Word: shenanagan
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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...
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