He is
attached
10 Lily, not to K.
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AruK, which is abo c:onmlry to the .
equiT'<<i Plltenl, and th:Io.
be and hil f.
milJ w c r e C a t h o l i < 1 W e .
r e n o w ; r I t N l c o u n t r y dill<<>"'l~d b y R o b e r !
Adami, Iyina between fllCl and fiction.
Our beal courac ;110 relum 10 the !
lclion.
? i l ' poUccrnan. So, It '4S. 2Z,;' Magnolh. <<8. 1 0 demand. 'Wh~re'. Cowtcnds Kltcdean, the woman with the muckrake": could thi. be II; plus S "' Mloljl:nth ('mucl:rake')I RememberinQ
Mn O. . . . heen'. obacrvarion WI . i. sometimca calk<! 'Mahan' (. 1. 1 016. 01), we mUSl include In instruction ! pvcn by jOf<'C for $19. 16: 'for 'Magrath or MacMINgh' read 'O'Bcjonuntcn or Moo;km. IcrnaboII5on. . ' I I Bw: lM mos. important linkalles Involve Mn Maanooh,w,,"-drawers,initialled L. K. ? al'Cbrin&wuhc:d
II ~
"s. . tilt 1Jo! f. . . N. . . J. '. . . . . . . ) 1_ ''''''
. )O-20'P3_ L. K. , ,~ 1II. . . . . ,i. . . explains, Olinda not for
. , M< Williom Ale . . . . f"mdIolU b iDf. . . . . . . . . . _ ? ? ? ? ? " . . .
"1 om . . .
Il>o h~. . . . . , olm. F_,. . . r. mlIy.
"(Bo4Ioy Head <<I;rion, '960), 69- "! j,. . . ,"J_J_ Ill. <<I. RIobatdau. . w. . . . '41.
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? ? ? ? ? Laura K<'Own bUI for 'Kinsdla'$ Lilith', Having iust ,pokm of Magnoth in her finallc\ttr, 6 pr<Xet<b 'The cad with the pope'. wife, L ily Kinsella, who became the wife of Mr Sn~ ke", for her good name in the hands of the ki. . ing solicitor, will now enga~e in anention,' (618,03-6),
It i. unclear whether thi, means that Lily was rnanied to the ead with the pipe of 1. 2 prioT to marrying Magrath, or whether the,,"d and Magrath are the same penon, When m confrontl the cad he speak. ! of'yore triplehydrad . . . . . ke' (0)6. 07), Docs this tn<an that the cad i, tht snake f Hi, wife is identified neither with K nor with L ily, but cornet cloaer to A, for , he rnak", 'ann;'; lawrie pT<lm- i. ,. ,,' (038,21), But she hetray. her confidence to C ('Mr Browne ", who ", in hi? ? econdary personality a, a Nolan', 038,26-8)
which il apt if her husband i, Cs e""my II,
In additinn to ! o. {agnoth, 6 mal<", complain~ against Sully, wl>o
truly, I think, be definitively nCTibed to L Having made Sully the author of Th. Ballad of Ptr. . . O'Reilly, A, at 495,03, claim'
that he 'is Magrath" thug: At 618,08 . he mention, him again, immMialCly after Magrath: 'The thick. off Bully'. Acre was got upbySully: Andlowcronthepage:'to. 1Iwhomitmayconcern SuUy i? ? thug,' Bully'. Acrt is the olok1t Dublin cemetery, in the ground. of the Royal H ospitil at Kilmainharn.
In the hope of clarifying the discrepancies I intend to devote
""me space tothe formal argument of 572,2t- 573,32, Thi. passage has sometimes been regarde<l. o. a key to FW, It appears tocreat
d in i$Olation and i
I
~! ;~:~:. i. ;~tojustify than the fi"'L Mrs Giashttn oees 'Lily' in 'Gillia': perhaps the nantes connect via Italian g~h'o, lily. If Gil1ia is 'schismatical' pcrhaps htt affini? tie. are with 1-, W e find -II- as the rose and lil y at 032,11, 485, t 2 and eloewhere, The Kabbalists use the two fIowe", from the SO"" of SoImmm, for the opposed Sephirothic pillaR of Judgem~nt and M ercy respectively," Thi' W<luld connect -I with A and I- with
The Magnoth Mystery 129
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? 130 The Sigla of FinntJ:411S Wak.
e. Further evide~ for the diabolic tendency of I- C<>m<< from POT,,~i, I, where Stephen is supposed to 'UPIXlr1 York (white)
against Lancaster (red).
If Gillia i, Uly, or Lilith, ber dehauch by Honupbrius w<>uld
refer to Ad~m'. fin. marr~. Further, ahe i. visited by 'Barnahas, tbe advOClIteofHonuphrius', who connects with t:, just as M ichael
(evidently Father Michael of the letter) connects with A. Magra_ viul knows Anita has committed oacrilege with MiclLael and he threatcn,berwithhisthug Sulla(. c)and the twdve SulUvani(0). SulLa, lilu: Triltln, wishes to procur<: -I (on behalf of Xl.
Obviou. ly we have more nam. . . . than 14! :1a. Ba. . . . ubu and Michael appear to duplicate I: and A, and possibly Canicula, 'the d<:<<ascd wife of fo. tauritiu,' may dupliQl. Le K. Therefore we might allow Mauritius and Magraviu. to be twQ veniotu of S. But it
mun be stt. . scd . hat Magrath retai"" cer1ain tr. Ii", not found in the other forms of s .
He is attached 10 Lily, not to K. He seem. to be younger than s for he i. 'a tommerdal, . . . . uloul of Honu- pbriU$', i. e. a competitor of In. He bas some linb with . c, for . c: i. hi, thug, whereas the usual S i. the ent:nl. y of L Additionally, ""nain I>>s",lft" appcotr almost to identify Magrath a, . c, the most ""tteme cas<: being S1l. 01-20:
-I think you're widdershins th. . . . . about the right reverence. AUgraw for the Norlhwhigg<orn cupleam was wedding bealtm. >. n . . .
_. . . I'm sur<: I'm wrong hut I heard the irrevel"Cld Mr Magn. w, in soarehof ntamme<, kud}:ucldr. icking the bed- ding OUt of the old sexton, red-Fox (,. ood_man . . . while I and l'lo,,",hnd the other men . . . wal gidding his missU$
to gadd. . in the ball , . . -You are a suckenomel
ParapOiylogic indeed. The wime. . , instead of the interpreter, has become 'Sackerson'. We had best concede that in some cir- cumstances. c: and S can b<<orne hard to distinguish, for in. l. nee at SS7. 03-S88. 14, where a SpeeCh by 'three j. olly postboy,' (A . c: 1:) ;. punctuated by the serpent'. hi. . (If Ot9. U. Notebook entries CQnn<<:tins all three brotbers with the snake: d<llittle 10 improve the issue. VI. B. 13. 49 has '. c: . . rpent by t', VI. B. '3? 173 'serpent ? :' and VI. B. '7. 73 'serpent A'. We are compelled to examine in
this light one <Ji. the components of S, perhapo the cause of his Scandinavian leanings, in which . c: f. . . . ures are aI. o prominent. This il the insidiou. serpentine sod Loki in Norse mYlb. Saunder- son at 2~1. 09 possesses 'his lokistrol<i'.
? In the great conflict ofthe god. and the gianla Loki wa1! a hybrid, able It> convene with both parties. But he was ultilIll1tely evil. 'When the god. were reduced IO the rank of demons by the intro_
duction of Christianity, Loki wu confounded with Samm, who had allO been shorn of hi$ divine atttibutes, and both wert con? . ide",d 'he prolmypt of S,":"n. ''' If CLa. sical mytholngy il ",. quired of FW we mU! t make Sa,urn S, Jupitec m and Men:ury <
Loki is impOnant for FW in connection with Balder's death and aloo with the Sigurd legend. The murder of the , lorioU! and adu? lated Balder by hi. dark, blind bro<her Hother 1001<$ like a . imple
Ale conflict but for the fact that i, wu arranged by Loki. Vf. ll. ~8. 41 has:
'-0>; balder A
Howev<:r, it il impossible It> raise the i. . . . ue wid",u, invoking 1"1u Gold. ~ llowgh: tbe mistletoe murdec become! ! the patricide of 11. 3, Balderbecome. m and we ,,'" obliged to regard LoIti as
<
The Sigurd legend il m o tt compl"". S2S. f()-Sl6. 0l $ << m ' It> "'fleet the cap,ure by Loki of'he dwuf Andvar;, e;,bec aa a pike (lisox lucius) or a . . Imon (Sa/mo sp. ). Loki compel. Andvari to yield hi. t",asure, which he then p. . . . . 10 Hreidmarr, king of the dwarfs, in compenMtion for the murder of one of hi. three sons. The tr. . . sure, howev<:r, includes a ring which convey. a CUt"1e, thu leach '0 Hreidmarr'. murder by hi, $0<1 Region and the . ub? a<<jucnt ""pulsion of Reginn by the "'lIlI1ining 50n Fafnir, who cI. . allj"" himselfinto I dragon and broods over the tr. . . . u"'. Even- tua! lyReginn ",turn. with Sigurd, whom he has pe"",ded to kill the dragon. Having done so, Sigurd is roo. stillj the dragon's heart for Region to COI1$ume when he inadvertently burO$ hi, fingt;c. Sucking;t '0 eaSt: the pain he suddenly ""'luices wiod<>m, . . . . ali>. . . that Regin. . means to kill him, and ,hen kil ls Reg;nn and eats the
= t of the hean.
The taller porlion of Ihi. story paraBels the legend of Finn and
the Salmon ofWi,dont. Finn wu to kill and cook the Salmon for Finn~, but burned hi. thumb, . ucked it, and became wise, with . imi! ar CQn' equcnces. I'rom Ihe FW standpOint the acquisilion of w;"dom appelt"1 to convert C. into m: the dead fish will be the oldm andtheconsumerofit? ? ubslance the new one. Now ReiPnn
"R A. c_" """. . . of,,. . N"", '" (l. oDOOtI. Hunp 1')01). '29.
The Magrath Mystery 1)1
? 132 Th. Siila of f<imugalU Wak.
and Fin~, forbiddina: C to ell! the ""urce of wisdom, are in . . similar """ition to God forbiddina: Adam 10 eat of the fruit. In each version,COIIIumption ofthe prohihiIed object I. . . w. . to a com- p,. . ,hension of the reason for the prohibition. At this point tams such. s 'good' and 'evil' change their meaning.
? i l ' poUccrnan. So, It '4S. 2Z,;' Magnolh. <<8. 1 0 demand. 'Wh~re'. Cowtcnds Kltcdean, the woman with the muckrake": could thi. be II; plus S "' Mloljl:nth ('mucl:rake')I RememberinQ
Mn O. . . . heen'. obacrvarion WI . i. sometimca calk<! 'Mahan' (. 1. 1 016. 01), we mUSl include In instruction ! pvcn by jOf<'C for $19. 16: 'for 'Magrath or MacMINgh' read 'O'Bcjonuntcn or Moo;km. IcrnaboII5on. . ' I I Bw: lM mos. important linkalles Involve Mn Maanooh,w,,"-drawers,initialled L. K. ? al'Cbrin&wuhc:d
II ~
"s. . tilt 1Jo! f. . . N. . . J. '. . . . . . . ) 1_ ''''''
. )O-20'P3_ L. K. , ,~ 1II. . . . . ,i. . . explains, Olinda not for
. , M< Williom Ale . . . . f"mdIolU b iDf. . . . . . . . . . _ ? ? ? ? ? " . . .
"1 om . . .
Il>o h~. . . . . , olm. F_,. . . r. mlIy.
"(Bo4Ioy Head <<I;rion, '960), 69- "! j,. . . ,"J_J_ Ill. <<I. RIobatdau. . w. . . . '41.
<cf~1
? ? ? ? ? Laura K<'Own bUI for 'Kinsdla'$ Lilith', Having iust ,pokm of Magnoth in her finallc\ttr, 6 pr<Xet<b 'The cad with the pope'. wife, L ily Kinsella, who became the wife of Mr Sn~ ke", for her good name in the hands of the ki. . ing solicitor, will now enga~e in anention,' (618,03-6),
It i. unclear whether thi, means that Lily was rnanied to the ead with the pipe of 1. 2 prioT to marrying Magrath, or whether the,,"d and Magrath are the same penon, When m confrontl the cad he speak. ! of'yore triplehydrad . . . . . ke' (0)6. 07), Docs this tn<an that the cad i, tht snake f Hi, wife is identified neither with K nor with L ily, but cornet cloaer to A, for , he rnak", 'ann;'; lawrie pT<lm- i. ,. ,,' (038,21), But she hetray. her confidence to C ('Mr Browne ", who ", in hi? ? econdary personality a, a Nolan', 038,26-8)
which il apt if her husband i, Cs e""my II,
In additinn to ! o. {agnoth, 6 mal<", complain~ against Sully, wl>o
truly, I think, be definitively nCTibed to L Having made Sully the author of Th. Ballad of Ptr. . . O'Reilly, A, at 495,03, claim'
that he 'is Magrath" thug: At 618,08 . he mention, him again, immMialCly after Magrath: 'The thick. off Bully'. Acre was got upbySully: Andlowcronthepage:'to. 1Iwhomitmayconcern SuUy i? ? thug,' Bully'. Acrt is the olok1t Dublin cemetery, in the ground. of the Royal H ospitil at Kilmainharn.
In the hope of clarifying the discrepancies I intend to devote
""me space tothe formal argument of 572,2t- 573,32, Thi. passage has sometimes been regarde<l. o. a key to FW, It appears tocreat
d in i$Olation and i
I
~! ;~:~:. i. ;~tojustify than the fi"'L Mrs Giashttn oees 'Lily' in 'Gillia': perhaps the nantes connect via Italian g~h'o, lily. If Gil1ia is 'schismatical' pcrhaps htt affini? tie. are with 1-, W e find -II- as the rose and lil y at 032,11, 485, t 2 and eloewhere, The Kabbalists use the two fIowe", from the SO"" of SoImmm, for the opposed Sephirothic pillaR of Judgem~nt and M ercy respectively," Thi' W<luld connect -I with A and I- with
The Magnoth Mystery 129
?
"'
? 130 The Sigla of FinntJ:411S Wak.
e. Further evide~ for the diabolic tendency of I- C<>m<< from POT,,~i, I, where Stephen is supposed to 'UPIXlr1 York (white)
against Lancaster (red).
If Gillia i, Uly, or Lilith, ber dehauch by Honupbrius w<>uld
refer to Ad~m'. fin. marr~. Further, ahe i. visited by 'Barnahas, tbe advOClIteofHonuphrius', who connects with t:, just as M ichael
(evidently Father Michael of the letter) connects with A. Magra_ viul knows Anita has committed oacrilege with MiclLael and he threatcn,berwithhisthug Sulla(. c)and the twdve SulUvani(0). SulLa, lilu: Triltln, wishes to procur<: -I (on behalf of Xl.
Obviou. ly we have more nam. . . . than 14! :1a. Ba. . . . ubu and Michael appear to duplicate I: and A, and possibly Canicula, 'the d<:<<ascd wife of fo. tauritiu,' may dupliQl. Le K. Therefore we might allow Mauritius and Magraviu. to be twQ veniotu of S. But it
mun be stt. . scd . hat Magrath retai"" cer1ain tr. Ii", not found in the other forms of s .
He is attached 10 Lily, not to K. He seem. to be younger than s for he i. 'a tommerdal, . . . . uloul of Honu- pbriU$', i. e. a competitor of In. He bas some linb with . c, for . c: i. hi, thug, whereas the usual S i. the ent:nl. y of L Additionally, ""nain I>>s",lft" appcotr almost to identify Magrath a, . c, the most ""tteme cas<: being S1l. 01-20:
-I think you're widdershins th. . . . . about the right reverence. AUgraw for the Norlhwhigg<orn cupleam was wedding bealtm. >. n . . .
