urine with another $ymOOI of
fertility----\ltrong huh tea- and even with the communion winc il.
fertility----\ltrong huh tea- and even with the communion winc il.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
.
.
just whtl"e Brien came in'.
, F. Sudstt<, 'Further RcooI\ccti<w. 01 J. . . . . . . Joya:', p",n-. Rmt. . , vol. XXlII, Foil, [9~6, p. ~3~.
, Sot above, p. '40.
, British M. . . . -um, Add, MS 41474, f. "u.
w.
? T W Q Majqr Motifs
The giant Finn and the Liffey beside him Ihm lie in the attitude of Jl! oom and Molly, mutually opJXl'Cd in kd, but Joyce u. l<ea the U! 1J$<$ situation a step further and suggest! that the. physical di'position implies buccal copulation: 'what
oracular cornep~on we have had apply to them I' (1I5. ~4); 'Jurnpol . hootlst throbbst into me mouth like a bogue and arr<)hsl' (6~6. o. 'i). Th;" then, is till: full significance of the $Oft '11=' with which the work end! . rkscribing a dOled cirm, half mak and half female, Earwic. ker and Anna fonn a human counterpart to the opf>OS<'d Ye,,! Sian gyr<:', A further clue 1. 0 the true natuTe olf that cloacal . . ,aling embracc i:! contained in the worda 'Li>>. The keys to . . . ' (6~6. I5), for 'LI'" may k read 'L. P. S:, i. e. , 'Lord Privy Seal'. ' (Thill C(lnciusion may owe
a little to the celebrated and carefully engineered IIWOi of Sterne's &lIiimmtm JlJllrne. J which, lih Fi_gaM Wak<, enda 011 a sU! pended SUltencc. The debt """IDS to be acknowledged at mI. O':
'It's l"'""nix, dcar. And the flame i'I, hurl Let'. OUT joornce . aimomichael make it. Since the Iausafire hulo. t ;o. nd the ix>ok of the depth is. Qo,ed. ')
It =l1li to ha. vc been a part of Joyce'. design tn include allUliom to every pClMible form ofl! CXual deviation, and to llJe the mo. ' OOmIDOn perveruoIII aa primary material,' The ,in of the Father is alternately voyeurism and inust; the daughter is mbian; ! hi: SOns conWltently homosexual; onanistic and narcissistic imagery abound" and absolutcly everyone ;. , avidly coprophilic. The ceremonial =rd~m ad <VIIIm tIiaboli of the Black Mass plays an even more important p u t in FitwgtulS
Wake than it doa in Utf. ut:r. The Letter;" made to end with a ,cries of four kis. es, symbolised . . . four Xs- four 'crouki. . . . . ' (II ' ''7J-which at ~80. o7 are modulated to the contemp-
tuon' <fumissal 'kissis" my exil'! '. ' The mutual nat". . . , of the
, I. . . . ,gutd"ultoMr. F';. . s. . mforpointingouttometherncaniDi'" 'T. po'. cr. ;'" thi. I oon~erion the p. . . . S. . . ab<>u' the do@" (><>4-", >gII. OI), and . he undoubtedly cloacal ~;"Il" buttoohoIa' '" the Qwnct motif
('l09)'
For pm;1. . oom"","'" ""ou, Ill;",,,,,,, L. Albex,. JoJ<. """ "" N""
p~,AnnArbor,1~~7,Chapter:><von(onmicrofilm). ? cr. 'K. M. A. " (U 1]6).
