Rcqneoted to dispd iI, be ann<>unttd that he would be unable to dO so until the
following
day.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
; 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'. apron was hung Upoll it at 213. 26 bu. we now ""pectlo find this ot1lhe ,ttme, rOT poloritie; have cros. . ,d ov<rnighl. A, obviously the butcher at ' 72. 05-'0 md thewhtre, ,. the baker at 60]. 04-8. At 6. 7. I2-t 4 we . hall observe that Thom. a. " Heeket and Lawrence O'Toole have also changed their ChaTacter"$ dUTing ihe b! ackQut.
Tbe V~,;", can a, wen ,. . ,present ? pool with carp ? ? a river (600. 05: I do nol unde. . . tand the relevance of SI Polycarp here). F rom the pool we nuoy derive G! endalough ('By that Lake who. . ,
Gloomy Shore') ~"d Lough NtlIgh (600? 36-001. 07), the fonner a. . ociated with St Kevin (A), wbo wi! ! . hordy appear. He i. henllded by bi, admir. . . . , . . , now the bells of Dublin churcheo. From Kevin (Coemghen), A bc:romes tho posml "",ter (602. )1),
then the postman/haker and th= Kevin apill.
? . oS The Sigla of Fi1\1Ufa", Wake
A. we know from Joyce'. communication. with Frank Budgen,
the ,unri", illuminates a rriptycltal stained-glass window by . tagt. , fiNt uvuling the likeness of K",,;n ('The novened ioonot- tUe of hi. blucyguyned vitmilo but begins in feint to light his legend', 603,34. . 0), The encapsulated lcgend occupies 605,04- 606,12: its symmetries have been de. . . . iled by lack Dalton. ' K evin medi. . . tes upon hi. holy . ieter water, -I, wheuby he appuhend,
'the primal . . . crament nf baptism", the rcgen<:. . . . tinn of. ll IIUlfl by affu'ion of water. ' A , book IV is the Spri ng of f'W, this point i. probably coeval wiIh Ihe Holy Sarurday consecration of bap- tismal w. . ,. :rs ('0 God, who by water did't wash away the crimes of an evil world, and in the overflowing of the Flood did" give ? figllTe of , cgene. . . . tion'). ITI'. ugencno. tion i. a watery prnttS, : the Spring flood elicits the resurgence of vegetation.
A pro'pect ofthe city from Howth appears, 'The rau view from 1M thlee Benn. '. From CIA polarity (607. 08-<), 608. 16-21) 'he emphasis moves'o the poLari,ies of day and nighl, as Ihe dttOmer " ,ives tn ",. ;,,11= hi, d. . . . m. VI. B. 9. 19 has 'Pt IV--dram of t, l, 3'. A fleeting irru>. gc of the V,si"" i? ? -kind of a Ihinglike all ' . . . . ylogged 'hen pubably it usymbles a pelvic o r SOme kvind then propoanarutebackedquadrangle'(608. n-4). Despiteour Languid envy of the agreeable condition ju. t gone by, we are obliged to wake : the <>ppO. ite <>riel of the rriptYeh lights up, depicti ng the confmnr:a. t;'m <>f St Patrick with King Leary'~ a. chdruid.
Among. t St Patrick', major exploits was hi. defiance of royal authority in lighting . fiu ? ? Slane on Holy Saturday. Thl. led 10 an un. uccessful visitation by the insrruments of K ing UoghaiTC (Leary); the vilal cLa,h did not bow""er occur until Easter Sunday.
It took the form of a Ctmtest <If n)i. . . d . . performed at Tara before the king by his druid Lucat-Mael and by Patricl<. The . . . in. was consistently able to ,urpa. . the druid and ""cotually deolroyed him. The particular miracle feature<! in FW involves the dormess brouant OVOI the land by Luc>. ! _Ma~I's invocation? .
