Anniversary of Finnegans Wake

James Joyce's final book, "Finnegans Wake", was published on May 4, 1939. The novel seems to be the dreams of the Earwicker family who live above a pub in Dublin. But Mr. Earwicker seems to have done something creepy and actionable, analogous in the dreams to the fall of Adam. But there is also some connection in the dreams to Christ's resurrection (as the titular Tim Finnegan, in the comic ballad, revived during his own wake). Joyce writes in a fluid, opaque, allusive, and polyglot language that seems to be replicating the way ideas, images, memories, and characters combine confusingly in our dreams. Joyce leaves it to the reader to sort it all out. The final, incomplete sentence connects to the incomplete first sentence, demonstrating the cyclical nature of history.