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To: snarks_when_bored
No apostrophe in Finnegans, heathen ;)
457 posted on 02/14/2005 7:37:53 PM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re
No apostrophe in Finnegans, heathen ;)

Joyce was a lousy punctuator (and his orthography needed a little work, 2)!

While we're at it, my original post should have read: "Finnegan, begin again." I put the comma in, then took it out (as Elaine might have put it).

Ach!

460 posted on 02/14/2005 7:46:12 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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