Rcqneoted to dispd iI, be ann<>unttd that he would be unable to dO so until the following day. Patrick alused it to vani. h instantaneously. ru the . un shone forth once mou,. U the people cried OUt glorifying
Patrick'. God. '
Patrick then 11 Iilr. ~ m a bring'" of lianL Although in book II
M contbines with Bcnelcy and <lthen in the compOsition of . c, the CQnntctions aTC seveud heu and &. keky becomes an impOr-
? 'I\d_ _ for<beRes<. . . ,ion',inr-Io<aM. Tilly,<<llodp,D. h"" ,1><1 am Hoot (1 - . , F . "" ODd F,b<. 1965), 119-31.
':no. Lif. o. . J IVrit? . , . of S , l'''''''~, <<1. /. Hc&I, (D~bJin, Gill '905), '51.
? TheStructureofBookIV t09
tan, element in the personality of the druid. In [he MuulJuva dialogue, where the acton are observed from afar, we see If. a, 'Bulkily', who . tand, apart 'in druidful '(:luerilli", disgusted by the insult to hi. transcendr:nuli. m. He i. opposed by m, Patrick,
the RUS$ian c;. ,neral. King Leary place. be~ on both . ideo: 'He has httphiscrtwnonthehurkeIeybuybutheha,holfhi. CT<Iwn on the Eur. . . . i. an Generalissimo' (6,O. Il-13).
A most . ignificant a,pect of the balance of boo):: II againM book IV now becomes apparent. Book II r. -presenu the defeat of m by " i book IV the rever",. I suspect furtha that the conflict in
faCt begin, with thaI ofM u",", (hange, '" and Juva, Jove, m,which includes the loon of a hot_waltr bottlelwarm;ng-panlpen by Juva '0 Muta, followed by the word 'Shoot'. Does " shoot ml In the parallel dialogues of I . t and 11. 3, Mutt . u:ikes Jute (One eYCgOn- black,,016. zg) and Taff itrike, Bun CTake the cawraidd'. blow! ', 344. 07). But hae any hlow deal! ! O mby " will be as ineffectual . s the magic of l. ucat-Mael.
Mro Gla. heen has indicated the circumstance thaI the SI Kevin piece exalts water, Ihe SI Patrick piece colour. ' AI 610. 19-20 we observe thal'the King drink~, thereby 'uggesting the Aillun'. ale consumed al 03I. lI- n , possibly Ihe water of regene. . . . tion, but most emphatically the ,arwaltr extolled in Betkdey'. Si";,. Th;. CItraordirulry blend of subtlety and defunct . cicnce oppO,"", the mechani"ic philosophy of Newton (e. g. 'aether', 'gravity') but approves his discovery ,hal tbe spectral colour. 'depend on the
p. rted rays or particles of light . . . whicb, when "'pa. . . . ,ed, form distinct colo,,", being blendtd a,. . , lost in one uniform appeal-_
ance. " Further, 'it . . tntl probable that . . numy ray1 as impinje on rhe solid parto ',{bodies are 00, refltct<:d bul . tifled and retained in the bodies. " The concepI is IOrruously promulgated in 61t. or 24. Berkeley wears a seven-coloured mande, althougb thi' was in fact the regal number in ancient Ireland, learned men only wearing six o"lou. . . ? He has pa. ",d through rhe 'seven degrees of wisdom' (611. 20), a twelve-year programme incumbenl upon ollaves
(master poet. ). "
The Neoplalonic OOIldemnalion of illu. ion i. appropriate DOl
only to the tenor nfS;,. ;, buubo to the IUPpoM<l diCtattll ofdruid- ilm. Stwlrt Piggon, in hi. sludy of rhe subject, refen Ul! ! O the
? Ctm. . II,I';;--h;;;.
' G . . q . 1 1 < _ < 1 . Sms,,,. . . . 1 6 , .
, r. i~. , " . . . . . >> .
"LadyWkkIe. A_LtpMsofr. . 1<md. >So.
'Rab<rt Gav<. . 17M WIoi<< G. . /do-" (l. on<Ion, F. I><T and faber '9j'), ""
? IIO The Sig1a of Fi_anl WaA.
