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? str<>y1 the patt",m and model! created by ! he intellect 10 "'nder t:\ngible its environment. Joyce'. in",rior monologue fo",os the reado< literally to become the writt. by an imidiou, mental in- va,ion, leading him by its own pe",e. . . . time-logic. Lewi. finds tbe proor<<' unattraCtive.
At 148. 33-149. 10Jones i. asked whether hewould help a beggar (1:) who OQughttempOrary aid r,run him. He ",plies that he w<luld not: a' a spaualist he . . ,. ,. the futility of impuhiviom. 1:'. lifestyle
i. a 'ridiroliSlttion' of the theories of Hinnein, imofar a. they presenllime as pliable. He calb I: an escapist (151 . 17--2 1). He denies. he pOssibility of I: . . . . . nsferring him to a specific time by . rtifice: 'I rail to see w! un . . . for auaht I care for the cootrary, the all is rcIw-t' (151. ~6-36).
The eXpoSitio" pToe<<dS in lhe fable of the Monkse and the Gripes. The Monkse i. the pope, especially Adrian IV wboo<: bull LAwlaN/j,er WI. used by the Anglo-Norman invade. . . of Ireland 10 justify ! heir 'reformation' of the O>urch already established there. A. the pope looks across the watees towards Ireland, so the Monk. . 1001<3 acn>S>; the Liffey from the stone he . its upon (153. 2)--5) and c<lnducn a theological war with the Gripes, who i. on the other ,ide, perched on ? limb of the elm. This concernS
not only the bull of Adrian but ahn the cnntrovefllY over Paschal Compurati,m which oc<:urred in the seventh century. At ! hi? ? ime the Iri. h dergy calculated the date of Easter frrun the Jtwilh 14- year cycle, while the Roman prela. es had? ",vi. ed their cyde to raIlove certain inaccuracies. T he hilh were peflluaded to ch. ange tn the nN' SY1",m, which they did with "eat reluctance, almost a century being required for complete C(mversioo.
This undtrlie1l the Gripes'. requcot to know the time and the Mookoe's repl y 'Let thor be orloll. Let Pauline be Irene' (154-23), which includes tht; meanings 'let there be war' and 'let there be ? clock' a. well u . upplying Thor', other name, OrlOgg. " II refers also to the my5! ic Nuarene faith which Paul modified and which later gave rise to gnosticism. The onhodnx opposing movement wu represented by Peter'. ,ucCCSSOr h-matus. Thus tht; rivalry
between I'cter and Paul celebrated by Madame Blavatsl<y" is extended to COVer all conflict between orthodoxy and he-rt"1y. In 156. 08--18 appear several theological controve~ies: the dual nature of Christ'. body, the Immaculate Conception and the Pro- eNS;"" of the Holy GIro. . , all j" the tonll"e1I of the schismatics,
"0. 8. Chritt;. ,,;,SWfd;_~~'1'. . . . . ". . W. U,'>4. "I", U"";W (Lon<Ion. . ~ PublUll. . . . Soci<ty) II, k--9I.
The Nmion of Tim( 33
? 34 TheSilIlaofF;muga",Wair
Russian and Grm. VI. B. 17. 40 pinpOints the $C(:ular ambition of the papacy: 'Mook~wanlS lempOral power. ' Evcntu. o. lly nightfall oilenCC! l the disputants.
In the rest of 1. 6. 1 I, A fir. . pTaillt1 C a. a penon, o. ! though he i, compelled to dissociate him*<:lf frQrn ,he philosophy C adopts (159. 1. 4-160. 14). He then r. . wnes the tCnninology of hi. original attack. Ae<:ording to the 'ystem, he says (161. 07-'4), he cannot be transpOsed to ? ? pecific . ime by t:, or have 10mething that il
in I:'s pocI<cts, that ii, there can Ix no real communication, unless they have sjmullantoUJ/y entangled them. . lves once in . he dear <k:ad days of by and by. So UIYSHI, f'rr example, could only he undenl1""" by a penon who had lived in Duhlin in 1904-
A reprc&ents him*<:lf he,"" as Burrus, and C . s Caseous, and du. _ cuss. . their rivo. !
ry in regicide and love. " In the end he condemns [he penman for hi' ! ingu;. tic ~t25ynthcsi. : 'My unchanging W ord i, s. acrcd. The word il my Wire, to aponll<' and expound, . . . and may the curlew1 crown our nuptia. ! Till BrCllth u' depart I
Wamen. &ware would you change with my yean. Be a, young as your grandmother I The ring man in the roni shop but the rite
words by the rotC order' (167. 18-33).
