Get thee back, thou
abomination
of Osiri,.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
o ,he cnill"'l of crealion, ?
pOtentially dangerous hut obs<:$&ively desired pDW(:r or U"\I.
h,.
thingendowcd wi.
h sanctity.
For the purpolCt of FW, 'the impcclon' mlY be foll:Jon: collectors, civic annalis" or uplorcn oftht Upper Nile, but they arc all $Cdcinl m They Ire allO, as will [><.
'"I''' cl<:ar, the fOlll" old men d<:n1)lM by the li,lum
It I turve d<montuatcd el_hcrc" that a pr<>CUI of obtcu. . tion . tfc:cu m ;0 book I, . endinalo defeal th. c incrcalin[l: prccilion,
"&. /rt, J1.
"J. WotbunM. R<. . J. WIIi1<Iow _ R<. . R. W. l>h, A Hi'l<<)! <I ,I>< VOl f1/
DW/i. I (U>noIox>, Cad<ll II, . }, . ,6. "'I1"';p;. r. . "'"'""'"of,lotGoIftrt",(Xi, '8-3>-
? $ChoJ~rship and objectivity of tboo<: ,. . ,king him. Thi. epitomizes the way in which . ucceeding S. ne. . . . ri"n. of hillorian. become more captious and "ien,ific whilst the historical figuces ,bey pur- port to tludy become kg<ndary and unreal.
One of the primary m av:atan i. Tim FinneRan the builder, who fall. from a ladder and i. taken home wi,h a fractured . kull, a. . umed d""d. Wh<n . plashed with whiskey duritlg hi. wake he revives. The resurrection myth i. influential in 1. 1. Finnegan falh al006. 07- 10. nd anemptS to rii(' at 024. IS, the word. ofthe ballad being parodied ot both poin. . . The intervening substance i. devoted to aguidedtourofthe background, with particularanen-
tion 10 i1! l hill? . These have been compicuous from the fint pase with iu now_familiar portrayal of O ublin as tl>< ,upine body of
"""' must be 111'. ecect penis (s. . , 008. 3S, 009. 34). Allus;"ns to lTf. towerbuilding are "mnipresent inl. l, and this like the thunder relates ro his procreative capacity. HUI beyond. certain boundary the toweu and hills merge with the olxlisked tomb holdir4! : ITfs
rentJ. ins.
When we fira, <nler one of Ihese sepukhres, the 'mu~mound'
(ooR-oS), we di. c<lVCT the legacy of warfa", in congealed wax. m is an <<tuestriancommandrr: Wellington, Napoleon, W iniam III. When we emerge to pursue OUT 'lVersight of the banlefield we find thaI the Emperor (010. 3S) lies dead; the survivon have flown south like the Wild G = after the Jac<>bite ddeat. While the banle'. detritus i? . . uvas<cd W<: extend our ",view of the mound, and hill. (OU,'9-21). The Magazine Fort in the Park, the . ubject of Swift'. epill",m used at OU_36-013'O), is close to the lite of an unfinished fori,. . ,. ', the Star Fort, once called 'Whanon'.
Folly'. The excrescences on mounds bear r-ttnNb of m just . s their innards do_A pattern . urvives on the dc. :aying wall of the fort, a compilation from the ,ime of OW, Sitric and lv:ac, r"'peclive legendary founders of Dublin, W . ,erford and L imerick ao:ocding to Giraldus, It ",sembI", ""n of the AIIMIs of rhe I'our Mw'''''
" [D11><,On<. . 0 '_ (n. Hi""",q ,10<('_ <JD. b! ;. (Dublin, HOO"" """ S",;<b II)! ), 641) _ . . . ", p",ni""tl~""" ",,,,,. ",,, . . tth ? . . ,. . ,. ,. , <11<_ with? _Ie.
. =.
to be JOYce'. , and to have no foundo-
a giant. The conoept
tion in local legend_ m', head i, lhe Hill of Howth in the COAt, hi. f. . " the two hills of Cutldtnock at the west end of Pbocnix Park. " The five toes are indicated by 'upturnpikc-pointondplace' (003. 22). One of ,he problem. in auimilating 1. 1 is the difficulty ofvi,ualizing. gianl Iwelvemileshigh. Joy<xoneug"" have con- cluded that with this topography the Wellington M<morial in the
P~rson. olity Condensation 13
? '4 Tbe Sigla of Fi~. . . "an' Wak.
and alsn the Egyptian Boo/! of ,h. iliad. Having tabulated i. . . con'"",, we lif' our eyes or ean (014. 29) onoo mOre tn behold
tbe plain.
Sinit1i before uSnn the kopje (Sou. b Mrican bill) i, the JUI<,
wi,b wl>om Wi: di. cu", burial mnund, (0. 6. 1<>-0. 8. 16) before "ooping toward, Ibe dune itaelf to probe ito fo! . Silo . gain. Tbey arc now subtler, verbalized. Perhaps we should think of the sand. in 'Proteu,' whkh Stephen think' 'arc language tide and wind have . ilted here. ' The evnlotion ofHte. . . . ture is detllilw: the alph. a- bet, the invention of printing and finally the is',,e of a perfected story, the legend of lar! van Hood. er and the pnmi<que. n.
T he remainder of I. . concerns tbe resurrection and i. largely the a"emp,<)f X to p,""ven. Finnegan's rising from the bed. They try t"appease him with Egyptian fonnulae: 0:16. " - ' 2 can be de-
rived from '. hymn . ddn:ued t<, Ptah Tanen [which] doclares that hi. hcad is in the heavens while bis foc. a,"" nn the earth, or in Duat, theunderworld. 'l' 026. t8-23 is from 'Tbe ChapterofDriv- ina Bad: the Eater of tbe Ass' in the Boo/! of Ih. D. ad:"
Osiris RI, triumphant, . . itb . . . I have perforrrn:d upon thee all the thing. which the company of the god. ordow cona::rning thee in the maner of the work of . hy 'laughter.
Get thee back, thou abomination of Osiri,. . . . I know thee. . . . 0 thou . hat comest without being invoked, and whose [time (}f coming) io unknown. . . .
Finally xtdl mthat he i. redundant. H. C. Barwicker has taken ! 'innegan', place.
1. 1, then, is a chapter nf pl imeval hill country po. _~ing a native vigour and an inveterate aptitude 10 endme r<eurr<:nt violation. The famou, Edgar Quinet extract about the ' . . . . nsiena:: nf civiliza_ tion and the indiffeta"l. upsurge of chartgele. . wild flowers first oppearo hCTe (0' 4. 35-<>'S. I. ; bask venion 281. 04-'3). Buildings are wealberw and . oftened, 'heir inhabitantS innoc:<:nt, unkarned and occn from a distu":,,. The desolate saltmarsh (017. '7-30), the obfuscate mountain (023. 21- 30) and the wilderness of natuTtil
plIrkland veil th" contour. ! of legendary gigantism. Finnegan's ""me suggestS that of the hero Finn MacCooI, of monumental . ! atm e and ""plQitl. The whole chapler andes a kind ofnostalgia, quite unromantici""d and very hard. o qUll. lify.
"0. . . . . M~,q"p';""Mylh. ,. jf4Q04(1<. . . "". ,Gruhom19'3),155?
'" S;, I! . . . . . Wallis
I<<l&< . . . d Kepn PauI'93I). 17'.
_fe.
11wn. ,. ;,<IoJ. <n-I(0" . . . . . t <<I;. . . . . . l. oftdon. . I<<>ul_
? The Decline or m
I. l contrUrs wilh 1. 1. The style i. civilized and stilled, it in, iotJ
O(l vull! :arity with Victorian squeo. mi. hn," and abound. in "'"tin constructions and euphemi. ms. For example: 'royalty was announced by ntnru;r ro have been pleued ro have halted ic. elf', 'the lileral 11m. . of which d = c y can . afely $Ca"cdy hint', 'a re, spo::rablc prominently connected r. now of lro-Europeo. n ">CCn'
dAnces with welldre. . ed ideo. . who kntw the correct thinll;", '10 be exquisitely punctilious abow Ih. m'. It i. fairly easy reading in comparison with tbe 'n t of FW.
