No More Learning

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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'.
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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. ;,;. '" Civili",,';". . J,. . . Prino'_ c-t. . _ . ,. M _ mono, 0>-= ,110), 3>6.
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~ "The ~ <I Si<ll<>ban>',;" A W. . u D? <<', <d. . ". OiY< Hart . . d F<i,. S<nn (Sydney Uol,"""", PI:-<st . gM), ,. - ,.
The Decline of m 15
? ~arwiJ:'. Wh~n m mcctl the King he carri~ a de~ice employed forthisp~,aninvertedplanrpol. ""aItick. HyntemOon, an earwiucr il himself an earwig, and then, any inJect. Why lhould""rwi"qualify particularly for adD! illion into the 1Th:om. pia? Th~ir. . -t. trikinBfe. cuui. aplirofforcepi('07. 11). Mal? colm Burr" lA Y'thar urwiS' 'irupire drtad in ! lit mind' of the lu~ntiliouo,and il ilI. his i"'tturnenl ? ? th, end of too. linuous body and their habi, of bol,;"g imo dad: holn and crtvices that
hat lt d to the w;. ;t",prlOId <>orion llIlol they a", apt to elller th~ human CIf wirh fatal fe. ulu. From tlli' belief arose Our familillr
nam. c,which~nfintinAna. . . . Sa~onuIOIrcwicp,theo. erond half ofwhich ;, an old verb . . ,hich . . ,,,,ivct in Ill<: words wiale,
. . . . . "Ie, wriUle, m""nil\i quid: mov<mrnr. '
Fit' f' e<juendy mentions m? , ean and in the norebool. . . uch
lIeM. alizatiOf>l; as the: followina occur:
VI. B? S? ln: m his KOOd exr
mdeafI. Taub VI. II. '5? IH: m car A Imell 111
,,~'" t::louch -IliBhl
But the approprialion oi ocru. tI 10 'iKJa htn: ill only partly allowed in FW for, u we . halll<<, a critical differc-no< bctwccn t:: and " ill the Jood huri. . , and bad eycsisht of the (onner, and
the rever:w: a"ributes of the latter. Th. . . . , two Iysrems of correia? tion m ay function ind. -pcndcntly : Ir il oftm as:w:rted thai m il <kaf, and this link. with hi, ' P. cch impediment. VI. 8. 36. )06 states 'm is earweak'. ~ In . . rwig hu entered Ilia audilory m""tul: O$9. l2 mcnoono 'whal lhey 100II oul of hil car'. But when " i,
Ielli. . , C rhal he is mad, he besins 'Come here, Herr Siudios. . . , 'ill l,eU yo\I a . . . . ij; in your n,' (' \11. . . - 13). II is rrcqumtly imputed 11111 m is MIld 100.
So much fortht ;nMr e. . . . Far man: ,ignificut is th( ov(rgr<1W1l pil\JUl nf King Mi""s. All the ! >C,. aru. who lransmil lhe slander ,boul m seem to be in the positiOll oi the barbe, who law undor Mid. . ' cu,lIIn. In addition 10 Ovid', vcnion we haw: Irish and Welsh kg. . .