Finnegans Wake
Joyce's original 0

The ten thunderwords

Joyce punctuates the book with ten enormous words of thunder. Nine have exactly one hundred letters; the last has a hundred and one, for a total of 1,001. Each marks a fall, a turning of Vico's historical cycle, in a dozen languages at once.

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