arne of the
Egypliaa
Su.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
In Iny case.
forJora: navel and gcniw.
an: equiva- l e n t ; I h e y a r e C O I l t r a r i .
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t h e b e g i n n i i l l f a n d t h e ~nd o f b i r t h -
n. c:. . . Io>,,~. p. 18,;ro. -. "";""dn""'"
'Sirn-o. _
;" ~ n. ~ and "",I"'" ~ W bonw. of ~ the <m~ poin? ? _ II. C. '-"';ppa, Dt . . . . u. ~ /Uri 1m. (CoIop<]. 'm. pp.
CLXI-CLXvt. lor<< hod ? . ,. ,r Af'iw. . :to< Aih<noo, p. ' 33; AP . ~.
? s. . F"",riopioa.
? Vj,NViuo, n. T. . &oL . . ,luAiw,. . ,. ,. . . . . ,. . by M. fl. Morpn.
Catnbrid(e, '9'4. pp. 7''"3?
'37
? Spatial C. JClu : 11- The C. oss
and to coincide. In the diagram on p~ 293 the ouvd and g. :nit. aIia are l'CI~ tivdy the upper and lower vel'tica of the ccnU'3. 1 rhombus. Dolph, with the mystical power which ~nab1", rum to bring about the coincidence of antith. ,. . ,. , tilb
'by her ,earn hem and jabote at the ,picbicst of her m1r. kikanl . ? . the maid. apronofOur A. L. r. . , . till itsnether nadir il V{)rt;cally whe. . . " ? . iu na~d'i napex will ha~e to heandhe:
(297? 08)
Shaun', na~el, like that of Vilhnu,' i. as much a centre of generation II iI Shem's lifcwand, and becomes confu. ed with his phall. . . throughout IlJ. 3. The laJci,inu. and pcrvwed Four arc in fact involved in producing an erection from the lethargic Sh<lun, whose initial . J;u:knca teems to he implied in the opening description : 'on the verge ofclosing time'. ' Shaun's Ioeation on the fuming dunghe. . p, J oyt:e'. "ymbol for the fertile primordia] Chac. , estab]"'h. ,. him as an incarnation ofthe Finl
Cau. . . . . . -'take your mut for " first ~ginning, hig to bog' (287'0! l)- whilc hi! . . . ,lationship 10 (he Four and their nccc:aary function ofcalling forth the latent mattrial within him luggcsta the relationship of First Cawoc 10 the four Second Ca. . . . ,. , In hil JIIMUJ~ps mflSlJ, Mr. Stuart Gilbert commen'" on the na,,,I, presumably with Joy<<:'. authority':
, '"Ilu: AnciHlu placo:<! the aatr. ll tout of man, the ". . . ri or his self-consciousness, in the pit of the stomach. The BrahmaN ohar. . :! this helief with Plato and Ihe other philoool'l",n ? . ? The navel wu regarded a. 'the circle of the sun', the ""at of
internal divine light" [In's Urwtiltd, xlv. ] Simii. o. rly, H. rmet T';Imcgist". held thaI the midst of the world's body is Cl<. O. ctly
beneath the ccntn: of heaven, and Robc:rt F1udd Ii", . . . nuen : Muii titndllril <tIIlnm< w ,",II: ",- go. . INn rl/lllOrlr. , p. mtt/l'lfl <eIl"d. w StcUiIImt qlUUda. a . . llIMiIiaI. T his portiODof the body, the navd, has, partly for rymbolic reasollS, httn :utoe;a! cd by aoterie . . . nten with the! OUrcc ofprophetic inlpir:atioo, . . . when
Pythia w ll nylcd fIt1I! rih'l"" H''','
, $to J. Campb<lI. 'Fionqan . . . . e W. \e', in Giv<n>. pp. 37<> If. t O'. l'rudI. . . p,
? Londoror, '95>, p. 60.
",
? Spatial Cydu: /I-The Crrm
Furthermore, sino::o: Sho. un is hue 10 be idcutilied with the. . . ,
we rn. . . t bear in milld tho. . l 'M ' wu a . .
