{"id":1418535,"date":"2019-07-26T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1418535"},"modified":"2021-03-30T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T02:11:40","slug":"is-this-a-quote-from-finnegans-wake-or-a-sentence-i-just-made-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/is-this-a-quote-from-finnegans-wake-or-a-sentence-i-just-made-up\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Is This a Quote From <i>Finnegans Wake<\/i>, or a Sentence I Just Made Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/8219finneganswakeMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Finnegans Wake<\/em> is one of the most difficult books in the English language. If you hope to have a prayer of understanding it, you&#8217;ll have to give up all your free time for the foreseeable future and maybe sacrifice your firstborn child to a witch. Many have hailed it as a work of genius, and its experimental style, inconsistent punctuation, and nonlinear plot have baffled many a mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, can YOU tell the difference between a sentence from the book it took James Joyce one-third of his life to write, and a sentence I just made up on the fly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnegans Wake is one of the most difficult books in the English language. If you hope to have a prayer of understanding it, you&#8217;ll have to give up all your free time for the foreseeable   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25016],"tags":[438,2335,20305,1653,20770,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418535"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418535"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419013,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418535\/revisions\/1419013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}