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“... on Finnegans Wake. For such timid aspirants and for those in the early stages of fascination, Roland McHugh’s book, presenting information gathered by earlier explorers (including himself), will save months of preparatory toil. For those already deeply engaged, the Annotations will clear up some difficulties, point to some missed connections, give ...”

“... the leafery’ where the old one had ‘lokker through the leafery’. This gets rid of what Roland McHugh glosses as the Dutch for ‘tempter’, but allows us two meanings for ‘looker’. Both versions have the allusion I have just spotted to the song ‘Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life’ by Young and Herbert (from Naughty Marietta). ‘At last I’ve ...”