The name was coined by Gell-Mann and is a reference to the novel Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (" Three quarks for Muster Mark!

It originally comes from the phrase " Three quarks for Muster Mark " in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

* Robert Anton Wilson On Finnegans Wake and Joseph Campbell ( interview by Faustin Bray and Brian Wallace ) ( 1988 ) 2 CD Set Sound Photosynthesis

This novel was later an important influence on Joyce's Finnegans Wake and is set in Chapelizod, where Le Fanu lived in his youth.

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Dr. Leary himself called the trilogy " more important than Ulysses or Finnegans Wake ," two novels by author James Joyce-who appears as a character in The Illuminatus!

The title of the novel is paraphrased in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake at 203. 21 as " Nanon L ' Escaut ", which also refers to the 17th-century French courtesan Ninon de l ' Enclos and to the Escaut River.

James Joyce used the legend of Gráinne Ní Mháille (" her grace o ' malice ") and the Earl of Howth in chapter 1 of Finnegans Wake, but added the kidnapping of another fictional son, Hilary, to match his Shem and Shaun theme.

The rhyme has also been used as a reference in more serious literary works, including as a recurring motif of the Fall of Man in James Joyce's 1939 novel Finnegans Wake.

Most notably he makes several appearances in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the street ballad " Finnegan's Wake ", may also be a blend of " Finn again is awake ," referring to his eventual awakening to defend Ireland.

James Joyce, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, is another noted word-player.

Finnegans Wake is a work of comic fiction by Irish author James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language.

Written in Paris over a period of seventeen years, and published in 1939, two years before the author's death, Finnegans Wake was Joyce's final work.

Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

Many noted Joycean scholars such as Samuel Beckett and Donald Phillip Verene link this cyclical structure to Giambattista Vico's seminal text Scienza Nuova (" New Science "), upon which they argue Finnegans Wake is structured.

Joyce began working on Finnegans Wake shortly after the 1922 publication of Ulysses.

Initial reaction to Finnegans Wake, both in its serialized and final published form, was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open hostility towards its lack of respect for the conventions of the novel.

" In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Finnegans Wake 77th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

A drawing of Joyce ( with eyepatch ) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans Wake

" This is the earliest reference to what would become Finnegans Wake.

While these sketches would eventually be incorporated into Finnegans Wake in one form or another, they did not contain any of the main characters or plot points which would later come to constitute the backbone of the book.

The first signs of what would eventually become Finnegans Wake came in August 1923 when Joyce wrote the sketch " Here Comes Everybody ", which dealt for the first time with the book's protagonist HCE.

The Jolases gave Joyce valuable encouragement and material support throughout the long process of writing Finnegans Wake, and published sections of the book in serial form in their literary magazine transition, under the title Work In Progress.

Finnegans Wake was published in book form, after 17 years of composition, on 4 May 1939.

While Book I of Finnegans Wake deals mostly with the parents HCE and ALP, Book II shifts that focus onto their children, Shem, Shaun and Issy.

I almost replied, " Yes, there are two of them, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

In fact, book I, chapter 7 of Finnegans Wake quotes bits of the Altus prosator in an untranslatable Latin passage full of toilet humour.

Additionally, Moss compares Garden of the Moons complex plot to Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "... I don't want to be unfair to him.

At this point, the Jesuit solves a riddle which he has been pondering for some time, from book III of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce ( p. 572 – 3 ), which proposes a complex case of marital morals, ending with the question " Has he hegemony and shall she submit?

Joseph Campbell, in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, also believed Earwicker to be the dreamer, but considered the narrative to be the observances of, and a running commentary by, an anonymous pedant on Earwicker's dream in progress, who would interrupt the flow with his own digressions.

On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.

HCE is referred to by literally thousands of names throughout the book ; leading Terence Killeen to argue that in Finnegans Wake " naming is a fluid and provisional process ".

But, given the flexibility of allusion in Finnegans Wake HCE assumes the character of Pigott as well, for just as HCE betrays himself to the cad, Pigott betrayed himself at the inquiry into admitting the forgery by his spelling of the word " hesitancy " as " hesitency "; and this misspelling appears frequently in the Wake.

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

As a result, from the 1940s-1960s critical emphasis moved away from positioning the Wake as a " revolution of the word " and towards readings that stressed its " internal logical coherence ", as " the avant-gardism of Finnegans Wake was put on hold deferred while the text was rerouted through the formalistic requirements of an American criticism inspired by New Critical dicta that demanded a poetic intelligibility, a formal logic of texts.

Jacques Derrida developed his ideas of literary " deconstruction " largely inspired by Finnegans Wake ( as detailed in the essay " Two Words for Joyce "), and as a result literary theory — in particular post-structuralism — has embraced Joyce's innovation and ambition in Finnegans Wake.

It has been argued that " Finnegans Wake, much more so than Ulysses, was very much directly shaped by the tangled history of its serial publication.

The sketch appeared under the title " From Work in Progress ", a term applied to works by Ernest Hemingway and Tristan Tzara published in the same issue, and the one by which Joyce would refer to his final work until its publication as Finnegans Wake in 1939.

Jürgen Partenheimer's " Violer d ' amores ", a series of drawings inspired by Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Parts of the book were adapted for the stage by Mary Manning as Passages from Finnegans Wake, which was in turn used as the basis for a film of the novel by Mary Ellen Bute.

Similarly, the comparative mythology term monomyth, as described by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, was taken from a passage in Finnegans Wake.

The work of Marshall McLuhan was greatly inspired by James Joyce, especially referencing Finnegans Wake throughout the collage book War and Peace in the Global Village.

* Art of the States: To Wake the Dead song cycle by Stephen Albert set to texts from Finnegans Wake