Finnegans Wake
Americannoun
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In a quirk typical of Gell-Mann’s approach to science, he chose the name “quark” for a line from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: “Three quarks for Muster Mark.”
From The Guardian ● May 26, 2019
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
That final song, “Time, as a Symptom,” signals the gambit by quoting the line that forms a similar loop at the closing and opening of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2015
I thought I would spend the summer reading Finnegans Wake and writing my thesis.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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