'4-
'S) or 'four (up) beautiful ,ister rni".
'S) or 'four (up) beautiful ,ister rni".
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Un &no!
~,J-.
4.
"A-. . J,",. . K. . -'"1. . Jm. </,. . ,. "F_M. ". . " edlohnO'Dooonn, I, "0.
The Twel~e Apolltrophes 103
? in lime. Hooey ;, the IaSI to CIllt1,e (373. 3}-4). )( fail to make ;1 uho. . Ind )72. )4- )73. 07 sees Ihem balliing . plllsl Ihe WlIIUS "r;nco:ckalion wheuby Ihcic iden'ilY wilh m i. reinfo,ced. WIlen "'-'= ruch 11. 4, x and m a. . almosl IXlmplClely merted "'Ielher.
n. cduoplenoCbookII,? ? MnGlashttno~~! 'QP<:CIivdy epitomiu childhood, Idol. . . . "'oe, II\IIllIrity and senility. " n. c Ian phase is very Itrall",. II isat on. ce the mOIl vitll and the mO,1I e x h a u s l e d p * r t o f F W , Y . ' a n o t h e r " " '? . . . . u u " 1 , , . o,,(>' ' ' '[(n'um . 11 C O I l ' <<flU thetlimactic point in the . . laliomhip of T ri,tln and Isolde, a. ! hey return to Com,. . . U from Ireland, havin& drunk the love poIioQ. BUIilisprcomledentiKJy11. . fantasyorthepUt thtolllh ! be Iplinlnioi coruciou. . . . . 1 of lC. Allhough Mia. . . Lyons ;, caUed
Marcus todill;~lh him from KinS Mark, this is undone apin at 391. 14. x ond m ar. furuhmentaUy ;n the pme boal, I,ed, betrayed, . . ouhi"e.
The prirrlary IocIlion of II. . ;1 probably Trinity O>II. . e. Admittedly ! be other huh univenilies . bo reanorc: (385. 13, 3119-04-6), bUI we recurrently llOIice ! be landmarb immeddtdy infrontofIllemainpI""ofTrinity,the. tatue. on CoU. . eGtetll (origioaUy Hogen Grtc:o)-to wllich Ille memory of )( has IranI' f,,",edO? ConntU'u . . tueonthefar,~ofO'Conn<:IlBridie,Bal? lenby Bnxhera of W""unordand S{rttI, CIef}'I in O'CO~U
Strttl and 10 forth. Trinily CoII. . . , l. particubrly appropN~ 11 a senina to this advmrure. An ancienl Protestant stronghold, il ha, been "",ed for ill weallh of ceccnll"ic, aliellited academia, who . . . . ined theirfunctioru into advanced senescence. X are hi. . . lOry 1tc1U<ers, . . fured 10 vatiow p. . ,,<$UIl! dmominarion, in oonlrullO CI 'Roman c. . lhoJieanns' 0 89? 16). They mmmber m i l e s l o n e s i n s e c t a r d n c o n f l i c t f r o m t h e i r l e c t u r e s 10 0 . T h q . O O
perpetuate 'he m. :mc of 'he latl lupper from II. ), inetlectively l'eptlltina 'PalS the fuh for ChrHl IIh, amen! ' BI,II Ihey can alliin 10 no tlilrir, noc can they reach -i, who h. . . beC1\ dqraded behind their Ipccndeo 10 a holl>OJe! lCily, 'woman tq. . asl! '.
A, lCrell in the le i thq arc espedilly Idble 10 remember various drowned companions and marine eat:utrop! >es. Th. . . . )87. l()-)0 prHenl. l ill 'UC<<Slion TIt~ W,,,,,,I, gf 'lrt Ht. ". . ,lU, Ille di. . tlrQUl landins of Sir R",<r easem<:nt in Tral<e Ray immediately prior to the EllterRisilllll, the drownin, of Willian>, only IOn ofHenry
I, ;11 11:10 when the dnmken ~ <If the Ini. . Ship drove her against. rttf. thedrownin,of! be ElYptianspurouill8Mc. cs,and finl,l1y tile death ofMartin Cunninaham. Robert Adams" ClIplain1
"C-. . II, <l ~ " . s - t - _ s " . . . h o I : n o c . " "0 > " J _ J . " a ' , 'U
, u. . . . .
