An Index ofMQtifs in
Finnegam
Wake
all maw lead to Rome, !
all maw lead to Rome, !
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
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:alOlogy;' made 10 interlock in a pattern of 5fUlboI;.
m of which it forllll an .
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,ntial and adequately subordinated part, bUI whtn the mtthod comes ne~r to nalutaliom, as;t occl,ionally does, the doacal obteJ- siol\ it pe.
N;pI mUter too evident lOr comfort.
Indirection ;.
00<< again, as to often, the key 10Joyct'S ru"""" in F.
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,1lIU
W. . ,b. When he ke(:pI his raw material. at an adequate diltance from It;. ocnsibilitiao he produoes brilliantly inl"grated . nd balanced art-rom. . ; only when he allows him. df tlle proximily which he always denies to his rtader does his usually finn grip seem 10 d. acken.
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? APP ENDICES
? APPENDIX A
AN INDEX OF MOTIFS IN
Fl/{NEGANS WAKE
There is virtually no limit to the numo. . r and variety of waY' in which the multitude of kit"",tiv, in FiIl". ga", wake might be ch. . . ified and arranged, for in breaking
down the proc. . . of compoaitioo to the organisation of , uch wI" of phra",. Joyce was clearly looking for the maximum
JIO"'ible lI""ibility of de>ign. I made . ""eral attempts to claslliy the motif. li,ted here but th~ n:su]ts nevcr proved to be panicu_ larly useful. A simpk alphabetical index is therefore offered, although in the ~_ of a few big motif. . complcxe. a "'parate grouped list is provided. Moti& based On proverb. , catch_
phra>eo and the like are usually listed in their normalj. . ,d fornu . With . . few exceptions this ind<:x omib (,) aU wng-motifs,' and (~) all 'literary' moti&, i. ? . quotatWm from works of
literature. ' Some ! ingle wor<:h function as independent kit_ llUJli<Js and, ofcourse, a large part ofFinll. tgans Wakt i. made up of motif_fragments--word. and . yllables derived from impon_ ant motif. but too ne<:ting in them<<:IVCll te> be called motif_ stalemenu. The jndex makes no attempt to li,t any but the
most important lingle_word m<. >tm and motif. fl1lgments. Simi_ larly, 1 have ucluded the bo:sts of word. ! and . ymool. that alwaY' hunt in couples but otherwj. . , have no . pecia] ltit_ m. ti~tit significance, 'uch. . . . 'h. olly and ivy'. Such word. ! and word_pairs can most easily be traced with the aid of my em,,,,,,. "",,,:t. '
, . . . very fwlli>' i> avaiJ&bk in M. J. C. H odgatt""'; M. 1'. Wo<thiugtOn, Soq- in ok- W. . L'lfJ_JOJU. New YorI<, '959.
,s. . A'~cnoo. , Aw<nd;~. ? To be publithed <h0011y.
? An In. ux ifMotifs in FinnegaTlS Wake
Some " f the repeated oomrrwn "xpresororu which app<ar in
the lisl may have little practi<:al function . . . /tilmotiw buI since the m"lif? ? lnrcture of lhe bool: u always "f al le. . . 1 the<lTetical
imp<. >rtaoc<: I have th<mght it be. 1 10 include evtrything that . "uld be aaid to bave the . hap< of a /ti/mot;o. Newrtbel. . a, I do nol claim that, even willi. regard to maj"r motifs, Ihe index i. in any way exhau. tive. The I;,;t ofitem. h:u grown almOSI we<:l: by week a. my understanding of the tC':<1 has de<:pcned, but I
am ,till a very long way from undentanding all that J oy<< put inlo Fi. lltgans Wak< and other readen will ceTtainly have noti<:ed many correopondcn= Iowhich I have remained blind.
