Marshall McLuhan’s son Eric wrote a book on ten 100-letter words in this novel known as “thunder words.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this nearly unreadable novel that loosely follows a man known as Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, or HCE. This 1939 stream-of-consciousness novel was inspired by La Scienza Nuova.
ANSWER: Finnegans Wake
[10e] Finnegans Wake was the final novel by this Irish author, who invented words like “yogeybogeybox” and a verb form of “sausage” in his novel Ulysses.
ANSWER: James Joyce [or James Augustine Aloysius Joyce]
[10h] Finnegans Wake opens with this word, describing a movement “Past Eve and Adam’s...back to Howth Castle and Environs.” This word continues the last sentence of the book, talking about a feature “a way a lone a last a loved a long.”
ANSWER: riverrun
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