Furniture and Memory - Gordon's FW Plot Summary

(*click this image to enlarge, it works this time!) Bedroom Image from page 34 in Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary by John Gordon, "Excessively neat as this may seem, its rationale is firmly based on the author's understanding of psychology, and it has a precedent in the ancient art of memory:" (Gordon 35)

"Such a system, which Joyce would have encountered through his readings in Giordano Bruno, might have first taught him to consider the extent to which a person's environing circumstances may be both palimpsest of past associations and prompting of future mental acts, the extent to which 'memories [are] framed from walls', as conjured by a reminiscensitive' observer. In making if the furniture of his own little room an everywhere, our dreamer simply follows suit. Like everything Joyce wrote, Finnegans Wake begins in a richly particular here and now."

- John Gordon, Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary, page 36