No More Learning

Illn would be tantamount to . . ,xual an. d:.
Ther< is less cvidelKC conn<<;ting Iaphet witb A. Iapllel i, ?
diffu. . , figure, whose appearances bave been caCO;logu<:d by Thoma. A_Gowan. "Heis~tprominentin1. 6,who. . ,twelve question. were . . ked by 'Jocki. Mie Ercweak' and answered by 'Shoun Mac lrewid:' (t~6. 04-7). Japhct is here distinct from I:, fOT at ,68. oS-ti the answer contains an appeal to him againn C: 'would mtSClf and Mac Jeffet, four-in-hand, foot bim out? ' But he is obviously not wholly distinct from c. , for '43-lJ-4 infonn. ut . hat 'Jeff's got the l igna of Ham round hi. mouth'
1. 7 seem. to neglect the oorrelati. m entirely. JoylX (:OIled it '. dca<:riptionof Shem-Ham-Cain-Egan etc and hi' penman. hip? . . .
At '87_2~ C i. (:OUed 'Tam'tar Ham'; at ,89. 3' he is '. jophet'. This illustrates me advantltlfC in keeping . igla distine. from me word, usuolly offered to gloa! them. 1. 7 i. abouI C; Shcm it one of bis components.
a A_ E. \P';<<, n. . I/oly 1("hN1<lIo, >9<t-l. " 'Jd[ &. -wi<l<r\ AWN X. $ (91)), 69-75. "uu~,I,>OI.
c. u Unity and Triad 93
? Chapter 7 XO
The Quobus Quartet
TM . . . . . . . . . . 0011 of FW is br",ly ddep'M to m. q. . . dripuril~ flUIty ]I(, m. four annalists, U$IIIOIly with a hi:u in r. yo\l. 01 C or . . . . It mi&h' be objccttd . . . . . . since the dosing words of FW au spoken by . . . . their unpuncruated continuarion into the openina po,OIIV"'piu; implicate. . . . in dw: whole efflux. But by o'S. l9 the namlnT Q; dtfinitcLy male, I' he becomes 'Mun' in ! he follow;"a; dialogue. By cxtrapoiollion from the laler paru nf book I We leam 10 llIJOCia? ? the analytical and 'illidcbool<' It>nC with X, whole d,,- linct pam . re p"=ived in tb. closing "",,,,graphs of 1. 1 (from
04-. 6), and. ao in 094. 33-'09P6.
T h _ four IWt! requin ditfcraltiaoon. TIw:i. definitive namet.
. . e Manh_ Gnp). Matt Lyom, Luke T~rpey and Johnny M l c D o u p l n . c : I u . . . . . . m e < l l a t h e 0 V 0" " " o f t h o . , . . w h o o b l i g i n a l y intuprca for X the: hybrid I~:I:11 of 1M phanta. . . . . lbey mc;oun. cr. Vl. B. ? ? . I4J hi. 'X IOtcmj. . . ' but thd. mod<: of
"'fer. . . . . . . to th<:ir beau i. not ovenly reminiS<Orot oft<xemi. m. The clearest distinctio. . . within I( IDI. ) be traced from th. ir
Istociafion. wilh the four provlncel of irdllnd, which weT. lradi_ liolUlUyfamedforspccifi,occupluioruandhwnou. . . ' Th. inhAbi. lants 01 Ulu tr W<! ce said to be wadike, those Dr M"n'tcr Riven to rnutic, the "",,i"'termcn affluent and the pt'Qple of Connaeht U(cllinl in sanc:tity and leaminl. Tbe gencn. lization, rolourc:d by Joyce'. real "". . . . ' '''''''''' o f ' he p1"O? incQ, can be detected in the COJ"IIp;I. . ri"" lrCIun. . . . '" X in 1. 6 and III-l-
~ . . im the d"toned n:uncs of Belfut, Con;;,
1. 6. 4 iJ marked II in "'" manUK:ripu. TIle amwct CIOIUains four
KerioN,
Dublin Ind Galway, plus I c:oda. Port (0) containl the . . . . . . . -d 'oronae', f"(:ftrcnces to the Bdfalt lhipbo. tilding industry and. ""t_ Qlinv;]JOUc. nddir~l. ThltCOntraltowithIhelyricalpari(b),
? which alludes to the Blarney StOIlO (al Hlarney CaStJc neac CoTk). The languid, . . ted voke of (c) i. appropciate to the . -dineroent ofthe m<:tropolis, with i" comm<'"I"tt and its Georgian architecture.
