Boggh, and the
cannibalutic
sacrifi", of the to
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
own fatherlfiru:r wouldn't know him (3U.
OI-13).
In response he ridicules the captain'.
dimen_ sions.
He i1 a di;grace '0 the Roman Catholic Church (Russian ".
.
.
w.
o, church).
T here i.
never a tailor in Irdand or Scandinavia who could make a coat and ttOuscn for a fellow with such a hill of, camel', back.
Fascisl!
(322.
35-323?
~4)
UpOn this call the landlord ofthe . . . Ioon lifts hi. back and ey<<, alienate. hi, guest! , who feel their joke (m) i. cominl! ; home 10 them. H e i. the dead . pit of his fin ' prototype (the captain), with ,he old suit on hi. shoulden. The uilor, disconccrte<l, n y . Ihe suit must be changed. Meanwhile the nodio set i$ howlinl! ; tlutt
there i. , mcssa~ for m, and continues with a wcath<:< foraout
'u",,'ofJ_'Joy<< III (l. oo<ion, Fob<< an<! rob<<, ,~), '93! L ' B. I. TyodahI,Joya. . . s1_(0. 10,N","'. ;'" Uni. . . ruo. . ~
,""'~ 1 ) j .
The Norwegian Captain 79
? 80 T1u: Sigla of FiWUK~m Wak. !
a n n o u n c i l l j t h e T T l l l r r i a g e o f a B y g . . . . . , t . . , . env~loped i n , n u n u s u a l
. ui, of clothes (324. 26-34).
The head marine tailor and the . hip'. godfather now . ddrCiI
m 'thou migh,y m. anofvalour' (325. '3) IS Gideon w u addl"QsM (Judges6:1 ,), and the ",cond meaning of '. uit' takes priority. The landlo. d/captain i. prQllli. M by hi. friend. th. a"hey will find him a father-in-law. 'And Gopha. sayd untO G lid<<>n and uyd he to the now<:dding captain, the rude hunne. . . hle Humphrey oomuther . . . into the . rupfold' of our quadrupede i. land' (325. 16-3' ). A. marriage is a OIrillian oacram. enl il will be neces- sary for the Viking to be e<mVeTtM to the ! rut faith. Joya: iUus_ t. . . tes this with St Patrick's conversion Qf the la. t . urvivinli
member oftbe Fi""n~, Os. ian. The agent, now playing St P:atricl<, pours whiskey, nuking ' he lilP' ofthe erou instead ofthe hamrru:r. I boptize th<<:, Os. ian, h<: says, unconditionally, out of the hell of the heathen into our Roman '. . atholic Religion.
Ossian wal tTaditionally IUPposed. to luve bun unimpu$$M by the new teaching, and m =ponds ,imilarly to Priest Godfather of the secondhand . u;' (326. 24). But his wellwishers odd tlut, whetherhelikCi itQrnot, thq broughthi? ? ummer (-4) with them, and they pn>cccd to let him in Q n some OIri. tian doctrine. T his is ? description of the Virgin mingling into QI'le of the tailor', daughter. She read, romances all winter in vain, . he ! >ears the piano-tuner ,alking to 'he Welsh Mountains, she loob seaward from her dormer window, seeking the Hying Dutchman or Mr Right'. phantom ship, and plays 'house of ivary dower of gOuld'.
The 'marriage miner' (328. 04) now approaches Ken. e, $On of Joe A. he, herco-fatber, r=mcnding the right honourable who i. to mal<e hi. daughter, of the (tailor'o) . hears, 'a full Dinamar- queza'. He exalts the captain'. virility e'ns no timbertar she'll
have then in h<:r armsbrace') and says tha, hi. old cornr1de here i. the best Norwegian thaI ever scuttled a . hip.
t'cativitics crupt in honour of the captain's honeymoon and the arrival ofthe dew. The cul10men o. . domlmouthing aft~r the Holy Mary with an empha. i. to bring down the "ign ofterror (329. 33- 5; Wel'h . >ljys, rainbow, Ulr~n, thunder). The drnnl<en fantuy
prolifetlltCi 8. far a. 332. 35 although il1 whole existence, says 33'. 30, ia ? in imageallCt"Oc all: whimwhim whimwhim. ' m is already married tG &, who . ends the maid",rvant Ko. tc (11;) down to the bar-room witha message (333. 19-334. 05) tlut the: child,. . ,n are asl<<:p and . hat il is time for m to rome up to bed to talk to h<:r. K dtliven the . idings and departs, dOling the door (334. 2S-
? How Bud<l~y SbOl tbe Ru. . ian ertne",1 81
)0) and le. villi an embarrassM . ilen", lite d>ost of 0'4. 06 and 501. 06, markilli the blow to m'. pride.
Througbout this first part of 1I. 3, m ', custom. . . . . hav~ ,,,,dually accwnulated a resentment toward. him. It proceeds ftOm hi, children'. animosity as developed in II. 2. The drinke. , are j~alolLl ofm's tyranny andhi. cra~ina:for -I. Th. -y $ec through his deluaKm of material greed. The l8ilnr co. lled him a fasci,t. The radio, an
~xtensi,m of the inSidious Nightl~u~r, . . f~fTed twic~ to his fall (314. 19-29, 324. 1S-32S. 02). We now prepare 'for Ihe fr. -y of the fray' (33S. IS), a more pungenl enactment ofIhe deposition of age
by youth, entitled 'How Budtley Shot lhe Ru. . ian General'. How Buckley Shot the Ru",,\an General
The te<:Ond anecdote of II. ) also derived from Joyce'. father" but iu parallels are legion. Nathan H alper ha. dcmomtnued that the
ritual murder ofthe Divine King descri! IN. in Th. Go/4. . .
Boggh, and the cannibalutic sacrifi", of the to
h comprehended.
' Secondly, political revolu6ollS contribute, particularly the tediou.
succes- .
ion of Irish insUfTCCtions and the Russian Revolution.
m i.
not only a Russian Gen=l, be is frequently called Czar of all the Russia.
<.
This sec.
ion of FW i.
very rich in words 12ken from RUI_ , ian and allied tonguc<J.
Thirdly there i, the revolution of ideas, originatilli in the mystical philosophy of C and A in n.
2.
The
fint point to be emphasized here is Mrs GllIsheen'. c","enOOn that the assailant, Buckley, i. echoically indeb. ed to the philo- . opher Berkeley. '
'The good bishop of aoyne took the veil of the lemple out of hu. hovd hat. ' The immaICrialism, the unveiling, consti. utes in itst:lf ~ kind of a. sault upon the gnmdioK physical wodd and the atahlished ideas ,uotaining it. We must find here nO, only the
Prinapks and the 1"hcJry of Vision, but also Siris with its Keopla- tonic flavour matching the overall trend of 11. 2.
If m i. devOIed 10 the earthly plane he can incorporate the medieval papacy, backed by Aquin. . and Ariuotle, in,iiting that . he hcaven. mOVe rQund the earth . nd COnllCqucntly round the Vatic:o. n. In <>pp<)Oiri,m to ,hi" Rucklcy is a he. . . . ld of Copernico. n heliocemricity, he i. in fact one very particular adV<>Cate of the theory, Giordano Bruno of Nolli.
'JJ,~(].
R_
" /ome'/"1o< ,00 <he R. "ian Go"""'! ". p",. """, ? C""", II, 39.
XVIII (/ulr
' ~5' )?
? 82 1'11<:SigLoofFiNM,f""'W. . u
We 1Ia~ alrudy consida'ed Br\LAO in n>~tioo with the. :o- j? ? ,:;d~",;" OfJ/>OI'-'orIOH. FW is fuJI of Bruno, and bec::f,use of hi, intffelt in n>noran"S, m e l hi. name apart and . pplies the 'Brown' to " and me 'NoLon' '0 I:, thereby Kknowlcdgina; ? Ollblin boobhop. A ~ ""ample . . " . ddrnoing I: at . 87. 14-8: 'Brlwn is my name. . . . Stand forth, Nlyman "fNoLand'. In 111. 3 wll<:re A i. preto:ndinglo be I:, he jUlllllcs with the! terms, for he il himself 'a. pnwoked u Bruno . , being e,ernally oppoRd by Nola', in 488. 04-t2. But the! inlroduclion 10 III<: Buckley drama inlroduttl an '""ttl. f. . ,or:
- This i. lime f. . . . my lubble, reflccted Mr 'Gl&dstone B"""",,'inthetollhUI(ilWIo. d"". . . . oristicfromW I'man
of Odgany'). Dip.
_Thi$ is me vulcanit. ornoking, profuscd Mf 'R0n2pane
NnIan' undo:r . he: . . . . tCCllp (one: f""I, bow one may he:. . . . by 'Migniles the: 'Irollnd old mahonaJlYln'). Dip.
- A od this i. dcfendc:. of defea'e. of defaulte. of dcforme, of me funst man in O. neligh, willingtoned in with this alanu dowon hi. browen and IlllIt born appalled nnodlum the ",ndlile ",i. 's . lInunal delimiullor, odding: Oliver White,he',utiffu . 11<:',tilht. Andthiscn, hi,. peakQ. uite
hoarse. Dip. U34. 06-16)
OIadJtnnc:, Napoleon, Wellinatnn and ParneIl,. 11 prominen, m
50"'I"0Il, all: frag:tm:nted II<:n "'" merely hc:lwcc:n I: and " hut ~w<< n ,Jr," brothcn. AI 331. 15-. 6 czpbi. . . . th('tc is. 'mu~ in the middle, nay brian nay noel, ney bi lly ney boney' . W bo I. this n>mmon denominator? 570. 1~ States that m 'lias hi. mie IOn and hill. . . . . o line mac IOns and a lupernnc mick wanl lhe:y maclt
A
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v"
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? How Buckley Shot the Russian G<:neral 83
metwec:n them. ' Let us ",veIl to the banle of W at<<l"" in 1. 1 and . ><amine Joyce's plan on British M useum MS 4748~ A, 91b and 92b. The occond vcr>. ion i. simpicr, as 1hnwn in Figure S on the oppoSite page.
m is here depicted botween tit<: twO 'jinni. . ' -u- and tit<: 'three lipoleum boyne' A, A: and ~ The three inverted sigla muM bo his own army, the enemy ",fleeted in the river. 0 Hehir's comment
is iruO"uctive,
If, at the Banle ofWlterloo"" Shaun is the dark 'dooley
boy', then Shem musl bo the 'hinnessy' (olo. C>. jff. ). If so, he must bo fair, in contra${ 10 'dot>ley,' for the first dement in his name is undoubtedly fionn (fin), 'fair'. . . . T he con- trasting dements in tbeir name? ? ", OJnjoined to produce the 'hinndoo' (,fair-dark'), who", norm, Shimar Shin, i, ? compound ofShem and Shaun, U i, revealed particularly in the Fi. . , Draft and Joyce'. diagram of the battle. '
T hi. i, in order uccpt insofar as I: i. Dooley and A Hennessy rath<< thantheotherway, both in r<1pt"<:t ofthe charactersofF. P. Dunne'soriginal. andofthenormalool1IJ(>tli. tiomofdark and light inFW. Joyce'. Waterlooculmina,. . wbenm tende. . hi. matchbox
10 Shimar Shin, who ligbts. fuse and blows m off his horse. This cari(:lltuTCS the sabotage of Kin! ! " Billy's equestrian '''''uc on CoI- leie Green just after midnight on 7 April 1836. '. The rid<<'was blown . everal feet into the air. It W ,," pretty appropriate, becouse William 111'. death in 170Z had been caused by a fall from bi, horse. I think a valid 1'"". 1101 exists between this and Buckley'. shooting of m, and that we can therefore "'" in Buclcley the COn- glome"'te of nr. sons, threalening him.
