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Some people have suggested that reading it out loud is the easiest way to understand it, but if you attempt this feat, TV Tropes [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|disclaims all responsibility]] for any long-term effects on your throat, vocal chords, or sanity.
 
If you would like to read a description written in the same style as the book, see [[Finnegans Wake (Literature)/Self Demonstrating]].
 
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* [[Book Ends]]
* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Shaun and Shem, although to a far lesser degree this is true of most of the main characters.
* [[Doing It for Thethe Art]]: The man spent 17 years writing a novel that's borderline impossible to read. The man had gone ''partially blind'' by the time he finished it. Parts of it were ''dictated''. Read a paragraph and just imagine having to write and edit it without being able to see what you're writing it on.
* [[Footnote Fever]]: Many scholarly editions of the book.
* [[Genre Busting]]: To the point where [[The Other Wiki]], which is usually very good at finagling a book into a particular genre, simply gives its genre as ''sui generis''.<ref>That's "one of a kind" for those unfamiliar with the expression.</ref> Of course, the first sentence of the article identifies it as "a work of [[Surreal Humor|comic fiction]]" as well.
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