once more during the Butt and T aff episode, at the cnd uf which they
momentarily
fmc , only to ( r o M avec and sepa1"ll.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
Here again is an indi<:ation
of the identity of tn. . two communicatinll1. Embe<lded in the Telegram is a reminder from Sh~m that two Can play at the ,ham game of,. . "uITtttion, that Shem the Manichean o. :vil i.
ultimately on more vulnerable than the divine Shaun: 'how twn plays punk'. Sh~m is threatening to . . . ,tum from the Valley
, Su Cl<>noord. >n<<.
? In J,>yce>. n terms IIW ,;me ;, Mimt. ,. t ";th the d. . ". . . . ,,6<)--ofone of
tl>< ca. . ,uoph"" 'luot<<i t. y the Foor in II. . (,IIg. '3, 39,"02). ,,6
? Spatial Cycles: /- The Circle
of Death in the guise of a Mosi. ah, an idea wbkh dccply di$rurbs Shun, who bas chosen that role for himsdfalone_ He wants Shem 10 $lay in the Underworld . o. nd nol achieve the
Glory of. Cruc;ifixion:
'Oremw poor fntemibw thai he may yel neal'" the gallows and still remain OIIB faithfidly d~parlcd'. (4119. 06)
The dialinclicm Mick_Nick may neVer be eu<:ntially valid in
FinJugarIJ Wah, but Shaun . 0. 1 leasl would [iu 10 keel' up ap pearances.
Joyce', ttipi lO Swiczedand . . . . e blown up, in this ,,~dtr fnl. mc oh d 'ermce, to become thekwd 'oogLionial c:xpancian' (488_31) of the cloacal Britioh' which lakci the convicled Sbem as far afield as the sweltering ~al of AUllnllia: ',willenboo? . Sbaun 11 bcoel wilh douhtl as 10 Shem'. cuel whereabouts. He felU'l
Ihat t. c may in fact havc returned alrudy, boomcnug_like, from his damnation in T asmani a (. ? g. 09) or from the diabolical mine. ofNew South Wale (? 'g. IS). In any ca. . " he ho""" ! hat
he ilIuill '. . . meplace in the antipllthies of awl. . . . . ;. . . . _ : , lafe and damned. The boot rymbol from 60. 26, a. w>ciatffi with Shaun'. conjuring tricl: as Sir J ohn Shome, reappean hen:: ' In bit handJ ? boot' (48g. ~3; Sir J ohn is usually depU:led holding a boot in bit hand), Tbe whole pungo: ecbon the . peculation in Book I . bout the diJappear. once . . . . d ~ble relum of Eatwicl<er. Finally, Shaun, always ambivalent in hi. attitude 10 hit brother, . peaks of him with ! . hal curiou. mi:rlure of half-feigned, hill_longing love wilh which Joyce 50 cleverly captures the Ilate of mind Of lhe impetiect Chrittian trying with only partial luccess to love hislinning neighbour as hinudf;
though Shem is doubly datnDcd in the COInbmed roles ofDavid and Michael J)avilt, Shaun admits thai be is held in deep . fIcclWu in two ports 'down under'-Sydncy and Albany,
MIS. Glasheen', note on Davitt RIma up Shcm'. gyrations: 'He was alwa)'l in and oul of pl'i$on, alwaY' coming and going to
A wtrali. ? . ?
Ne~er dCipairing ofhit ultimate redemption, u Joj'Ce always
I cr. U JO', ?
? ""'. . . . 11. S1.
"7
? Spatial Cycles: I- Tlu Circk
hoped for ultimate recognition in hi, 0'. ''' country, Shem, still at home in Sydney, teu. . . . . . in the final fading allusion to the Telegram that he is awaiting neWi of the Grcat Day:
'Thw faradack> the friarbird. I. . i"tcning, Syd! ' (S95. 3S)
The friarbird (an Awtralian bird) is her<: doing service for the cock who. c crowing mhe", the ",n up from 'down under' to
begin a new Age.