1. 7 i. 1:'. hiography a. furnished by A. It i. the most autobio-
iraphical episod<: in FW and its 'low hero' shar. , nwnerous mor- hid . ymptnm. ' with Joyce. He exhibits nu:g:o. lomania, paranoia, muochiom, alcoholism and physical infirmity, including an '"Ye di. . . . . which occuions sropolamine treatment and the wearing ofa black patch. Joyce . pmt part of hi' youth living in Orumcon- dn: C i, an 'e~cornrnunicated Drumcondriac' (,81. 35) and the domes,ic fb. shback of 169. lO-170. 141I11. ve. ties the Joy<:e home- hold. Lik<: Joyce, C emig"""" to Europe, staying at . h. c Hotel em? neille in Pari, (17l. lO), and impOrtun. . his brother for . upport ( 172. 22-('i). L ike Stephen, he io oubje<;tcd to penonal violence near
? brothel. M eson; Har! and Knuth" point ou, the relarionship of the addtes, to lhal of Bella omen'. cstlhli. hment in 'Qrcc'. C al&<. > ",,,,,mbl,,,, the TriC$rine Jayce when he works . . . tutor in model hou. . hold. (181. 03"""26), '\IlI"Cptitiouo! y transcribing their convemltion. Finally he i, boycotted by puhlishers and printe. .
but contrivcs to propagate his nbscenity notwithstanding.
The bingraphcr ince. . . . ntly derog:at"" t:. His . . . . nrio. ! accull. ll- tion i. that Cil a """",, a pLailari,r. The "Piphanlc dll1illation from nature;' forgery, the craft ofJim the Penman (I SI. 12-16). U/yIUl,
"1iDmin<<! beIow,p. 9>.
"a;. . ,Hut. Dd1. . 00Kou<h. AT~a-<<>J-"Joyu. ,'U/J>_ (~cr, It. "'ok< ~[i_ Pr. . ,. '91l) 1, J. . j.
? . I! hough 'unrud. bk' (' 19. 26), I. for 1:. lIimulani . 0 ranlosy and escape. Every mark on its PIlie proanostica'cs limitless wtalth, happiDeu, inebriltion and sexual . . ti. faction, an entire optn. _ houseofnakedhrirnIts~n. plurM by <helOp ncolewhichc:,the . tnOO", holds, jill' like I bird, for live mln1,lI"', 'infinitd y better than Ba. . . . 'on McGIud::ln' (179. ~. -i80. 08).
I: liv<:3 in I 'secrer cell' (182. 14- '), where ~ oomcmpl. ,es I panoply oftphcme. . . . , mucn of it evidently hallucinated (. 8). 08-
. 8. . (1)- When he IooIts ou, of <he keyhole throt. Ia;h ? ~
it n>m$ into I IJUnbarrd thr"". . . ,in, him (178. 1~'79-08). He is
'! \OOI\tlaYIe1Torised to skin and bone by an ineluctablc phantcm' (. 84. 08-9). Consumed by thc ovc. . . . eening thint for innova,;on
lie ~ everythi"ll fortuitous from hi. aeriprurc and avoids ewfJ commitmft. . , . . with Joyce'. own fana<kal ncu. . . . ilY in politi. ". . In the La,;n pltl'"'" . 8,. 1. -16 the ramililt, Fneudian
tql. d. tion of cttativity wi. h dcfecatloa is CO<\$picuou? .
1. 7 terminates with Ip<<chcs by Junius (. . . ) and Mcrciul (t:). Junius resolves to quit <he philosophy ofc:and in four Jon, Pl'ra- Inlphs accu_ him ofpcrwnioD, in&nttitudc, vindimveotf,$ and embtzzlcmen. , and offcn II rcmMy '. little judo. Ionic'. In the end he will oot follow I: for fcar of divine retribution and hc di. _
misses him with I cc,. . ,monlll culV.
The reply of Merei. . . ac:wrd. with <he prophecy th. a. he will
nttd IU the: elm>entl in the river to . kIn him <IVC" il (188. 0,;- 6). Time'. flux esoncntes leniUl, ? the Mookte kntw wben h. told the Grip" that after a thous. and yea"" It" would be 'btlinc:d 10 the world' (t,6. 19-:IO). In 'btlincd- we see 'blind' plus 'ddinaled'. VI.
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on<! W)""dllom t. . . w? ? , ,IWN
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carried I. . . . . y their 101"1, youlhful,
held Lim<:rid< in 968:
bria'" , ma. chb. , girls; their bloomina. silkd . d ~ . . . . . . . en;
0. . . . . . . ,,:10,0001o,-a'169)'~ " pon;. IIy", . . ! to,. A<Io! iI><Ct I if> "'"'I''XII. , (197'), ! l$.
