Joyce uses disjointed language and nonsense terms to convey the dream state of his protagonist. .

Finnegan's Wake is about the wake of man named Finnegan as it occurs in a night-long dream. .

The fact that the book ends at the beginning shows that the story is cyclical. .

Finnegan's Wake is completely unreadable in any sense of the term. .

Finnegan's Wake is the most innovative, funny, and intelligent novel of the twentieth century. .

The remarkable thing about Finnegan's Wake is that it is about whatever you happen to be thinking about at the time. .

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .