FW - 17 years in the writing. You might try the great critic Harold Bloom as a guide. "The end of Finnegans Wake, the monologue of the dying Anna Livia-mother,

FW - 17 years in the writing. You might try the great critic Harold Bloom as a guide. "The end of Finnegans Wake, the monologue of the dying Anna Livia-mother, wife, and river-is frequently and rightly esteemed by critics as the most beautiful passage in all of Joyce."— Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare.