We might at this point
consider
Vico himself in FW, He i, alway.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
doUZl dwnm Eirewhigg, ra'II?
.
" We consider<:d earlier tbe <elation of I: with the Fomorian.
and Uu>.
t Of A w i t h t h e T u a t h a D e O a n a n n ( f b : : .
) .
W e c a n p c r h a p s n o w intmduce the .
un-god Lugh, whose ancestry included both race!
!
and who mil! :ht therefore be c. . He was identified by Cae. . . with Mer<:ury, and in ous<ing King Nuad 01 T ara resembles. c defeat_ ing m 13&. m and 344? 36 JIUlkc Nuad m, and 090. 18-20 JIUlk. . his doock. . pc,. . Gamal and Camel I: and A, but 044. ", 507. 12 and 594. 19 treat Lugh as m. Thi. place. him in Ihe same ca~_ iOry as, say, Parnell: connections betwttll. Lugh and Finn and betwecn l. ugh and thc maimed Fioher King have been
established. "
We can lill a few more notebook entries of a les, helpful type:
VI. B. 18. 116: VI. B. t9. 183: VI. B. W? 95 :
VI. B? 31. 83 :
[J painted blue during night 811 come by wa. . . to [J
D aily Mail
tell, story of
o
[J. do YOIl remember falling againsl?
)( hypnotiSts [J
The fint of these probably refe. . . to the desecration of 1T1'. memorial. Unlike most sigla [J seem 10 lad:; lCXUal significance, bolh phallic and receptacular imagery being comprehended in, for irurance, 'vellumtomesmuniment' (595. 22). [Jprobably rilites to, bm is not identical with, sped6a. lly female repositories (the
. . no. o. y;. '" w Until ~ (Cambri<\t<. M. s. . , H. n<ao"<! Uni. enity Pre. . 1\>4)). 3'J 70?
MS<< P. ). By"". /. ;,J, K~. -I H;p. . K~ (1 _ , Ibtoford '91)), II.
Inanimate Sigla "7
? 118 Tht Si8la of FiMtganl Wak~
wQmb, the Veri<~ 1';1<1" lIle kettle of! loll). It i. perha! >> m0$1 effec-
tively uruicrStQOd Iry the aid of a table. C includes ,
(i) the d""ument: any book, lenu, wriling, lrea,ure (ii) the container of tbe d'>ewnent: tbe envelope, pillu_
box, mailbag, middenbeap, Ark <If {be Covenant
the con",iner of m '. remai",,: Ibe coffin, tbe cb. . . t COn- taining Osiri. , Baldor'. boal, Noab', Ark, the tomb, burialrnound, "beli. k, '! lIlUe
the container of m ' l living b<Jdy: the CiIY, me house, me bed, the egg:sbell, me Iotu. , the en<:y1unenu of me
""
accorded a view <If Old O>pcnhagcn """,pri. ing the whole dura- ti"n of its existence, with iu Viconi:m air"', wateb. , "f the night, dkhotomi. . , . pe<:tra and interminglings, be wQuld . tem to be . te-
inS a kaleidOK<lpe.
Comparing 1. 6. 9 wilb 1. 6. 3 w<: find a greater emphasi. on tern?
p<>I"I\1pan(11lS uoppooed to spatial on. . . InStead <If the fout cordi_ nal pOin" or provifiCe1l oudirst orientation draws on the V;ro"ian pattern, the four book. of FW. After a quantity of fcuitl. . . re- . """,h I have deeided {hal no case is to be made for linking the four boob with Ihe partS of X, or tbe comp"" pOints. "Inc Viconian parallels, h"wtvn, l till have mucb 10 yield. For in,tance, lbe reason tbatl. 6 appears whe~ it does i$ lurely lhat Vico main- tained lbe extreme antiquity of the Twdvc T abl. . of lbe Law ('T. wclvc tabular lime1till now have I edicled it', t67. ~1), placing their origin in hi$ fint ase. To this age al$O belonged the juri. pru_ dence based on observance of au,pices, hence 1:'. magic of 1. 7. The ju,isprudence of me b<TOic "ie depended On 'taking p~- cautions by lbe use of certain pn>per words'," hence Ibe . peech of book II consi"ing frequently offormulac and inv0C8lion. , con-
nuting wim me empirical lolPc of book Ill, appropria. . to Vico's 'human jurupru<ience'. . .
