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"A way a lone a last a loved a long the" is the famously unfinished, looping final line of James Joyce’s experimental novel Finnegans Wake, which leads back into the book’s opening.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf closing line
literary quotation
looping ending
sentence
appearsIn Finnegans Wake NERFINISHED
associatedWith circular time motif
experimental modernist fiction
modernism
themes of love and loss
author James Joyce NERFINISHED
connectsTo opening line of Finnegans Wake
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s NERFINISHED
describedAs famously unfinished, looping final line of Finnegans Wake
feature circular structure
experimental prose
stream of consciousness style
unfinished syntax
function to loop the end of the book back to its beginning
hasLengthInWords 10
hasPunctuation none
hasWord last
lone
long
loved
the
way
influenced discussions of circular narrative in literature
language English
memorability high among Joyce readers
notableFor circular narrative effect
iconic status in modernist literature
open-ended interpretation
partOf ending of Finnegans Wake
positionInWork final line
publicationYearOfWork 1939
quotationType closing sentence of a novel
studiedIn Joyce studies
modernist literature courses
usedIn literary criticism of James Joyce
work Finnegans Wake NERFINISHED

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Finnegans Wake closingWords A way a lone a last a loved a long the