"1"110 . 11 I ? , . . . . .
,". GwyoJ""""ond~J__(I_ ,J. M. 0. . . . '90S'),
C
? str<>y1 the patt",m and model! created by ! he intellect 10 "'nder t:\ngible its environment. Joyce'. in",rior monologue fo",os the reado< literally to become the writt. by an imidiou, mental in- va,ion, leading him by its own pe",e. . . . time-logic. Lewi. finds tbe proor<<' unattraCtive.
At 148. 33-149. 10Jones i. asked whether hewould help a beggar (1:) who OQughttempOrary aid r,run him. He ",plies that he w<luld not: a' a spaualist he . . ,. ,. the futility of impuhiviom. 1:'. lifestyle
i. a 'ridiroliSlttion' of the theories of Hinnein, imofar a. they presenllime as pliable. He calb I: an escapist (151 . 17--2 1). He denies. he pOssibility of I: . . . . . nsferring him to a specific time by . rtifice: 'I rail to see w! un . . . for auaht I care for the cootrary, the all is rcIw-t' (151. ~6-36).
The eXpoSitio" pToe<<dS in lhe fable of the Monkse and the Gripes. The Monkse i. the pope, especially Adrian IV wboo<: bull LAwlaN/j,er WI. used by the Anglo-Norman invade. . . of Ireland 10 justify ! heir 'reformation' of the O>urch already established there. A. the pope looks across the watees towards Ireland, so the Monk. . 1001<3 acn>S>; the Liffey from the stone he . its upon (153. 2)--5) and c<lnducn a theological war with the Gripes, who i. on the other ,ide, perched on ? limb of the elm. This concernS
not only the bull of Adrian but ahn the cnntrovefllY over Paschal Compurati,m which oc<:urred in the seventh century. At ! hi? ? ime the Iri. h dergy calculated the date of Easter frrun the Jtwilh 14- year cycle, while the Roman prela. es had? ",vi. ed their cyde to raIlove certain inaccuracies. T he hilh were peflluaded to ch. ange tn the nN' SY1",m, which they did with "eat reluctance, almost a century being required for complete C(mversioo.
This undtrlie1l the Gripes'. requcot to know the time and the Mookoe's repl y 'Let thor be orloll. Let Pauline be Irene' (154-23), which includes tht; meanings 'let there be war' and 'let there be ? clock' a. well u . upplying Thor', other name, OrlOgg. " II refers also to the my5! ic Nuarene faith which Paul modified and which later gave rise to gnosticism. The onhodnx opposing movement wu represented by Peter'. ,ucCCSSOr h-matus. Thus tht; rivalry
between I'cter and Paul celebrated by Madame Blavatsl<y" is extended to COVer all conflict between orthodoxy and he-rt"1y. In 156. 08--18 appear several theological controve~ies: the dual nature of Christ'. body, the Immaculate Conception and the Pro- eNS;"" of the Holy GIro. . , all j" the tonll"e1I of the schismatics,
"0. 8. Chritt;. ,,;,SWfd;_~~'1'. . . . . ". . W. U,'>4. "I", U"";W (Lon<Ion. . ~ PublUll. . . . Soci<ty) II, k--9I.
The Nmion of Tim( 33
? 34 TheSilIlaofF;muga",Wair
Russian and Grm. VI. B. 17. 40 pinpOints the $C(:ular ambition of the papacy: 'Mook~wanlS lempOral power. ' Evcntu. o. lly nightfall oilenCC! l the disputants.
In the rest of 1. 6. 1 I, A fir. . pTaillt1 C a. a penon, o. ! though he i, compelled to dissociate him*<:lf frQrn ,he philosophy C adopts (159. 1. 4-160. 14). He then r. . wnes the tCnninology of hi. original attack. Ae<:ording to the 'ystem, he says (161. 07-'4), he cannot be transpOsed to ? ? pecific . ime by t:, or have 10mething that il
in I:'s pocI<cts, that ii, there can Ix no real communication, unless they have sjmullantoUJ/y entangled them. . lves once in . he dear <k:ad days of by and by. So UIYSHI, f'rr example, could only he undenl1""" by a penon who had lived in Duhlin in 1904-
A reprc&ents him*<:lf he,"" as Burrus, and C . s Caseous, and du. _ cuss. . their rivo. !
ry in regicide and love. " In the end he condemns [he penman for hi' ! ingu;. tic ~t25ynthcsi. : 'My unchanging W ord i, s. acrcd. The word il my Wire, to aponll<' and expound, . . . and may the curlew1 crown our nuptia. ! Till BrCllth u' depart I
Wamen. &ware would you change with my yean. Be a, young as your grandmother I The ring man in the roni shop but the rite
words by the rotC order' (167. 18-33).
