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Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's wake is full of clang associations, where a word echoes in some way the previous word. Some people with schizophrenia have loose associations or tangential thought processes that just go off in directions not linear or logical. And then when we look at the families of people with schizophrenia and Joyce was no exception, there very often are people within the family who are on the spectrum. There's an association between schizophrenia and what we call schizotypal personality disorder.