VI. B. 13. 186 gives 'Crimea A: & m'. Th. original anecdote i. ,et near $eva. ,,,,,,,1 (338. 14) as Bun (Buckley "'turned from the war) 'ells his companion Talf. " Taff wants the G.
UpOn this call the landlord ofthe . . . Ioon lifts hi. back and ey<<, alienate. hi, guest! , who feel their joke (m) i. cominl! ; home 10 them. H e i. the dead . pit of his fin ' prototype (the captain), with ,he old suit on hi. shoulden. The uilor, disconccrte<l, n y . Ihe suit must be changed. Meanwhile the nodio set i$ howlinl! ; tlutt
there i. , mcssa~ for m, and continues with a wcath<:< foraout
'u",,'ofJ_'Joy<< III (l. oo<ion, Fob<< an<! rob<<, ,~), '93! L ' B. I. TyodahI,Joya. . . s1_(0. 10,N","'. ;'" Uni. . . ruo. . ~
,""'~ 1 ) j .
The Norwegian Captain 79
? 80 T1u: Sigla of FiWUK~m Wak. !
a n n o u n c i l l j t h e T T l l l r r i a g e o f a B y g . . . . . , t . . , . env~loped i n , n u n u s u a l
. ui, of clothes (324. 26-34).
The head marine tailor and the . hip'. godfather now . ddrCiI
m 'thou migh,y m. anofvalour' (325. '3) IS Gideon w u addl"QsM (Judges6:1 ,), and the ",cond meaning of '. uit' takes priority. The landlo. d/captain i. prQllli. M by hi. friend. th. a"hey will find him a father-in-law. 'And Gopha. sayd untO G lid<<>n and uyd he to the now<:dding captain, the rude hunne. . . hle Humphrey oomuther . . . into the . rupfold' of our quadrupede i. land' (325. 16-3' ). A. marriage is a OIrillian oacram. enl il will be neces- sary for the Viking to be e<mVeTtM to the ! rut faith. Joya: iUus_ t. . . tes this with St Patrick's conversion Qf the la. t . urvivinli
member oftbe Fi""n~, Os. ian. The agent, now playing St P:atricl<, pours whiskey, nuking ' he lilP' ofthe erou instead ofthe hamrru:r. I boptize th<<:, Os. ian, h<: says, unconditionally, out of the hell of the heathen into our Roman '. . atholic Religion.
Ossian wal tTaditionally IUPposed. to luve bun unimpu$$M by the new teaching, and m =ponds ,imilarly to Priest Godfather of the secondhand . u;' (326. 24). But his wellwishers odd tlut, whetherhelikCi itQrnot, thq broughthi? ? ummer (-4) with them, and they pn>cccd to let him in Q n some OIri. tian doctrine. T his is ? description of the Virgin mingling into QI'le of the tailor', daughter. She read, romances all winter in vain, . he ! >ears the piano-tuner ,alking to 'he Welsh Mountains, she loob seaward from her dormer window, seeking the Hying Dutchman or Mr Right'. phantom ship, and plays 'house of ivary dower of gOuld'.
The 'marriage miner' (328. 04) now approaches Ken. e, $On of Joe A. he, herco-fatber, r=mcnding the right honourable who i. to mal<e hi. daughter, of the (tailor'o) . hears, 'a full Dinamar- queza'. He exalts the captain'. virility e'ns no timbertar she'll
have then in h<:r armsbrace') and says tha, hi. old cornr1de here i. the best Norwegian thaI ever scuttled a . hip.
