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Acknowledgements My thanks are first due to my friend since schooldays, the late Arnold Davenport, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool University , without whose encouragement this book would never have been started, and under whose guidance much ofit was written as a dissertation towards the degree ofM.A. I am also deeply indebted to two other friends: Adaline Glasheen, the author ofA Census ofFinnegans Wake, with whom I have exchanged letters almost weekly for the past six years and who has given me an enormous amount of information on Joycean topics; and M. J. C. Hodgart, ofPembroke College, Cambridge, the chiefacademic authority on Finnegans Wake in this country, of whose work I have made considerable use, and who has given me much valuable advice, particularly on Joyce's use of the Sacred Books. A more recent friend, but an equally keen Joycean, Fritz Senn-Baldinger, of ZUrich, must also be thanked-both for the information he has given me on Joyce's use of Swiss-German and ZUrich, and for kindly offering to prepare the index. Writing a book of this kind makes inordinate demands on libraries. I am grateful to the librarians and staffs of the Wigan Public Library, the Harold Cohen Library at Liverpool University, and the British Museum Library for their unfailing courtesy and helpfulness. Thanks are also due to the editors ofEnglish Studies and Comparative Literature for permission to use material which has already appeared in their journals; and to the James Joyce Trustees for permission to quote from Finnegans Wake. 9 ...

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