? CHAPTER FI VE SPATIAL CYCLES:
II- THE CROSS
I: SUCH CROSSING IS ANTICHRISTIA"
0. ' COURSF. (U4. 1I)
""t at the minot cyckl of Fi_IaN WaJ;. are typi6ed in and defined by the gn:at cycLe or the whole hook, 10 the many cro lJ . ymbolt are aU variants of a pair of sreat archetyp. ol
0"0Mt:S $trelching ac. . . . . thee tot. all'1rucrure. Thcs<: are the two m<<ting points of the radically oppooW orbit> of Shem and Shun which J have b<<n <fuc"";ng in tho: prcv>ous chapter. AI with the circka, I<) with the CI'OC<O: Joy" is not contcnt . imply 10 ouggesl the abstract idea of nodal poinu . 0. 1 which conU'ario meet, but maJ. c. every effort 10 layout the ",,,,Iving material in a,trucrural pamm which will reproduce lIle ,palla! image '"' clmcly as possible in unns nf tl>e physical dilpocition of tbe paga of the book.
The I<)W'CC on whicl>Joyce calh mosl partiwlarly is Plato'. TiINlnlS but in fact the Yeauian context of the moet obviOUI a1lusiom to it IUggeIU that J oyo;e actually came to II>e T ;. -. u through A Visimo. Whatever hi. ! direcl soure<! may have been, J oyce ,",ated the Platonic theme '"' he did Vico and Blaval$ky and used the theories for aU he wq worth. The descriplion in the TtmIJtI<t of the creation of the Worid-Soul, if ~ the arehe-
type of thit particular m)"tic . yml>ol in walern literature, is at lea. t one ofiu IIlOIt imporunl early appunonca':
'Nut he cleft the ,tructun:. . ? IcngthwiK into tWO halves, and
, Pia"" n. To_, cd. ""b t;OI~ by R, D. . . . ,,"""? Hi/>d, l. . ond<aI. ,888,pp. " ,_. ,.
]
?
'",
? Spatial Cycles: l l - T h Cross
bying the two "" a. . to m""t in the C~ntr~ in the . hap<: of the leller X, he bent them into a "irek and joined them, causing them to mut ulOml<:lv,," and uch other at a p<>int <>pposite to that of th~ir original contact: and he comprehend~d them in
the motion ,hat revolve> unifonnly on the same axis, and on~ of the circles he made uterior and one int. . ior. The ext. o::rior motion he namw. th~ motion of the Same, the interior that 01
the Other. And the circle of the Same he mAde revolve to the right by way of the ,ide, that of the Other to the left by way of the diagonal'. (36 D, C)
It is dear tbatFiMt. <<M< W,,*, is woven outoftwO . uch . nand,of
World. Soul, represented by the Shem-Shaun polarity. The", are two extremt:S to the function of th;' polarity, between which the line of development ,wingo to and fro : when their orbit. are in clost: proximity they war with u c h o ther and- at a moment of exact O1uillbrium---. ,vcn manage to amalgamate, while at the olher extreme th. ", is total incompr~heru;ion and a failure to oommunieate, . ymbolised by tM point of farthest "'paration of the orbits. The two ,tructural meeting? point. are at the coincident beginning and end, 1. 1 and IV, and at the <<nlre, Il. 3--that i" diametrically opposed on the . phue of development. The <{rand. 'pread out from the initial point of contact-the OOnVCIUtion of Mutt and Jeff, who have juot = ,- widen throughout nook I and converge until they mIX!
once more during the Butt and T aff episode, at the cnd uf which they momentarily fmc , only to ( r o M avec and sepa1"ll. tc again during Book III before the 6nal meeting (identical with the 6rst) when MUla andJ uva COnve=. 'Mutt andJ cff' and 'Muta and J uva' are the "'m~ event looked at from opposite . ide. ; the book begin. and ends at one of the twO nodal points, while, when J oyce has cut the circle! and . tretch~d them out flat, the other nodal point fait. ""acdy in the Centre of th~ fabric. Repr=nted in thi. '! way, the bas. ic . tructlll"C of FiMtgd11l IVdkt th"" looks rather like a figul"C B on its , ide, which ronnl the 'zeroie couplet' (,(4. ,, ) a:o, or the lymb<>1 fur 'infinity'.
