First we feel. Then we fall.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Author

James Joyce

Source

Finnegans Wake

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Another quote from the 1930s

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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Topic
Adventure
Speaker
Dorothy Gale
Actor
Judy Garland
Source
Over the Rainbow The Wizard of Oz
Medium
Song Film
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

"Over the Rainbow." The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming, performed by Judy Garland, composed by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harburg, Edgar Yipsel "Yip." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

Another quote from 1939

Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Success
Speaker
Agatha

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Family Reunion
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.