The Suspended Sentence

An Exploration of Finnegans Wake

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Books III and IV

Book III

Chapter 1

403-04: Faint tolling bell, comparison to laundry/clothing

409-141: Some of Shaun’s comments about Shem

414-19: The Ondt and the Gracehoper

417: “swarming of himself in his sunnyroom”

Chapter 2

445: Shaun threatens to hit Issy

Chapter 3

475: Shaun/Yawn described in cosmic terms

482: “our book of kills”

496: “Amsad”

499: “zounds of sounds”

504-505: HCE as World Tree

535-36: The interrogators of Shaun/Yawn contact HCE

Chapter 4

Book IV

610: Muta and Juva

611-13: St. Patrick and the Druid: light and the rainbow; related to Portrait of the Artist;

619-28: ALP’s final monologue; Part 2; Part 3

627: “First we feel. Then we fall.”

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