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...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, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind's story. And the reader will be wiser when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funagain | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abra Cadabra Fails to Make Sense From Finnegans Wake | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

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