Doubtful ref=nces are plac:ed in parenth. . . . . Mosl of IIt~ motif. are . eJf-uplaoatc>ry in . ;ont""t hut I have provided brief notes and references wheTe il $<:<:"" u,dulto do! lO. The ,;goilk_ an<< ofa number ofthe major molifs Uoboeure to me. In thow: (a$C! I ha"" added a note to thaI effect.
ad lib. (Vioo', fourth Age i; pcrf(>fmed 'ad lib. '; the regener,,' tion which tAke, pla<< during it is expr=ed in Ihe clUlle oorreop<. >ndence of the IMt two statemenll! of the motif: 'ad libidinum' and 'ad liptum', wh=by the ! laually regencra- Ii"" p<. >wcr of tea i. emphasised), 283. 1. '>, 287. 26, 302. 22,
+41. 09, . '>4,? 28
all. dear 011. dear (tbe characteriatic ";gh of Luke Tarpey),
'3. ~7, 22. 23, ' '7,09,'40. 08, '4"? 09, 224? '0, ~38. 35, 29{? 11,
2~Pl, 372. ~2, 389. 20, SSg? 31, 392. 12, 394? 33, 39. '>? 33,
396. 29,58,. 20
alt hn (the charactemtic lligh of Marl: Lyom), 5. 09, 13. 26,
94'33,fi. 21, "7. 10, 121. 26, '40. 09, 16'. 25, 180,'5, 18{'33, ,8+'36, 185. 08, 22+? 09, 224. 20, 372. 22, 3730"7, 373 " 5,
385? '7,39"? 35,581. 2{
ahome . . . Thorn Malone (see 'Anna Livia Motifs')
aiJy-ouy (aMOCiated on both occasion. witb . <xual interoounc), '96. 12, ,584? 11 \
aU aboard/all a,hnu (always a deparluT<: motif; uso<:;ated, of 00"""', with Noah), 358. 20, 370. 35, ? ig. 18
aU at home'. health (m 'uttu')
alI men has done ! IOmething, 355. 33, 62! . 3~
'"
?
An Index ofMQtifs in Finnegam Wake
all maw lead to Rome, ! J6. <>3, '''3. ~3, 566. 01
all'. fair in ""nWlY (ttl 'Fint Four Paragraph. . ')
all she wants (m 'Letter')
alway1 (a wOld l're<:juently aMOciatcd with Anna and hsy; the
high ooncent. . -"ti(JU ofoccurrences (I I) iu Ihe final monologue r<<alb the oonstantly repeated <Wit sung by the ooll1ral1o at Ih. end of Mahler', Das Lied ",n tin Erth), '44. 27, '45. 30, 1 4 6 . 1 9 , l i S . S [ , 5 2 7 . 1 3 , 619. ~3. 6 2 0 . 1 0 , 6 " 1 1 . 2 3 , 6 2 3 . ? 7 , 624. 22, 624. 33, 625. 1 I , 626. 10, 6~7. 10, 627. 14, 627. 21
AMDG (dd majar. m Dei gi. m. . m; Jesuit mOtto placed by school? children at the h~ad of essay" etc. ), 1~9. 04, 282. 06, 324. 2[, 324-23,327. ,6,4,8. 04
am I my brother', keeper? (Gen. 4:9), 3? 5. 16, 0443? 04, 483. 25 ampersand (su 'Letter')
And hOi Hey? (m 'Anna Livia Motif. ')
and mOre . . . Amory, amor andmore (m 'Last M"n"logue
Motif,')
And 110. And all (the characteristic . igh "fjohnny Mad)Qugal),
13. 28,270. 3[,368. 35. 393. 03
And the duppy . hot the shutter dup (putting up the shutters,
dosing the shop--a symbol "r death and the coming of a new agt:), 'S. 05, [6[. 24, '44. 06, 3"5,"5, (3,,5. 08). 372. 05
{he angel of the Lord appeared ull10 him in a dream, saying . . ? (Matt. I :20j, 63. 26, 5'2. 23, (552. ,,,), 604. 10, 604. 23 A-N-N (ttl 'Letter')
An"" Livid MatW
o tell me all about ? . " 101. 02, [54. Oj, IgIl. OI, 268. LI,
086. 30,331. 06, sS6? '3, 586. 35
Look, look, . 'i8. 06, 79. 21, '93. 15, [g6. 1 [, 213. 12, 301. 22, 601. 04,
625. 20
l"iduhr? Filou! (Is it late? What a thief u time! 'Filur' in
Norwegian means mud, the tame a. 'filou' in French),
64. ,8, ? 04. 16, 213. '4. 2go. 14, 420. 13, sS7? 0[, 6'4. 07
my back, my back, my bach! 213. '7, 416. [n, 567. 06 Pingpong! There'. the Relle for S"""loitez! (SH Mr. Fritz Senn's
'Some Zurich Allusions in F;tuztlrms W<! . V, 'rlit Aoalpl, no. . . ,
