In many cases their
meaningS
grt.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
.
.
It appea.
.
.
aoo in VI.
B.
8.
244 (early 1926) in another Ii,,:
m,. oL, C A~~
TIOI)( 0 C
The innovation here i? . c, lhe brother ofCand A. In . ome ca. . . Joyce also u,es thi, . iglum to mean 'c and A', and consequently there are mtri. . to which eilller interpretation could apply. Joyce . e<:m. to have eventually incorponled the pernonalily of T riuan into . c, 10 T fades oul aflCC this Siage, being omitted frrun the mid_ 1926 list of VI. B. IS. 2? :
m
?
I~ ? ~ r
A final condition i. seen in the ' 932- 3 list of VI. B. ;\4. 191: m?
l~'Ab A' A< ~
-o
C
T he lettered indica refet to the four chapttrs of book II I.
The Buffalo Notebooks 9
? 10 The Sig! a of Fi=qans W"k. Personalily Condensation
Pel'Sonag'" such as m, . , 1:, A and -4 are fluid composil<"1, involv_ inK an unconfined blur of hislOric:aJ, mythical and fictitious eharac- l~f$, . , wdl a,nonhuman clemens. Joyce'. technique of per- sonality <:<mde",ation is uhimately inseparable from his lingu;Slic eMden,;. . :"i"n, C<>incidences oforthOgr;tphy and pronuncil"ion are enforced with indifference to the ostensible logic of their PUt. That which i. not coincidence i. pared away, and the greater the . imilari. y oftwopenons' name. , the mote u",fully thei r pel'S<Klali- ties <:<mjugate.
Before the onset of the effect I called psychic . . turat;on, the reader'. mind dic(,,,. . . its own limits of credulity lowards ili< range of different meanings (hal Joyce inI<",ded any won! <)< unit to encompa"'. Clearly, no lWO people will draw (he line at precisely the same point, and even the . . me I'<"on on different occasions will pl~. it differ=tly. ' To be . trict, it i. les, ? lint lhan. ron. ofapathy dividing $timulu. from vacuwn. Wi,h reiteraled ""Iual experience, 'he limi" fi. . . t contract, then widen. I, is how~veT possible to ign= the a. . . the! ic commitment and th<<:>reticllly to unile any unit with any glo? ? , as Clive Han has shown:
Toke any p. . . . ge at candorn and you can <iemonSlrale that it is abou" say, the twenty-four golden umbrellas of
tbeKingofThailand. TIlemc:thodis,ofCOt. orse,applicable to any work of literature. Mr Dalton has $uggesred to me that 'he opening scene of Haml" can be . hown to be en- tirely concer~ with . . x""l inten:ouri! e. "The principle th~refoTC S<<n'UIto be a lunatiC Ont, and yet I believe lhal in the case of FW it ha$' certain validity , Any,hing in FW i. indeed aboUI. nything el$C'-hw oldy in th. fall <>/an i,,? }in;" 'eg"" of plam. of mtanil! ,\'. The all-irnporlllnt que. - ! ion, in my view, i$ how to get the. . plan. , of m~~ning into the right order, and into 'he right perspective. '
But in much of FW [he reader is unable to usign priority 10 any major gJo. s. ThCT(: uists here a par:alld with the gr:adient of rnlity in the 'Cir~' epUnde of Uly"e,. Some of the 'Circe' speeches constitute dil"? Cl transcriplt of . "'erio. events. OthcT$
are embellished by Bloom', pa. -. . noia, otbers arc pieces of interior monologue comparable with tho"" in other episodQ" whilst othert
, 0 . . un, P r o b l m > . . . F d t z S<nn. ' " -r. . , - a t < oC O v < r . f ' t O d . . . . , A W N I . ' ( ' ~
,4
. d. by 0;. . , Hart""" Fdt. Sentt (S)'dne)' Uru. . . . . . . p". . " '96$), i---9.
'1b< EIep. . . . . , in ,I>< ! kklyo ~ oC F; '''? '''' W<IV. in A W . DWm,
? ore dilations of len c"IUciou. phenomena. With the latter, a few s<<<>nd. ' experience may Q(XuPY IruIny pog'" of pSy<heddic fan- . ,. . ia and a . ingle . peech may include inforrruotion known only to Bloom and information known only to Stephen, in an illuS\r. ltive
I1lther than a reprodue,ive sen. e. Joyce neither separates nor iden- tifies these gmel1l, thereby implying the arbi'rary rutture of their bound? . Obviouslyccrtl. inpartsoflhe Ctmtinuurn. cannot be defini_ tively alloned to anyone level. In FWwe find far more levels and far mOr<: llltC<'rtl. inty.
