Yesterday, my sister and I went to a rotary in downtown Westborough, Massachusetts, for the No Kings demonstration. For my sign, I chose a passage from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939): "No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king" (FW 25.28-29). As I discovered, the "ardrí" was once the High King of Ireland, and a "bung king" is a publican (like the owner of Mar-a-Lago, perhaps). I understand the "sung king" as a reference to "God Save the King", while a "hung king" perhaps needs no explanation. My favorite sign that I saw during the day also had a Joycean quality: "No fauxking way." (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 15 June 2025)