As roon a> lhe pcrsonal
tJIpcrience
had hc<:n exter?
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
H.
? CHAPTER ONE SOME ASPECTS OF
FINNEGANS WAKE
I : NEW IRISH STEW (190. 09)
'F our fa. cinating best-,eIlers brilliantly edited and oon_ domed fuc Y{JUc gceater enjoyment, and all bound together in one luxurio'lJ vOlume. ' So ruru a recent ad""IIuemeot for a collection <>f 'conden",d boob', but it also doc. ""ry wdl as a descriptioo ofFiltlltgaM Wake, unle. . fouc be
too Iowa figure, F. ven the word 'lxst-oeUers' is not "" wide of {he mack as it would have be<':n a few yean ago. The novd of which Mc. J. I. M. Stewart ha. written: 'it is in the main a dOled book even to m""t pe. . . . . m of sub,tantial literary c ulti_ vation" has recently be<':n is,ued in a low_priced paperbound edition of ~o,ooo oopies, and I am wld that a further prinling U already proje<:ted. It may be that the number and variety of the 't:t>nden,ed boob' oontained in FilllllllaM Wah accounts for the growing popularity of what must by any estimate be a(<:<>onted an extremely difficult work w penetrate, for once . . hrcu-thT"()ugh h", bun achieved, the reader can find in it, according to taste, a hi'llory of Ireland, a survey of English literature, a universal mythology, a naturali,{ic novd, an autohiography of J ames Augustine . /oyu, a . ummary c"'<nO- logy. 'Whether this impr. . . as intriguing, pretentious, annnying, repellent, beautiful, dull or brilliant, aU must age<< that FinlltgaM Wakt is a quite ",,{raordinarily rich production. J oyce claimed to have diooovcred that he oould do anything with language,' but e""" more imprcoeive than hi, undoubted
'J. I. M. s,. ,. . ,. rt,J_fl1<',I~, '%7,p. ]). , Gi=. . p. I'.
'3
? Srmu ASPldS ofFiFllllgoIU Wah
lioguiltic nopuity was his re. . . . . . . hble 1""""'" 10 adapt and
integrate literally any raw material th. o. t came 10 h. o. nd. Nothing wa. reje<:r. ed. Deletions in tm ~{SS are minimal; additioru abound. Joyce', devdopment al . . writer;" characteri. . ed by a conlinuo\1l and rapid movement away from paradigmatic art - Ihe lelection and recreation of a typical and powerfully symbolic unit ofexperiellCe which illuminates thingl far beyond Ihe bounds <>fits own COnttJCt (Ihat i. . the technique which he
caLLed the 'epiph. o. ny')---40wards lhe all_ind~'? e art offill/lt,. . 1I'd:. whet<:, irutcad ofchoosing tm most lypi. . . . l and ilium;n. atins cx. ample of a theme, he attempted 10 pt'CStnt e'o"ffy con<<ivable trope. In hil later yean Joytt . . ,. ,~ to haV<) adopted ILl Jill mollO Voll. aire', ~radox thaI tk superfluous iJ a very necessary thing. Caution and lilrrary :lSCClicqm were abandoned and the utmost rkhneu was allowed to repla~ the mOil 'ICrupulow meann. . . '. If Fi/lJt"ml. l W. . . . . can be contained within anyone artistic modc, it mUll be the baroque; the great Ihema of dealh and resurrection, pn and redemption, are ft"OOtIlded into finn cytHc oudina, while rnasaa of omate particuLan-a closely WOVI":fI network of moti& and symbo'-
define, dewlop and embellish lhae lhem. at. ic abslnLctions.
The teruion inherent in Joyte'. UR of tile baroque mode, an interplay betw~n c1auicism and rontantici$m, between the limplicily Dr h;" themes and the ex~mc compbcily of ,heir development, i. reflected in the remarkable and ofien u""table
duality of an? for? art'. -sakc ,. nd penonal confeSlion in Hn. . . ,~1tS Wd-t. The critics have alWII. YS been a1o. . " to appreciate the U"U~ quality of the penonal conlenl in J oyce. work. . . . . . . . fact which
has led to a . . ,rious nWundenWlding of the fundamental
double? talk inherenl in his rymbolic language. Yel,
h<<n misunderstanding, Joyce " hinuelfvery largcly to blame. H. obscwm his own position- no doubt intentiooaily-- by his <:<>rutant championing ofallihat WOUI nol cbauvini. nic in litera. ture. by Jill interest in late nioetetnlh CtnlUry fiamhoyanl, decorative style, and by m. a. king Stephen propound a KIf? sufficient aesthelic in A I'liI"lI"ml. Joyet'S position has been obecured htcause tllt:oc U\lu. . nca Ita"" oftl":fl h << n thought the
'f
if
~ Iw
? Some Asp<<ts '? /Finntgans Wake
,(. . ndard. by which w. . m. . y bat judge. hU work. The great",( fallacy of all h. . . ~ en the asoumption that hU theories never changed, that he always thought in tcTTIU of 'lyric, epic, and dramatic', '~piphanies', 'th~ thing well made. It h. . . variously hc<:n , upp""'d that, in J oycean terms, A P",/Tail i. lyric, tflyms epic, andFinntg. vu Waktdramatic,or that all thre~ arc dramatic, that Fj""'gaIU Wak. mark! an unfortunate return to the lyric manner, and 50 on- the three booh pr"viding a plamihle houi_ for neat tripartite IIChcm. ,. . . . . . "nd y<:t therc i. ! no evi&nce that by the time he W aJ writing A Portrail Joyce held the vicw. ascribed 10 Stephen, that he held ,uch view; in later maturity or, more importAnt, that he oonsiderffi. hi. ! vario". book! aJ forming any ,ort of "esthetic progress at all. T he", is, on the contrary, mud, evidence to mggcst that Joyce wa> n"""r ",ri? oudy intere,ted in anything other than the book on which he wa. engaged at the moment and that once he bad completffi. a work he ceased thinling about it and even di. liked it. He alm"'t prevented the publication of Chamh", Musil,' and Mrs. Maria J ola! tell! me that while he WaJ busy with P;""'gans W~h Joyce grew v"ry umympa,hetic to what he had done in Ulyn. . and talkd about the book with considerable dist""tc: 'Ulyss. . ? Chef Who wrote ulysStsr
Joyce', works are all in the nam", of self. purgations. Mr. Ellmann', detailed biography h"" no! only emphasised that
e""rytbing in Joyce'. boob, down to the smallest matters of detail, is drawn di=tly from his pcrr. onal experience, but has also ",,,,,aIffi. to what a remarkable extent those boob a", the tJIpr""ion of a scmibility haunted by emotional conflicts ",. quiring the most powerful . ymbolic exorcism. This penonal- often uncomfortably pcrr. onal-art w"" the only kind Joyce could c",ate or un&rstand, and, "" hi. lel1ers and the panially serio", thcory of HamUt ",veal, he Wa. 'l never able to accept that the method of Olher artist! could be anytbing bUl aUlobio- graphical.
As roon a> lhe pcrsonal tJIpcrience had hc<:n exter? naliud by commiuaI to papcr and by the open confession in the market. place wruch publication ",presented, the dri"". and
, EIlmann, 1'_ ' 70-
'5
? SonuAsjJ<<tstifFinnegaru Wake
conflicts temporarily evaporated and intereot tfusolved. Joyce, a little muocbistic, inclined to "" mal perversion, and in exile from a homeland he both loved and d. . pUed, could, ofcourse, never rid hi"""lffor long of his deep-seated emotional conflicts, but whenever the need for arrutic purgation arue again, fre,h techniqu. . were neceMarY; the ume magic could not ~ made to work twice. On each occasion a more potent exorcism was called for, involving greater complexity, more difficult Iahy- riot'" from whicb to =ape, and, above all, the objectification and rationalisation of more and more personal involvement.