_. . . I'm sur<: I'm wrong hut I heard the irrevel"Cld Mr Magn. w, in soarehof ntamme<, kud}:ucldr. icking the bed- ding OUt of the old sexton, red-Fox (,. ood_man . . . while I and l'lo,,",hnd the other men . . . wal gidding his missU$
to gadd. . in the ball , . . -You are a suckenomel
ParapOiylogic indeed. The wime. . , instead of the interpreter, has become 'Sackerson'. We had best concede that in some cir- cumstances. c: and S can b<<orne hard to distinguish, for in. l. nee at SS7. 03-S88. 14, where a SpeeCh by 'three j. olly postboy,' (A . c: 1:) ;. punctuated by the serpent'. hi. . (If Ot9. U. Notebook entries CQnn<<:tins all three brotbers with the snake: d<llittle 10 improve the issue. VI. B. 13. 49 has '. c: . . rpent by t', VI. B. '3? 173 'serpent ? :' and VI. B. '7. 73 'serpent A'. We are compelled to examine in
this light one <Ji. the components of S, perhapo the cause of his Scandinavian leanings, in which . c: f. . . . ures are aI. o prominent. This il the insidiou. serpentine sod Loki in Norse mYlb. Saunder- son at 2~1. 09 possesses 'his lokistrol<i'.
? In the great conflict ofthe god. and the gianla Loki wa1! a hybrid, able It> convene with both parties. But he was ultilIll1tely evil. 'When the god. were reduced IO the rank of demons by the intro_
duction of Christianity, Loki wu confounded with Samm, who had allO been shorn of hi$ divine atttibutes, and both wert con? . ide",d 'he prolmypt of S,":"n. ''' If CLa. sical mytholngy il ",. quired of FW we mU! t make Sa,urn S, Jupitec m and Men:ury <
Loki is impOnant for FW in connection with Balder's death and aloo with the Sigurd legend. The murder of the , lorioU! and adu? lated Balder by hi. dark, blind bro<her Hother 1001<$ like a . imple
Ale conflict but for the fact that i, wu arranged by Loki. Vf. ll. ~8. 41 has:
'-0>; balder A
Howev<:r, it il impossible It> raise the i. . . . ue wid",u, invoking 1"1u Gold. ~ llowgh: tbe mistletoe murdec become! ! the patricide of 11. 3, Balderbecome. m and we ,,'" obliged to regard LoIti as
<
The Sigurd legend il m o tt compl"". S2S. f()-Sl6. 0l $ << m ' It> "'fleet the cap,ure by Loki of'he dwuf Andvar;, e;,bec aa a pike (lisox lucius) or a . . Imon (Sa/mo sp. ). Loki compel. Andvari to yield hi. t",asure, which he then p. . . . . 10 Hreidmarr, king of the dwarfs, in compenMtion for the murder of one of hi. three sons. The tr. . . sure, howev<:r, includes a ring which convey. a CUt"1e, thu leach '0 Hreidmarr'. murder by hi, $0<1 Region and the . ub? a<<jucnt ""pulsion of Reginn by the "'lIlI1ining 50n Fafnir, who cI. . allj"" himselfinto I dragon and broods over the tr. . . . u"'. Even- tua! lyReginn ",turn. with Sigurd, whom he has pe"",ded to kill the dragon. Having done so, Sigurd is roo. stillj the dragon's heart for Region to COI1$ume when he inadvertently burO$ hi, fingt;c. Sucking;t '0 eaSt: the pain he suddenly ""'luices wiod<>m, . . . . ali>. . . that Regin. . means to kill him, and ,hen kil ls Reg;nn and eats the
= t of the hean.
The taller porlion of Ihi. story paraBels the legend of Finn and
the Salmon ofWi,dont. Finn wu to kill and cook the Salmon for Finn~, but burned hi. thumb, . ucked it, and became wise, with . imi! ar CQn' equcnces. I'rom Ihe FW standpOint the acquisilion of w;"dom appelt"1 to convert C. into m: the dead fish will be the oldm andtheconsumerofit? ? ubslance the new one. Now ReiPnn
"R A. c_" """. . . of,,. . N"", '" (l. oDOOtI. Hunp 1')01). '29.
The Magrath Mystery 1)1
? 132 Th. Siila of f<imugalU Wak.
and Fin~, forbiddina: C to ell! the ""urce of wisdom, are in . . similar """ition to God forbiddina: Adam 10 eat of the fruit. In each version,COIIIumption ofthe prohihiIed object I. . . w. . to a com- p,. . ,hension of the reason for the prohibition. At this point tams such. s 'good' and 'evil' change their meaning.
