Patrick McCarthy Anna Livia Plurabelle (ALP) (the wife of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (HCE)) as "the river-woman whose presence is implied in the "riverrun" with which Finnegans Wake opens and whose monologue closes the book. The chapter known as "Anna Livia Plurabelle", is interwoven with thousands of river names from all over the globe, and is widely considered the book's most celebrated passage. This version was revised and expanded for transition of November 1927, and further revised and expanded when it was published by Crosby Gaige in New York in 1928 under the title Anna Livia Plurabelle." "the original version of the Anna Livia section published in Adrienne Monnier's journal, Le Navire d'Argent, in September 1925, when The Calendar for which it was destined had refused to bring it. Anna Livia Plurabelle is the name of a character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake who is said to embody the River Liffey, which flows through central Dublin.
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