Omsider for ("ltlImple 02S. 0S' 'her lex'. sa! ig'. T he Ltx: Sllli. a, the rrankish ~lie Law, is pertinenl in the ':<""0<1 (widowhood) because of its pronouneem<n1$ on male and fe""'le rights of de_ scent. The syntactic echo, however, is 'her leg'. sdig' (German: 'happy"). 11:uot i. to say, . he i. not sufficiently grave, as would
b e c o m e . r e c e n t w i d o w . W e m a y ala<> f i n d t h e D u t c h z a l i g , ' " " , a n _ ing delicious, or hl",. . d, but the word ""'"' dearly fitting the reservation of the carlier pan of the . emenee i. Irish salach, 'dirty'. " Devil. hayfork'. w10llll with her only her leg'. dirty.
A ta certain point . . . . tur~tion occurs ~ the mind (ail. to ",(:;lin and Ttconcile a luperfluity of levels.
In many cases their meaningS grt. te (e. g. 'bl",=! ' and 'dirty'), adding to the difficulty. A fre- quent panern i. an initial ludicrou. in'Ulge, lat. " found to be justi- fied by the supporting rt. ,ionale. Take on ("ltlIrnple from 1. 6. 1,
which is "",rked m in the British Mu. . um manuscript? . " AI 13'. 09"""11 'his Tiar. l ~ . oon", was held unfiIlable till one Liam Foil{dIed him in Westmun. tcr. ' John Garvin" explains thaI this refers 'to the . tone, Lia Foil, on which Irish tingo we", crowned atTart. ,whichwaol. . . " forasimilarceremonyatScon~inScOIland and kept there until brought away by the Engl,sh and in. . rttd in the coronation chair in W . ,tmin. ,er Abbey. ' If w<: cLusify the other plan. . of meaning in this phl'll"" W<= may say that one iden- tifies m wi'" Parnell, 'uncrowned King of Ireland', who. . fol-
lowe" fa,ltd him in W",nninsler. Another, via 'Tart. of the Kinga', makes him the last High King, Roderick o'Omnor. A third ",lateslOHumph",y Chimpden Earwickec, who in I. ~ rnttts King William (Irish I. jam), and a fourth to the infallible papacy. Beneath Ihi. a flurry of intimation. constellate into a grotesque
'lI<mhoim,A un"",<{du 0. . '" . . 'p _ w. . v,>0.
' 1--<<> Knurn, 'Tn>l<h . . r; . . . uu W . U . AWN VIII. > ('97'), n , . o t , . 1.
"S<<: v. )' bolo. . .
,,? Somt Inlll ond """". 1,;. 10 AlIuoiom . . R". . . . . . W _ . J _ Joy<< a. -.
". /yXI. ) ISorina: 1914), '1).
Pe. . . . onahty Condensation II
? monarch wearing! oOOlles around his forehelld. Bu, would i, DOl be m<Ir'C accun! C 10 repro this tlranjle Iii"'" as the intrinsic m whieh the other b d s support 1AdopUna this p"""i,. . our '''K 'P_ ,;bili,~ . ~ '" ""'. . . . in f~umcies whidt m ligures potKSl. In tM t"l<Imple dt<: ioolarioa and Ib,gran' ambition of the hero, fol-
lowed by ? di. . ,. ,,,,,,,, fall, le! ""'t the im. oge and suatsl other m oomponcnts such as Adlm and Oocar Wilde. F urther away _
dislingui. h person. wOO mimed the crescendo by buildini and t h e n f a U I n i f r o m l a l l b u i l d i n g s , . u e h . . T i m F i n n e R a n i n t h e b a Uad 'Tim F1lIMgan', Wokc:' and Ibsm. '. ~Icrbuilder Sol,. . . . ? ? JO)'<<', eumplara are frequmtly very tall, or . hey have I hunch- bid, or pcrhllpS ,hey I'uller, According '0 ' 07. 2I-)S :
In t. ct, under the closed eyes of the ilt$l"'CtOQ tbe <nit. fearuring the d/itUOrcuro COIolesce, their OXt. . . . rie,ies ellmi- . . . . ,M, inone . . . . ble . . . . . cbody. imillfly as by the providen- tial WlIrring ofhcamhakcr with hous. ebn:aker and ofdram- drinker against frfflhink. . our social somethina bowls
llonl . . . rxPC:rimcinll jolling ""ries of prcatT&natd dis- Ippoinunenu, down Ihe lon,llne of. . . Keneralionl, more genera,;"m and tlill more ,encn. tions.