" SMFW,n
" no. N . . . Sco? -. cf 0;-. ,,;,. . v;. ", J09, po. . . )"'1.
( iii)
Ov)
A =nd inanimate tenagonal aiglum require, precise dis- tiru::tion from [l This is . , assigned to 1. 6. 9. Oive Hart" bas o! >><:rved that its form i' that ofa mandala, tha{ is, a n. dially sym- metrical strnctme d. . . igned for contemplation. The typical man- dala is quadripartite wim d~trically inverted ornament. 1. 6. 9 was analysed in the fir" twO i? ? u. , of the Old Series of AWN (March and April 1962). It states tha{ if a human being were
? Vicodoesno',aswmecommen. . . ". >,. . appear to thinl<,consider (he"corso? . . ,pa. . teoge, He. . . )'1 ~erylinleaboulit,andismostly cone<:rned to . po! ligh' tM reappearane<: of t. . ils from previous ages. As hi. chief model i. the Romon Empir<:, the "corso must ~ the collapse r<:. ultane upon the depreda,ions "fthe hoedes, In FW we ar<: obliged to 1001< for an equinlont effect ope. . tive in book IV, and I think we muSt find it in Ihe ene"",ehmen, "f exter- naHty. T he dream crumble. i:>efor<: the sunlight JUIl as Rome crumbled ~fo'" the ba,barian? .
We might at this point consider Vico himself in FW, He i, alway. ooed as . n "ntar of m, despiIe tM "'volutionary tendency of hi. work, one significan, coinciden"" being that a. a child he broke hi, skull in ? f. n," The N= Selene. , initially ncglecred, gatbered momentum th"'ugh the decades and might Ih=fore be t2ken a. an dement in the Nighdetter. BUI ,h= i, an objtct;"n to thi. , dependenl upon the , lructuTO of 1I,2. Vico', Sl2ndpoinl
i, specifically aH,erary_hi. ooricd <:>ne, in nppo. ition 10 the mathe- maticaltbought nf (particularly) Descartes. I I is thus reaOOl\llble that we shoold find thefi. . t halfof II,2 which i. Hlerary-historical, culminating in a paragraph from Vim', prol"'gandi. 1 Edgar Quinet, while the geometrician of 'he second half <<<:laims 'you make me a reborn of the caeds . . . cog it 00', here goes ? sum' (304. 21-31). " T he -Iletler, lransmitted to J; ror thi' own use, is thWl Vico'. theory, popularized by Quinel and Michelet, prior '0 its influencing marxiSi phdMophy preparamry '0 the TOvoluti,m.
Apaet from the rise of m at 532. 06, representing ,he Ii. . , of weak monarchies in Ihe <bird . g<:, there i. linle internal differentiation in the Viconian segmento <>f . . . . W. More appears in respee! of other temporal eyeles, The mosl prominenI of tMl<:, the day and the year, have been diseussed by Qive Han. " In the former we . hould
ob&ervc midday in the 1. 2 chimes, evening at the close of b"ok I, midnight in the chim. . opening book III and dawn in book IV. In the loner, book I . . . ,presents . ummer leading 00 autumn in the (dtciduous) elm of 1. 8. Book II includes Q lT ist= in the Nighlle"e,,, no-one ! ! Cems to have nor:i~ 'he equation of tM old year with Ihe dyintl m, celebrated in the "'petitions of 'Auld Lang Sync' in 1I. 4- Book III includes February in lIb ; book IV i, Eaater.
"Loo K,,",h, ",rid< "" JOy<< in M. . . . . . . . . F-"<Y'/cptm', lin- W<Uldh? '''. '. . . . . [V, (II"""",,,,,,. I':ooJ Rr,,,,, '967~ )0 "
~&o. b, i. \.
" SMFW. 1'-. ?
