James Joyce, a poet and a prophet

From Finnegans Wake, page 620 of the Penguin edition:

One chap googling the holyboy's thingabib and this lad wetting his widdle.

Yup, that's pretty much the Internet right there.

Comments

[Bernardus Sylvestris]

Amen to that. Joyce prophecied much, or much can be read into it.
Three quarks for Master Mark

[Francis Burdett]

It was as though a voice came from late 30's Paris and spoke directly to me.

Now I have a rejoinder to my partner if he calls from the next room and wonders what I am doing on the computer.

"It's High Modernism- dangitt"

-Frank Burdett "who has googled a few thingabibs in his time"

[Bernardus]

There is no apostrophe in Finnegans Wake.
Joyce wanted maximum meaning, and includes the invocation for all Finnegans(that's us) to wake.

[Carlos]

Corrected.

[bernardus]

My quote was also incorrect, "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"
I always liked GellMann using Joyce to name the fundamental particles.
I just found this.
I like the following limerick by Avrum Gruner:
One quark for beauty's sake,
one quark to rhyme them,
One quark for riverrun,
past Adam, Eve, and Feynman,
In the laps of marble,
where discomforts lie.

[Carlos]

You know, when the study of quarks was still largely theoretical, Zweig called them 'aces', because he thought they were four of a kind (turns out there are six), while Feynman called them 'partons', which implies a pair. So we should be grateful to Gell-Mann, even if he was being something of a show-off.