Alexandrian commentators, , uoh as Hippolytua, wh<> 'not only makes the druid. to have "profoundly cnmiru:d 'he Pythagorean faith" hut 10 hove been instructed in it by the mythical Thr1lcian Zalmo"is, . aid 10 have been a pupil of Pythagora. himself. With such wriw? o aa Ckmen. and Cyril we ore in a world where the Druids are not wholly Pythag<lrean, bu. wlu:re the invention of . hat ""hool of philQoophy il even amibuted to them. '''
In VI. B. 14. S0 we read:
Aquinas v Sootu.
SPv D
Thi, parallel i. not to be pu,hed. T here is no real te~tual evi_ dence ,upporting it: in fact 'grey. maryfamily' (6II. 09) seem. to relate St Patrick 10 the FNlru:iscans, 'UPPOTtcn of John Duns Scmus, Nlther than I" the TlOmist Dominicans. The ron-
troversi. , over the immortality ofthe $Oul and the nature of matter 00 not fit into lbe pattern Joyce h", set up. But if we take the conflict . imply '" tbat of Aristoteliani,m and platoni,m there i? ? en. . to be uncovered. Patrid<, as authoritarian mouthpie<< of the papacy,can be tied to Aquinas (and hence ArisIOIle) by sheen""- logy; lbe druid, as we have 1ICCIl, has affinities with the whirlpool ofpla",ni. ",. }low, in book II, Ihe victory of the Q)mmunist tailor
overlbe fasci" captain could wen he a Victory of Plato, N eoplaton- ism making way for the democr:atic age of book III. In book IV, . he victory of the hienlrchical Scholastic< mak. . way for the theo-
cratic a~ of book I.
Ther. i. in fact an anomaly present amongst all ,hi? . Both
Patrick and the druid art ounwof1,hippcr. and recogni? ? the aqlli_ parti,. nature of light. But "nly Patrid<'s . un i. exterior. In . Japa~e-'inctured speech oontr",ting with the druid'. Ctin.
A d ock 'Irikes (598. 27-599. 04) and an advCT,isernen' <efcr"$ 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'. apron was hung Upoll it at 213. 26 bu. we now ""pectlo find this ot1lhe ,ttme, rOT poloritie; have cros. . ,d ov<rnighl. A, obviously the butcher at ' 72. 05-'0 md thewhtre, ,. the baker at 60]. 04-8. At 6. 7. I2-t 4 we . hall observe that Thom. a. " Heeket and Lawrence O'Toole have also changed their ChaTacter"$ dUTing ihe b! ackQut.
Tbe V~,;", can a, wen ,. . ,present ? pool with carp ? ? a river (600. 05: I do nol unde. . . tand the relevance of SI Polycarp here). F rom the pool we nuoy derive G! endalough ('By that Lake who. . ,
Gloomy Shore') ~"d Lough NtlIgh (600? 36-001. 07), the fonner a. . ociated with St Kevin (A), wbo wi! ! . hordy appear. He i. henllded by bi, admir. . . . , . . , now the bells of Dublin churcheo. From Kevin (Coemghen), A bc:romes tho posml "",ter (602. )1),
then the postman/haker and th= Kevin apill.
? . oS The Sigla of Fi1\1Ufa", Wake
A. we know from Joyce'. communication. with Frank Budgen,
the ,unri", illuminates a rriptycltal stained-glass window by . tagt. , fiNt uvuling the likeness of K",,;n ('The novened ioonot- tUe of hi. blucyguyned vitmilo but begins in feint to light his legend', 603,34. . 0), The encapsulated lcgend occupies 605,04- 606,12: its symmetries have been de. . . . iled by lack Dalton. ' K evin medi. . . tes upon hi. holy . ieter water, -I, wheuby he appuhend,
'the primal . . . crament nf baptism", the rcgen<:. . . . tinn of. ll IIUlfl by affu'ion of water. ' A , book IV is the Spri ng of f'W, this point i. probably coeval wiIh Ihe Holy Sarurday consecration of bap- tismal w. . ,. :rs ('0 God, who by water did't wash away the crimes of an evil world, and in the overflowing of the Flood did" give ? figllTe of , cgene. . . . tion'). ITI'. ugencno. tion i. a watery prnttS, : the Spring flood elicits the resurgence of vegetation.
