Description: An Invitation We JoyceGeeks are a highly productive breed. Some of us are quite public about our enthusiasm – Joseph Campbell, Mike Watt, Thornton Wilder, John Cage, Brie Larson – announcing to the world our devotion to James Joyce’s untamed and multivalent language at nearly every turn. Others have been more private about it – Samuel…
We JoyceGeeks are a highly productive breed. Some of us are quite public about our enthusiasm – Joseph Campbell, Mike Watt, Thornton Wilder, John Cage, Brie Larson – announcing to the world our devotion to James Joyce’s untamed and multivalent language at nearly every turn. Others have been more private about it – Samuel Beckett, Richard Linklater, Stanley Kubrick, John Lennon – revealing our geekiness in more subliminal ways by allowing only the subtlest references to the master to ‘wink through’ our art.
And yet we have always run the risk of being labeled by critics and even scholars as lunatics – especially those of us who read Finnegans Wake . Granted, some of us actually are lunatics, but proper art must sometimes dance on the edges of sanity and even cross its boundaries in order to retrieve substantive and lasting treasure.
So join the party and let’s start changing the world.