pleDdid example of
myttical
corr~pondtIlQ.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
Curre.
Jporui(7lcu
Tbis prohahly owes much 10 Ihe aDCiePI Egyptian morning prayer which Joyce _ uld have read aboul ip Blaval. 'lky': 'llle Egyptian p,;""u ,hanled . he acv<:n vowdI . . . . a bymn addresstd <0 Serapis; and at lhe sound of the KVenth ,-owe! , as at th~ "seventh ray" of the rUing ,un, the lIa'lIe of Memnon responded. ' (Cf. 'PRIMITIVE SEPT', ~67. RI, and cf. also
9'ho~? l
III: EXTRAVENT INTERVULVE COUPLING (3Ipo)
Duality of being is perlLaps the mos. imponant of all tbe balic IInrelural ronecpu in r llt1lt,. ,u Will,. There arc tWO of "vcrything-tO that any crux can alwaY" be rclatffi to IOlne analogoul p. . . . K" for ~nLight. cnmml-and everything in the book~'"in[WO ,. . ,rsions,om:"nlttdandonedch<u<:d. This principle applies to the abstract I'datioruhi,," bel\<o"Co:n things and even" as much as to the things . nd evenl! them. dvts.
J oy<< even IUpplies a debased analogue of the mystical thCO<)' of corrcspondeoca by expLain. ing it away in te. . . . . 0( ronnaions, of a pun:ly mechanical kind, hidd"" behind the fabric of 11K
univerul . I18o. . . ,t. Several important cp;. ooa . . ,. . . . . . , to build up this level of meaning, the II"IOIIt purely naturalistic of which iI undoubtedly the copulation ofF. a",-ick~r and Anna C583-~). Thil . he S M _ 1(9 quile improperly calls urwoti. raaory. ' Everything in the daeription ofthc Kene ,uggtsl! that, on the contrary, the act in which the chapt~r (I11. 41 mmes to its d im u is wholly IUCCaIfu1. Hen: Ihe ph)~c. al connaion uniting the OOliUponding coojugal pair is al Leul ph)'Jically . . . . t of light. Ebewberc (1. 4) Barwickr, havipg been buri<d, lpend. his time tunnelling like . mole ; one world ;1 'bufTowing On anoth. cr' indeed (275-06). We arc constantly inriled to . . ,arch . . . . , the hidden link< and ro elIpo6C the fuoetiooing 01 God'. ma,;oneuc l)IItem -an ol>>ttnc luggcstion in the ~ of the physical relatioruhip of the Earwicken, bul one which it con- sUolt:rlt with Shem'. lewd prcoccupatio. . . . Charact. crilticalil',
, 1mU_iJoJ,~ . . . . ,Londoo. '1In,vol. I,p. s. . . . . ? SK otis.
'53
? ComS/Mndtnu s
Joya finds a convenient technical tum fur all this: 'an. . . tt>- 1I1OiI,,', defined hy the Sittnln 0,,/? ? 1 1::",lul< Didi. " 'J as 'Intcrcommunicalion ""tw. ,. . . . tlO'(),-='d',channels,orb~ncllCs, by ? connecting cross branch. Olig. of the cross conneo;ions ""tWffll the anen. :. and vcillS, elc. ; DOW of u. . . . . of any branching . )'Stem'.