"5
? TW() Mqjur Motifs
pervenion which . . . :,ulu in thi. . kiss is made dear from the word 'Shlicksheruthr' (280'~7), while the whole anallevd of inler_ pretation groW'S ev. :n mort: explicit in a passage from the Anna Livia. chapter iudr; where head and buttocks a. . . : on"" more united in a '<:1'O:I'COmplimentary' group:
'. . . her lingimari saffron , trumans of hair, parting them and $OOthing her and mingling it, that Wat deepdark and ample like thi. . ltd bog at sundown. ' (203'~4)
While anal_eroticUm is unmistakahly pnacnt in all ofl oyce'. works, it WM the function of micturition whi~h held the mon pleMurahle asso<:iatiom for him. The Letter ,I$ually end. with an act of micturition, a 'pee ~ ' (1",,8). (In one venion it bean the ,uiJs<:ribed add. . . ,. . : 'Dubbleno, WC', 66. 18). The 'p. s. ' to the full statement or the Letter (6'9. 11) was originally writl<:n 'Pst',' fur the post-script . . a flow ofurine: 'amber too'. It flltJTl$ a subsidiary ,t. . . :am proceeding from the 'maiu body' of waler, and hen~~, if the ,i" main paraJiI""pru of the Letter are the verba) embodiment of Anna Livia, the P. S. . . to be identifu:d with her 'mall daughter, h . y. 111. . identification . . ofmajor important(, for it . . bly who tempu her brothe. . with the mund of her micturition to which, Si",n. like, . he bids them
' LiMom I Li,,,,,m! ' (~I. oo, 57 1. ~4) ; hearing the ,arne command - 'P,I'- which lu. . . . him on to =ual perversion, E;uwicker fall. from grat( in the Phoenix Park. This is the primal temp- tationfor10yce;allofhi,{ory,pring>from Man',flntobedient(.
Not content to leave matte. . . there, at the naturalistic levd, lnycc elevates urinc to a v. 'Y much higher plat( on the sym. bolic ocale. It hat already been observed that he saw in micturi?
tion nnt merely a temptation for the fle:sh, but an a ( t ofcreation' ; in Fi. ""gans 1V<1k. he identifi. .
urine with another $ymOOI of
fertility----\ltrong huh tea- and even with the communion winc il. $eIf. T his triangular oct ohymbolic identifications had already figured largely in U! ;mu:
'- Wll<:n I make. tea I make:s tell, M old mother Crogan . aid. And when I mak", water I make, water. '
, Brl,iih M . . . . . . . . . . , A M . MS :p? lil, f. ':J,4.
, a. . . . b<r M";';, <<I. W. Y. T,n. u. Il. ! 'Iew Y. ,. . k, '9~, pp. H If.
,,"
? TU? J Ma. JQf Motifs
'-Byjow:, it is tu, Hal"", u. id. '
'Buck Mulligan W<:I1t On hewing and . . . h~dl;ng';
'-. s. . , th, ,II". C4kiJ1, oays 'he. &,-, . . . . . '''''", oays :<Of,. .
Cahill,CH-'JDI'. '/-. 1-. W. iN/JuOIUJitII. ' (U to;joyce', italics. )
- I f ~'V"'" l . f t l l h I M I ' _ ' I d ; " ; " , ,
' ",/1 gll ""jtt. drillh IIJ"'~ I'm md;i"8 I'" "'~'"
nld k_ I. drink wain" ""d wish il lilt" plain Tlwl , m4kt u'''''' I'"wW lNtomu . . . ""orGg~;". (U '7; j oycc', itolia. . )
I n the law- book Joyce turns tills id u ioto a major rorn:spon. dencc. The ICmi. pri. -atcjokt abont Fendant'. being the: 'arch. du. cheM', urint? ' is carried over into rill. . """ IV. ! . . (t 7' . ~5~7, 209. 06, etc. ) and in the liturgia! chapin III. ~ Sh. . . nn maka
an unn. nal act of (ommnnion with his li. tet, who play, the part of the BVM' :
'Give UI another ( UP of you. ocald. Santol MOWiI ! ? I1tat was a damn good cupofacald! You oou! d trot. mo",,",on il. I iOg<:lyed your pid of hissing hot luncheon line, I did, thanks awfully, (sublime ! ). Tcndtl'U1 bully n~r I ate wi th boikd prolt:llan lJ (allinoili. allinoilia1) ooJy f<:n- your peas again . . -ao a lasle tooth pally 10 carry flavourwilh my godown and hereby retorn wilh my bat u. \"ioury a mdimcnlJ and a penny in the plale for Ihe
je~'. (455-35)
In the inverted pooture ad<>pted by the archetypes al the end
of the book we are evidently to see f. :. rwkker, like Shaun, making an act of oommunion with the myuically transub- stantiated urine of the goddw, Anna.
The ael of baptism, symbolkal\y ollie<! to t~ tn. OIUb- . ,antiabon ofthe wine, is;t. . ,1fdoc". . . . . ! in turns ofmicrurition in one of the parodirs of Quine! '
'tlle",',;o. rpurtfm: turfa'kind o'ltit>dling "'~II oft as the IOUfI". lOulfbloWJ ~r p"atirs up and a c! aypot Wtt lOr thee, my Sil)'l, and talkatalka tell Tibbo has ew:' (I r7. 11).
