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as long as you

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got your back OP

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Posting the obvious answer early on

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Yes it is

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http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm

Babel - the city and tower, of which the attempted construction is described in Genesis xi, where the confusion of languages is said to have taken place; a confused assemblage + FDV: The babbling babblers of with their tongues have been & have gone, they were & went, thigging thugs were and houhynam songtoms were & gumly comely norgers norgels were & pollyfool francees fiancees;

teanga (Irish) - tongue, language + tanga (Portuguese) - a type of very brief bikini, the thong or g-string; a former coin of Portuguese India, equal to the 10th part of a rupee.

Confucius - Chinese sage + Genesis 11.7: "let us go down and confuse their languages..."

thigging - begging + tuigeann tú (Irish) - you understand [the Irish-speaking Celtic settlers in Ireland] + thinking.

thug - gangster

Houyhnhnm - The name given by Swift in Gulliver's Travels to one of a race of beings described as horses endowed with reason and bearing rule over a degraded brutish race of men, called the Yahoos.

Sodom - an extremely wicked or corrupt place. Freq. coupled with Gomorrah, the name of the other of the two wicked cities of the plain in Gen. xviii-xix + hymn, song.

comely - having a pleasing appearence

norgeln (ger) - to grumble, complain + Norge (Norwegian) - Norway.

playful fiancees + Parlez-vous Français? (French) - do you speak French? + FDV: thigging thugs were and houhynam songtoms were & gumly comely norgers norgels were & pollyfool francees fiancees;

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>>7030787
If Finnegans Wake is the pinnacle of western canon then it would only make sense to return to Homer.

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>>6822659
I bet Joyce would get a kick out of these. I'd like to have seen what he could have came up with.

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End with Eire

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What is the best outro book to literature? is it picture related?

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