“Finnegans Wake. What only certain readers of Joyce’s text hear as I say these words is the absence of the apostrophe marking the possessive position of ‘Finnegan’ in relation to ‘wake.’ Others not aware of Joyce’s grammatical revisions will hear—rather predictably—the operation of the apostrophe that they cannot see: Finnegan’s wake. Although the apostrophe cannot be enunciated, it makes itself heard. It also insists on being seen, precisely because it is not there: helpful editors and printers continue to reappropriate the apostrophe to its (appropriate) place. Indeed, the missing apostrophe of this title announces its presence and finds a life of its own against all efforts to eliminate its subversive workings in the Wake. The missing apostrophe of Finnegans Wake creates discomfort, if not outright embarrassment. . . . It produces a sense of unease, a stepping out-side comfortable boundaries of the known and predictable because it demands a putting aside of familiar reading strategies.”