A pro'pect ofthe city from Howth appears, 'The rau view from 1M thlee Benn. '. From CIA polarity (607. 08-<), 608. 16-21) 'he emphasis moves'o the poLari,ies of day and nighl, as Ihe dttOmer " ,ives tn ",. ;,,11= hi, d. . . . m. VI. B. 9. 19 has 'Pt IV--dram of t, l, 3'. A fleeting irru>. gc of the V,si"" i? ? -kind of a Ihinglike all ' . . . . ylogged 'hen pubably it usymbles a pelvic o r SOme kvind then propoanarutebackedquadrangle'(608. n-4). Despiteour Languid envy of the agreeable condition ju. t gone by, we are obliged to wake : the <>ppO. ite <>riel of the rriptYeh lights up, depicti ng the confmnr:a. t;'m <>f St Patrick with King Leary'~ a. chdruid.
Among. t St Patrick', major exploits was hi. defiance of royal authority in lighting . fiu ? ? Slane on Holy Saturday. Thl. led 10 an un. uccessful visitation by the insrruments of K ing UoghaiTC (Leary); the vilal cLa,h did not bow""er occur until Easter Sunday.
It took the form of a Ctmtest <If n)i. . . d . . performed at Tara before the king by his druid Lucat-Mael and by Patricl<. The . . . in. was consistently able to ,urpa. . the druid and ""cotually deolroyed him. The particular miracle feature<! in FW involves the dormess brouant OVOI the land by Luc>. ! _Ma~I's invocation? .
Rcqneoted to dispd iI, be ann<>unttd that he would be unable to dO so until the following day. Patrick alused it to vani. h instantaneously. ru the . un shone forth once mou,. U the people cried OUt glorifying
Patrick'. God. '
Patrick then 11 Iilr. ~ m a bring'" of lianL Although in book II
M contbines with Bcnelcy and <lthen in the compOsition of . c, the CQnntctions aTC seveud heu and &. keky becomes an impOr-
? 'I\d_ _ for<beRes<. . . ,ion',inr-Io<aM. Tilly,<<llodp,D. h"" ,1><1 am Hoot (1 - . , F . "" ODd F,b<. 1965), 119-31.
':no. Lif. o. . J IVrit? . , . of S , l'''''''~, <<1. /. Hc&I, (D~bJin, Gill '905), '51.
? TheStructureofBookIV t09
tan, element in the personality of the druid. In [he MuulJuva dialogue, where the acton are observed from afar, we see If. a, 'Bulkily', who . tand, apart 'in druidful '(:luerilli", disgusted by the insult to hi. transcendr:nuli. m. He i. opposed by m, Patrick,
the RUS$ian c;. ,neral. King Leary place. be~ on both . ideo: 'He has httphiscrtwnonthehurkeIeybuybutheha,holfhi. CT<Iwn on the Eur. . . . i. an Generalissimo' (6,O. Il-13).
A most . ignificant a,pect of the balance of boo):: II againM book IV now becomes apparent. Book II r. -presenu the defeat of m by " i book IV the rever",. I suspect furtha that the conflict in
faCt begin, with thaI ofM u",", (hange, '" and Juva, Jove, m,which includes the loon of a hot_waltr bottlelwarm;ng-panlpen by Juva '0 Muta, followed by the word 'Shoot'. Does " shoot ml In the parallel dialogues of I . t and 11. 3, Mutt . u:ikes Jute (One eYCgOn- black,,016. zg) and Taff itrike, Bun CTake the cawraidd'. blow! ', 344. 07). But hae any hlow deal! ! O mby " will be as ineffectual . s the magic of l. ucat-Mael.
