Tonight, we reached a milestone in our Finnegans Wake Reading Group in Basel: page 100! At our current rate of just over a page per session, we'll be done in about 20 years. But we also had the pleasure of reading an amazing paragraph on page 100 (lines 24 to 36), featuring "a onestone parable". "Onestone" is Albert Einstein, and the paragraph alludes to many features of his scientific career. His parables are his thought experiments, and special and general relativity offer a "cluekey to a worldroom" (German "Weltraum"). Even Einstein's 1905 paper on Brownian motion gets a reference with "chancedrifting", or the random movement of particles suspended in a medium. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 22 January 2025)
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