The fundamental act of copulation is . pecifically dclino:d in these terml:
. H umperfe1dl and Anuruka, wedded now evcl"fIlOI"e in ann. . . to- moses by Il ground plan ofthe pl. ~hunl"", wh;"ke",d beau . nd
dona. h""Ua. ' (S85. ~~)
In the timelcas Book tV all the disparate elements of Fu-pM 1I'. d:t are said to be 'ana. tomosinlly assimilaltd' (615. 0S), j. . . 1
. . . in Ufflsn:oll mankind had been mytlic;ally uniU:d: '. . . OUr grandam, which we are linked up wilh by . . ,o:'"'! i~ . n. . . tt>-
nl<l! U of nave1coro? . ' (U 374)
The anlltomosical conncxion typifio:d by this copuluion
scene i. nOI always ", flatly and unilt1. . l. gillativdy carnal. Any form of cross-pollination or troII-fertililation may oerve the same Iymbolic pUIf'O"". l"e analtomosu of615. "5 ",ferl in the
firsl place to the fertilisalion of the fIowerl which figure 10 1"'lC1y in the Quinel motif'; these arc the chutely liornt;""" rainbow? girb whose sauality KelTlS oomcIww always able to avoid Ihe direcl $Ullying OOIIlacl of the flo b. At Ibe o;nodQt levd of this promising tMmc tl>c girls, like the Bl. . . . . . . ! Virgin Gerty MacDowell, but even Ie. mod. . t than . he, ga ture lewdly . nd ,. 11 f(lr feniliution at ninety paces' distance from the immaculate Shaun (~37). The requo t is ofcourse ambiguo. . . and is in part. tribute 10 Shaun', faboJlous and Rabelailian physical cndowmatts but at . . . . . ther more spiritual Ievd a debaKd ,~rsionofthe Holy Ghoft'l vioil to Ma ry is clearly being
""OTked out:
'lend UI, your adorablo, thou (Werbl,. 001, a wise and letten
play of all you can tt:i~, chief ~Itecb chappy, from your holy pot! noW you h u t MCenained ~remonially our naIIICI. Unclean you art not. ' (037. 18)
I iN betow, cn. . . p<",. r. ;p. . , I.
,,.
? COrrtspo'lIJmcu
The Incarnation is of coUJ~ a .
pleDdid example of myttical corr~pondtIlQ.
Joy<< found much mo~ than an . ppropriate terminology to help him develop the idea of 'an. . . tomoais'. The th"""Y of 'psychic erc coroupondetloea' 6guud V<'ry 1"'8"ly in lhe repotu of the So. :icty for Psychical R_areh during me fint two <kc. odoea oflhis century, and Mr, Stuart Gilbert . . . . \lI'eI me thatJoyec tool< a particular intUQt ill thai' papcn. The theory concern. the appt"<>Iimatdy timultaneous t""",,riprion by widely ocparaled ? lftlJiri,,~? of 'mcosaga' purporting to come fromalingledeparted. pintwhoisattemprinlJto~tahl"h his 5II. . . . . ival in Ihe n a t world. In the simpiCllt cue, the two . . . . . . ages an: cloocly related by sorne COmmon word, phraoc Or image, or by IU inclusion of a11~ to tome fact of which neither 'medium' could have foreknowledge. In order to demonotrate that tdepathy betwoen the m M iU m I wu not the rmehanism of these ph(:I\Omena,~, the spirill had r<<oune to even suhller me:uu. Allee JohllXln wrotel :
~ charactemUcofthesec;av, OratLeastofoomeofthem- is thu we do notlI"t in the writing orone automatist anything like a nw::<::hanical '~rbatim reproduction of phrutt in the other; we do not even gel tho! :. arne idea exprwcd in different w a y t , _ might wdI E't:Iuit fro m d iffCt telepathy bet'A'eet1 them. . ' Vhat we get is a fragmentary utterance in one seript, whkh . . . . . "" to haw no particular point or meaning. and alFOlher fragmentary Ulletall(e in the other, of an equally pointleos character; but wh. en """ put the tWO together, we see that they . upple=nt one another, a"d that there i. apparently one: coherent ida underlying both, but only partially exp" ? ed in
each. '
TItere is. , I think, a ,ugg(ltion of the phr;illC' 'we do not get , . ,
What we gel;' ? . . ' etc. , in the dcscziptioJ1 of the 'distorted negative' (that ii, Finlllllll\S Wod. iuel? ) at I ' J . 26:
'Well, alEn05t any photo;'1 . . . ? orch his clzcmicoll will tip an)'OflC alking him tho Itaser that if a n. gatiV<' of a hone happens to
, '()" ~ i\u""""ti< Wrilin! ! <II Mn. Ho'b""', }',. . . . . . . . " V . ~ J. , I't,? <hi<oI_, . 01. XXII, 'goI\, p. ! 7~.
