Wednesday, February 3, 2010

The Skin of Our Teeth

Some real quick parallels between The Skin of Our Teeth and Finnegans Wake:

On page 12, the play starts over again, reminding us of the eternal return.

On page 13, I though Sabina was echoing a comment sentiment about FW:

"I hate this play and every word in it. As for me, I don't understand a single word of it, anyway--all about the troubles the human race has gone through, there's a subject for you."

What she doesn't realize is that Finnegans Wake has the troubles of the human race, just not in a easily deciphered form.

pg. 78:

"What's life anyway? Except for two things, pleasure and power,"

This sounds a lot like the bad guy in Haroun.

The speech on page 85 is one of the better speeches ever, in my opinion.

Finally, we've got page 109:

"That's all we do--always beginning again! Over and over again. Always beginning again."

Good stuff.

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