The chapter begin. in the afternoon of . . golden age, 'jUS! when """" chalked haUtraps' (030. 05). Enoo, son of Seth, WlI. ' regarded by the kabhalists as ? greare, nu. gician than any before him :" pre' . um. ably he is chalking circles ro cQmpd the spirits. lne Pbo<:nix Park appeou in a mo,"" urhane "'peeI, with gardening and hurno. n
in . . pa. . . . g. from 111. 3 (481. 12- 15):
commingnownfrom the uphal' [(, the concrete, from \h. hum. an hi. torie brute, Finn. . n F"yn. "n, <>CCcanyciivcd, to . his same vulganizcd hilbir from yours, Mr Tupling Tnun of Morning de H. ightJ, with his laVllSl How- and hi. ram' blina- undcrgroand.
The relation orthe hun. er to the town,dwdler i. ,hat inward my. tery of U{y. . . . , paternity, which may he actual (Uly~ and Tdema. ;:hu. ), spiritual (God and resu. ), literary (Shakcspe&r<: and Haml. ! ) or psychological (Bloom and Stephen). The 111. 3 pas- sage "dds 'We speak of Gun, the farth. ,. . And in th. locative. Bapl Hapl' VI. Rl3. 71 h;u 'hap_ father'. The word, according 10 Sir John Lubbock, is from the Kocch language of Northeast Bengal. "
Mr Hart" hI;, . ! >own that the patronymic 'Eorwickcr' occurs at Sidl. . ham in the Hundred of Manhood, West Sussex. Perhaps il connotes ears ofwhea! : William Earwi<:ker'. snv? ? tone there ditplay. two. BUI in FW an ? orwickcr is fortmO$t one who traps
artifacts incvid(:ncc. Eventually
by diverse ramification. of humanity.
w.
at(:lin the city centre, thronged The differencc berw<en Finn. gan and EacwickCT i? ? piphanizcd
"A. E- '110m:, n. , H;iy Kob6. >. . . . (N. . . Yori<, Uom",rty 1I<d. [\)60), '95-6.
n. , 0.
It I turve d<montuatcd el_hcrc" that a pr<>CUI of obtcu. . tion . tfc:cu m ;0 book I, . endinalo defeal th. c incrcalin[l: prccilion,
"&. /rt, J1.
"J. WotbunM. R<. . J. WIIi1<Iow _ R<. . R. W. l>h, A Hi'l<<)! <I ,I>< VOl f1/
DW/i. I (U>noIox>, Cad<ll II, . }, . ,6. "'I1"';p;. r. . "'"'""'"of,lotGoIftrt",(Xi, '8-3>-
? $ChoJ~rship and objectivity of tboo<: ,. . ,king him. Thi. epitomizes the way in which . ucceeding S. ne. . . . ri"n. of hillorian. become more captious and "ien,ific whilst the historical figuces ,bey pur- port to tludy become kg<ndary and unreal.
One of the primary m av:atan i. Tim FinneRan the builder, who fall. from a ladder and i. taken home wi,h a fractured . kull, a. . umed d""d. Wh<n . plashed with whiskey duritlg hi. wake he revives. The resurrection myth i. influential in 1. 1. Finnegan falh al006. 07- 10. nd anemptS to rii(' at 024. IS, the word. ofthe ballad being parodied ot both poin. . . The intervening substance i. devoted to aguidedtourofthe background, with particularanen-
tion 10 i1! l hill? . These have been compicuous from the fint pase with iu now_familiar portrayal of O ublin as tl>< ,upine body of
"""' must be 111'. ecect penis (s. . , 008. 3S, 009. 34). Allus;"ns to lTf. towerbuilding are "mnipresent inl. l, and this like the thunder relates ro his procreative capacity. HUI beyond. certain boundary the toweu and hills merge with the olxlisked tomb holdir4! : ITfs
rentJ. ins.