Mro Gla. heen has indicated the circumstance thaI the SI Kevin piece exalts water, Ihe SI Patrick piece colour. ' AI 610. 19-20 we observe thal'the King drink~, thereby 'uggesting the Aillun'. ale consumed al 03I. lI- n , possibly Ihe water of regene. . . . tion, but most emphatically the ,arwaltr extolled in Betkdey'. Si";,. Th;. CItraordirulry blend of subtlety and defunct . cicnce oppO,"", the mechani"ic philosophy of Newton (e. g. 'aether', 'gravity') but approves his discovery ,hal tbe spectral colour. 'depend on the
p. rted rays or particles of light . . . whicb, when "'pa. . . . ,ed, form distinct colo,,", being blendtd a,. . , lost in one uniform appeal-_
ance. " Further, 'it . . tntl probable that . . numy ray1 as impinje on rhe solid parto ',{bodies are 00, refltct<:d bul . tifled and retained in the bodies. " The concepI is IOrruously promulgated in 61t. or 24. Berkeley wears a seven-coloured mande, althougb thi' was in fact the regal number in ancient Ireland, learned men only wearing six o"lou. . . ? He has pa. ",d through rhe 'seven degrees of wisdom' (611. 20), a twelve-year programme incumbenl upon ollaves
(master poet. ). "
The Neoplalonic OOIldemnalion of illu. ion i. appropriate DOl
only to the tenor nfS;,. ;, buubo to the IUPpoM<l diCtattll ofdruid- ilm. Stwlrt Piggon, in hi. sludy of rhe subject, refen Ul! ! O the
? Ctm. . II,I';;--h;;;.
' G . . q . 1 1 < _ < 1 . Sms,,,. . . . 1 6 , .
, r. i~. , " . . . . . >> .
"LadyWkkIe. A_LtpMsofr. . 1<md. >So.
'Rab<rt Gav<. . 17M WIoi<< G. . /do-" (l. on<Ion, F. I><T and faber '9j'), ""
? IIO The Sig1a of Fi_anl WaA.
Alexandrian commentators, , uoh as Hippolytua, wh<> 'not only makes the druid. to have "profoundly cnmiru:d 'he Pythagorean faith" hut 10 hove been instructed in it by the mythical Thr1lcian Zalmo"is, . aid 10 have been a pupil of Pythagora. himself. With such wriw? o aa Ckmen. and Cyril we ore in a world where the Druids are not wholly Pythag<lrean, bu. wlu:re the invention of . hat ""hool of philQoophy il even amibuted to them. '''
In VI. B. 14. S0 we read:
Aquinas v Sootu.
SPv D
Thi, parallel i. not to be pu,hed. T here is no real te~tual evi_ dence ,upporting it: in fact 'grey. maryfamily' (6II. 09) seem. to relate St Patrick 10 the FNlru:iscans, 'UPPOTtcn of John Duns Scmus, Nlther than I" the TlOmist Dominicans. The ron-
troversi. , over the immortality ofthe $Oul and the nature of matter 00 not fit into lbe pattern Joyce h", set up. But if we take the conflict . imply '" tbat of Aristoteliani,m and platoni,m there i? ? en. . to be uncovered. Patrid<, as authoritarian mouthpie<< of the papacy,can be tied to Aquinas (and hence ArisIOIle) by sheen""- logy; lbe druid, as we have 1ICCIl, has affinities with the whirlpool ofpla",ni. ",. }low, in book II, Ihe victory of the Q)mmunist tailor
overlbe fasci" captain could wen he a Victory of Plato, N eoplaton- ism making way for the democr:atic age of book III. In book IV, . he victory of the hienlrchical Scholastic< mak. . way for the theo-
cratic a~ of book I.
Ther. i. in fact an anomaly present amongst all ,hi? . Both
Patrick and the druid art ounwof1,hippcr. and recogni? ? the aqlli_ parti,. nature of light. But "nly Patrid<'s . un i. exterior. In . Japa~e-'inctured speech oontr",ting with the druid'. Ctin.
