The Book of Doublends Jined: Parsing Finnegans Wake with ixml

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is probably the hardest book to read in the English language. A principle hurdle is the length and convolutedness of the sentences. This paper reports work-in-progress of an attempt to handle the complexity of Finnegans Wake by parsing the sentences (at a structural, not a semantic level), to reveal their top-level structure. It takes the reader step-by-step through the construction of an ixml grammar for dealing with one chapter of the book.