FINNEGANS WAKE

Protodrafts

1st draft, October-November 1925, III§4C draft level 0

MS British Library 47482a 57-58 Draft details

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Inanimate hour, hug us avick, hug us in spirit |aof |bknavery navyb|a|, O man O Man!