? that Paddy Dignam', funeral in Ulyou. draws on that ill M. atthew ! " Kane, an official in Dublin c. stle, who died . wimming off Kin8"town on . 1'1 July 1904 and who was the model for Martin Cunningham. Further, at 388. 1C>-12, we find the vicLims of the . wIktn Arm. oda and of the Dduge.
The manifold symptoms ofdecay in Xinclude hiccups, shingl"", . . . . . kk. . . . . , bedsor. . and gangr~. Marcus Lyon. keq>1 halluci- nating a skde. on (397. 2t-2). Mor<: ,triking are the epicene traits recalling m at 364. 1C>-12. )( ar<: 'four dear old heladi. . ' (386.
'4-
'S) or 'four (up) beautiful ,ister rni". ,. . ' (39). 11), divorced 'by their d. . . r poor . hehusbands' (390. 20). Matthew il an 'old peri_
grime mauiarch, and a queenly man' (392. '9""20). The femini2ing inHu<:nce e~t. . ru:h to the environment, aff<:<:ting for imtance O'Connell, >>aueTOby and Ca,emem, This also acc<>unt. for changes such as lhat of 'Latimer Roman hiSTOry' at 388. ]2 TO
'Fatima Woman history' at 3&9. 15.
AlthouRh X are fairly dist;"';'. in the t. <mical sra""'" of 11. 4,
. he main body of the ehapter indicates an overlap of role, which i. expcrienccd nowhere eloe in FW. Thul at 39'. 04 John is a Scots- manandat392. '6-11 Mallhewi, on the Aran Islands, rather than the other way round, In )92. 04-IZ 'Mark or Marcus' is in fae' dying in hospital. There is however no distinct do"h point, unl. . "
it be the whit. papcr separating book IT from book Ill.
The Twelve Apostrophes 105
? Chapter 8 [] e
The Structure or Book IV
It i. time to examine the balance of book IV api. . . , boo" II, 10 which reference was made at rhe out. . ,t. I have tried to CQIlvey the nodon of inur>IllJi<y which characterizes book II ; this is matehM in book IV by ""e",a/;'y. Seven essential processes are involved:
(i) the waking and re,urTccti()fl of m (H) 'he sunrise
(iii) the oonllict of niKht and day
(iv) 'he attempt to uren:oin the correct time
(v) the terminal point of lhe <<gress;v. time and the" fiJlure of book HI
(vi) the vkrory of day over nighl (vii) the lener and monoloRue of <II.
ReouTr'CClion and sunrise ore conceptual equivalents and occupy the mtire chapter. The ri? ? ofm i. no more conlin"'" to a particular loe. . ion than i. his rall in book lI. S93. o7-8 . talC. that On nthor da~ he Ius . lr<<dy got up by this time. At 594-09-n he con- templates washing him$<:lf but at 595-3' has ag. in fallen asleep. The buildin&$ . ubmerged beneath Lough Neolh,' wbich al 076. 21- 2 incmporalc<i m', mausoleum, begin at 6'>1. 04-7 10 issue from . Iumber. The hero is aborted 10 ri. . al 601. 31- :1 and a de? d,ivc wakening occurs at 608. 33-5. BrcakfalI being an,idpated from614. 17, m is . t616. ol-~ 'about to SCt up'. In ber monologue
. . hands m hit dOlh. . and tells him to stand up (619. l4-tiW. ol) but a, the <nd of FW be is . ,ill mo,ionl,," in bed.
Pr. . tTIrimtTIt$ of dawn lin1lhe closing paragraphs of III. 1 ond 111. 2, and . 150 50me parts of II1. 4, which end. wilh the exposure
' Gi1aIdw Cambuntis. :no. r"""""p4y<lI,ti-l. tr. 101m]? O"Meo. . (Dundalk. Don<W_ f'r. eM '91') II,;'.