The divergence ofthe orbits in the fml halfofthe book (which, it will be noted, coincide. with the first dream_cycle) reaches
'3"
? Spatial CY'lu : II-The Cross
its um:me at the end of the 'Anna Livia' chapter (L8), where the river h. u grown 50 broad lha. t all communication acroso it fTom bank to bank h. u become ;m~ble. The tWO washer. women, forms of Shem and 1;haun, ,tand isolated . u the mute Il"~ and 'tone; this is the 'Night! ' of the . . ,ul, a total failure to OOnnect. The two were already to distant in the previous chapter (1. 7) '" to bc reduced to the unsatisfactory procedure of hurling abuse from side to , ide; the communication i, still Mill no more than verbal during the children's ,inging-gam<:$ in the chapter folkM~ng T. B. Only in I1. 2 aT<: they dc. . . : enough to COme to blows, while the really catru:I)'$TIIic conltict do,? . . . not arise until H. g. This, the longe,t dl"'pter in FiMtla1l5 W4kt, i, the moot important of all, the nodal point of the major Ihem"",
a clearing_house and foc. . . for motif,. Only Book IV and the opening pago, preparing Ihe way for a new cycle, can compare with iI. 3 in Ihi. ! ! =pc<:t. In many resp<:ct. thi, chapter for"", a parallel with the 'Circe' chapt. . of UIy. m. They bolh dC'ic1op a olrong situation which is phantasmagoric, horrific, and h<:stial in nature; each end< with a riotow exodllo ! ate at night ; each leaw to a wion of l(II! t youth. The crociru visions in Ciree', glass have their equivalent in the imagC5 On the EaTWieh:n' tel""il5ion"":Te<:n, and e\! Cn the ,ymbolic fuloing of two fae'" into
that ofShakr. . speare (U 536) is exactly paralldtxl by the fu,ion ofthe races of Bult and Taffinto that of HeE (349). But above all, each is ! he central cxpr=ionistic dC'ic1opm~nt of tl",~ , on to whi~b Joyce made his material convnge and toward whieh he hirnoelf worked during the pTOC= of comJ'<"'! ition. The la,t part of UIys,es W a. '! drafted before '('. . ir~-'" wa, eomplel<:d,
and, utepl fi>r Ihe ilion coda formed by Book IV, ehaptn Il'3 was the 1",1 paft of FillJUgans Wake to bc written. '
OUTing the finl hruf-cyde, until the central meeting, Shcm', . trand ;. in Ihe MCCndancy. nook I i. characteTi,ed by an exceSS of 'Shcmness' over 'Shaunn<:>s'. T he 'Cad' 0< 'A. . ai! ant'
get. the bclter of his vierirru; the I. . etter is written, di'<;l1ucd, , l~" 1'. 'i '; A W. Lib, 'The Makini[' ofFu. . . ,. ,u W";'" ). \. MIS"
Ian"",, (<d. ), A J- fl1<< Mjl<<~, """"' . . . . . . , C. . ,b. :ooohle, Ill. , '951, 1'. ~"'.
'3'
? Spatial C~ks: II- Tlu Crrus
and taloen ""ry oeriouaIy; Sl>em obviow! y wino a mocaI victory ill (. 7; Anna Livia, who favoun Sbcm, is m;"trca of all. I II 1I0oI< 111 the victories an: aU Shaun's. The two ha"" 0 ' ' d over and changul. plaeo, as tbey do in II. ~, which is the dureot single. . :haptcr epilome of this overall ItruClure and which contains most of the direcl allusions to 1M PlaIOO;C model.
The central p=agc of ll. ~_where the marginal nota are allowed to disaol"" in to the mAill body of tM text Ixfore their n:appearance with exchange of tollt:--<:OfTelPOIIW 10 the CCIltnl poillt ofcontact Oil the Iphere of de""lopmetlt; here, in a siosle six? . , . ocntcncc with neither initial capital nor final . IOp, Joyce bewilderingly f. . . ,. and confustS the j>UiOl>alities of the IUperior and inferior loOns who repn:lCnt in this ;lI$tancoe
Ihe superior and infcrioo- clementi of lpiritual and profane love: Patrick', 10"" for lrcland and for hi! God, and Trluram'l for himself and for "eult. Throughout tht book Patrick alld T ris- tram are made to COrTCSpond , M ce each comes twiu to Irtlalld and uch has a miss;o. , to fulfil on the OCU$ion of the II<<Ond vitil, bUI in the middle of II. ~ they h. a. ve become inclI:trioably mU:ro. ThaI in disposing his muaiah in this way Joyce had the r. ? . . ,. . . in mind is . . . . . . d( clear by the inclusion of 3 whole shOW(! " of all. . . iona to it. AI ~88. 03, ;0. particular, the cre~to. . . . arrisl is uld to be 'doublecreuing twofold thru~'- the epica! rorged c. hequc which he ro;'tI on th~ world;' rendtrt:d doubly 'Not Negotiable', a hermetically Jealcd entity, like Pluo's (lutline of 3 'laylori:! t:d world' of 'celatin~ ci. -des' (356. 10; 191. 1~). The doublc-a'Oll$ing thelm;' ubiquitout. At 60. 33 a Ra tontion Lord and his Lady CI'OIIII and tum rwiu in Oll( of 1I. 0se dances that Link Age 10 ~ in FilrattdIU w. . . u:' 'Oauran'l lord (''SnifJpoI'') and Moirpn'. lady ("I-1atterfun") took side! and CI'OI5Kd and bowed to ucb other. Yie\. . . and noc:sed themsd"",:
S h u n reminds us of the theme al 305. 1. 1; 'TJu TlVf}f"" r . . u, IlJId 1114 (A~jll1l&ti", APP<liks 6f O/lJlOlilioNl/ Or. ,,<s', and of course the World_Soul;' depicted geometrically in the two circle! of
, s. . belO'W, Chap<<<" ~ I.
'3'
? SptltiaJ Cyclu: II- 17u CrO$S
the figun: on p~ ~93. The circl. . , 'the wonderlOlt for world hips' (363. 23) :ore defined at 'W t most improving of round. ~', Anna? , 'W,,:. . . . . . . (29"1. 05). Tn ensu,. . , that his intention . hall be quite unambigunUl, J oy"" mako undinortcd we oftbe wminology of the TIItIJUMI at 300-20, wben: Sbcm and Shalln In: called the 'Olher' and 1M 'Same' rapecti. . .
of the identity of tn. . two communicatinll1. Embe<lded in the Telegram is a reminder from Sh~m that two Can play at the ,ham game of,. . "uITtttion, that Shem the Manichean o. :vil i.
ultimately on more vulnerable than the divine Shaun: 'how twn plays punk'. Sh~m is threatening to . . . ,tum from the Valley
, Su Cl<>noord. >n<<.
? In J,>yce>. n terms IIW ,;me ;, Mimt. ,. t ";th the d. . ". . . . ,,6<)--ofone of
tl>< ca. . ,uoph"" 'luot<<i t. y the Foor in II. . (,IIg. '3, 39,"02). ,,6
? Spatial Cycles: /- The Circle
of Death in the guise of a Mosi. ah, an idea wbkh dccply di$rurbs Shun, who bas chosen that role for himsdfalone_ He wants Shem 10 $lay in the Underworld . o. nd nol achieve the
Glory of. Cruc;ifixion:
'Oremw poor fntemibw thai he may yel neal'" the gallows and still remain OIIB faithfidly d~parlcd'. (4119. 06)
The dialinclicm Mick_Nick may neVer be eu<:ntially valid in
FinJugarIJ Wah, but Shaun . 0. 1 leasl would [iu 10 keel' up ap pearances.
