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* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: HCE, as noted above; plus a number of the minor characters are based on his acquaintances.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Almost '''''every single word of the book''''' is a wordplay of some sort, or part of a wordplay. And Joyce didn't limit the puns to English, either -- by some official estimates, he crammed words from about '''''sixty separate languages''''' into the book, and you would have to know at least ''nine'' different languages other than English (including Latin, Greek, and especially Gaelic) to get half of the jokes.
** The title itself is a pun, referencing the Irish folk song "Finnegan's Wake" as well as being a call for average Irishmen ("finnegan" as occasionally used within the book) to wake up (literally, politically or other). And no doubt there are other possible meanings as well.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Most everyone, thanks to the shifting dream-like writing.
* [[Long List]]: Used frequently.
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