Turn your coat, strong character, and tarry among us down the vale, yougander, only once more! And may the mosse of prosperousness gather you rolling home! May foggy dews bediamondise your hooprings! May the fireplug of filiality reinsure your bunghole! May the barleywind behind glow luck to your bathershins! ‘Tis well we know you were loth to leave us, winding your hobbledehorn, right royal post, but, arum sure, pulse of our slumber, dreambookpage, by the grace of Votre Dame, when the natural morning of your nocturne blankmerges into the national morning of golden sunup and Don Leary gets his own back from old grog Georges Quartos as that goodship the Jonnyjoys takes the wind from waterlogged Erin’s king, you will shiv across the Moylendsea and round up in your own escapology some canonisator’s day or other, sack on back, alack! digging snow, (not so?) like the good man you are, with your picture pockets turned knockside out in the rake of the rain for fresh remittances and from that till this in any case, times tenant, may the tussocks grow quickly under your trampthickets and the daisies trip lightly over your battercrops.

Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce (h/t our own Garth Risk Hallberg)

Hey, The Millions: there’s no perverted comma in that title.

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    Happy St. Patrick’s Day, from all of us at Blue Rider!
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    Good Christ, how drunk was he?
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    This is what I love about James Joyce. Somehow, he is the lucky man of the century, to so thoroughly convince the...
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  13. loveandwar-novel said: From one Finigan to another: make that “Finnegans Wake”—no apostrophe!
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    Hey, The Millions: there’s no perverted comma in that title.
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    Umm, yeah, never really liked Joyce all that much… Finnegan’s
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