1 t. u. ", pp. ,06, 'S' . ? ct. aloo ~,. ,. If.
? Tu. 'O Major Ml)tijs
The 'daypol' olwiowly designates one ofJ oJ'C"" 'piping hoi' uICnailes,. . wcU as the tea-pol, to that the imagery grow~ vuy complcx. AI Patrick baptioes Bridge! be:iide the roaring 6r"" ofhia 'Purgatory', ahe sits like a godd. ,. ('lea' combines with 'the(:' 10 give 'thea') on her earthenw"", Ihrone drinking, and ma. kin&. tea. . . . . hile her PCI~U ~ blown up around her by guslS oeRatus from the furnace in the boweb orthe eanh. Tea, urine, ~d the hapwma! waten are therehy closo:iy integrated in a &iogIe symbolic act. The goddCII aad her pot form an imponalll image-group """eh ",tWIll in a number of witly mutauom (9. 3~, 171. ~4-'28, etc. ). Furthermore, the tea? ttain on the Letter-'tache oftch' (II[. ~O}---U identical with the impurity spied OUt by Earwicler on the temptrun' undu_ wear, wbo5e f. bric servCl . . . high. quality stationery: 'pubfuhcd
cornbinatioru of Iillinlaine tclumonieJ' ('4. U).
Wbelher or nol J oyQ: can 1M: said fully to N;VC aclticvd Itio
aim of dinilling nnivcnal b. auty from scatology mnS! . . ,main a matter for penonal ju~nL The lllempt i. ""rtainly imp~i"", and there can be no doubt ofJoya'. artistic . in_ ccrity-whatcvu his private ob$essionL He has by DO meano convinced aU his admi. . ,. . . , but I m)"CJf find the . . :at% gy in the main quite s"CO'"rul, esp<<ialIy . . . . hen Joy<< is handling his repugn>. nt and IOmeUmt:o n. t. UJeOUI maleriab in Itrongly mythological contcl<lS. The. . , the . . :alOlogy;' made 10 interlock in a pattern of 5fUlboI;. m of which it forllll an . ,. .
, F. Sudstt<, 'Further RcooI\ccti<w. 01 J. . . . . . . Joya:', p",n-. Rmt. . , vol. XXlII, Foil, [9~6, p. ~3~.
, Sot above, p. '40.
, British M. . . . -um, Add, MS 41474, f. "u.
w.
? T W Q Majqr Motifs
The giant Finn and the Liffey beside him Ihm lie in the attitude of Jl! oom and Molly, mutually opJXl'Cd in kd, but Joyce u. l<ea the U! 1J$<$ situation a step further and suggest! that the. physical di'position implies buccal copulation: 'what
oracular cornep~on we have had apply to them I' (1I5. ~4); 'Jurnpol . hootlst throbbst into me mouth like a bogue and arr<)hsl' (6~6. o. 'i). Th;" then, is till: full significance of the $Oft '11=' with which the work end! . rkscribing a dOled cirm, half mak and half female, Earwic. ker and Anna fonn a human counterpart to the opf>OS<'d Ye,,! Sian gyr<:', A further clue 1. 0 the true natuTe olf that cloacal . . ,aling embracc i:! contained in the worda 'Li>>. The keys to . . . ' (6~6. I5), for 'LI'" may k read 'L. P. S:, i. e. , 'Lord Privy Seal'. ' (Thill C(lnciusion may owe
a little to the celebrated and carefully engineered IIWOi of Sterne's &lIiimmtm JlJllrne. J which, lih Fi_gaM Wak<, enda 011 a sU! pended SUltencc. The debt """IDS to be acknowledged at mI. O':
'It's l"'""nix, dcar. And the flame i'I, hurl Let'. OUT joornce . aimomichael make it. Since the Iausafire hulo. t ;o. nd the ix>ok of the depth is. Qo,ed. ')
It =l1li to ha. vc been a part of Joyce'. design tn include allUliom to every pClMible form ofl! CXual deviation, and to llJe the mo. ' OOmIDOn perveruoIII aa primary material,' The ,in of the Father is alternately voyeurism and inust; the daughter is mbian; ! hi: SOns conWltently homosexual; onanistic and narcissistic imagery abound" and absolutcly everyone ;. , avidly coprophilic. The ceremonial =rd~m ad <VIIIm tIiaboli of the Black Mass plays an even more important p u t in FitwgtulS
Wake than it doa in Utf. ut:r. The Letter;" made to end with a ,cries of four kis. es, symbolised . . . four Xs- four 'crouki. . . . . ' (II ' ''7J-which at ~80. o7 are modulated to the contemp-
tuon' <fumissal 'kissis" my exil'! '. ' The mutual nat". . . , of the
, I. . . . ,gutd"ultoMr. F';. . s. . mforpointingouttometherncaniDi'" 'T. po'. cr. ;'" thi. I oon~erion the p. . . . S. . . ab<>u' the do@" (><>4-", >gII. OI), and . he undoubtedly cloacal ~;"Il" buttoohoIa' '" the Qwnct motif
('l09)'
For pm;1. . oom"","'" ""ou, Ill;",,,,,,, L. Albex,. JoJ<. """ "" N""
p~,AnnArbor,1~~7,Chapter:><von(onmicrofilm). ? cr. 'K. M. A. " (U 1]6).
