Finnegans Wake
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Gell-Mann is fond of recalling how he stumbled on the neologism quark while perusing James Joyce's gobbledygookian masterpiece Finnegans Wake.
From Scientific American ● May 26, 2019
So Gehry sent him recordings of Joyce reciting passages from Finnegans Wake.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2019
It was the second straight stakes win for 6-year-old Finnegans Wake, who won the 1 1/2-mile Hollywood Turf Cup by a neck at Del Mar on Nov. 27.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2015
Culminating in his Finnegans Wake, the last story he published while alive, “Hapworth 6, 1924,” a story that appeared in The New Yorker in 1965 and was followed by 45 years of not publishing.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2013
Gell-Mann took the name from a line in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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