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"Some eccentrics believe Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Be that as it may, the linkage from Ham to Hamlet to Bacon to the boar's head on Shakespeare's Coat of Arms to the boar who killed Adonis to the dead-and-resurrected god is perfectly clear in dream-logic, however perplexing to the Rationalist. Joyce plays endlessly with these linguistic coincidences; for instance when an American hog-caller denounces Earwicker as "York's Porker" in Chapter Three, this refers to Shakespeare's Coat of Arms with its boar's head, to Bacon (who lived at York House), to the boar-god who became Adonis, etc. and eventually links into the whole theme of Ham, Noah's flood, urination, Noah drinking and the drinking at Finnegan's Wake. (The ballad is called Finnegan's Wake; Joyce's book is called Finnegans Wake. The missing apostrophe creates another pun, which Joyce explained to friends as a warning to the ruling classes: the oppressed rise, eventually, in every historical cycle.)" --- Coincidence: A Head Test, Robert Anton Wilson