" These two characters are based on characters from The Importance of Being Earnest, a play being put on by James Joyce in this work.
One character in this work recites a limerick that ends "and yet, and yet, and yet" after asking other characters for a loan. That same character later parodies the ballad of Mr. Dooley after another proclaims: "art for art's sake—I defecate." At one point, the librarian Cecily (*) and the secretary Gwendolen parody the song "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean." These two characters are based on characters from The Importance of Being Earnest, a play being put on by James Joyce in this work. The artist Tristan Tzara creates poetry by pulling words out of a hat, while Nadya Krupskaya and Vlad Lenin learn of the revolution taking place in St. Petersburg. The butler Bennett speaks his piece about the news to his master Henry Carr in, FTP, what play which takes place in the Zurich library, a work by Tom Stoppard?
One character in this work recites a limerick that ends "and yet, and yet, and yet" after asking other characters for a loan.
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