Hi. imaginary, God-like arti:ol was placed 'within Or ~hind Or ~yond or above his handiwork, invisible, rdined out of exiSlence, indiflerent, paring hi. ! fingunaih' (AP 245), but Ihi. welt known Dcdalism by no means repr=ntsJoyce'. own pooition. Far from indifferent, he was possened by an alm. . . t paranoid need to anlwer bad; he mUIt altad and utirise in his highly . ublimated way not only the penonal slights of indi_ viduah hut abo Ihe personal and impersonal ilightsofthe world at large, fur Joyce was nevu content, as ",me have thought and as he liked to pretend, mudy to justifY the Arti,,'. ways to Man, buI was obsessively concerned wilh his position in society at all lev. 1I. 1 1b e result of this constant involvement_exorci. m
proces, i. that joyce'. symbols, especially those of FitJ. ",g~", Wdt, are always two-faced. In his Ia. t workjoyce left Stephen'? ? malI-5Cale ,. . . theti", Car ~hind and attempted to bring about the intimate marriage of two great and fundament. ally oppo>ed. artistic uniti. . , one of these is introvened and ",lip. ist, con- tinually converg. . on itsdf, is ",]E"'l! raining, h"" IlO loose end. , is . . truly global whole; the other, built from exactly the ,arne materials, is extroverted, continually mOve. out from it. centre toward the world ofmen, is a m. . . . . of. pecific cxtemal . . . ferenc. . . Not only a. . . joyce'? ? ymboI. taken from life but, unlik. thooe of Mallarme, they lead straight back to it. {This distinction ~tween ioternal and extornal reference is not to ~ confused with that ~tween public alld private level. of mealling. Both
, "The . ut<>bi~pI>. icaI upccI ofj O)'<< . , ,. . ,. . k ;. . t pno",,' l><:ing . . . . ,. ted aha"'tiv<ly by ~ln. . Ruth """ ! 'hul.
"
? &meAsptctsofFinntgans Wakt
fa""" ofJoya'? ? ymbob belon, to the p. . . blic world. Indeed, thereis~rylitdethaIitprivaleinF~I. wWdt,thoughlOme (;l the public. paw foI1o. . . ed by Joyce will nrely ha"" been trodden by his readen. ) A larsc part of the excitemenl Qf Fi/Uttg6/U Wdt dc:JI'! 'ndi un the pubating temloo betwcen the inward-looM! : and outwud-lookin! : aapeclS or eY<<y rymbol and theme in the book. Joyce oould a\wa)'l feel cuy aboul the in n u f"ee ofhis ma terials; he was a praclised CT"f\aman with few dn. . . bll about lUI ability to OOII,trnet a utid'ying and propuly Oldered _thetie whook_ But when it came to the OUl(r raa, whkh . . . as to mal<e alOntewhat ,",ting OOntacl with the world, Jnyce Wat lesa oornfor~ble. He could ne"". be JUre that he had
digested hi! . materiaLsufficienuy to inttgnlte the oonglom<:no_ tion ofa leT1laL relCrence into a ". ". . ;. I\y meaningful docwnenl, but ",frered oolUtantly from inlcllcctu. l . . . neu inea akin to thooe intellJe redinp Qf pel"loOn. al inadequacy whkh mad. him to n:ticenl, defensive, and unapproachable. Though joyce ICkIom . poke about hit book', inner excellent<:, he needed comtant reauo. u-anct nfir, . dcva"ee to the nu~de world. This relevance he tried to emure by malcing ilS KDJI'! ' as wide as
poslible to lhat il mi! :hl include nol only aU gi\'Cn Cl<JI'! 'rienoe but every possible Jl'! 'nnutation of experience u well. He was desJl'! 'raldy concerned In make bis diffic. . . lt book intelligible tn the on:Iilu. ry reader; the bil~r sorrow he upcrienetd at lhe world't uncomprehending 100m Qf 'Wn. k in Prog'u ,' wu thoroughly genuine, if imperceptive, and rlIe dapair of his Jalt two yean was dttpcnro by the a\m<)SI: univemol Lack cflntemt shnwn in ! . be oomp\e(~ Fu-lUI It'dt.
