The baby boomer suffered forevermore from agenbite of inwit.

Agenbite of Auschwitz.

His fate suggests the agenbite of inwit come too late; flaunting the gods even once reaped a classical reward.

Agenbite of inwit: remorse of conscience.

Inwit's agenbite.

In Joyce's spelling, agenbite of inwit, the title has gained a limited foothold in the English language.

Most of the examples cited are familiar, yet many readers may be left puzzled by the inclusion of the curious phrase "agenbite of inwit."

This Joycean "agenbite of inwit" elicits our sympathy, but there is something chilling in the appropriation of her personal grief for scholarly illustration.

The Agenbite of Inwit at Merilyn Savill Gallery in Wellington.

Actually, "Agenbite of Inwit" is the title of a 14th-century book by Dan Michel of Northgate.

He could not know he was boxing jaded ears, yea cauliflowered from decades of the contrived confessional interview, from our days' endless dingbats of self- revelings, canned agenbite and ghost-written inwit.

Since English lacks a calque for au revoir , it would be technically possible to make one, perhaps on the model of Joyce's (or his Stephen Dedalus') "agenbite (of inwit)" for remorse: till the agenseeing .

In an apparent burst of agenbite of inwit, Kucinich told reporters at a televised news conference: "If my vote is to be counted, let it count now for passage of the bill, hopefully in the direction of comprehensive healthcare reform."

Burgess provided the following explanation of the book's title: "Any reader of Finnegans Wake will see that it is a fusion of Joycesprach, joystick, the prick that brings joy and the prick of conscience or agenbite of inwit."

Those machines have faded in power, but the Irish have remained a major presence, with about 37 million Americans claiming some degree of Irish descent and tens of millions more claiming some form of social kinship, even if it is just an agenbite of inwit.