? TheStructuuofBookIV '07
of the sundi,k (590. 25). But the first beam. of direc. ligllt doeo nol app<car until 594. 21-5, wh<:n it 'Irik", Ihe mbleslOne . , SIO"'"
henge, thr"" pages prillr to ",aching Dublin (597. 24-5). The Sun King, with a eloudcappc:d . unbubble on hi. big white houe, i.
al 607. 28-33 vi. ible from Dublin harbour.
The opposition of lighl and darknc. s i$ firs' posited in the
Cllluhi,m of 597. 01-22. beh re$pon. . , acknowledge. the preva? kn~. . , of antithetical pairing. The . ysrole and the diastole, aw. ! k. and u leer: univer. . . . l experience ofunknown cause. II is from ,IIi,
pa. . . . . ge that the apprehen. ion of a recenlly? ended dr""m begin. 10 e=rge. The withdrawal resuhed rrQrn eating forbidden fruit (597. 35-6). Al<<rnatively il i, paradi. . , at which we have arrived: the rou,,:. ; Qf the Nile, ",ed a. a paradigm of the inacce. . ible in, for example, Thorn. . Vaughan'. Lurnat d. Lurn;ne. '
A d ock 'Irikes (598. 27-599. 04) and an advCT,isernen' <efcr"$ u. to the in, mlll (599. 2)-4). Space and time reaffirmed (600. 02-3), a chorus of bdl, proclaim. the bour (601. 21-8). II migb, be: any
'hing ar. er dark (603. 25-6). Familiar noise. in. inu. ate: the arrival or. postman or haker (603. 02-16) who could he a,ked the time. Public bouseo are not yet open for early riser. ' rna. . and the milk- van ha, nol yet come (604. 05-17). Eventually we are to hear the
laundry of 1. 8 being delivered (614-')1-18).
One nf the chimem' of eonfuStd waking is the rev<r. . ,d
alignment Qf m and 6 in 599. 34 Il00. 03. T he eff"", i? ? honlived and . . ,rveo ro introduce the V<si,~ 1',,,;, ('kettle" 'Ud. . . . Pi,cium'), flanked by the immemorialt. . e and stone. After nil! :lIl'. dormancy the elm beg;ns ro llrow (600. 20), or to show greenery,
for we are likewise emerging from wint. r. Tbe butcher'.
"A-. . J,",. . K. . -'"1. . Jm. </,. . ,. "F_M. ". . " edlohnO'Dooonn, I, "0.
The Twel~e Apolltrophes 103
? in lime. Hooey ;, the IaSI to CIllt1,e (373. 3}-4). )( fail to make ;1 uho. . Ind )72. )4- )73. 07 sees Ihem balliing . plllsl Ihe WlIIUS "r;nco:ckalion wheuby Ihcic iden'ilY wilh m i. reinfo,ced. WIlen "'-'= ruch 11. 4, x and m a. . almosl IXlmplClely merted "'Ielher.
n. cduoplenoCbookII,? ? MnGlashttno~~! 'QP<:CIivdy epitomiu childhood, Idol. . . . "'oe, II\IIllIrity and senility. " n. c Ian phase is very Itrall",. II isat on. ce the mOIl vitll and the mO,1I e x h a u s l e d p * r t o f F W , Y . ' a n o t h e r " " '? . . . . u u " 1 , , . o,,(>' ' ' '[(n'um . 11 C O I l ' <<flU thetlimactic point in the . . laliomhip of T ri,tln and Isolde, a. ! hey return to Com,. . . U from Ireland, havin& drunk the love poIioQ. BUIilisprcomledentiKJy11. . fantasyorthepUt thtolllh ! be Iplinlnioi coruciou. . . . . 1 of lC. Allhough Mia. . . Lyons ;, caUed
Marcus todill;~lh him from KinS Mark, this is undone apin at 391. 14. x ond m ar. furuhmentaUy ;n the pme boal, I,ed, betrayed, . . ouhi"e.
The prirrlary IocIlion of II. . ;1 probably Trinity O>II. . e. Admittedly ! be other huh univenilies . bo reanorc: (385. 13, 3119-04-6), bUI we recurrently llOIice ! be landmarb immeddtdy infrontofIllemainpI""ofTrinity,the. tatue. on CoU. . eGtetll (origioaUy Hogen Grtc:o)-to wllich Ille memory of )( has IranI' f,,",edO? ConntU'u . . tueonthefar,~ofO'Conn<:IlBridie,Bal? lenby Bnxhera of W""unordand S{rttI, CIef}'I in O'CO~U
Strttl and 10 forth. Trinily CoII. . . , l. particubrly appropN~ 11 a senina to this advmrure. An ancienl Protestant stronghold, il ha, been "",ed for ill weallh of ceccnll"ic, aliellited academia, who . . . . ined theirfunctioru into advanced senescence. X are hi. . . lOry 1tc1U<ers, . . fured 10 vatiow p. . ,,<$UIl! dmominarion, in oonlrullO CI 'Roman c. . lhoJieanns' 0 89? 16). They mmmber m i l e s l o n e s i n s e c t a r d n c o n f l i c t f r o m t h e i r l e c t u r e s 10 0 . T h q . O O
perpetuate 'he m. :mc of 'he latl lupper from II. ), inetlectively l'eptlltina 'PalS the fuh for ChrHl IIh, amen! ' BI,II Ihey can alliin 10 no tlilrir, noc can they reach -i, who h. . . beC1\ dqraded behind their Ipccndeo 10 a holl>OJe! lCily, 'woman tq. . asl! '.
A, lCrell in the le i thq arc espedilly Idble 10 remember various drowned companions and marine eat:utrop! >es. Th. . . . )87. l()-)0 prHenl. l ill 'UC<<Slion TIt~ W,,,,,,I, gf 'lrt Ht. ". . ,lU, Ille di. . tlrQUl landins of Sir R",<r easem<:nt in Tral<e Ray immediately prior to the EllterRisilllll, the drownin, of Willian>, only IOn ofHenry
I, ;11 11:10 when the dnmken ~ <If the Ini. . Ship drove her against. rttf. thedrownin,of! be ElYptianspurouill8Mc. cs,and finl,l1y tile death ofMartin Cunninaham. Robert Adams" ClIplain1
"C-. . II, <l ~ " . s - t - _ s " . . . h o I : n o c . " "0 > " J _ J . " a ' , 'U
, u. . . . .
? that Paddy Dignam', funeral in Ulyou. draws on that ill M. atthew ! " Kane, an official in Dublin c. stle, who died . wimming off Kin8"town on . 1'1 July 1904 and who was the model for Martin Cunningham. Further, at 388. 1C>-12, we find the vicLims of the . wIktn Arm. oda and of the Dduge.
The manifold symptoms ofdecay in Xinclude hiccups, shingl"", . . . . . kk. . . . . , bedsor. . and gangr~. Marcus Lyon. keq>1 halluci- nating a skde. on (397. 2t-2). Mor<: ,triking are the epicene traits recalling m at 364. 1C>-12. )( ar<: 'four dear old heladi. . ' (386.
'4-
'S) or 'four (up) beautiful ,ister rni". ,. . ' (39). 11), divorced 'by their d. . . r poor . hehusbands' (390. 20). Matthew il an 'old peri_
grime mauiarch, and a queenly man' (392. '9""20). The femini2ing inHu<:nce e~t. . ru:h to the environment, aff<:<:ting for imtance O'Connell, >>aueTOby and Ca,emem, This also acc<>unt. for changes such as lhat of 'Latimer Roman hiSTOry' at 388. ]2 TO
'Fatima Woman history' at 3&9. 15.
AlthouRh X are fairly dist;"';'. in the t. <mical sra""'" of 11. 4,
. he main body of the ehapter indicates an overlap of role, which i. expcrienccd nowhere eloe in FW. Thul at 39'. 04 John is a Scots- manandat392. '6-11 Mallhewi, on the Aran Islands, rather than the other way round, In )92. 04-IZ 'Mark or Marcus' is in fae' dying in hospital. There is however no distinct do"h point, unl. . "
it be the whit. papcr separating book IT from book Ill.
The Twelve Apostrophes 105
? Chapter 8 [] e
The Structure or Book IV
It i. time to examine the balance of book IV api. . . , boo" II, 10 which reference was made at rhe out. . ,t. I have tried to CQIlvey the nodon of inur>IllJi<y which characterizes book II ; this is matehM in book IV by ""e",a/;'y. Seven essential processes are involved:
(i) the waking and re,urTccti()fl of m (H) 'he sunrise
(iii) the oonllict of niKht and day
(iv) 'he attempt to uren:oin the correct time
(v) the terminal point of lhe <<gress;v. time and the" fiJlure of book HI
(vi) the vkrory of day over nighl (vii) the lener and monoloRue of <II.
ReouTr'CClion and sunrise ore conceptual equivalents and occupy the mtire chapter. The ri? ? ofm i. no more conlin"'" to a particular loe. . ion than i. his rall in book lI. S93. o7-8 . talC. that On nthor da~ he Ius . lr<<dy got up by this time. At 594-09-n he con- templates washing him$<:lf but at 595-3' has ag. in fallen asleep. The buildin&$ . ubmerged beneath Lough Neolh,' wbich al 076. 21- 2 incmporalc<i m', mausoleum, begin at 6'>1. 04-7 10 issue from . Iumber. The hero is aborted 10 ri. . al 601. 31- :1 and a de? d,ivc wakening occurs at 608. 33-5. BrcakfalI being an,idpated from614. 17, m is . t616. ol-~ 'about to SCt up'. In ber monologue
. . hands m hit dOlh. . and tells him to stand up (619. l4-tiW. ol) but a, the <nd of FW be is . ,ill mo,ionl,," in bed.
Pr. . tTIrimtTIt$ of dawn lin1lhe closing paragraphs of III. 1 ond 111. 2, and . 150 50me parts of II1. 4, which end. wilh the exposure
' Gi1aIdw Cambuntis. :no. r"""""p4y<lI,ti-l. tr. 101m]? O"Meo. . (Dundalk. Don<W_ f'r. eM '91') II,;'.
? TheStructuuofBookIV '07
of the sundi,k (590. 25). But the first beam. of direc. ligllt doeo nol app<car until 594. 21-5, wh<:n it 'Irik", Ihe mbleslOne . , SIO"'"
henge, thr"" pages prillr to ",aching Dublin (597. 24-5). The Sun King, with a eloudcappc:d . unbubble on hi. big white houe, i.
al 607. 28-33 vi. ible from Dublin harbour.
The opposition of lighl and darknc. s i$ firs' posited in the
Cllluhi,m of 597. 01-22. beh re$pon. . , acknowledge. the preva? kn~. . , of antithetical pairing. The . ysrole and the diastole, aw. ! k. and u leer: univer. . . . l experience ofunknown cause. II is from ,IIi,
pa. . . . . ge that the apprehen. ion of a recenlly? ended dr""m begin. 10 e=rge. The withdrawal resuhed rrQrn eating forbidden fruit (597. 35-6). Al<<rnatively il i, paradi. . , at which we have arrived: the rou,,:. ; Qf the Nile, ",ed a. a paradigm of the inacce. . ible in, for example, Thorn. . Vaughan'. Lurnat d. Lurn;ne. '
A d ock 'Irikes (598. 27-599. 04) and an advCT,isernen' <efcr"$ u. to the in, mlll (599. 2)-4). Space and time reaffirmed (600. 02-3), a chorus of bdl, proclaim. the bour (601. 21-8). II migb, be: any
'hing ar. er dark (603. 25-6). Familiar noise. in. inu. ate: the arrival or. postman or haker (603. 02-16) who could he a,ked the time. Public bouseo are not yet open for early riser. ' rna. . and the milk- van ha, nol yet come (604. 05-17). Eventually we are to hear the
laundry of 1. 8 being delivered (614-')1-18).
One nf the chimem' of eonfuStd waking is the rev<r. . ,d
alignment Qf m and 6 in 599. 34 Il00. 03. T he eff"", i? ? honlived and . . ,rveo ro introduce the V<si,~ 1',,,;, ('kettle" 'Ud. . . . Pi,cium'), flanked by the immemorialt. . e and stone. After nil! :lIl'. dormancy the elm beg;ns ro llrow (600. 20), or to show greenery,
for we are likewise emerging from wint. r. Tbe butcher'.