"5
? TW() Mqjur Motifs
pervenion which . . . :,ulu in thi. . kiss is made dear from the word 'Shlicksheruthr' (280'~7), while the whole anallevd of inler_ pretation groW'S ev. :n mort: explicit in a passage from the Anna Livia. chapter iudr; where head and buttocks a. . . : on"" more united in a '<:1'O:I'COmplimentary' group:
'. . . her lingimari saffron , trumans of hair, parting them and $OOthing her and mingling it, that Wat deepdark and ample like thi. . ltd bog at sundown. ' (203'~4)
While anal_eroticUm is unmistakahly pnacnt in all ofl oyce'. works, it WM the function of micturition whi~h held the mon pleMurahle asso<:iatiom for him. The Letter ,I$ually end. with an act of micturition, a 'pee ~ ' (1",,8). (In one venion it bean the ,uiJs<:ribed add. . . ,. . : 'Dubbleno, WC', 66. 18). The 'p. s. ' to the full statement or the Letter (6'9. 11) was originally writl<:n 'Pst',' fur the post-script . . a flow ofurine: 'amber too'. It flltJTl$ a subsidiary ,t. . . :am proceeding from the 'maiu body' of waler, and hen~~, if the ,i" main paraJiI""pru of the Letter are the verba) embodiment of Anna Livia, the P. S. . . to be identifu:d with her 'mall daughter, h . y. 111. . identification . . ofmajor important(, for it . . bly who tempu her brothe. . with the mund of her micturition to which, Si",n. like, . he bids them
' LiMom I Li,,,,,m! ' (~I. oo, 57 1. ~4) ; hearing the ,arne command - 'P,I'- which lu. . . . him on to =ual perversion, E;uwicker fall. from grat( in the Phoenix Park. This is the primal temp- tationfor10yce;allofhi,{ory,pring>from Man',flntobedient(.
Not content to leave matte. . . there, at the naturalistic levd, lnycc elevates urinc to a v. 'Y much higher plat( on the sym. bolic ocale. It hat already been observed that he saw in micturi?
tion nnt merely a temptation for the fle:sh, but an a ( t ofcreation' ; in Fi. ""gans 1V<1k. he identifi. .
urine with another $ymOOI of
fertility----\ltrong huh tea- and even with the communion winc il. $eIf. T his triangular oct ohymbolic identifications had already figured largely in U! ;mu:
'- Wll<:n I make. tea I make:s tell, M old mother Crogan . aid. And when I mak", water I make, water. '
, Brl,iih M . . . . . . . . . . , A M . MS :p? lil, f. ':J,4.
, a. . . . b<r M";';, <<I. W. Y. T,n. u. Il. ! 'Iew Y. ,. . k, '9~, pp. H If.
,,"
? TU? J Ma. JQf Motifs
'-Byjow:, it is tu, Hal"", u. id. '
'Buck Mulligan W<:I1t On hewing and . . . h~dl;ng';
'-. s. . , th, ,II". C4kiJ1, oays 'he. &,-, . . . . . '''''", oays :<Of,. .