. "
? Curresptmdmces
melt . nough while drying, wcll, what you do gt"t is, weU, a poa;li~ly grotesqutly distorlm nw:rom,. ,. of all"","", of bone- bappy v:01uc:s and maTT,! of mdtwhile hone. '
The acwum in lhe Society'. reporl rontinueslat. r':
'[in the . piri1-Jneosaga] ? . . repeated injunctiont aro 10 b. fOllnd for IDe application of pl'O<< es docribed as /Jam-",. [10 uruhcalhc]. IWXIt. lID wcave Or bind together], IM/H'/'Glltfl [10 IUperJ>OiC'], to the woro. of the ocr;pl; in p;. rticular, il is w o- ltantly urg. . . ! lhal if some words were taken, . . . . . and :oome po:oous of rnpcrposition we", lItell applied, "'Jilrf>>MU, IICno. . W1>uld he secll wru,re now there ;. apparent DOnsc=. BUI no definite din:ctlo. . . . have ~ been gi. -. :n . . to thia procw of superposition . . . ' (Of. ~99. 08: '" . upetl>botitioul Quoint a quinoid. ned')
A n. . moo of. och injunctions to '. upuP'*" an:. qUQUd': 'Whn you h,. . . . . , done is alwaY' dioaociatM. i imp"""" it by <koying foltU j wcave tog('lher, wcave ! ogClher alway. :
'T o one IUperpoting ",,! "Cain things on . <:rUin things, cvtrything . . cl. . . . r. '
'Why do you not supc. ". ,. . , . . II in a bundle and perceive the trmb? '
'TwoI"old is the toil, but wbol~ ? . . [ef. 288-"31 In m)'lter1a I we,. ve riddJ~ for you and cenain othe. . for whom it i.
right. '
One 01" tbac statementl mUSl. have: had," . poc:iaJ appeal ror
J oyo:e':
'Nodding he lup<:rpoocd wilh gn:at labour and not without th~ belp oI" the artilicer. '
~ot only doco F;IUIt~1UU W. dt contain," number of . . :ampla of the 'verbatim reproduction of phra. es', but both it and UlJwu mau usc oI"tcchniqlla whi. c:b K<:m toow. m. . ch 10 the genuine W =pon<kncc idea o. . dine<! . by AliceJohn",n. ~fOli&
are often comprehenliblc only wh~n all their OCCum:nCU an: related togc:th. :r, a pan from on~ ",,";011 combinillg wilh . . part
,'On"'"Auwmati<: Writ;'. . . 0( M. . . HoI! &nd',"'-diII4'~1MSo<i<j)< j",l'odU<J &~, vol. " "II, t~, p. 3)'8.
? 0,. <>t. , pp. ! 'I'}-&.
. "
?
Tbis prohahly owes much 10 Ihe aDCiePI Egyptian morning prayer which Joyce _ uld have read aboul ip Blaval. 'lky': 'llle Egyptian p,;""u ,hanled . he acv<:n vowdI . . . . a bymn addresstd <0 Serapis; and at lhe sound of the KVenth ,-owe! , as at th~ "seventh ray" of the rUing ,un, the lIa'lIe of Memnon responded. ' (Cf. 'PRIMITIVE SEPT', ~67. RI, and cf. also
9'ho~? l
III: EXTRAVENT INTERVULVE COUPLING (3Ipo)
Duality of being is perlLaps the mos. imponant of all tbe balic IInrelural ronecpu in r llt1lt,. ,u Will,. There arc tWO of "vcrything-tO that any crux can alwaY" be rclatffi to IOlne analogoul p. . . . K" for ~nLight. cnmml-and everything in the book~'"in[WO ,. . ,rsions,om:"nlttdandonedch<u<:d. This principle applies to the abstract I'datioruhi,," bel\<o"Co:n things and even" as much as to the things . nd evenl! them. dvts.
J oy<< even IUpplies a debased analogue of the mystical thCO<)' of corrcspondeoca by expLain. ing it away in te. . . . . 0( ronnaions, of a pun:ly mechanical kind, hidd"" behind the fabric of 11K
univerul . I18o. . . ,t. Several important cp;. ooa . . ,. . . . . . , to build up this level of meaning, the II"IOIIt purely naturalistic of which iI undoubtedly the copulation ofF. a",-ick~r and Anna C583-~). Thil . he S M _ 1(9 quile improperly calls urwoti. raaory. ' Everything in the daeription ofthc Kene ,uggtsl! that, on the contrary, the act in which the chapt~r (I11. 41 mmes to its d im u is wholly IUCCaIfu1. Hen: Ihe ph)~c. al connaion uniting the OOliUponding coojugal pair is al Leul ph)'Jically . . . . t of light. Ebewberc (1. 4) Barwickr, havipg been buri<d, lpend. his time tunnelling like . mole ; one world ;1 'bufTowing On anoth. cr' indeed (275-06). We arc constantly inriled to . . ,arch . . . . , the hidden link< and ro elIpo6C the fuoetiooing 01 God'. ma,;oneuc l)IItem -an ol>>ttnc luggcstion in the ~ of the physical relatioruhip of the Earwicken, bul one which it con- sUolt:rlt with Shem'. lewd prcoccupatio. . . . Charact. crilticalil',
, 1mU_iJoJ,~ . . . . ,Londoo. '1In,vol. I,p. s. . . . . ? SK otis.
