noticed that the Oconee is mentioned in the first page of Finnegans Wake (and it's actually the first river named in this book of rivers):
Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time
