Finnegans Wake
Americannoun
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Between the wars, he sat at Joyce’s feet during the torturous gestation of Finnegans Wake and developed his own gifts as a writer in the shadow of modernism.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2019
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
Finnegans Wake went five-wide turning for home and hung on against a field of eight older horses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2015
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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