'53
? ComS/Mndtnu s
Joya finds a convenient technical tum fur all this: 'an. . . tt>- 1I1OiI,,', defined hy the Sittnln 0,,/? ? 1 1::",lul< Didi. " 'J as 'Intcrcommunicalion ""tw. ,. . . . tlO'(),-='d',channels,orb~ncllCs, by ? connecting cross branch. Olig. of the cross conneo;ions ""tWffll the anen. :. and vcillS, elc. ; DOW of u. . . . . of any branching . )'Stem'.
The fundamental act of copulation is . pecifically dclino:d in these terml:
. H umperfe1dl and Anuruka, wedded now evcl"fIlOI"e in ann. . . to- moses by Il ground plan ofthe pl. ~hunl"", wh;"ke",d beau . nd
dona. h""Ua. ' (S85. ~~)
In the timelcas Book tV all the disparate elements of Fu-pM 1I'. d:t are said to be 'ana. tomosinlly assimilaltd' (615. 0S), j. . . 1
. . . in Ufflsn:oll mankind had been mytlic;ally uniU:d: '. . . OUr grandam, which we are linked up wilh by . . ,o:'"'! i~ . n. . . tt>-
nl<l! U of nave1coro? . ' (U 374)
The anlltomosical conncxion typifio:d by this copuluion
scene i. nOI always ", flatly and unilt1. . l. gillativdy carnal. Any form of cross-pollination or troII-fertililation may oerve the same Iymbolic pUIf'O"". l"e analtomosu of615. "5 ",ferl in the
firsl place to the fertilisalion of the fIowerl which figure 10 1"'lC1y in the Quinel motif'; these arc the chutely liornt;""" rainbow? girb whose sauality KelTlS oomcIww always able to avoid Ihe direcl $Ullying OOIIlacl of the flo b. At Ibe o;nodQt levd of this promising tMmc tl>c girls, like the Bl. . . . . . . ! Virgin Gerty MacDowell, but even Ie. mod. . t than . he, ga ture lewdly . nd ,. 11 f(lr feniliution at ninety paces' distance from the immaculate Shaun (~37). The requo t is ofcourse ambiguo. . . and is in part. tribute 10 Shaun', faboJlous and Rabelailian physical cndowmatts but at . . . . . ther more spiritual Ievd a debaKd ,~rsionofthe Holy Ghoft'l vioil to Ma ry is clearly being
""OTked out:
'lend UI, your adorablo, thou (Werbl,. 001, a wise and letten
play of all you can tt:i~, chief ~Itecb chappy, from your holy pot! noW you h u t MCenained ~remonially our naIIICI. Unclean you art not. ' (037. 18)
I iN betow, cn. . . p<",. r. ;p. . , I.
,,.
? COrrtspo'lIJmcu
The Incarnation is of coUJ~ a .
pleDdid example of myttical corr~pondtIlQ.
