Finnegans Wake
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Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, Anna Livia Plurabelle
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Just be glad its 500 pages shorter than Ulysses; not even Joyce would stretch it farther. A conundrum of languages, the most non-sensical novel of the century––far surpassing Pynchon's Rainbow. Reserving this to be the last book I ever read -- literally -- it will be with me on my death bed.
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riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
last lines
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A way a lone a last a loved a long the
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