When we fira, <nler one of Ihese sepukhres, the 'mu~mound'
(ooR-oS), we di. c<lVCT the legacy of warfa", in congealed wax. m is an <<tuestriancommandrr: Wellington, Napoleon, W iniam III. When we emerge to pursue OUT 'lVersight of the banlefield we find thaI the Emperor (010. 3S) lies dead; the survivon have flown south like the Wild G = after the Jac<>bite ddeat. While the banle'. detritus i? . . uvas<cd W<: extend our ",view of the mound, and hill. (OU,'9-21). The Magazine Fort in the Park, the . ubject of Swift'. epill",m used at OU_36-013'O), is close to the lite of an unfinished fori,. . ,. ', the Star Fort, once called 'Whanon'.
Folly'. The excrescences on mounds bear r-ttnNb of m just . s their innards do_A pattern . urvives on the dc. :aying wall of the fort, a compilation from the ,ime of OW, Sitric and lv:ac, r"'peclive legendary founders of Dublin, W . ,erford and L imerick ao:ocding to Giraldus, It ",sembI", ""n of the AIIMIs of rhe I'our Mw'''''
" [D11><,On<. . 0 '_ (n. Hi""",q ,10<('_ <JD. b! ;. (Dublin, HOO"" """ S",;<b II)! ), 641) _ . . . ", p",ni""tl~""" ",,,,,. ",,, . . tth ? . . ,. . ,. ,. , <11<_ with? _Ie.
. =.
to be JOYce'. , and to have no foundo-
a giant. The conoept
tion in local legend_ m', head i, lhe Hill of Howth in the COAt, hi. f. . " the two hills of Cutldtnock at the west end of Pbocnix Park. " The five toes are indicated by 'upturnpikc-pointondplace' (003. 22). One of ,he problem. in auimilating 1. 1 is the difficulty ofvi,ualizing. gianl Iwelvemileshigh. Joy<xoneug"" have con- cluded that with this topography the Wellington M<morial in the
P~rson. olity Condensation 13
? '4 Tbe Sigla of Fi~. . . "an' Wak.
and alsn the Egyptian Boo/! of ,h. iliad. Having tabulated i. . . con'"",, we lif' our eyes or ean (014. 29) onoo mOre tn behold
tbe plain.
Sinit1i before uSnn the kopje (Sou. b Mrican bill) i, the JUI<,
wi,b wl>om Wi: di. cu", burial mnund, (0. 6. 1<>-0. 8. 16) before "ooping toward, Ibe dune itaelf to probe ito fo! . Silo . gain. Tbey arc now subtler, verbalized. Perhaps we should think of the sand. in 'Proteu,' whkh Stephen think' 'arc language tide and wind have . ilted here. ' The evnlotion ofHte. . . . ture is detllilw: the alph. a- bet, the invention of printing and finally the is',,e of a perfected story, the legend of lar! van Hood. er and the pnmi<que. n.
T he remainder of I. . concerns tbe resurrection and i. largely the a"emp,<)f X to p,""ven. Finnegan's rising from the bed. They try t"appease him with Egyptian fonnulae: 0:16. " - ' 2 can be de-
rived from '. hymn . ddn:ued t<, Ptah Tanen [which] doclares that hi. hcad is in the heavens while bis foc. a,"" nn the earth, or in Duat, theunderworld. 'l' 026. t8-23 is from 'Tbe ChapterofDriv- ina Bad: the Eater of tbe Ass' in the Boo/! of Ih. D. ad:"
Osiris RI, triumphant, . . itb . . . I have perforrrn:d upon thee all the thing. which the company of the god. ordow cona::rning thee in the maner of the work of . hy 'laughter.
Get thee back, thou abomination of Osiri,. . . . I know thee. . . . 0 thou . hat comest without being invoked, and whose [time (}f coming) io unknown. . . .
Finally xtdl mthat he i. redundant. H. C. Barwicker has taken ! 'innegan', place.