Joyce', ttipi lO Swiczedand . . . . e blown up, in this ,,~dtr fnl. mc oh d 'ermce, to become thekwd 'oogLionial c:xpancian' (488_31) of the cloacal Britioh' which lakci the convicled Sbem as far afield as the sweltering ~al of AUllnllia: ',willenboo? . Sbaun 11 bcoel wilh douhtl as 10 Shem'. cuel whereabouts. He felU'l
Ihat t. c may in fact havc returned alrudy, boomcnug_like, from his damnation in T asmani a (. ? g. 09) or from the diabolical mine. ofNew South Wale (? 'g. IS). In any ca. . " he ho""" ! hat
he ilIuill '. . . meplace in the antipllthies of awl. . . . . ;. . . . _ : , lafe and damned. The boot rymbol from 60. 26, a. w>ciatffi with Shaun'. conjuring tricl: as Sir J ohn Shome, reappean hen:: ' In bit handJ ? boot' (48g. ~3; Sir J ohn is usually depU:led holding a boot in bit hand), Tbe whole pungo: ecbon the . peculation in Book I . bout the diJappear. once . . . . d ~ble relum of Eatwicl<er. Finally, Shaun, always ambivalent in hi. attitude 10 hit brother, . peaks of him with ! . hal curiou. mi:rlure of half-feigned, hill_longing love wilh which Joyce 50 cleverly captures the Ilate of mind Of lhe impetiect Chrittian trying with only partial luccess to love hislinning neighbour as hinudf;
though Shem is doubly datnDcd in the COInbmed roles ofDavid and Michael J)avilt, Shaun admits thai be is held in deep . fIcclWu in two ports 'down under'-Sydncy and Albany,
MIS. Glasheen', note on Davitt RIma up Shcm'. gyrations: 'He was alwa)'l in and oul of pl'i$on, alwaY' coming and going to
A wtrali. ? . ?
Ne~er dCipairing ofhit ultimate redemption, u Joj'Ce always
I cr. U JO', ?
? ""'. . . . 11. S1.
"7
? Spatial Cycles: I- Tlu Circk
hoped for ultimate recognition in hi, 0'. ''' country, Shem, still at home in Sydney, teu. . . . . . in the final fading allusion to the Telegram that he is awaiting neWi of the Grcat Day:
'Thw faradack> the friarbird. I. . i"tcning, Syd! ' (S95. 3S)
The friarbird (an Awtralian bird) is her<: doing service for the cock who. c crowing mhe", the ",n up from 'down under' to
begin a new Age.
? CHAPTER FI VE SPATIAL CYCLES:
II- THE CROSS
I: SUCH CROSSING IS ANTICHRISTIA"
0. ' COURSF. (U4. 1I)
""t at the minot cyckl of Fi_IaN WaJ;. are typi6ed in and defined by the gn:at cycLe or the whole hook, 10 the many cro lJ . ymbolt are aU variants of a pair of sreat archetyp. ol
0"0Mt:S $trelching ac. . . . . thee tot. all'1rucrure. Thcs<: are the two m<<ting points of the radically oppooW orbit> of Shem and Shun which J have b<<n <fuc"";ng in tho: prcv>ous chapter. AI with the circka, I<) with the CI'OC<O: Joy" is not contcnt . imply 10 ouggesl the abstract idea of nodal poinu . 0. 1 which conU'ario meet, but maJ. c. every effort 10 layout the ",,,,Iving material in a,trucrural pamm which will reproduce lIle ,palla! image '"' clmcly as possible in unns nf tl>e physical dilpocition of tbe paga of the book.
The I<)W'CC on whicl>Joyce calh mosl partiwlarly is Plato'. TiINlnlS but in fact the Yeauian context of the moet obviOUI a1lusiom to it IUggeIU that J oyo;e actually came to II>e T ;. -. u through A Visimo. Whatever hi. ! direcl soure<! may have been, J oyce ,",ated the Platonic theme '"' he did Vico and Blaval$ky and used the theories for aU he wq worth. The descriplion in the TtmIJtI<t of the creation of the Worid-Soul, if ~ the arehe-
type of thit particular m)"tic . yml>ol in walern literature, is at lea. t one ofiu IIlOIt imporunl early appunonca':
'Nut he cleft the ,tructun:. . ? IcngthwiK into tWO halves, and
, Pia"" n. To_, cd. ""b t;OI~ by R, D. . . . ,,"""? Hi/>d, l. . ond<aI. ,888,pp. " ,_. ,.
]
?
