By 1987, he began performing the first chapter for guests at his apartment (he lived in San Diego at the time). At this point, around 1984, he decided to memorize the first chapter. Once Kosaly-Meyer mastered that word-which is ugly to the eyes but sounds beautiful when it flows from his mouth-he began to wonder if that's the way he should approach the whole book, not as a reader but as a musician. I memorize the word sound by sound: bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk." How do you read a 100-letter word, he wondered? "But I'm in music school at the time, practicing the piano every day, and I realize the only way to read a 100-letter word is to practice it like I practice the piano. He was stopped by a 100-letter word in the middle of the first page. At 25, he picked up Finnegans Wake and tried to read it.
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