Finn no more!

• sin no more: John 8:11.

• Finn no more: Ironic reference to the mythic progenitor of the book's opening, Finnegan, who is simultaneously dead and awakening. Here, he is not Finn-again, but rather Finn-no-more, i.e. Finn-not-again. These are references to the common legend that great heroes of the past are not dead but merely asleep, ready to return in their country's hour of greatest need (e.g. King Arthur, Finn MacCool)

• James Fennimore Cooper: American novelist; author of the Leatherstocking Tales

• Finnegas: (with salmon in the next line) the young Fionn mac Cumhail met the poet Finn Eces (Finneces, Finegas, Finnegas) near the river Boyne and studied under him. Finneces had spent seven years trying to catch the Salmon of Knowledge, which lived in a pool on the Boyne: whoever ate the salmon would gain all the knowledge in the world. Eventually he caught it, and told the boy to cook it for him. While cooking it Fionn burned his thumb, and instinctively put his thumb in his mouth, swallowing a piece of the salmon's skin. This imbued him with the salmon's wisdom. He then knew how to gain revenge against Goll, and in subsequent stories was able to call on the knowledge of the salmon by sucking his thumb