Ossian wal
tTaditionally
IUPposed.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
for a <ever1ed cffecr, 'And God did to that niab" for it waS dry upon ,he tkccc only, and there wu dew on all the
ground. '
Severa! parodi. . on this appear. 313. 35-6 has 'leaden be light,
'/i>wh',Jo. ,_ SlOol;,. . t. . '-i. 161. ? S<ruon Ill. 11.
? Lather be dry and i. be drownd on all the eal$. h be,id(' and 314. ~9 'Le, there be. Due. ' A, 320. '0-' I m n)'S of the uilor 'I will pu, hi; fiea, of wood in the flour:' Bllmann' has already indicated th. variantsat 329. '4and330. 10-11. Theconflationoffl= andlui. i. mediated hy the oong 'Brian O'Linn', frequently tied to m . Rrian O'Linn made . hocpllkin ttOuocr'.
Shordy after his 'scven oak agcs' at . . ,. . the captain returM, although thi' character still. hadcs into that of the publican. 'Boni? face' il a generic name used for innkeepers, and is applied to m
al 315. "9. The iJlip', husbarld, who had though, him drowned, making n avy Jon",'. I. . . och:r a kettle of fiiJI () 16. 19"""20), wdcomcs him back. Like a Viking he mAku tht; . igtt of Thor'. hammer ovcr hi. drinking-vessel. H e orden a di. h or <>yStCl1i frn" m. Eventually
(319. 20-22) he wonders what happened 10 the coat and trouse. . . Pukkeben (Nom? . gian, 'Humpson") replies that he put them
behind lh. oallhouse. He il very indignan, a, the poor fit and curses the tailor (japllncOlC, . rhitauya, 319. 27) with the c"",, of Olaf. The tailor i? ? c<>mmunist, bQa$. inll" 10 be in the lalest Savilc Row fashion as ? doublebrcaSIed navigato,. T'he back of my hand to him, add. m, the curse ofmy ancestors on him,. lIod<iamned gussct sewer. His firs, cousin is an invalid in the United States who i. nOt fit to light a kettle of fish, and he i. the wont Wcs, End suitmaker that ever poked a needle in a cloth I (320. 01- 17) The captain departs once II\Ore amid hi. . . ~nt'. can. to return.
The "'ilM WOS originally (311. 24) the successor to A. he and Whitehead, cloth", . hop. Ashe Junior now reappca. . (32 1. 34) and finds the pub . . ill open. H. is derided by three drinken there,
because he has cut up and mi. under. toOd for that old bi,ch', bu? urd . uch a luil ofclothe. that hi. 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<emic primal father in Frend's To/em and Taboo are bo. 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').
ground. '
Severa! parodi. . on this appear. 313. 35-6 has 'leaden be light,
'/i>wh',Jo. ,_ SlOol;,. . t. . '-i. 161. ? S<ruon Ill. 11.
? Lather be dry and i. be drownd on all the eal$. h be,id(' and 314. ~9 'Le, there be. Due. ' A, 320. '0-' I m n)'S of the uilor 'I will pu, hi; fiea, of wood in the flour:' Bllmann' has already indicated th. variantsat 329. '4and330. 10-11. Theconflationoffl= andlui. i. mediated hy the oong 'Brian O'Linn', frequently tied to m . Rrian O'Linn made . hocpllkin ttOuocr'.
Shordy after his 'scven oak agcs' at . . ,. . the captain returM, although thi' character still. hadcs into that of the publican. 'Boni? face' il a generic name used for innkeepers, and is applied to m
al 315. "9. The iJlip', husbarld, who had though, him drowned, making n avy Jon",'. I. . . och:r a kettle of fiiJI () 16. 19"""20), wdcomcs him back. Like a Viking he mAku tht; . igtt of Thor'. hammer ovcr hi. drinking-vessel. H e orden a di. h or <>yStCl1i frn" m. Eventually
(319. 20-22) he wonders what happened 10 the coat and trouse. . . Pukkeben (Nom? . gian, 'Humpson") replies that he put them
behind lh. oallhouse. He il very indignan, a, the poor fit and curses the tailor (japllncOlC, . rhitauya, 319. 27) with the c"",, of Olaf. The tailor i? ? c<>mmunist, bQa$. inll" 10 be in the lalest Savilc Row fashion as ? doublebrcaSIed navigato,. T'he back of my hand to him, add. m, the curse ofmy ancestors on him,. lIod<iamned gussct sewer. His firs, cousin is an invalid in the United States who i. nOt fit to light a kettle of fish, and he i. the wont Wcs, End suitmaker that ever poked a needle in a cloth I (320. 01- 17) The captain departs once II\Ore amid hi. . . ~nt'. can. to return.
The "'ilM WOS originally (311. 24) the successor to A. he and Whitehead, cloth", . hop. Ashe Junior now reappca. . (32 1. 34) and finds the pub . . ill open. H. is derided by three drinken there,
because he has cut up and mi. under. toOd for that old bi,ch', bu? urd . uch a luil ofclothe. that hi. 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<emic primal father in Frend's To/em and Taboo are bo. 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').