t'cativitics crupt in honour of the captain's honeymoon and the arrival ofthe dew. The cul10men o. . domlmouthing aft~r the Holy Mary with an empha. i. to bring down the "ign ofterror (329. 33- 5; Wel'h . >ljys, rainbow, Ulr~n, thunder). The drnnl<en fantuy
prolifetlltCi 8. far a. 332. 35 although il1 whole existence, says 33'. 30, ia ? in imageallCt"Oc all: whimwhim whimwhim. ' m is already married tG &, who . ends the maid",rvant Ko. tc (11;) down to the bar-room witha message (333. 19-334. 05) tlut the: child,. . ,n are asl<<:p and . hat il is time for m to rome up to bed to talk to h<:r. K dtliven the . idings and departs, dOling the door (334. 2S-
? How Bud<l~y SbOl tbe Ru. . ian ertne",1 81
)0) and le. villi an embarrassM . ilen", lite d>ost of 0'4. 06 and 501. 06, markilli the blow to m'. pride.
Througbout this first part of 1I. 3, m ', custom. . . . . hav~ ,,,,dually accwnulated a resentment toward. him. It proceeds ftOm hi, children'. animosity as developed in II. 2. The drinke. , are j~alolLl ofm's tyranny andhi. cra~ina:for -I. Th. -y $ec through his deluaKm of material greed. The l8ilnr co. lled him a fasci,t. The radio, an
~xtensi,m of the inSidious Nightl~u~r, . . f~fTed twic~ to his fall (314. 19-29, 324. 1S-32S. 02). We now prepare 'for Ihe fr. -y of the fray' (33S. IS), a more pungenl enactment ofIhe deposition of age
by youth, entitled 'How Budtley Shot lhe Ru. . ian General'. How Buckley Shot the Ru",,\an General
The te<:Ond anecdote of II. ) also derived from Joyce'. father" but iu parallels are legion. Nathan H alper ha. dcmomtnued that the
ritual murder ofthe Divine King descri! IN. in Th. Go/4. . .
Boggh, and the cannibalutic sacrifi", of the to
fint point to be emphasized here is Mrs GllIsheen'. c","enOOn that the assailant, Buckley, i. echoically indeb. ed to the philo- . opher Berkeley. '
'The good bishop of aoyne took the veil of the lemple out of hu. hovd hat. ' The immaICrialism, the unveiling, consti. utes in itst:lf ~ kind of a. sault upon the gnmdioK physical wodd and the atahlished ideas ,uotaining it. We must find here nO, only the
Prinapks and the 1"hcJry of Vision, but also Siris with its Keopla- tonic flavour matching the overall trend of 11. 2.
If m i. devOIed 10 the earthly plane he can incorporate the medieval papacy, backed by Aquin. . and Ariuotle, in,iiting that . he hcaven. mOVe rQund the earth . nd COnllCqucntly round the Vatic:o. n. In <>pp<)Oiri,m to ,hi" Rucklcy is a he. . . . ld of Copernico. n heliocemricity, he i. in fact one very particular adV<>Cate of the theory, Giordano Bruno of Nolli.
'JJ,~(].
R_
" /ome'/"1o< ,00 <he R. "ian Go"""'! ". p",. """, ? C""", II, 39.
XVIII (/ulr
' ~5' )?
? 82 1'11<:SigLoofFiNM,f""'W. . u
We 1Ia~ alrudy consida'ed Br\LAO in n>~tioo with the. :o- j? ? ,:;d~",;" OfJ/>OI'-'orIOH. FW is fuJI of Bruno, and bec::f,use of hi, intffelt in n>noran"S, m e l hi. name apart and . pplies the 'Brown' to " and me 'NoLon' '0 I:, thereby Kknowlcdgina; ? Ollblin boobhop. A ~ ""ample . . " . ddrnoing I: at . 87. 14-8: 'Brlwn is my name. . . . Stand forth, Nlyman "fNoLand'. In 111. 3 wll<:re A i. preto:ndinglo be I:, he jUlllllcs with the! terms, for he il himself 'a. pnwoked u Bruno . , being e,ernally oppoRd by Nola', in 488. 04-t2. But the! inlroduclion 10 III<: Buckley drama inlroduttl an '""ttl. f. . ,or:
- This i. lime f. . . . my lubble, reflccted Mr 'Gl&dstone B"""",,'inthetollhUI(ilWIo. d"". . . . oristicfromW I'man
of Odgany'). Dip.
