In People's October 6 issue, the Ramsey ransom note was
refered to as "2 1/2 pages that have undergone more exegesis then Finnegan's Wake."

As webmaster of Finnegans Web, I am pedantically obliged to state
there is no apostrophe in Finnegans Wake.
Jame's Joyce, author of Dubliner's and Ulysse's,
kept the title secret while writing it, teasing his audience for sixteen years by refering to it
only as Work in Progress. The apostrophe is intentionally missing.

Jorn Barger, one of the exegetes, has a fifty page essay just on the title, the apostrophe and lack thereof.
Eric McLuhan recently published a book on the ten 101-letter thunderwords
that appear in the text. Roland McHugh, the greatest FW exegete,
mirrored FW in Annotations to FW, 628 pages of notes that follow the text line by line.

That said, you are to be commended for an perfectly apt analogy,
mentioning FW in a mass-market publication
and using the word exegesis properly.