Next to nothing
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Jump to navigationJump to search- next to nothing: Jacques Mercanton, Les heures de James Joyce, p. 40: "I made [Ulysses] out of next to nothing. Work in Progress [i.e. Finnegans Wake] I am making out of nothing" – comment made by Joyce to Jacques Mercanton → Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 543n.
- yesh m'ayin (Hebrew): something from nothing (creatio ex nihilo) - kabbalistic idea of God creating the universe from nothing
