Finnegans Wake: The Title

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Some thought provoking questions about the title of James' Joyce's neologistic book, Finnegans Wake.
Kevin McClintock
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Finnegans Wake The Title“Hovering over the title of Joyce’s neologistic book, the apostrophe exists in relation to it rather as a quark fired at a double slit might relate to the rest of the world : it would be simultaneously here, there and not-there, working its magic in a wholly ghost-like fashion.”What does an apostrophe usually indicate?Adding an apostrophe to ‘Finnegans’ should change its meaning. What other meaning (or meanings) are available? Why the ambiguity?

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