Please identify the text from which "then must any what you like in the power of empthoo" comes ?
Correct answer: D. Finnegans Wake
- A. "Araby"
- B. "The Dead"
- C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- D. Finnegans Wake
Explanation
The highly compressed, punning phrase belongs to Finnegans Wake, whose language deliberately merges sounds, meanings, and languages. The other options are works from Joyce’s earlier, more conventionally written fiction.
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