Inanimate Sigla "9
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? We Ihus find tWO "'Iher diflh. . . . 1 vcniom of e . f ifllly, w. inJ ,he . impLe Icmponl cyde lhe following pob appur'
. . . . . . . 0-. IV
" ;""
,,
I. ' DuoI< . . . _
up. " .
Secondly, comiokrinJ Ihe llel. ol processes, we find ,
v. . . . . . . . . . . ?
II eoo-. . m
'"
A
The promine""" jiv. . . . rolhe Watches of lhe NiJhI in 1. 6. 9 i. meanina! u1 al another Io:v(:l, whe", the wboLe boot invol? Q the
o;:ondilioon oI 1lttp. llooIt I II ! JUly comprist lhe . . . . . Io:na of A bul C""ricin t- i, IeSI appropoUle 10 111. 1 than ro book I, which has . . . . Iiu . . dit"CCI speech. We can Ihen rdale marriage and Co:otoa. obi. . . . . in b<:d;; II, burial and the dead ofniahl in book III, ",hiLe dawn
in b<d;; IV fir. ill me ao;hem. u.
Summui";ng Ih. conclusiom of mi, (I"apIC, ~ atD DOle thu
Ih. cily of Oublin in FW II fr<:qumtly personified a& m, uy in relalion 10 me river. If ho~ver il i. apprehended as a geometrical o;onslrucliottilwillbtD,itt. ide,relating10mepamotIt finally,
? ?
ifil.
I~ni,runc Siabo ,n inlerms01in evolution,fromanCltI. . ,cm-
local
,
, a lranquil
? ouuidc 1. 6. , and ! he in rd lliotl
i
""~
,I\c nun_
? ? ? ? Chapter 9 SK
The Serpent
In ~ British MIU<'UJl\ manuscripts 1M oiglum . perui. . . \0 1. 6. 5
inJI
~ himfrcquttulyCJ[hibilwordsderiv~ fromSc:andinaviantongut:$. 1. 6. S i. l haped by the advtflilCrrM:nt . . . . hich $(Cured S ', cmploymC1ll. He mUll r~ih 'IfIudJW< foull:~ Crcdd-up dirty
Ind ~ w 1. 6. 6. s it m'1>crYan. Of barman: passqes d;
bonks'), tmdcriuJllk . . . bor~ ('entertain 111"", children', Le.
and who mil! :ht therefore be c. . He was identified by Cae. . . with Mer<:ury, and in ous<ing King Nuad 01 T ara resembles. c defeat_ ing m 13&. m and 344? 36 JIUlkc Nuad m, and 090. 18-20 JIUlk. . his doock. . pc,. . Gamal and Camel I: and A, but 044. ", 507. 12 and 594. 19 treat Lugh as m. Thi. place. him in Ihe same ca~_ iOry as, say, Parnell: connections betwttll. Lugh and Finn and betwecn l. ugh and thc maimed Fioher King have been
established. "
We can lill a few more notebook entries of a les, helpful type:
VI. B. 18. 116: VI. B. t9. 183: VI. B. W? 95 :
VI. B? 31. 83 :
[J painted blue during night 811 come by wa. . . to [J
D aily Mail
tell, story of
o
[J. do YOIl remember falling againsl?
)( hypnotiSts [J
The fint of these probably refe. . . to the desecration of 1T1'. memorial. Unlike most sigla [J seem 10 lad:; lCXUal significance, bolh phallic and receptacular imagery being comprehended in, for irurance, 'vellumtomesmuniment' (595. 22). [Jprobably rilites to, bm is not identical with, sped6a. lly female repositories (the
. . no. o. y;. '" w Until ~ (Cambri<\t<. M. s. . , H. n<ao"<! Uni. enity Pre. . 1\>4)). 3'J 70?
MS<< P. ). By"". /. ;,J, K~. -I H;p. . K~ (1 _ , Ibtoford '91)), II.
