a portrait/ulysses/wake trilogy
would have seemed lopsided
_ _________ _________ .
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|P| | |S:
|o| | | :
|r| Ulysses |Finnegans|S:
|t| | Wake | :
|r| | |A:
|a| | | :
|i| | |T:
|t| | | :
| | | |S:
| | | | :
~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ .
unless he hoped to append
"something simple about the sea"
.