The ruder ""'Y conclude Ihllt m i, an arch. . rypc, or ~m thaI m is God, bu. the utili. y 01such pronoUIloCemcn", ;1 dubioul. The QOIIRoCOI;rion b<<wttn ITI'lltuttctin,and God's thunder hu been
. t w j p u z e d b y M . A d " , n o n u a I y m p " " " o f J U i l t . ' ? I . a l s o impl~ ferrili[y. Jupiler Tonans appelll in . . . . . ny hislorictl mnrinacncieo, evm in ",lotion to Dublin. 111e chancr forged by rnonb in 964 AD for K ina EdgIr, dliminll)Of'Cnionoftbc city by him, includes . be: phra"" 'by the abundarll mercy of God who ,hulldcrcth from
on high'," rK:OlIcd at 061,14. ThundCT in FW speaks by mean, of ""rloul hundl"ed. -Ic! lered wordl, C. 8. 003. 1$- 17.
Lilte God m i. alloal, . thing IOURh. , a re,Ort. o ,he cnill"'l of crealion, ? pOtentially dangerous hut obs<:$&ively desired pDW(:r or U"\I. h,. thingendowcd wi. h sanctity. For the purpolCt of FW, 'the impcclon' mlY be foll:Jon: collectors, civic annalis" or uplorcn oftht Upper Nile, but they arc all $Cdcinl m They Ire allO, as will [><. '"I''' cl<:ar, the fOlll" old men d<:n1)lM by the li,lum
It I turve d<montuatcd el_hcrc" that a pr<>CUI of obtcu. . tion . tfc:cu m ;0 book I, . endinalo defeal th. c incrcalin[l: prccilion,
"&. /rt, J1.
"J. WotbunM. R<. . J. WIIi1<Iow _ R<. . R.
m,. oL, C A~~
TIOI)( 0 C
The innovation here i? . c, lhe brother ofCand A. In . ome ca. . . Joyce also u,es thi, . iglum to mean 'c and A', and consequently there are mtri. . to which eilller interpretation could apply. Joyce . e<:m. to have eventually incorponled the pernonalily of T riuan into . c, 10 T fades oul aflCC this Siage, being omitted frrun the mid_ 1926 list of VI. B. IS. 2? :
m
?
I~ ? ~ r
A final condition i. seen in the ' 932- 3 list of VI. B. ;\4. 191: m?
l~'Ab A' A< ~
-o
C
T he lettered indica refet to the four chapttrs of book II I.
The Buffalo Notebooks 9
? 10 The Sig! a of Fi=qans W"k. Personalily Condensation
Pel'Sonag'" such as m, . , 1:, A and -4 are fluid composil<"1, involv_ inK an unconfined blur of hislOric:aJ, mythical and fictitious eharac- l~f$, . , wdl a,nonhuman clemens. Joyce'. technique of per- sonality <:<mde",ation is uhimately inseparable from his lingu;Slic eMden,;. . :"i"n, C<>incidences oforthOgr;tphy and pronuncil"ion are enforced with indifference to the ostensible logic of their PUt. That which i. not coincidence i. pared away, and the greater the . imilari. y oftwopenons' name. , the mote u",fully thei r pel'S<Klali- ties <:<mjugate.