1. 1, then, is a chapter nf pl imeval hill country po. _~ing a native vigour and an inveterate aptitude 10 endme r<eurr<:nt violation. The famou, Edgar Quinet extract about the ' . . . . nsiena:: nf civiliza_ tion and the indiffeta"l. upsurge of chartgele. . wild flowers first oppearo hCTe (0' 4. 35-<>'S. I. ; bask venion 281. 04-'3). Buildings are wealberw and . oftened, 'heir inhabitantS innoc:<:nt, unkarned and occn from a distu":,,. The desolate saltmarsh (017. '7-30), the obfuscate mountain (023. 21- 30) and the wilderness of natuTtil
plIrkland veil th" contour. ! of legendary gigantism. Finnegan's ""me suggestS that of the hero Finn MacCooI, of monumental . ! atm e and ""plQitl. The whole chapler andes a kind ofnostalgia, quite unromantici""d and very hard. o qUll. lify.
"0. . . . . M~,q"p';""Mylh. ,. jf4Q04(1<. . . "". ,Gruhom19'3),155?
'" S;, I! . . . . . Wallis
I<<l&< . . . d Kepn PauI'93I). 17'.
_fe.
11wn. ,. ;,<IoJ. <n-I(0" . . . . . t <<I;. . . . . . l. oftdon. . I<<>ul_
? The Decline or m
I. l contrUrs wilh 1. 1. The style i. civilized and stilled, it in, iotJ
O(l vull! :arity with Victorian squeo. mi. hn," and abound. in "'"tin constructions and euphemi. ms. For example: 'royalty was announced by ntnru;r ro have been pleued ro have halted ic. elf', 'the lileral 11m. . of which d = c y can . afely $Ca"cdy hint', 'a re, spo::rablc prominently connected r. now of lro-Europeo. n ">CCn'
dAnces with welldre. . ed ideo. . who kntw the correct thinll;", '10 be exquisitely punctilious abow Ih. m'. It i. fairly easy reading in comparison with tbe 'n t of FW.
The chapter begin. in the afternoon of . . golden age, 'jUS! when """" chalked haUtraps' (030. 05). Enoo, son of Seth, WlI. ' regarded by the kabhalists as ? greare, nu. gician than any before him :" pre' . um. ably he is chalking circles ro cQmpd the spirits. lne Pbo<:nix Park appeou in a mo,"" urhane "'peeI, with gardening and hurno. n
in . . pa. . . . g. from 111. 3 (481. 12- 15):
commingnownfrom the uphal' [(, the concrete, from \h. hum. an hi. torie brute, Finn. . n F"yn. "n, <>CCcanyciivcd, to . his same vulganizcd hilbir from yours, Mr Tupling Tnun of Morning de H. ightJ, with his laVllSl How- and hi. ram' blina- undcrgroand.
The relation orthe hun. er to the town,dwdler i. ,hat inward my. tery of U{y. . . . , paternity, which may he actual (Uly~ and Tdema. ;:hu. ), spiritual (God and resu. ), literary (Shakcspe&r<: and Haml. ! ) or psychological (Bloom and Stephen). The 111. 3 pas- sage "dds 'We speak of Gun, the farth. ,. . And in th. locative. Bapl Hapl' VI. Rl3. 71 h;u 'hap_ father'. The word, according 10 Sir John Lubbock, is from the Kocch language of Northeast Bengal. "
Mr Hart" hI;, . ! >own that the patronymic 'Eorwickcr' occurs at Sidl. . ham in the Hundred of Manhood, West Sussex. Perhaps il connotes ears ofwhea! : William Earwi<:ker'. snv? ? tone there ditplay. two. BUI in FW an ? orwickcr is fortmO$t one who traps
artifacts incvid(:ncc. Eventually
by diverse ramification. of humanity.
w.
at(:lin the city centre, thronged The differencc berw<en Finn. gan and EacwickCT i? ? piphanizcd
"A. E- '110m:, n. , H;iy Kob6. >. . . . (N. . . Yori<, Uom",rty 1I<d. [\)60), '95-6.
n. , 0.
