> > You should read Finnegan's Wake.  That'd keep you busy
> > for a while.  :-)  Playing with words in several lang-
> > uages, and with the sounds they make, relating them to
> > the sound of Dublin English.  About the only quote I can 
> > remember gives you a taste:
> > 
> > "In the name of the former, and of the latter, and
> > of their holocaust, all men."
> 
> I've tried reading him and Shakespeare and they tend to fry my 
> circuits, so I praise them from a distance. 
> > :-)

I can't claim to have finished Finnegan's Wake, either.

Supposedly, when asked once how long the average reader
should take to fully appreciate Finnegan's Wake, Joyce
said, "Well, it took me fourteen years to write...I 
think that's about right."  :-)

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