? An lnlux tif Motifs in Finntgans Wake
XIX, December, ,960;>>, (7,3S), S~? "", . . ,a? ~4, ~'S. I8, ~68. "",
3~7"5, S39? ~~, 344 ? 0~, 3 7 8 . 1 7 , 4 4 1 . 3 3 , 49~? ! . l, 508? ~9,
5~0. 17, 536,09, 5611. 13, 600. 04, 610. 14
Spread on your bank ~nd I'll ,prtad mine on mine, ol3. ~0,
4. ~7? 00
this for the code (the code may be deciphe=i a. '6 + '0
(=9+,)+I2+,= "g',whichishoy'. number)'~'3? o8,
6'g. 08
Mcther Goo. . ip, 21S. 29o 6~S. oS
main drain (the ,ide . train is Isoy, the mam drain Anna),
214? 02,60S? 3'
It', well I kncw your ,en ofslop, 2'4. '7, 408. 14
G. . . ,. ,k or Roman, O'4. ~2, 04~. '3, 409? '9, 4'9. 00, 553. ,6 Collan and Cuff. (dfenlinate men and/or homo,exuah),
"4. 09, 322? S6, 428. 06, <<9" 9, 6'4. 10
f a r , f a r ( t h e p h a l l i c F r e n c h p k o " f i g u r a . . . t h e V i k i n g f " , ( fa t h e r )
who 'calli' in the last lin", of the book), 52. ,6, 68. 'g, '39. 06,
o'S? c" 440. 30, 4112. 07, 506. 2'
We'll meet again, we'U pari once more, ~'5. 05, <<6,'5, 547. 09 Forgivemequick (one meaning i. that Mary appeal. 10 joocph
to fc. . give her inexplicahle pregnancy), ~,. ~. 07, 434-'3 I'm going, 2'5. 07, 220. 12, 427. 16, 4fi9. C. ~, 528. '3
Your cvcnlode, '43. 16,2'5. 08,242. 28, 6oS. 07
ToW)' 1 100, n5. 1I, 620. 27
. he WWl the queer old sk<lMha, 2,. '>,I~, 263.
W. . ,b. When he ke(:pI his raw material. at an adequate diltance from It;. ocnsibilitiao he produoes brilliantly inl"grated . nd balanced art-rom. . ; only when he allows him. df tlle proximily which he always denies to his rtader does his usually finn grip seem 10 d. acken.
,,8
? APP ENDICES
? APPENDIX A
AN INDEX OF MOTIFS IN
Fl/{NEGANS WAKE
There is virtually no limit to the numo. . r and variety of waY' in which the multitude of kit"",tiv, in FiIl". ga", wake might be ch. . . ified and arranged, for in breaking
down the proc. . . of compoaitioo to the organisation of , uch wI" of phra",. Joyce was clearly looking for the maximum
JIO"'ible lI""ibility of de>ign. I made . ""eral attempts to claslliy the motif. li,ted here but th~ n:su]ts nevcr proved to be panicu_ larly useful. A simpk alphabetical index is therefore offered, although in the ~_ of a few big motif. . complcxe. a "'parate grouped list is provided. Moti& based On proverb. , catch_
phra>eo and the like are usually listed in their normalj. . ,d fornu . With . . few exceptions this ind<:x omib (,) aU wng-motifs,' and (~) all 'literary' moti&, i. ? . quotatWm from works of
literature. ' Some ! ingle wor<:h function as independent kit_ llUJli<Js and, ofcourse, a large part ofFinll. tgans Wakt i. made up of motif_fragments--word. and . yllables derived from impon_ ant motif. but too ne<:ting in them<<:IVCll te> be called motif_ stalemenu. The jndex makes no attempt to li,t any but the
most important lingle_word m<. >tm and motif. fl1lgments. Simi_ larly, 1 have ucluded the bo:sts of word. ! and . ymool. that alwaY' hunt in couples but otherwj. . , have no . pecia] ltit_ m. ti~tit significance, 'uch. . . . 'h. olly and ivy'. Such word. ! and word_pairs can most easily be traced with the aid of my em,,,,,,. "",,,:t. '
, . . . very fwlli>' i> avaiJ&bk in M. J. C. H odgatt""'; M. 1'. Wo<thiugtOn, Soq- in ok- W. . L'lfJ_JOJU. New YorI<, '959.
