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...unconscious, and Bernard Share, a 37-year-old Dubliner, shares the master's obsessions with them. Inish (Gaelic for "island" or "tell") consists mainly of a couple of dozen phrases and sentences as they are endlessly reworked in the heads of three frustrated men: Allen, Ecks and Jacet...
Much of the book takes place in Shenanagan's Lounge Bar, where the three men sit around after work, drinking and listening to passages from the book of pornography that Jacet is writing in his spare time. He has at home a "nicer wife, nicer children and nicer au pair girl." It is the au pair girl (later Nicer O'Pair) who, like Earwicker's sleeping daughter in Finnegans Wake, stirs the men's fantasies of commingled lust and guilt. At other times they worry about work, dream about traveling; sometimes timetables rip like trains through...
...notes that a restaurant menu offers a dreaded veal cutlet. He suggests that hic jacet is a sport coat from the corn belt and that ad nauseam is a sickening advertisement. He even tells a dream girl on an ocean liner: "If you care to take a turn on deck, you'll find me forward. Possibly even a bit unscrupulous...
...jacet Johannes Harvardies...
...Land," it was announced yesterday. The award was made to Sulzberger who comes from New York City after a faculty committee had judged the work of the many entries. Honorable mention was given to an athlete, James Parton '34, last year's cross-country captain, for "Hic Jacet Harvard...