Before the onset of the effect I called psychic . . turat;on, the reader'. mind dic(,,,. . . its own limits of credulity lowards ili< range of different meanings (hal Joyce inI<",ded any won! <)< unit to encompa"'. Clearly, no lWO people will draw (he line at precisely the same point, and even the . . me I'<"on on different occasions will pl~. it differ=tly. ' To be . trict, it i. les, ? lint lhan. ron. ofapathy dividing $timulu. from vacuwn. Wi,h reiteraled ""Iual experience, 'he limi" fi. . . t contract, then widen. I, is how~veT possible to ign= the a. . . the! ic commitment and th<<:>reticllly to unile any unit with any glo? ? , as Clive Han has shown:
Toke any p. . . . ge at candorn and you can <iemonSlrale that it is abou" say, the twenty-four golden umbrellas of
tbeKingofThailand. TIlemc:thodis,ofCOt. orse,applicable to any work of literature. Mr Dalton has $uggesred to me that 'he opening scene of Haml" can be . hown to be en- tirely concer~ with . . x""l inten:ouri! e. "The principle th~refoTC S<<n'UIto be a lunatiC Ont, and yet I believe lhal in the case of FW it ha$' certain validity , Any,hing in FW i. indeed aboUI. nything el$C'-hw oldy in th. fall <>/an i,,? }in;" 'eg"" of plam. of mtanil! ,\'. The all-irnporlllnt que. - ! ion, in my view, i$ how to get the. . plan. , of m~~ning into the right order, and into 'he right perspective. '
But in much of FW [he reader is unable to usign priority 10 any major gJo. s. ThCT(: uists here a par:alld with the gr:adient of rnlity in the 'Cir~' epUnde of Uly"e,. Some of the 'Circe' speeches constitute dil"? Cl transcriplt of . "'erio. events. OthcT$
are embellished by Bloom', pa. -. . noia, otbers arc pieces of interior monologue comparable with tho"" in other episodQ" whilst othert
, 0 . . un, P r o b l m > . . . F d t z S<nn. ' " -r. . , - a t < oC O v < r . f ' t O d . . . . , A W N I . ' ( ' ~
,4
. d. by 0;. . , Hart""" Fdt. Sentt (S)'dne)' Uru. . . . . . . p". . " '96$), i---9.
'1b< EIep. . . . . , in ,I>< ! kklyo ~ oC F; '''? '''' W<IV. in A W . DWm,
? ore dilations of len c"IUciou. phenomena. With the latter, a few s<<<>nd. ' experience may Q(XuPY IruIny pog'" of pSy<heddic fan- . ,. . ia and a . ingle . peech may include inforrruotion known only to Bloom and information known only to Stephen, in an illuS\r. ltive
I1lther than a reprodue,ive sen. e. Joyce neither separates nor iden- tifies these gmel1l, thereby implying the arbi'rary rutture of their bound? . Obviouslyccrtl. inpartsoflhe Ctmtinuurn. cannot be defini_ tively alloned to anyone level. In FWwe find far more levels and far mOr<: llltC<'rtl. inty.
Omsider for ("ltlImple 02S. 0S' 'her lex'. sa! ig'. T he Ltx: Sllli. a, the rrankish ~lie Law, is pertinenl in the ':<""0<1 (widowhood) because of its pronouneem<n1$ on male and fe""'le rights of de_ scent. The syntactic echo, however, is 'her leg'. sdig' (German: 'happy"). 11:uot i. to say, . he i. not sufficiently grave, as would
b e c o m e . r e c e n t w i d o w . W e m a y ala<> f i n d t h e D u t c h z a l i g , ' " " , a n _ ing delicious, or hl",. . d, but the word ""'"' dearly fitting the reservation of the carlier pan of the . emenee i. Irish salach, 'dirty'. " Devil. hayfork'. w10llll with her only her leg'. dirty.
A ta certain point . . . . tur~tion occurs ~ the mind (ail. to ",(:;lin and Ttconcile a luperfluity of levels.
In many cases their meaningS grt. te (e. g. 'bl",=! ' and 'dirty'), adding to the difficulty. A fre- quent panern i. an initial ludicrou. in'Ulge, lat. " found to be justi- fied by the supporting rt. ,ionale. Take on ("ltlIrnple from 1. 6. 1,
which is "",rked m in the British Mu. . um manuscript? . " AI 13'. 09"""11 'his Tiar. l ~ . oon", was held unfiIlable till one Liam Foil{dIed him in Westmun. tcr. ' John Garvin" explains thaI this refers 'to the . tone, Lia Foil, on which Irish tingo we", crowned atTart. ,whichwaol. . . " forasimilarceremonyatScon~inScOIland and kept there until brought away by the Engl,sh and in. . rttd in the coronation chair in W . ,tmin. ,er Abbey. ' If w<: cLusify the other plan. . of meaning in this phl'll"" W<= may say that one iden- tifies m wi'" Parnell, 'uncrowned King of Ireland', who. . fol-
lowe" fa,ltd him in W",nninsler. Another, via 'Tart. of the Kinga', makes him the last High King, Roderick o'Omnor. A third ",lateslOHumph",y Chimpden Earwickec, who in I. ~ rnttts King William (Irish I. jam), and a fourth to the infallible papacy. Beneath Ihi. a flurry of intimation. constellate into a grotesque
'lI<mhoim,A un"",<{du 0. . '" . . 'p _ w. . v,>0.