,s. . A'~cnoo. , Aw<nd;~. ? To be publithed <h0011y.
? An In. ux ifMotifs in FinnegaTlS Wake
Some " f the repeated oomrrwn "xpresororu which app<ar in
the lisl may have little practi<:al function . . . /tilmotiw buI since the m"lif? ? lnrcture of lhe bool: u always "f al le. . . 1 the<lTetical
imp<. >rtaoc<: I have th<mght it be. 1 10 include evtrything that . "uld be aaid to bave the . hap< of a /ti/mot;o. Newrtbel. . a, I do nol claim that, even willi. regard to maj"r motifs, Ihe index i. in any way exhau. tive. The I;,;t ofitem. h:u grown almOSI we<:l: by week a. my understanding of the tC':<1 has de<:pcned, but I
am ,till a very long way from undentanding all that J oy<< put inlo Fi. lltgans Wak< and other readen will ceTtainly have noti<:ed many correopondcn= Iowhich I have remained blind.
Doubtful ref=nces are plac:ed in parenth. . . . . Mosl of IIt~ motif. are . eJf-uplaoatc>ry in . ;ont""t hut I have provided brief notes and references wheTe il $<:<:"" u,dulto do! lO. The ,;goilk_ an<< ofa number ofthe major molifs Uoboeure to me. In thow: (a$C! I ha"" added a note to thaI effect.
ad lib. (Vioo', fourth Age i; pcrf(>fmed 'ad lib. '; the regener,,' tion which tAke, pla<< during it is expr=ed in Ihe clUlle oorreop<. >ndence of the IMt two statemenll! of the motif: 'ad libidinum' and 'ad liptum', wh=by the ! laually regencra- Ii"" p<. >wcr of tea i. emphasised), 283. 1. '>, 287. 26, 302. 22,
+41. 09, . '>4,? 28
all. dear 011. dear (tbe characteriatic ";gh of Luke Tarpey),
'3. ~7, 22. 23, ' '7,09,'40. 08, '4"? 09, 224? '0, ~38. 35, 29{? 11,
2~Pl, 372. ~2, 389. 20, SSg? 31, 392. 12, 394? 33, 39. '>? 33,
396. 29,58,. 20
alt hn (the charactemtic lligh of Marl: Lyom), 5. 09, 13. 26,
94'33,fi. 21, "7. 10, 121. 26, '40. 09, 16'. 25, 180,'5, 18{'33, ,8+'36, 185. 08, 22+? 09, 224. 20, 372. 22, 3730"7, 373 " 5,
385? '7,39"? 35,581. 2{
ahome . . . Thorn Malone (see 'Anna Livia Motifs')
aiJy-ouy (aMOCiated on both occasion. witb . <xual interoounc), '96. 12, ,584? 11 \
aU aboard/all a,hnu (always a deparluT<: motif; uso<:;ated, of 00"""', with Noah), 358. 20, 370. 35, ? ig. 18
aU at home'. health (m 'uttu')
alI men has done ! IOmething, 355. 33, 62! . 3~
'"
?
