Word: riverrun
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Dream Logic. With such details in mind, and with Burgess' assurance that Joyce was not a deliberate mystifier but "an intellectually superior writer unwilling to compromise with subject matter of great complexity," the reader is presumably in shape to cope with the first sentence of Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin...
...riverrun, past Smith and Leverett, from swerve of shore to coast of Gold, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation to a galexcellent group of mourners, reJoycing in common upperoom Adamatmosphers, performing last rites to a singleaf of "Finnegan's Wake" tothetuneofatwotoo solid hourangue...
...riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend...