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C Barchu. . n'. EI. mml~ Chmzi4. depict the finol
attainment a$ a king ocated within the Egg. " But in the cUe of I: alchemy is equivalent ro c"""ive wri,ing. The 'first till laot alshemist', having preswnably c"nverted iron "re ro I ferrous salt, mix"" it with a soluOOn "f gaLLk acid (ISS. H): the fttetion pro_ duc"," blucblack ink. So the lencrs or books re:o. d by I:, and
the "nes he produces, are all fundamentally oondensed germ. "U. .
When m cats eggs, he receives their digestive produc. . in his liv. . via Ihe hepatic portal ""in, fm the purp<>se "f . ubsequentLy reoombining ,Ilent inro hi, own bodily material (614. 32-S). But
the dig. :S[ive pmdncts are 'also 'the heroticisrns, catastrophes and eccentricities {Tansmined by the ancient legacy (If the past', i. e. HCE I",nsmined by ALP , 'type by rope, letter from litter, word at ward . . . in fact, Ihe same<>ld gamebold adornic slrUCture of our Finnius the "Id One' (614. 35-615. <>7). The egg laid by the hen A i. also the letter lit. uneanru 'as sure as hcr,elf pits hen to paper and the",', . . ribing. sc. . . . wled on eggs' (615. 09-10).
Ifthe egg oontains the aromic strUCture nf m, it i. ! lightly inapt Ihat it sh<luld be laid by A, but 6,6. 20-21 prop<! Ses the soluri<>n thaI the chicken came first, thaI il was a male, and thaI il JUII hap_ pened In ! <n"w the size ofan eggcup. T he Egyptio"" had the . . "'" problem, and ",Iveo it by inventing the Great Cackler, wh" laid the co. mic egg. " Honce in book II, whe", the light/dark a! ! 'inities "f . cand m ",ve",e those in b<xJk IV, we find TristanlH"rus pre-
facinl! : his eatasy (If the Unitary Consciousness by the ,rory of the goose lhat laid the ",ldon egg (394. ;17). And al 449. 36--450. 02 A i. 'to wat. ch bow carefully my Jl(>cturnal gooocrn<:>ther would lay
her new golden shecgg for me down under in the ,hy mient. '
Inanimate Sigla
A" letter i. ultima<cly ,II writing. , particularly FW itself. If il i. identical with tbe cosmic egg, we may perhaps include both OOn- cepts in Ihe siglum C, which J"yce said 'stands for the title bul
I "" n"t wish to say it yet until the bonk has written more "f ilself. ''' Richard Ellmann ny, "f the title [hal Joyce 'had "ften
,. s. . John R<W. ""'""" '" cr. -. ;"ry (I. . ondoo, IkD '936\ ,,,,,. " Not<<! by I. S. Atbecron" 'J7. H (~, ,~).
"1. <'. . . . . I ? ? ' J .
? issued a challertje to hi. ;lIIimates to gues. what i. might lx, and offered a thousand franco to anyone who ~uc=ded:" Thu. in
the n<:>tebool<$ we find: V\. H_'-67:
oom~ition for name ore
The name for their house e oompetition
T h e e q W l t i o n o f F W w i t h a h o u s e i$ m o " , u n e q u i v o c a l i n c e r t a i n pl. c. . ,,uch? ? 249. 06-20and 597. '2-,6. Evencleareris 1. 6. 3(C), Ixginning 'Which title i. the tnoc-tn-type mottO-in-lieu for that Tick for Teac thatchmen? . . . 1' (1)9. 29-30; Iri. h rig, uad! , bouoe"). nut the answer given i. the motlo neither of a book nor of a ""Uk, but of. city, Dublin (Obtdi. ",,,, Civium Urm, F. I;- <ira,).
Lewi~ Mumford infonn, u. that ' In term. of CUlTent pSyd><>- $O(:ial jargon, . he city is a special receptacle fnr . toring and tran$- mitting In<:uages. ''' Thi. may remind us of Victor Hugo', aCC<lulll of Gutenb<:rg'. printing pres. overshadowinR . he . imilar role of NotTe Dame Dthedral 020_05-18 kern. to draw on this: the eo,'er of FW i. the door the reader open. and clooes. Similarly 621. 03-4 . . . ys tha, 'Ihe book of the depth i,. aosed. Cornel Step Out of your ,hell! '
V\. B. 19. 178alwgiv<$ea. aplace: 'eSHelma"butmoste entries trea, hou. . . "f . ome IQrt:
VI. B. 5? t :
VI. B. 8. )1: VI. B. 8. 148 :
VI. B. 8. 172 : VI. H. 9_IOO:
VI. RIS. 50:
[] tcmpcranCt hotel Old House 0
e adjacent bouse of woruip
e =;Il0l1. de rertdez_vous
e lunatic asylum
X not ltill in theatre
theatre i. []
P:. ,. ticularly impres. ive i. VI. B. 8. 63 : 'coffin shop []', which m. ay
Ix refe. . . . ed to Oct~mann'. ha. -dwau prerni,. ,. of 066. 28-067. 06. " Jj,1,L
w G L , 119.
~ 110. C;'" . -. Hi,",,>, (H. ttn<>nd1"'-, """"-"" ,~), "'"
? Thi. paragraph . u = < l? ? dC! lcript;cn of the I. tter; a 'kiribi. poucb filled with lit,. ri,h fragments' (the mailbag), and 'the JlI.
unch nf that halpbrother nf a herm, a pillarh A herm bcillj! an obelisk, itseem. thot th. unifying ~Iement here;s C, enromp. . . . _ ing var;Cu. types of funerary and poot offie<: impedim. nta, includ_ ing the coffin itself. I hav~ diacu. sed th. coffin in more d. . . . . il doe- wh. r. . . .
Cmaybedefinedasa,. . . puu:I. ! orm,pref<ra. blymin aquintes- 'entialfnrm,andisth. ",fouat",un"" a thingofvalu? . VI. B. '4. 7 gives 'nory of [] or It<:aSure ~"'ck of gold', which r<1Ulns u' to book IV. A'S final monologue tt<:at1l the lett. r bOlh u buried
creasu", and u O"'",m :
And watch would the le"er you'", wanting be coming may be. Ande. . t ashore. . . . Carri. d ina coddy or screwed and corl<l:d. On his mugi. . tom surface. With a bob, hob,
bon ledby. Hl<>b. When th. waves give up yoU" the w il may for m? . Sometime then, sornewh. . . there , I wrote me hopes and buried the pa"". (623. 2~24. 04J
VI. B. 19'. ,SI bas simply 'c by A for lTI'.
The OQating C compri. . . a message in a bottle bu, also the 'I""ves' of'he monologue, which becomes loose JlI. Rrs of FW and di. perses nntilonly 'one d ings l1ill. I'll bear it on me. Tn . . . mind meof. Lff! ' We can add h. . . the inL<rweaving nf bo. m and grllves wbichweobserved abov~. C con for inStance be the chest in which O. iris perished, finati ng alnng the Nile. It can be Baldtr'. funeral boat drifting out to 'ea, or };;oah', Ark approaching the Iri. h coast fmmthecoldnortheast. AIhink'the",. gullsarethehird'releued by Noah: 'If I seen him bearing down nn me now under white-
'p. . . . . d willi' like he'd come from Arhn""I? . . . . A gull. Gull? . Far calls. Coming, farl' (6zR09-l)J
Noah'. Ark i, tnditionally aswciated with 'he Ark of the ('. nve_ nant, en~ing the seeds of a civilization. " Thi. contrivance appear. at529. 18-23: m i. 'carrying hi. ark, nf eggllbaped fu. elage . . . across hi. back when be might have been oetting on hi. jona. . inside. ' Th~ Ark nf the Owenant used to be set up in the drs. . t with ito . idrsaligntd with the cordinal poin,. and the twdve trihCll rangclsyrnmetricaUy about it. We can thu. account for the rela-
. ri,m of X ro [J, for example at 614-27-30: 'Our wbolemole mill-
"CO,'s.
" A. E. W. ;<<. nU HoQ K. bboJ"~, 29>.
lnanima,~ Sigla "5
? -
1. 6 111. Sigla of FinllqlJ'II Wa. lr~
wh<< li. . , vicocidomc~f, ? ~ ndomlOOmI pzdIoc:roticon (die "o\Umma Lujah" known 10 t\'ery Ichoolboy 'candallcf, ~ he Many, Mirky, L ul<cy or John-a-Donlt). ' Wt miBhl imapne four moumen 11 ! he COl'IleI"l of Finncpn" bed, like tile evanadiaJ bc:aSII in I Chrilli. n 1<1nmorph. l . IInn1 1hat oW Ire no1 "luau , b", T riunosin and oth~. . . . , adamant . boutlhcir oDnaini. . , four clementi' ~m. ! or . he shell I. Earth, and the While i. Wiler,
but the skin bctw<<tt <he , hell and the Whl", is Air, and S<'pIINIQ the Earth from the Wa,et; the Yolk is Iin: . . ? in Ih. middk of thc Yolk thcu is the FIfTH ELEMENT, Oul 0( which the yoUlli
chicken bursts Ind IlroWl. '''
I anno. possibly do ju. tiu h. . . . , 10 the """ mytholocial con-
~ts offour-. part division, and had bell recommend 10 rhe rcader chip! e. . . . V_VII of ken and Rccs'. ""Inc H m 'IIV< "" ? IlQl
synopsis. Themeridianorientation<IfFWisIUggested by 114. 01- 7 and further implies the meridian orientation of the fourtqU<lre apocaJYI',i<; Jerusalem, with ill {Wclve P''''' named for the twelve lribt$. or of Wake', Go1aooOOOZlO, or of the fectaJlaular Roman <:ill. . . quar'ered by tw (I ~all1f<ttS . unnina 'north-1ou<h in ,h~ Ncnueo and Bul<. arahul direcdOflS "'hil< th~ othen &0 wesl-cut in $eatCh from MlliziiQ with lIulpr&d for . . . it hal its ardinal poinl$. ' At $52. 14-'5 we obstrve the same division, with infernal IWdt ftI htolv. . . . Ind celnrilol ro. dI ftI hell. BUI the . . . . . ,. .