joyce intended that FWuliIICI W4kt Ihnuld never he out of dal(. He wal delighl~ when it proved prophetic, thnugh it _uk! be difficu]11Or a book which Opelll ilS :onnt so wide not 10 be propbellc in tome direction nr olhe? . When the Finn awoke from oppressiou and ,hot the R. ,. . ,;an General jnyce smiled ; lind in ber 'Out of My 0. "'111" Mn. Gluht(:n, laking j nyce al IUs word, hat included Lon! . Haw_Haw (William joytt) among the dtaracten - a tlep nf which the author wnuld lu<<Ly
, A. Gto. ht<n, '0. . . of My 1. . lauuI', n. Aoo{nI, . . . . . XVIJ, '9W, p. 69- '7
? Some Mpt&ts ofFinMgans Wakt
ha~ approved. Had he tivro 10 hear him,Joyce wvuld limon certainly have ebimM thai biJ hatro expatriate namesake . . . . . . in mrospcct, ODe ci the eh. . . . . cU:r'l ci "iai/,ftJ WOW. So general and ""gue is ill polentially predict;'. . , COOIen. 1 that one might find il lempting to compare FimuKIDU Wd. with the T(:"""nding but woo\1y prophecies of the old almanacken, alwa)" cenain of some rncasuT(: ci fulfilment-tempting, that is, ifJoyce had not himso:lf anticipated the complln. on. Shorn tile Pcrunan is an anulgam of Bickcntaff and his equal and opposite oounlerpan, Panridgc. Tile ianer, 'kiUed' by Swift yet living 0 0 as a oouIlcsJ body, is of 00II. . . . , a richly ryrnbolic figuT(: rorJoya--the bird? like soul of the Partridge having fled. ",-,as W. t? Sbotm'. "'am riddle-is, like an almanad,
both trulh and f. aJ.
? CHAPTER ONE SOME ASPECTS OF
FINNEGANS WAKE
I : NEW IRISH STEW (190. 09)
'F our fa. cinating best-,eIlers brilliantly edited and oon_ domed fuc Y{JUc gceater enjoyment, and all bound together in one luxurio'lJ vOlume. ' So ruru a recent ad""IIuemeot for a collection <>f 'conden",d boob', but it also doc. ""ry wdl as a descriptioo ofFiltlltgaM Wake, unle. . fouc be
too Iowa figure, F. ven the word 'lxst-oeUers' is not "" wide of {he mack as it would have be<':n a few yean ago. The novd of which Mc. J. I. M. Stewart ha. written: 'it is in the main a dOled book even to m""t pe. . . . . m of sub,tantial literary c ulti_ vation" has recently be<':n is,ued in a low_priced paperbound edition of ~o,ooo oopies, and I am wld that a further prinling U already proje<:ted. It may be that the number and variety of the 't:t>nden,ed boob' oontained in FilllllllaM Wah accounts for the growing popularity of what must by any estimate be a(<:<>onted an extremely difficult work w penetrate, for once . . hrcu-thT"()ugh h", bun achieved, the reader can find in it, according to taste, a hi'llory of Ireland, a survey of English literature, a universal mythology, a naturali,{ic novd, an autohiography of J ames Augustine . /oyu, a . ummary c"'<nO- logy. 'Whether this impr. . . as intriguing, pretentious, annnying, repellent, beautiful, dull or brilliant, aU must age<< that FinlltgaM Wakt is a quite ",,{raordinarily rich production. J oyce claimed to have diooovcred that he oould do anything with language,' but e""" more imprcoeive than hi, undoubted
'J. I. M. s,. ,. . ,. rt,J_fl1<',I~, '%7,p. ]). , Gi=. . p. I'.
'3
? Srmu ASPldS ofFiFllllgoIU Wah
lioguiltic nopuity was his re. . . . . . . hble 1""""'" 10 adapt and
integrate literally any raw material th. o. t came 10 h. o. nd. Nothing wa. reje<:r. ed. Deletions in tm ~{SS are minimal; additioru abound. Joyce', devdopment al . . writer;" characteri. . ed by a conlinuo\1l and rapid movement away from paradigmatic art - Ihe lelection and recreation of a typical and powerfully symbolic unit ofexperiellCe which illuminates thingl far beyond Ihe bounds <>fits own COnttJCt (Ihat i. . the technique which he
caLLed the 'epiph. o. ny')---40wards lhe all_ind~'? e art offill/lt,. . 1I'd:. whet<:, irutcad ofchoosing tm most lypi. . . . l and ilium;n. atins cx. ample of a theme, he attempted 10 pt'CStnt e'o"ffy con<<ivable trope. In hil later yean Joytt . . ,. ,~ to haV<) adopted ILl Jill mollO Voll. aire', ~radox thaI tk superfluous iJ a very necessary thing. Caution and lilrrary :lSCClicqm were abandoned and the utmost rkhneu was allowed to repla~ the mOil 'ICrupulow meann. . . '. If Fi/lJt"ml. l W. . . . . can be contained within anyone artistic modc, it mUll be the baroque; the great Ihema of dealh and resurrection, pn and redemption, are ft"OOtIlded into finn cytHc oudina, while rnasaa of omate particuLan-a closely WOVI":fI network of moti& and symbo'-
define, dewlop and embellish lhae lhem. at. ic abslnLctions.
The teruion inherent in Joyte'. UR of tile baroque mode, an interplay betw~n c1auicism and rontantici$m, between the limplicily Dr h;" themes and the ex~mc compbcily of ,heir development, i. reflected in the remarkable and ofien u""table
duality of an? for? art'. -sakc ,. nd penonal confeSlion in Hn. . . ,~1tS Wd-t. The critics have alWII. YS been a1o. . " to appreciate the U"U~ quality of the penonal conlenl in J oyce. work. . . . . . . . fact which
has led to a . . ,rious nWundenWlding of the fundamental
double? talk inherenl in his rymbolic language. Yel,
h<<n misunderstanding, Joyce " hinuelfvery largcly to blame. H. obscwm his own position- no doubt intentiooaily-- by his <:<>rutant championing ofallihat WOUI nol cbauvini. nic in litera. ture. by Jill interest in late nioetetnlh CtnlUry fiamhoyanl, decorative style, and by m. a. king Stephen propound a KIf? sufficient aesthelic in A I'liI"lI"ml. Joyet'S position has been obecured htcause tllt:oc U\lu. . nca Ita"" oftl":fl h << n thought the
'f
if
~ Iw
? Some Asp<<ts '? /Finntgans Wake
,(. . ndard. by which w. . m. . y bat judge. hU work. The great",( fallacy of all h. . . ~ en the asoumption that hU theories never changed, that he always thought in tcTTIU of 'lyric, epic, and dramatic', '~piphanies', 'th~ thing well made. It h. . . variously hc<:n , upp""'d that, in J oycean terms, A P",/Tail i. lyric, tflyms epic, andFinntg. vu Waktdramatic,or that all thre~ arc dramatic, that Fj""'gaIU Wak. mark! an unfortunate return to the lyric manner, and 50 on- the three booh pr"viding a plamihle houi_ for neat tripartite IIChcm. ,. . . . . . "nd y<:t therc i. ! no evi&nce that by the time he W aJ writing A Portrail Joyce held the vicw. ascribed 10 Stephen, that he held ,uch view; in later maturity or, more importAnt, that he oonsiderffi. hi. ! vario". book! aJ forming any ,ort of "esthetic progress at all. T he", is, on the contrary, mud, evidence to mggcst that Joyce wa> n"""r ",ri? oudy intere,ted in anything other than the book on which he wa. engaged at the moment and that once he bad completffi. a work he ceased thinling about it and even di. liked it. He alm"'t prevented the publication of Chamh", Musil,' and Mrs. Maria J ola! tell! me that while he WaJ busy with P;""'gans W~h Joyce grew v"ry umympa,hetic to what he had done in Ulyn. . and talkd about the book with considerable dist""tc: 'Ulyss. . ? Chef Who wrote ulysStsr
Joyce', works are all in the nam", of self. purgations. Mr. Ellmann', detailed biography h"" no! only emphasised that
e""rytbing in Joyce'. boob, down to the smallest matters of detail, is drawn di=tly from his pcrr. onal experience, but has also ",,,,,aIffi. to what a remarkable extent those boob a", the tJIpr""ion of a scmibility haunted by emotional conflicts ",. quiring the most powerful . ymbolic exorcism. This penonal- often uncomfortably pcrr. onal-art w"" the only kind Joyce could c",ate or un&rstand, and, "" hi. lel1ers and the panially serio", thcory of HamUt ",veal, he Wa. 'l never able to accept that the method of Olher artist! could be anytbing bUl aUlobio- graphical.
As roon a> lhe pcrsonal tJIpcrience had hc<:n exter? naliud by commiuaI to papcr and by the open confession in the market. place wruch publication ",presented, the dri"". and
, EIlmann, 1'_ ' 70-
'5
? SonuAsjJ<<tstifFinnegaru Wake
conflicts temporarily evaporated and intereot tfusolved. Joyce, a little muocbistic, inclined to "" mal perversion, and in exile from a homeland he both loved and d. . pUed, could, ofcourse, never rid hi"""lffor long of his deep-seated emotional conflicts, but whenever the need for arrutic purgation arue again, fre,h techniqu. . were neceMarY; the ume magic could not ~ made to work twice. On each occasion a more potent exorcism was called for, involving greater complexity, more difficult Iahy- riot'" from whicb to =ape, and, above all, the objectification and rationalisation of more and more personal involvement.
Hi. imaginary, God-like arti:ol was placed 'within Or ~hind Or ~yond or above his handiwork, invisible, rdined out of exiSlence, indiflerent, paring hi. ! fingunaih' (AP 245), but Ihi. welt known Dcdalism by no means repr=ntsJoyce'. own pooition. Far from indifferent, he was possened by an alm. . . t paranoid need to anlwer bad; he mUIt altad and utirise in his highly . ublimated way not only the penonal slights of indi_ viduah hut abo Ihe personal and impersonal ilightsofthe world at large, fur Joyce was nevu content, as ",me have thought and as he liked to pretend, mudy to justifY the Arti,,'. ways to Man, buI was obsessively concerned wilh his position in society at all lev. 1I. 1 1b e result of this constant involvement_exorci. m
proces, i. that joyce'. symbols, especially those of FitJ. ",g~", Wdt, are always two-faced. In his Ia. t workjoyce left Stephen'? ? malI-5Cale ,. . . theti", Car ~hind and attempted to bring about the intimate marriage of two great and fundament. ally oppo>ed. artistic uniti. . , one of these is introvened and ",lip. ist, con- tinually converg. . on itsdf, is ",]E"'l! raining, h"" IlO loose end. , is . . truly global whole; the other, built from exactly the ,arne materials, is extroverted, continually mOve. out from it. centre toward the world ofmen, is a m. . . . . of. pecific cxtemal . . . ferenc. . . Not only a. . . joyce'? ? ymboI. taken from life but, unlik. thooe of Mallarme, they lead straight back to it. {This distinction ~tween ioternal and extornal reference is not to ~ confused with that ~tween public alld private level. of mealling. Both
, "The . ut<>bi~pI>. icaI upccI ofj O)'<< . , ,. . ,. . k ;. . t pno",,' l><:ing . . . . ,. ted aha"'tiv<ly by ~ln. . Ruth """ ! 'hul.
