Battiss, like many before him, attempted to come to grips with Finnegans Wake through this aid by Anthony Burgess. However, in this instance, his habit of annotating his books petered out halfway through the text (like many before him!)

Nevertheless Battiss used the text to develop or extend his creation of FOOK text with many interesting translations and concoctions.

He has used all the blank endpapers and overwrote others with his annotations. For example, on the title page:

A SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE

A SHORTER ENIFF SNAG. FINIS BEGAN. awak. See Chaucer's wif wakking him oop roodly yek yek. Foonigins Wook.

by James Joyce. Jimby Jews. Jooms Joyks

edited by oodited bee

Anthony Burgess. Antoonly Bludless

FINNEGEGANS WAKE [in FOOK script]

London: Faber & Faber Limited. Undone: Feebler & Feebler