![]() ![]() ![]() The group’s gatherings are reminiscent of 1920s culture, when literary interests evolved from the apartment salon to specialty bookstores, like the Gotham. Gross, 71, a retired lawyer known for his eye-rolling interpretations of sexual allusions. ![]() The store has closed its doors for financial reasons, however, and so the group now convenes in the SoHo apartment of its leader, Murray J. Until three months ago the Wake Watchers, as the members call themselves, used to meet at the Gotham Book Mart in Midtown. James Joyce’s novel could be the most difficult in English, with puns in 40 languages, including Esperanto and Volapük. ON Thanksgiving eve, after 15 years of monthly meetings to read and discuss a page or so of “Finnegans Wake,” the Finnegans Wake Society of New York was only on Pages 303-5, with 324 to go. ![]()
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