"
? &meAsptctsofFinntgans Wakt
fa""" ofJoya'? ? ymbob belon, to the p. . . blic world. Indeed, thereis~rylitdethaIitprivaleinF~I. wWdt,thoughlOme (;l the public. paw foI1o. . . ed by Joyce will nrely ha"" been trodden by his readen. ) A larsc part of the excitemenl Qf Fi/Uttg6/U Wdt dc:JI'! 'ndi un the pubating temloo betwcen the inward-looM! : and outwud-lookin! : aapeclS or eY<<y rymbol and theme in the book. Joyce oould a\wa)'l feel cuy aboul the in n u f"ee ofhis ma terials; he was a praclised CT"f\aman with few dn. . . bll about lUI ability to OOII,trnet a utid'ying and propuly Oldered _thetie whook_ But when it came to the OUl(r raa, whkh . . . as to mal<e alOntewhat ,",ting OOntacl with the world, Jnyce Wat lesa oornfor~ble. He could ne"". be JUre that he had
digested hi! . materiaLsufficienuy to inttgnlte the oonglom<:no_ tion ofa leT1laL relCrence into a ". ". . ;. I\y meaningful docwnenl, but ",frered oolUtantly from inlcllcctu. l . . . neu inea akin to thooe intellJe redinp Qf pel"loOn. al inadequacy whkh mad. him to n:ticenl, defensive, and unapproachable. Though joyce ICkIom . poke about hit book', inner excellent<:, he needed comtant reauo. u-anct nfir, . dcva"ee to the nu~de world. This relevance he tried to emure by malcing ilS KDJI'! ' as wide as
poslible to lhat il mi! :hl include nol only aU gi\'Cn Cl<JI'! 'rienoe but every possible Jl'! 'nnutation of experience u well. He was desJl'! 'raldy concerned In make bis diffic. . . lt book intelligible tn the on:Iilu. ry reader; the bil~r sorrow he upcrienetd at lhe world't uncomprehending 100m Qf 'Wn. k in Prog'u ,' wu thoroughly genuine, if imperceptive, and rlIe dapair of his Jalt two yean was dttpcnro by the a\m<)SI: univemol Lack cflntemt shnwn in ! . be oomp\e(~ Fu-lUI It'dt.
joyce intended that FWuliIICI W4kt Ihnuld never he out of dal(. He wal delighl~ when it proved prophetic, thnugh it _uk! be difficu]11Or a book which Opelll ilS :onnt so wide not 10 be propbellc in tome direction nr olhe? . When the Finn awoke from oppressiou and ,hot the R. ,. . ,;an General jnyce smiled ; lind in ber 'Out of My 0. "'111" Mn. Gluht(:n, laking j nyce al IUs word, hat included Lon! . Haw_Haw (William joytt) among the dtaracten - a tlep nf which the author wnuld lu<<Ly
, A. Gto. ht<n, '0. . . of My 1. . lauuI', n. Aoo{nI, . . . . . XVIJ, '9W, p. 69- '7
? Some Mpt&ts ofFinMgans Wakt
ha~ approved. Had he tivro 10 hear him,Joyce wvuld limon certainly have ebimM thai biJ hatro expatriate namesake . . . . . . in mrospcct, ODe ci the eh. . . . . cU:r'l ci "iai/,ftJ WOW. So general and ""gue is ill polentially predict;'. . , COOIen. 1 that one might find il lempting to compare FimuKIDU Wd. with the T(:"""nding but woo\1y prophecies of the old almanacken, alwa)" cenain of some rncasuT(: ci fulfilment-tempting, that is, ifJoyce had not himso:lf anticipated the complln. on. Shorn tile Pcrunan is an anulgam of Bickcntaff and his equal and opposite oounlerpan, Panridgc. Tile ianer, 'kiUed' by Swift yet living 0 0 as a oouIlcsJ body, is of 00II. . . . , a richly ryrnbolic figuT(: rorJoya--the bird? like soul of the Partridge having fled. ",-,as W. t? Sbotm'. "'am riddle-is, like an almanad,
both trulh and f. aJ.