In (d) we find worth like 'Holy' and 'Sainted', western localities (Mayo, Tuam, Slig<:>> and the Spani. h aSSOCLat;onl of Galway City . The coda, marked abed), contains f"'gruene. of an four part', but COlInCCU notllbly with the 'chimes' of (b), for it parodies Th. B,II, ofShamum. Joyu's annotation to MS 47473, 194 . Ntes . hat h. . . . . Ulster, Munst. ,. , L"illlter and O,n"""h, ace ringing in unillOn. It continues 'A bell a bellion Shandon "eepienne questioner, keeping alnru: at tbe end etc, . hould have 8 lllum. to his howl! '
The bdl. of S, Ann', at Shandon in Cork ore <>pc""ed by eight ropes: )( muSt be harmonizing their responses with one rope in
eoch of thei, eight hands.
111. 3 contllins nurn"rou> . pt<<hes by ""ch of the four rqlr. . . .
sentatives, bu, i, is often hard to know which i. which. MS 4748lB, 63 provides a due, for it conNi", an early "". . . ion (foUow_
ing" differenl sequence) of 477. 04-8. Thesefive lines are labelled for the appropriate speaker: IS they appear in FW they appertllin
respoctively to Luke, Mark, John, Matthew and Luke. For example Luke uy. 'Why 110 and. peak up, do you h""r m<:, you sir? ' W e may compare 478. o~: 'Can you heac here me, you . ict', and attribu,e this 01"" to Luke. In fact the whole of 477. 3'-478. n appears to be an alternation between Luke and 1>. .
Lu~ r<:pr<:scot. Leinster and po. . esses a di5Creet anglicized quality which contra. ts with the gnarled, scornful voice of Mat- thew at 478. l3-33. It i. evident that 478. 35-479. 1~ ia the ,p = h of Johnny MacDougal, for he speaks of hi? ? IS, of hi. cousin Mr Jasper Dougal and of hi. 'linle grey home in the west'. JOYce', venion of the Conmcht character paYI I. . . . heed to sanctity than to enigma. Wc should = d it in the light of his TN! Ci,y of ,h.
TribeJ,' which emphasizes the VlI. gue, bin,. ,. e qualities in Galway as he knew it. John i. les, prominent in questioning than the re- mainder of )( and at 482. 09-t~ i. told to pull hi? . weight. This
fractures the . imple alternating dialogue of )( and 1>. : before I>. ean speak, 'Many A = g h ' begin. dameteri,tieally 'W ould ye ken a young step5chul. ,. . . . ? ' I>. tell. him that he i. 100 far a cock of the north and proceeds to identify the next . peaker ? ? lIOutheTTt. Mark again parodies Th. B,11s of S""ndo~ (483. 06-7), which was rontposffi. by Father Prout (482. 3 1).
? n . o , ? n u J w";'""'~J " " " ' J o y << , c d E l I _ h " ' - ' " a n d R k t w d E I I m a n n (N. . . . Y<d, Vib>a" to)OSs), '>\1.
The Quobu. Quanet 95
? 96 The Sigla of Fitmqans Wak.
By cornpari,on wilh those specimens, many other . pecche. of Xin III. ) can be placed . <)pog. . . . phically; mhers a! "C 100 brief r<)r cer. . . inly. From 5'9. ? 6 to 512. 0) the warlike pcrsonalily of Ma,_ ,hew . hl. . . ",ns to upoct th. equilibrium and a fighl almosl de- velnps between him and hi. oollcague> (521. 28-31). " It i. Luke
however who eventually silences the other th! "Ce (528. 27-9) and dcmlI. nds the entry or m Afler this poinl seven oomposite inlctj~s by X <>Ceur. They ool1$ill al first of shol"! phrase? ? imilar to those on 477, but fmm 540. 09-12 a oongruily of . . . . temenl inerea. . , until at 552. 30-33 an four . imply e~d. lim 'Hote! '
The quadrupcl corupicuou$ly overlook 111. 4, bcilli situaled . , the four royal manor. <)f Eo1<er, Newco. stle, Sogga. . and Crumlin (555. t)- I5; see fiiUtC 2). This ! "Clilion belolljjed originally to Ibe
Viking rulers of Dublin and wu . . ize<i by Hcory II to form the Kina:'s Land. ' The Ellili'b Sove! "Cign Wiluld appoint various senctehalsofthe four manon, as X arc designaled at 566. 08. The openings of the four . . . bl. . . "" II. On>C the successive quartcn of lC, bUI I sec nothing in the . ubject maner to collate with their naturCS. The only direct speech in the episode seems to be that of X. Tctndic blod<s, ? ? in 'Hoveth Child. . . ', <><:cur al 565. 25-8 and 576. 10-13, a . ex! uple blocl: at 571. 27-34 and an oc. . . d at 572. 0"]- 14. 'Tobcd' (576. 17)i. thel. . . ! directspceciIofFWand apparently Ihe futal srau: <)f X's oooc! "CSccncc.
Despite their name>, Xhavevery HIde to do with the four evan_ gelist? .