/lit/ - Literature

as long as you

got your back OP

Posting the obvious answer early on

Yes it is

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;

>>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.

End with Eire

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