#thunderwords

[hedh-draws]

Selections from a series based on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

© Haley ED Houseman 2014

[danielvandernoon]

“The disruption of the skies above unwound parts inside of my infant self, which Nan couldn’t possibly have been aware of.” 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️ Coal, pastel, acrylic ‘n’ collage shards on primed linen 110cm x 150cm #thunderwords #lowqualityimage #multimedia #portrait #words #imagism #realityeffect #joycean #painting https://www.instagram.com/p/Crk6dqAsdJY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[youandmebeingsadistrouble]

[vagabondbohemia]

His [Urizen's] voice to them was but an inarticulate thunder for their Ears Were heavy & dull & their eyes & nostrils closed up

(William Blake: Vala, or The Four Zoas, Night the Sixth, p. 70, l. 42f) Urizen represents - "in Eternity" - Faith and Certainty and - "in the Fall" - Doubt, Authoritarianism, Limitation and Abstraction. He is the supreme tyrant-god-priest-king-father figure.

[vagabondbohemia]

It took months of concentrated effort to begin to winkle out the thousands of words in the thunders; now, several of them have yielded thirty or more pages of words, each word denoting or alluding to a theme in the episode or an associated technology. Prior to our discovery of the thunders and their significance, Marshall McLuhan looked up to Joyce as a writer and artist of encyclopedic wisdom and eloquence unparalleled in our time.... After, he recognized in Joyce the prescient explorer, one who used patterns of linguistic energy to discern the patterns of culture and society and technology.

Eric McLuhan