Inanimate Sigla "7
? 118 Tht Si8la of FiMtganl Wak~
wQmb, the Veri<~ 1';1<1" lIle kettle of! loll). It i. perha! >> m0$1 effec-
tively uruicrStQOd Iry the aid of a table. C includes ,
(i) the d""ument: any book, lenu, wriling, lrea,ure (ii) the container of tbe d'>ewnent: tbe envelope, pillu_
box, mailbag, middenbeap, Ark <If {be Covenant
the con",iner of m '. remai",,: Ibe coffin, tbe cb. . . t COn- taining Osiri. , Baldor'. boal, Noab', Ark, the tomb, burialrnound, "beli. k, '! lIlUe
the container of m ' l living b<Jdy: the CiIY, me house, me bed, the egg:sbell, me Iotu. , the en<:y1unenu of me
""
accorded a view <If Old O>pcnhagcn """,pri. ing the whole dura- ti"n of its existence, with iu Viconi:m air"', wateb. , "f the night, dkhotomi. . , . pe<:tra and interminglings, be wQuld . tem to be . te-
inS a kaleidOK<lpe.
Comparing 1. 6. 9 wilb 1. 6. 3 w<: find a greater emphasi. on tern?
p<>I"I\1pan(11lS uoppooed to spatial on. . . InStead <If the fout cordi_ nal pOin" or provifiCe1l oudirst orientation draws on the V;ro"ian pattern, the four book. of FW. After a quantity of fcuitl. . . re- . """,h I have deeided {hal no case is to be made for linking the four boob with Ihe partS of X, or tbe comp"" pOints. "Inc Viconian parallels, h"wtvn, l till have mucb 10 yield. For in,tance, lbe reason tbatl. 6 appears whe~ it does i$ lurely lhat Vico main- tained lbe extreme antiquity of the Twdvc T abl. . of lbe Law ('T. wclvc tabular lime1till now have I edicled it', t67. ~1), placing their origin in hi$ fint ase. To this age al$O belonged the juri. pru_ dence based on observance of au,pices, hence 1:'. magic of 1. 7. The ju,isprudence of me b<TOic "ie depended On 'taking p~- cautions by lbe use of certain pn>per words'," hence Ibe . peech of book II consi"ing frequently offormulac and inv0C8lion. , con-
nuting wim me empirical lolPc of book Ill, appropria. . to Vico's 'human jurupru<ience'. . .
" SMFW,n
" no. N . . . Sco? -. cf 0;-. ,,;,. . v;. ", J09, po. . . )"'1.
( iii)
Ov)
A =nd inanimate tenagonal aiglum require, precise dis- tiru::tion from [l This is . , assigned to 1. 6. 9. Oive Hart" bas o! >><:rved that its form i' that ofa mandala, tha{ is, a n. dially sym- metrical strnctme d. . . igned for contemplation. The typical man- dala is quadripartite wim d~trically inverted ornament. 1. 6. 9 was analysed in the fir" twO i? ? u. , of the Old Series of AWN (March and April 1962). It states tha{ if a human being were
? Vicodoesno',aswmecommen. . . ". >,. . appear to thinl<,consider (he"corso? . . ,pa. . teoge, He. . . )'1 ~erylinleaboulit,andismostly cone<:rned to . po! ligh' tM reappearane<: of t. . ils from previous ages. As hi. chief model i. the Romon Empir<:, the "corso must ~ the collapse r<:. ultane upon the depreda,ions "fthe hoedes, In FW we ar<: obliged to 1001< for an equinlont effect ope. . tive in book IV, and I think we muSt find it in Ihe ene"",ehmen, "f exter- naHty. T he dream crumble. i:>efor<: the sunlight JUIl as Rome crumbled ~fo'" the ba,barian? .
We might at this point consider Vico himself in FW, He i, alway. ooed as . n "ntar of m, despiIe tM "'volutionary tendency of hi. work, one significan, coinciden"" being that a. a child he broke hi, skull in ? f. n," The N= Selene. , initially ncglecred, gatbered momentum th"'ugh the decades and might Ih=fore be t2ken a. an dement in the Nighdetter. BUI ,h= i, an objtct;"n to thi. , dependenl upon the , lructuTO of 1I,2. Vico', Sl2ndpoinl
i, specifically aH,erary_hi. ooricd <:>ne, in nppo. ition 10 the mathe- maticaltbought nf (particularly) Descartes. I I is thus reaOOl\llble that we shoold find thefi. . t halfof II,2 which i. Hlerary-historical, culminating in a paragraph from Vim', prol"'gandi. 1 Edgar Quinet, while the geometrician of 'he second half <<<:laims 'you make me a reborn of the caeds . . . cog it 00', here goes ? sum' (304. 21-31). " T he -Iletler, lransmitted to J; ror thi' own use, is thWl Vico'. theory, popularized by Quinel and Michelet, prior '0 its influencing marxiSi phdMophy preparamry '0 the TOvoluti,m.
