James Joyce once said about Finnegan's Wake "It took me a lifetime to write it, it should take you a lifetime to read it."
Amazing amount of hubris, as if any of us should place Joyce's life above our own and spend our own life trying to understand his.
Quite a different sort of author by the time he was writing Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake from his earlier days when he was writing Dubliners.
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