An Index ofMQtifs in Finnegam Wake
all maw lead to Rome, ! J6. <>3, '''3. ~3, 566. 01
all'. fair in ""nWlY (ttl 'Fint Four Paragraph. . ')
all she wants (m 'Letter')
alway1 (a wOld l're<:juently aMOciatcd with Anna and hsy; the
high ooncent. . -"ti(JU ofoccurrences (I I) iu Ihe final monologue r<<alb the oonstantly repeated <Wit sung by the ooll1ral1o at Ih. end of Mahler', Das Lied ",n tin Erth), '44. 27, '45. 30, 1 4 6 . 1 9 , l i S . S [ , 5 2 7 . 1 3 , 619. ~3. 6 2 0 . 1 0 , 6 " 1 1 . 2 3 , 6 2 3 . ? 7 , 624. 22, 624. 33, 625. 1 I , 626. 10, 6~7. 10, 627. 14, 627. 21
AMDG (dd majar. m Dei gi. m. . m; Jesuit mOtto placed by school? children at the h~ad of essay" etc. ), 1~9. 04, 282. 06, 324. 2[, 324-23,327. ,6,4,8. 04
am I my brother', keeper? (Gen. 4:9), 3? 5. 16, 0443? 04, 483. 25 ampersand (su 'Letter')
And hOi Hey? (m 'Anna Livia Motif. ')
and mOre . . . Amory, amor andmore (m 'Last M"n"logue
Motif,')
And 110. And all (the characteristic . igh "fjohnny Mad)Qugal),
13. 28,270. 3[,368. 35. 393. 03
And the duppy . hot the shutter dup (putting up the shutters,
dosing the shop--a symbol "r death and the coming of a new agt:), 'S. 05, [6[. 24, '44. 06, 3"5,"5, (3,,5. 08). 372. 05
{he angel of the Lord appeared ull10 him in a dream, saying . . ? (Matt. I :20j, 63. 26, 5'2. 23, (552. ,,,), 604. 10, 604. 23 A-N-N (ttl 'Letter')
An"" Livid MatW
o tell me all about ? . " 101. 02, [54. Oj, IgIl. OI, 268. LI,
086. 30,331. 06, sS6? '3, 586. 35
Look, look, . 'i8. 06, 79. 21, '93. 15, [g6. 1 [, 213. 12, 301. 22, 601. 04,
625. 20
l"iduhr? Filou! (Is it late? What a thief u time! 'Filur' in
Norwegian means mud, the tame a. 'filou' in French),
64. ,8, ? 04. 16, 213. '4. 2go. 14, 420. 13, sS7? 0[, 6'4. 07
my back, my back, my bach! 213. '7, 416. [n, 567. 06 Pingpong! There'. the Relle for S"""loitez! (SH Mr. Fritz Senn's
'Some Zurich Allusions in F;tuztlrms W<! . V, 'rlit Aoalpl, no. . . ,
? An lnlux tif Motifs in Finntgans Wake
XIX, December, ,960;>>, (7,3S), S~? "", . . ,a? ~4, ~'S. I8, ~68. "",
3~7"5, S39? ~~, 344 ? 0~, 3 7 8 . 1 7 , 4 4 1 . 3 3 , 49~? ! . l, 508? ~9,
5~0. 17, 536,09, 5611. 13, 600. 04, 610. 14
Spread on your bank ~nd I'll ,prtad mine on mine, ol3. ~0,
4. ~7? 00
this for the code (the code may be deciphe=i a. '6 + '0
(=9+,)+I2+,= "g',whichishoy'. number)'~'3? o8,
6'g. 08
Mcther Goo. . ip, 21S. 29o 6~S. oS
main drain (the ,ide . train is Isoy, the mam drain Anna),
214? 02,60S? 3'
It', well I kncw your ,en ofslop, 2'4. '7, 408. 14
G. . . ,. ,k or Roman, O'4. ~2, 04~. '3, 409? '9, 4'9. 00, 553. ,6 Collan and Cuff. (dfenlinate men and/or homo,exuah),
"4. 09, 322? S6, 428. 06, <<9" 9, 6'4. 10
f a r , f a r ( t h e p h a l l i c F r e n c h p k o " f i g u r a . . . t h e V i k i n g f " , ( fa t h e r )
who 'calli' in the last lin", of the book), 52. ,6, 68. 'g, '39. 06,
o'S? c" 440. 30, 4112. 07, 506. 2'
We'll meet again, we'U pari once more, ~'5. 05, <<6,'5, 547. 09 Forgivemequick (one meaning i. that Mary appeal. 10 joocph
to fc. . give her inexplicahle pregnancy), ~,. ~. 07, 434-'3 I'm going, 2'5. 07, 220. 12, 427. 16, 4fi9. C. ~, 528. '3
Your cvcnlode, '43. 16,2'5. 08,242. 28, 6oS. 07
ToW)' 1 100, n5. 1I, 620. 27
. he WWl the queer old sk<lMha, 2,. '>,I~, 263.
