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		bryanrasmussen on May 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses How's it handle Finnegans Wake?

Avid8329 on May 31, 2024 | [–]

Ulysses has mostly "real" words while Finnegans Wake is largely made of portmanteaus. It'll be interesting to see the results!

lapetitejort on May 31, 2024 | | [–]

I just ran it and got "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Is this one of Joyce's silly sentences he's famous for?

AlbertCory on May 31, 2024 | | [–]

He was such a futurist, that Joyce /s

robin_reala on May 31, 2024 | [–]

Got another 11 years to wait before that enters the US public domain, unfortunately.

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