'",
? Spatial Cycles: l l - T h Cross
bying the two "" a. . to m""t in the C~ntr~ in the . hap<: of the leller X, he bent them into a "irek and joined them, causing them to mut ulOml<:lv,," and uch other at a p<>int <>pposite to that of th~ir original contact: and he comprehend~d them in
the motion ,hat revolve> unifonnly on the same axis, and on~ of the circles he made uterior and one int. . ior. The ext. o::rior motion he namw. th~ motion of the Same, the interior that 01
the Other. And the circle of the Same he mAde revolve to the right by way of the ,ide, that of the Other to the left by way of the diagonal'. (36 D, C)
It is dear tbatFiMt. <<M< W,,*, is woven outoftwO . uch . nand,of
World. Soul, represented by the Shem-Shaun polarity. The", are two extremt:S to the function of th;' polarity, between which the line of development ,wingo to and fro : when their orbit. are in clost: proximity they war with u c h o ther and- at a moment of exact O1uillbrium---. ,vcn manage to amalgamate, while at the olher extreme th. ", is total incompr~heru;ion and a failure to oommunieate, . ymbolised by tM point of farthest "'paration of the orbits. The two ,tructural meeting? point. are at the coincident beginning and end, 1. 1 and IV, and at the <<nlre, Il. 3--that i" diametrically opposed on the . phue of development. The <{rand. 'pread out from the initial point of contact-the OOnVCIUtion of Mutt and Jeff, who have juot = ,- widen throughout nook I and converge until they mIX!
once more during the Butt and T aff episode, at the cnd uf which they momentarily fmc , only to ( r o M avec and sepa1"ll. tc again during Book III before the 6nal meeting (identical with the 6rst) when MUla andJ uva COnve=. 'Mutt andJ cff' and 'Muta and J uva' are the "'m~ event looked at from opposite . ide. ; the book begin. and ends at one of the twO nodal points, while, when J oyce has cut the circle! and . tretch~d them out flat, the other nodal point fait. ""acdy in the Centre of th~ fabric. Repr=nted in thi. '! way, the bas. ic . tructlll"C of FiMtgd11l IVdkt th"" looks rather like a figul"C B on its , ide, which ronnl the 'zeroie couplet' (,(4. ,, ) a:o, or the lymb<>1 fur 'infinity'.
The divergence ofthe orbits in the fml halfofthe book (which, it will be noted, coincide. with the first dream_cycle) reaches
'3"
? Spatial CY'lu : II-The Cross
its um:me at the end of the 'Anna Livia' chapter (L8), where the river h. u grown 50 broad lha. t all communication acroso it fTom bank to bank h. u become ;m~ble. The tWO washer. women, forms of Shem and 1;haun, ,tand isolated . u the mute Il"~ and 'tone; this is the 'Night! ' of the . . ,ul, a total failure to OOnnect. The two were already to distant in the previous chapter (1. 7) '" to bc reduced to the unsatisfactory procedure of hurling abuse from side to , ide; the communication i, still Mill no more than verbal during the children's ,inging-gam<:$ in the chapter folkM~ng T. B. Only in I1. 2 aT<: they dc. . . : enough to COme to blows, while the really catru:I)'$TIIic conltict do,? . . . not arise until H. g. This, the longe,t dl"'pter in FiMtla1l5 W4kt, i, the moot important of all, the nodal point of the major Ihem"",
a clearing_house and foc. . . for motif,. Only Book IV and the opening pago, preparing Ihe way for a new cycle, can compare with iI. 3 in Ihi. ! ! =pc<:t. In many resp<:ct. thi, chapter for"", a parallel with the 'Circe' chapt. . of UIy. m. They bolh dC'ic1op a olrong situation which is phantasmagoric, horrific, and h<:stial in nature; each end< with a riotow exodllo ! ate at night ; each leaw to a wion of l(II! t youth. The crociru visions in Ciree', glass have their equivalent in the imagC5 On the EaTWieh:n' tel""il5ion"":Te<:n, and e\! Cn the ,ymbolic fuloing of two fae'" into
that ofShakr. . speare (U 536) is exactly paralldtxl by the fu,ion ofthe races of Bult and Taffinto that of HeE (349). But above all, each is ! he central cxpr=ionistic dC'ic1opm~nt of tl",~ , on to whi~b Joyce made his material convnge and toward whieh he hirnoelf worked during the pTOC= of comJ'<"'! ition. The la,t part of UIys,es W a. '! drafted before '('. . ir~-'" wa, eomplel<:d,
and, utepl fi>r Ihe ilion coda formed by Book IV, ehaptn Il'3 was the 1",1 paft of FillJUgans Wake to bc written. '
OUTing the finl hruf-cyde, until the central meeting, Shcm', . trand ;. in Ihe MCCndancy. nook I i. characteTi,ed by an exceSS of 'Shcmness' over 'Shaunn<:>s'. T he 'Cad' 0< 'A. . ai! ant'
get. the bclter of his vierirru; the I. . etter is written, di'<;l1ucd, , l~" 1'. 'i '; A W. Lib, 'The Makini[' ofFu. . . ,. ,u W";'" ). \. MIS"
Ian"",, (<d. ), A J- fl1<< Mjl<<~, """"' . . . . . . , C. . ,b. :ooohle, Ill. , '951, 1'. ~"'.
