There are ten thunders in the Wake. Each is a cryptogram or codified explanation of the thundering and reverberating consequences of the major technological changes in all human history. When a tribal man hears thunder, he says, ‘What did he say that time?’, as automatically as we say ‘Gesundheit.’
[Marshall McLuhan]
Here is the thunderwords as written by Joyce and the first read by John Cage:
Ci sono dieci tuoni in Finnegans Wake. Ciascuno è un crittogramma o una spiegazione codificata del rombo e degli effetti collaterali creati dai grandi cambiamenti tecnologici nella storia dell’uomo…
[Marshall McLuhan]
Ecco i tuoni (in realtà non tutti sono veri tuoni, alcuni sono battimani, colpo di tosse, sbattere di porta…), come li ha scritti James Joyce e il primo interpretato da John Cage
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