Joy<< found much mo~ than an . ppropriate terminology to help him develop the idea of 'an. . . tomoais'. The th"""Y of 'psychic erc coroupondetloea' 6guud V<'ry 1"'8"ly in lhe repotu of the So. :icty for Psychical R_areh during me fint two <kc. odoea oflhis century, and Mr, Stuart Gilbert . . . . \lI'eI me thatJoyec tool< a particular intUQt ill thai' papcn. The theory concern. the appt"<>Iimatdy timultaneous t""",,riprion by widely ocparaled ? lftlJiri,,~? of 'mcosaga' purporting to come fromalingledeparted. pintwhoisattemprinlJto~tahl"h his 5II. . . . . ival in Ihe n a t world. In the simpiCllt cue, the two . . . . . . ages an: cloocly related by sorne COmmon word, phraoc Or image, or by IU inclusion of a11~ to tome fact of which neither 'medium' could have foreknowledge. In order to demonotrate that tdepathy betwoen the m M iU m I wu not the rmehanism of these ph(:I\Omena,~, the spirill had r<<oune to even suhller me:uu. Allee JohllXln wrotel :
~ charactemUcofthesec;av, OratLeastofoomeofthem- is thu we do notlI"t in the writing orone automatist anything like a nw::<::hanical '~rbatim reproduction of phrutt in the other; we do not even gel tho! :. arne idea exprwcd in different w a y t , _ might wdI E't:Iuit fro m d iffCt telepathy bet'A'eet1 them. . ' Vhat we get is a fragmentary utterance in one seript, whkh . . . . . "" to haw no particular point or meaning. and alFOlher fragmentary Ulletall(e in the other, of an equally pointleos character; but wh. en """ put the tWO together, we see that they . upple=nt one another, a"d that there i. apparently one: coherent ida underlying both, but only partially exp" ? ed in
each. '
TItere is. , I think, a ,ugg(ltion of the phr;illC' 'we do not get , . ,
What we gel;' ? . . ' etc. , in the dcscziptioJ1 of the 'distorted negative' (that ii, Finlllllll\S Wod. iuel? ) at I ' J . 26:
'Well, alEn05t any photo;'1 . . . ? orch his clzcmicoll will tip an)'OflC alking him tho Itaser that if a n. gatiV<' of a hone happens to
, '()" ~ i\u""""ti< Wrilin! ! <II Mn. Ho'b""', }',. . . . . . . . " V . ~ J. , I't,? <hi<oI_, . 01. XXII, 'goI\, p. ! 7~.
. "
? Curresptmdmces
melt . nough while drying, wcll, what you do gt"t is, weU, a poa;li~ly grotesqutly distorlm nw:rom,. ,. of all"","", of bone- bappy v:01uc:s and maTT,! of mdtwhile hone. '
The acwum in lhe Society'. reporl rontinueslat. r':
'[in the . piri1-Jneosaga] ? . . repeated injunctiont aro 10 b. fOllnd for IDe application of pl'O<< es docribed as /Jam-",. [10 uruhcalhc]. IWXIt. lID wcave Or bind together], IM/H'/'Glltfl [10 IUperJ>OiC'], to the woro. of the ocr;pl; in p;. rticular, il is w o- ltantly urg. . . ! lhal if some words were taken, . . . . . and :oome po:oous of rnpcrposition we", lItell applied, "'Jilrf>>MU, IICno. . W1>uld he secll wru,re now there ;. apparent DOnsc=. BUI no definite din:ctlo. . . . have ~ been gi. -. :n . . to thia procw of superposition . . . ' (Of. ~99. 08: '" . upetl>botitioul Quoint a quinoid. ned')
A n. . moo of. och injunctions to '. upuP'*" an:. qUQUd': 'Whn you h,. . . . . , done is alwaY' dioaociatM. i imp"""" it by <koying foltU j wcave tog('lher, wcave ! ogClher alway. :
'T o one IUperpoting ",,! "Cain things on . <:rUin things, cvtrything . . cl. . . . r. '
'Why do you not supc. ". ,. . , . . II in a bundle and perceive the trmb? '
'TwoI"old is the toil, but wbol~ ? . . [ef. 288-"31 In m)'lter1a I we,. ve riddJ~ for you and cenain othe. . for whom it i.
right. '
One 01" tbac statementl mUSl. have: had," . poc:iaJ appeal ror
J oyo:e':
'Nodding he lup<:rpoocd wilh gn:at labour and not without th~ belp oI" the artilicer. '
~ot only doco F;IUIt~1UU W. dt contain," number of . . :ampla of the 'verbatim reproduction of phra. es', but both it and UlJwu mau usc oI"tcchniqlla whi. c:b K<:m toow. m. . ch 10 the genuine W =pon<kncc idea o. . dine<! . by AliceJohn",n. ~fOli&
are often comprehenliblc only wh~n all their OCCum:nCU an: related togc:th. :r, a pan from on~ ",,";011 combinillg wilh . . part
,'On"'"Auwmati<: Writ;'. . . 0( M. . . HoI! &nd',"'-diII4'~1MSo<i<j)< j",l'odU<J &~, vol. " "II, t~, p. 3)'8.
? 0,. <>t. , pp. ! 'I'}-&.
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