The return of the ending of the verse to its beginning does actually echo Finnegans Wake.

Please could we have a conditional here? "..would actually echo..."

 

We have only Kinbote's assertion that there is a line 1000 and that it equals line 1. We have discussed this quite a bit. DN was going to try to remember exactly what his father said to him about this, but he has not yet reported back to us.

 

Anthony Stadlen