' 1--<<> Knurn, 'Tn>l<h . . r; . . . uu W . U . AWN VIII. > ('97'), n , . o t , . 1.
"S<<: v. )' bolo. . .
,,? Somt Inlll ond """". 1,;. 10 AlIuoiom . . R". . . . . . W _ . J _ Joy<< a. -.
". /yXI. ) ISorina: 1914), '1).
Pe. . . . onahty Condensation II
? monarch wearing! oOOlles around his forehelld. Bu, would i, DOl be m<Ir'C accun! C 10 repro this tlranjle Iii"'" as the intrinsic m whieh the other b d s support 1AdopUna this p"""i,. . our '''K 'P_ ,;bili,~ . ~ '" ""'. . . . in f~umcies whidt m ligures potKSl. In tM t"l<Imple dt<: ioolarioa and Ib,gran' ambition of the hero, fol-
lowed by ? di. . ,. ,,,,,,,, fall, le! ""'t the im. oge and suatsl other m oomponcnts such as Adlm and Oocar Wilde. F urther away _
dislingui. h person. wOO mimed the crescendo by buildini and t h e n f a U I n i f r o m l a l l b u i l d i n g s , . u e h . . T i m F i n n e R a n i n t h e b a Uad 'Tim F1lIMgan', Wokc:' and Ibsm. '. ~Icrbuilder Sol,. . . . ? ? JO)'<<', eumplara are frequmtly very tall, or . hey have I hunch- bid, or pcrhllpS ,hey I'uller, According '0 ' 07. 2I-)S :
In t. ct, under the closed eyes of the ilt$l"'CtOQ tbe <nit. fearuring the d/itUOrcuro COIolesce, their OXt. . . . rie,ies ellmi- . . . . ,M, inone . . . . ble . . . . . cbody. imillfly as by the providen- tial WlIrring ofhcamhakcr with hous. ebn:aker and ofdram- drinker against frfflhink. . our social somethina bowls
llonl . . . rxPC:rimcinll jolling ""ries of prcatT&natd dis- Ippoinunenu, down Ihe lon,llne of. . . Keneralionl, more genera,;"m and tlill more ,encn. tions.
The ruder ""'Y conclude Ihllt m i, an arch. . rypc, or ~m thaI m is God, bu. the utili. y 01such pronoUIloCemcn", ;1 dubioul. The QOIIRoCOI;rion b<<wttn ITI'lltuttctin,and God's thunder hu been
. t w j p u z e d b y M . A d " , n o n u a I y m p " " " o f J U i l t . ' ? I . a l s o impl~ ferrili[y. Jupiler Tonans appelll in . . . . . ny hislorictl mnrinacncieo, evm in ",lotion to Dublin. 111e chancr forged by rnonb in 964 AD for K ina EdgIr, dliminll)Of'Cnionoftbc city by him, includes . be: phra"" 'by the abundarll mercy of God who ,hulldcrcth from
on high'," rK:OlIcd at 061,14. ThundCT in FW speaks by mean, of ""rloul hundl"ed. -Ic! lered wordl, C. 8. 003. 1$- 17.
Lilte God m i. alloal, . thing IOURh. , a re,Ort. o ,he cnill"'l of crealion, ? pOtentially dangerous hut obs<:$&ively desired pDW(:r or U"\I. h,. thingendowcd wi. h sanctity. For the purpolCt of FW, 'the impcclon' mlY be foll:Jon: collectors, civic annalis" or uplorcn oftht Upper Nile, but they arc all $Cdcinl m They Ire allO, as will [><. '"I''' cl<:ar, the fOlll" old men d<:n1)lM by the li,lum
It I turve d<montuatcd el_hcrc" that a pr<>CUI of obtcu. . tion . tfc:cu m ;0 book I, . endinalo defeal th. c incrcalin[l: prccilion,
"&. /rt, J1.
"J. WotbunM. R<. . J. WIIi1<Iow _ R<. . R.