_Thi$ is me vulcanit. ornoking, profuscd Mf 'R0n2pane
NnIan' undo:r . he: . . . . tCCllp (one: f""I, bow one may he:. . . . by 'Migniles the: 'Irollnd old mahonaJlYln'). Dip.
- A od this i. dcfendc:. of defea'e. of defaulte. of dcforme, of me funst man in O. neligh, willingtoned in with this alanu dowon hi. browen and IlllIt born appalled nnodlum the ",ndlile ",i. 's . lInunal delimiullor, odding: Oliver White,he',utiffu . 11<:',tilht. Andthiscn, hi,. peakQ. uite
hoarse. Dip. U34. 06-16)
OIadJtnnc:, Napoleon, Wellinatnn and ParneIl,. 11 prominen, m
50"'I"0Il, all: frag:tm:nted II<:n "'" merely hc:lwcc:n I: and " hut ~w<< n ,Jr," brothcn. AI 331. 15-. 6 czpbi. . . . th('tc is. 'mu~ in the middle, nay brian nay noel, ney bi lly ney boney' . W bo I. this n>mmon denominator? 570. 1~ States that m 'lias hi. mie IOn and hill. . . . . o line mac IOns and a lupernnc mick wanl lhe:y maclt
A
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v"
m
AAAAA
? How Buckley Shot the Russian G<:neral 83
metwec:n them. ' Let us ",veIl to the banle of W at<<l"" in 1. 1 and . ><amine Joyce's plan on British M useum MS 4748~ A, 91b and 92b. The occond vcr>. ion i. simpicr, as 1hnwn in Figure S on the oppoSite page.
m is here depicted botween tit<: twO 'jinni. . ' -u- and tit<: 'three lipoleum boyne' A, A: and ~ The three inverted sigla muM bo his own army, the enemy ",fleeted in the river. 0 Hehir's comment
is iruO"uctive,
If, at the Banle ofWlterloo"" Shaun is the dark 'dooley
boy', then Shem musl bo the 'hinnessy' (olo. C>. jff. ). If so, he must bo fair, in contra${ 10 'dot>ley,' for the first dement in his name is undoubtedly fionn (fin), 'fair'. . . . T he con- trasting dements in tbeir name? ? ", OJnjoined to produce the 'hinndoo' (,fair-dark'), who", norm, Shimar Shin, i, ? compound ofShem and Shaun, U i, revealed particularly in the Fi. . , Draft and Joyce'. diagram of the battle. '
T hi. i, in order uccpt insofar as I: i. Dooley and A Hennessy rath<< thantheotherway, both in r<1pt"<:t ofthe charactersofF. P. Dunne'soriginal. andofthenormalool1IJ(>tli. tiomofdark and light inFW. Joyce'. Waterlooculmina,. . wbenm tende. . hi. matchbox
10 Shimar Shin, who ligbts. fuse and blows m off his horse. This cari(:lltuTCS the sabotage of Kin! ! " Billy's equestrian '''''uc on CoI- leie Green just after midnight on 7 April 1836. '. The rid<<'was blown . everal feet into the air. It W ,," pretty appropriate, becouse William 111'. death in 170Z had been caused by a fall from bi, horse. I think a valid 1'"". 1101 exists between this and Buckley'. shooting of m, and that we can therefore "'" in Buclcley the COn- glome"'te of nr. sons, threalening him.
VI. B. 13. 186 gives 'Crimea A: & m'. Th. original anecdote i. ,et near $eva. ,,,,,,,1 (338. 14) as Bun (Buckley "'turned from the war) 'ells his companion Talf. " Taff wants the G.