'3'
? Spatial C~ks: II- Tlu Crrus
and taloen ""ry oeriouaIy; Sl>em obviow! y wino a mocaI victory ill (. 7; Anna Livia, who favoun Sbcm, is m;"trca of all. I II 1I0oI< 111 the victories an: aU Shaun's. The two ha"" 0 ' ' d over and changul. plaeo, as tbey do in II. ~, which is the dureot single. . :haptcr epilome of this overall ItruClure and which contains most of the direcl allusions to 1M PlaIOO;C model.
The central p=agc of ll. ~_where the marginal nota are allowed to disaol"" in to the mAill body of tM text Ixfore their n:appearance with exchange of tollt:--<:OfTelPOIIW 10 the CCIltnl poillt ofcontact Oil the Iphere of de""lopmetlt; here, in a siosle six? . , . ocntcncc with neither initial capital nor final . IOp, Joyce bewilderingly f. . . ,. and confustS the j>UiOl>alities of the IUperior and inferior loOns who repn:lCnt in this ;lI$tancoe
Ihe superior and infcrioo- clementi of lpiritual and profane love: Patrick', 10"" for lrcland and for hi! God, and Trluram'l for himself and for "eult. Throughout tht book Patrick alld T ris- tram are made to COrTCSpond , M ce each comes twiu to Irtlalld and uch has a miss;o. , to fulfil on the OCU$ion of the II<<Ond vitil, bUI in the middle of II. ~ they h. a. ve become inclI:trioably mU:ro. ThaI in disposing his muaiah in this way Joyce had the r. ? . . ,. . . in mind is . . . . . . d( clear by the inclusion of 3 whole shOW(! " of all. . . iona to it. AI ~88. 03, ;0. particular, the cre~to. . . . arrisl is uld to be 'doublecreuing twofold thru~'- the epica! rorged c. hequc which he ro;'tI on th~ world;' rendtrt:d doubly 'Not Negotiable', a hermetically Jealcd entity, like Pluo's (lutline of 3 'laylori:! t:d world' of 'celatin~ ci. -des' (356. 10; 191. 1~). The doublc-a'Oll$ing thelm;' ubiquitout. At 60. 33 a Ra tontion Lord and his Lady CI'OIIII and tum rwiu in Oll( of 1I. 0se dances that Link Age 10 ~ in FilrattdIU w. . . u:' 'Oauran'l lord (''SnifJpoI'') and Moirpn'. lady ("I-1atterfun") took side! and CI'OI5Kd and bowed to ucb other. Yie\. . . and noc:sed themsd"",:
S h u n reminds us of the theme al 305. 1. 1; 'TJu TlVf}f"" r . . u, IlJId 1114 (A~jll1l&ti", APP<liks 6f O/lJlOlilioNl/ Or. ,,<s', and of course the World_Soul;' depicted geometrically in the two circle! of
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the figun: on p~ ~93. The circl. . , 'the wonderlOlt for world hips' (363. 23) :ore defined at 'W t most improving of round. ~', Anna? , 'W,,:. . . . . . . (29"1. 05). Tn ensu,. . , that his intention . hall be quite unambigunUl, J oy"" mako undinortcd we oftbe wminology of the TIItIJUMI at 300-20, wben: Sbcm and Shalln In: called the 'Olher' and 1M 'Same' rapecti. . .