Cahill,CH-'JDI'. '/-. 1-. W. iN/JuOIUJitII. ' (U to;joyce', italics. )
- I f ~'V"'" l . f t l l h I M I ' _ ' I d ; " ; " , ,
' ",/1 gll ""jtt. drillh IIJ"'~ I'm md;i"8 I'" "'~'"
nld k_ I. drink wain" ""d wish il lilt" plain Tlwl , m4kt u'''''' I'"wW lNtomu . . . ""orGg~;". (U '7; j oycc', itolia. . )
I n the law- book Joyce turns tills id u ioto a major rorn:spon. dencc. The ICmi. pri. -atcjokt abont Fendant'. being the: 'arch. du. cheM', urint? ' is carried over into rill. . """ IV. ! . . (t 7' . ~5~7, 209. 06, etc. ) and in the liturgia! chapin III. ~ Sh. . . nn maka
an unn. nal act of (ommnnion with his li. tet, who play, the part of the BVM' :
'Give UI another ( UP of you. ocald. Santol MOWiI ! ? I1tat was a damn good cupofacald! You oou! d trot. mo",,",on il. I iOg<:lyed your pid of hissing hot luncheon line, I did, thanks awfully, (sublime ! ). Tcndtl'U1 bully n~r I ate wi th boikd prolt:llan lJ (allinoili. allinoilia1) ooJy f<:n- your peas again . . -ao a lasle tooth pally 10 carry flavourwilh my godown and hereby retorn wilh my bat u. \"ioury a mdimcnlJ and a penny in the plale for Ihe
je~'. (455-35)
In the inverted pooture ad<>pted by the archetypes al the end
of the book we are evidently to see f. :. rwkker, like Shaun, making an act of oommunion with the myuically transub- stantiated urine of the goddw, Anna.
The ael of baptism, symbolkal\y ollie<! to t~ tn. OIUb- . ,antiabon ofthe wine, is;t. . ,1fdoc". . . . . ! in turns ofmicrurition in one of the parodirs of Quine! '
'tlle",',;o. rpurtfm: turfa'kind o'ltit>dling "'~II oft as the IOUfI". lOulfbloWJ ~r p"atirs up and a c! aypot Wtt lOr thee, my Sil)'l, and talkatalka tell Tibbo has ew:' (I r7. 11).
1 t. u. ", pp. ,06, 'S' . ? ct. aloo ~,. ,. If.
? Tu. 'O Major Ml)tijs
The 'daypol' olwiowly designates one ofJ oJ'C"" 'piping hoi' uICnailes,. . wcU as the tea-pol, to that the imagery grow~ vuy complcx. AI Patrick baptioes Bridge! be:iide the roaring 6r"" ofhia 'Purgatory', ahe sits like a godd. ,. ('lea' combines with 'the(:' 10 give 'thea') on her earthenw"", Ihrone drinking, and ma. kin&. tea. . . . . hile her PCI~U ~ blown up around her by guslS oeRatus from the furnace in the boweb orthe eanh. Tea, urine, ~d the hapwma! waten are therehy closo:iy integrated in a &iogIe symbolic act. The goddCII aad her pot form an imponalll image-group """eh ",tWIll in a number of witly mutauom (9. 3~, 171. ~4-'28, etc. ). Furthermore, the tea? ttain on the Letter-'tache oftch' (II[. ~O}---U identical with the impurity spied OUt by Earwicler on the temptrun' undu_ wear, wbo5e f. bric servCl . . . high. quality stationery: 'pubfuhcd
cornbinatioru of Iillinlaine tclumonieJ' ('4. U).
Wbelher or nol J oyQ: can 1M: said fully to N;VC aclticvd Itio
aim of dinilling nnivcnal b. auty from scatology mnS! . . ,main a matter for penonal ju~nL The lllempt i. ""rtainly imp~i"", and there can be no doubt ofJoya'. artistic . in_ ccrity-whatcvu his private ob$essionL He has by DO meano convinced aU his admi. . ,. . . , but I m)"CJf find the . . :at% gy in the main quite s"CO'"rul, esp<<ialIy . . . . hen Joy<< is handling his repugn>. nt and IOmeUmt:o n. t. UJeOUI maleriab in Itrongly mythological contcl<lS. The. . , the . . :alOlogy;' made 10 interlock in a pattern of 5fUlboI;. m of which it forllll an . ,. .
