Finnegans Wake
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where Joyce boasts "he would wipe alley english spooker, multaphoniaksically spuking, off the face of the erse". (178.06).
"As often as I think of that unbloody housewarmer, Shem Skrivenitch, always cutting my prhose to please his phrase, bogorror, I declare
I get the jawache! Be me punting his reflection he'd begin his beogrefright in muddyass ribalds". (423.14)
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Book 1: Theocratic Age (Gods)
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Book 2: Aristrocratic Age (Kings & Heroes)
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Book 3: Democratic Age (Men)
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Book 4: Chaos (Ricorso)
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