Apaet from the rise of m at 532. 06, representing ,he Ii. . , of weak monarchies in Ihe <bird . g<:, there i. linle internal differentiation in the Viconian segmento <>f . . . . W. More appears in respee! of other temporal eyeles, The mosl prominenI of tMl<:, the day and the year, have been diseussed by Qive Han. " In the former we . hould
ob&ervc midday in the 1. 2 chimes, evening at the close of b"ok I, midnight in the chim. . opening book III and dawn in book IV. In the loner, book I . . . ,presents . ummer leading 00 autumn in the (dtciduous) elm of 1. 8. Book II includes Q lT ist= in the Nighlle"e,,, no-one ! ! Cems to have nor:i~ 'he equation of tM old year with Ihe dyintl m, celebrated in the "'petitions of 'Auld Lang Sync' in 1I. 4- Book III includes February in lIb ; book IV i, Eaater.
"Loo K,,",h, ",rid< "" JOy<< in M. . . . . . . . . F-"<Y'/cptm', lin- W<Uldh? '''. '. . . . . [V, (II"""",,,,,,. I':ooJ Rr,,,,, '967~ )0 "
~&o. b, i. \.
" SMFW. 1'-. ?
Inanimate Sigla "9
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? We Ihus find tWO "'Iher diflh. . . . 1 vcniom of e . f ifllly, w. inJ ,he . impLe Icmponl cyde lhe following pob appur'
. . . . . . . 0-. IV
" ;""
,,
I. ' DuoI< . . . _
up. " .
Secondly, comiokrinJ Ihe llel. ol processes, we find ,
v. . . . . . . . . . . ?
II eoo-. . m
'"
A
The promine""" jiv. . . . rolhe Watches of lhe NiJhI in 1. 6. 9 i. meanina! u1 al another Io:v(:l, whe", the wboLe boot invol? Q the
o;:ondilioon oI 1lttp. llooIt I II ! JUly comprist lhe . . . . . Io:na of A bul C""ricin t- i, IeSI appropoUle 10 111. 1 than ro book I, which has . . . . Iiu . . dit"CCI speech. We can Ihen rdale marriage and Co:otoa. obi. . . . . in b<:d;; II, burial and the dead ofniahl in book III, ",hiLe dawn
in b<d;; IV fir. ill me ao;hem. u.
Summui";ng Ih. conclusiom of mi, (I"apIC, ~ atD DOle thu
Ih. cily of Oublin in FW II fr<:qumtly personified a& m, uy in relalion 10 me river. If ho~ver il i. apprehended as a geometrical o;onslrucliottilwillbtD,itt. ide,relating10mepamotIt finally,
? ?
ifil.
I~ni,runc Siabo ,n inlerms01in evolution,fromanCltI. . ,cm-
local
,
, a lranquil
? ouuidc 1. 6. , and ! he in rd lliotl
i
""~
,I\c nun_
? ? ? ? Chapter 9 SK
The Serpent
In ~ British MIU<'UJl\ manuscripts 1M oiglum . perui. . . \0 1. 6. 5
inJI
~ himfrcquttulyCJ[hibilwordsderiv~ fromSc:andinaviantongut:$. 1. 6. S i. l haped by the advtflilCrrM:nt . . . . hich $(Cured S ', cmploymC1ll. He mUll r~ih 'IfIudJW< foull:~ Crcdd-up dirty
Ind ~ w 1. 6. 6. s it m'1>crYan. Of barman: passqes d;
bonks'), tmdcriuJllk . . . bor~ ('entertain 111"", children', Le.