1. 7 i. 1:'. hiography a. furnished by A. It i. the most autobio-
iraphical episod<: in FW and its 'low hero' shar. , nwnerous mor- hid . ymptnm. ' with Joyce. He exhibits nu:g:o. lomania, paranoia, muochiom, alcoholism and physical infirmity, including an '"Ye di. . . . . which occuions sropolamine treatment and the wearing ofa black patch. Joyce . pmt part of hi' youth living in Orumcon- dn: C i, an 'e~cornrnunicated Drumcondriac' (,81. 35) and the domes,ic fb. shback of 169. lO-170. 141I11. ve. ties the Joy<:e home- hold. Lik<: Joyce, C emig"""" to Europe, staying at . h. c Hotel em? neille in Pari, (17l. lO), and impOrtun. . his brother for . upport ( 172. 22-('i). L ike Stephen, he io oubje<;tcd to penonal violence near
? brothel. M eson; Har! and Knuth" point ou, the relarionship of the addtes, to lhal of Bella omen'. cstlhli. hment in 'Qrcc'. C al&<. > ",,,,,mbl,,,, the TriC$rine Jayce when he works . . . tutor in model hou. . hold. (181. 03"""26), '\IlI"Cptitiouo! y transcribing their convemltion. Finally he i, boycotted by puhlishers and printe. .
but contrivcs to propagate his nbscenity notwithstanding.
The bingraphcr ince. . . . ntly derog:at"" t:. His . . . . nrio. ! accull. ll- tion i. that Cil a """",, a pLailari,r. The "Piphanlc dll1illation from nature;' forgery, the craft ofJim the Penman (I SI. 12-16). U/yIUl,
"1iDmin<<! beIow,p. 9>.
"a;. . ,Hut. Dd1. . 00Kou<h. AT~a-<<>J-"Joyu. ,'U/J>_ (~cr, It. "'ok< ~[i_ Pr. . ,. '91l) 1, J. . j.
? . I! hough 'unrud. bk' (' 19. 26), I. for 1:. lIimulani . 0 ranlosy and escape. Every mark on its PIlie proanostica'cs limitless wtalth, happiDeu, inebriltion and sexual . . ti. faction, an entire optn. _ houseofnakedhrirnIts~n. plurM by <helOp ncolewhichc:,the . tnOO", holds, jill' like I bird, for live mln1,lI"', 'infinitd y better than Ba. . . . 'on McGIud::ln' (179. ~. -i80. 08).
I: liv<:3 in I 'secrer cell' (182. 14- '), where ~ oomcmpl. ,es I panoply oftphcme. . . . , mucn of it evidently hallucinated (. 8). 08-
. 8. . (1)- When he IooIts ou, of <he keyhole throt. Ia;h ? ~
it n>m$ into I IJUnbarrd thr"". . . ,in, him (178. 1~'79-08). He is
'! \OOI\tlaYIe1Torised to skin and bone by an ineluctablc phantcm' (. 84. 08-9). Consumed by thc ovc. . . . eening thint for innova,;on
lie ~ everythi"ll fortuitous from hi. aeriprurc and avoids ewfJ commitmft. . , . . with Joyce'. own fana<kal ncu. . . . ilY in politi. ". . In the La,;n pltl'"'" . 8,. 1. -16 the ramililt, Fneudian
tql. d. tion of cttativity wi. h dcfecatloa is CO<\$picuou? .
1. 7 terminates with Ip<<chcs by Junius (. . . ) and Mcrciul (t:). Junius resolves to quit <he philosophy ofc:and in four Jon, Pl'ra- Inlphs accu_ him ofpcrwnioD, in&nttitudc, vindimveotf,$ and embtzzlcmen. , and offcn II rcmMy '. little judo. Ionic'. In the end he will oot follow I: for fcar of divine retribution and hc di. _
misses him with I cc,. . ,monlll culV.
The reply of Merei. . . ac:wrd. with <he prophecy th. a. he will
nttd IU the: elm>entl in the river to . kIn him <IVC" il (188. 0,;- 6). Time'. flux esoncntes leniUl, ? the Mookte kntw wben h. told the Grip" that after a thous. and yea"" It" would be 'btlinc:d 10 the world' (t,6. 19-:IO). In 'btlincd- we see 'blind' plus 'ddinaled'. VI.
