Joyceans are delighted when those who are not professional scholars devote parts of their
lives to illuminating Joyce's works. Tim Ahern is a biotechnologist, and this is his second
entrancing book of illustrations for Finnegans Wake; his first was on the first chapter. 1 The
new book uses the same procedure as its predecessor, with a highly imaginative drawing for
every dozen or so words. The Final Chapter is longer and more elaborate than the first
volume. Like it, the current book contains the full text of Joyce's chapter, but it has more …