From Finnegans Wake

You were bred, fed, fostered and fattened from holy childhood up in this two easter island … and now, forsooth, a nogger among the blankards of this dastard century, you have become of twosome twiminds forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, nay, condemned fool, anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited kingdom on the vacuum of your own most intensely doubtful soul.

See why Nora felt the way she did?

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