Who wrote the novel 'Finnegan's Wake'?
Finnegan's Wake O'Gill, whose version incorporates and encourages audience participation. In the ballad, the hod-carrier Tim Finnegan, born "with a love for the liquor", falls from a ladder, breaks his skull, and is thought to be dead. The mourners at his wake become rowdy, and spill whiskey over Finnegan's corpse, causing him to come back to life and join in the celebrations. Whiskey causes both Finnegan's fall and his resurrection—"whiskey" is derived from the Irish phrase "uisce beatha" (), meaning "water of life". Non-English phrases: The song is famous for providing the basis of James Joyce's final work, "Finnegans Wake" (1939), in
Wake (Sawyer novel) Wake (Sawyer novel) Wake, also called WWW: Wake, is a 2009 novel written by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer and the first book in his "WWW Trilogy". It was first published on April 8, 2009 and was followed by "Watch" in 2010 and by "Wonder" in 2011. The novel details the spontaneous emergence of an intelligence on the World Wide Web, called Webmind, and its friendship with a blind teenager named Caitlin. Sawyer developed the initial idea for "Wake" in January 2003 when he wrote in his diary about the emergence of consciousness on the World Wide Web. The novel