arne of the Egypliaa Su. . . . Cod'; th~1 il is abo Old None word for God'; and that
VUIIIU, wilh his fertik umhili~, i, himtelf a Sun-God. ' The oombinro ph. o. llicurnbi&al fertility of SItaUII is dr:amatic:ally w<>rkro OUI in tlte big climax at ~99-~01, which is pl:ainly orgMmic and is 'u'. . . . . unded with ,. ""uallugge! tion:
'the. . ,', lcpt or flam in Funnycoon'. Wick. ' (499. 13)
'D'yu meUl 10 ",II there wh~re y'are now, coddlin your lUper. nurncr. lry I"" wi'mat bi~r lOngue in yur tolkoltap, and your hindieo and Ihindic:s, lib: a muck in a markel, Sortey boy, n:pc:atin<< yu. . . . I[ ' (499. '9)
'wilh all that', huried ofi;illl illunce i"",wed inoid. . . . f=:
(. 99-~5)
'Acl drop. Stand by! Blioders! Curtain up. Juice, pic. . ,. ,! }'oou! '
(5? 1. 07)
This exciting moment, led up to be :0 I"'mendous accd. . . . . tion of the dialogue, is thc prineipal foc. . . of the ch:ap. et. Aft. . . the cat:acl)'lm, life begins Once more 10 climb out "r the W<>m. b of aboolute zero. Frosty imagery ahounds, :and it gr;odually be- COma apparer. t that . . . . "C ha~. . , now bftn ~ pit:atcd in. o the Cim. unga-Gap of the Eddas. ' Yawn, perhaps '" be idctui/ied
nnw wilh the recumbent Ymir, the origin:ll R]T11oI:-Cianl, then pro<:<<diIO describe Yggdra1. il, the Wotid_Tr<<, whlch, by his choice of l:anguligt. he managa to ",latc to virtually every
olber . ymbolic t. . ,e. ~inc<: we are dealing hcf'<: with the ' pring_ ing (If all experience from a First c. . UIC, one of the 0\011 im_ portant of thetc (lthtt" growllu is the TI'tt of J eooe (5"". (13) whicb, in mediaeval arl, som. ~titnCI lwcuriuer. out of the ,upine
Jt:OS? '. ph:allus, just as the loh. ,. . ftower--thc 'family umbroglia, (~I4-04)-bursu from Shau,,_Vishnu', umbilicus. ? ? . . . :tlusiom 10
D~rwin ~nd the ChiP. ~fS". . w c~ny the family IJ"tt funhe! -.
, I',. . "'. ! Iuds"7JIt&cotof""n-r,3""'"-. 1 h. . , 19"'1, ,"Ol. I,P. 601. ? Athe. . "", p. 'OJ.
? J-;. . q,lf/oHitJ
1. . &<10< MJ'oW. 1\. ,'("" I~
_ ic. ,I"h <<In. , 'Vw. n~'; lL Zimmer. M. y. . . .
p. 193.
? J. Compboll, 't'into"! ! . . ,, tho Woke', Itt G i_, pp. 57" If.
? S K 4~.
,
'"
? ! <J1)(Jtiul Cyrus: I I - TIu CrOJs
Tne great t= . pringing from the e<:ntre of the quincunx on the orange-mound of Ireland emulalCS the T = of the Know_ ledge ofGood and Evil which grew in the cent", ofEden: 'tm. tree of . . . ga",rden' (350. 02). But the fateful t",e plant<:d in l'aradise hal traditionally been comidered a . ymbolic pre-
cunor of the cross-tree placed on Calvary, and 00 J <>yce'. tree U given . . . much the asp<"<:t of a g-,dlows as of a living tree
('T yburn', SO'Pol). That Christ's aou uhere intended is made apparent by the indw. ion of many of the supplementary symbols which <. ". 'hristlan iconography frc<[uently a. oocialeS with the CrtlM, . w:h al the ol<ull at the thot (5? 1. 25) and the sun and the mOOn above (504. 36). "lbus a vertical cro. . has grown out of the cent'" of a horizontal one; tht; fertile quincuncial 'multi_ plication' . igo iJ doing ilS work.
Shaun, crucified on the ,nidden, may ,cem to form a ""'" ;mm':"o-the now traditional Crou of Christ--ao easily as a Cross of 51. Anthony. At 377. 23 the Foot . . '" described . . . 'interprovincial crucifixioncn', and since the Christian Cr-o$I, when horizontal, is alwaY' tymholically oriented toward the e. . . t, Johnny (Wo. t) i. at the lower or earthy end of it, oonrutent with Paracd. m' equation of weat and the human buttocks. ' And ifJohnny U OOIated at the t;nd <lf the long arm of a cross, we have one amwing enough re3. $(ln fur m. oonanuaitardine. s, n<lt only is he encumb"red with hiI . Iow_moving """, but he has farther to go, like Thuroday'l child, Shaun-son. . of. Thunder, whn mako. m. long pilgrimage oul of the night of Book III.
The Old Men'. CI"O! :S i, most often called a 'quincunx'. The word is attractive to Joyce beea. . . . :: it Can ",adlly be made to suggcat belth . . . exual vulgarism and the 'Tunc' page of the B~ DfKtlls (fulio l~?
n. c:. . . Io>,,~. p. 18,;ro. -. "";""dn""'"
'Sirn-o. _
;" ~ n. ~ and "",I"'" ~ W bonw. of ~ the <m~ poin? ? _ II. C. '-"';ppa, Dt . . . . u. ~ /Uri 1m. (CoIop<]. 'm. pp.
CLXI-CLXvt. lor<< hod ? . ,. ,r Af'iw. . :to< Aih<noo, p. ' 33; AP . ~.
? s. . F"",riopioa.
? Vj,NViuo, n. T. . &oL . . ,luAiw,. . ,. ,. . . . . ,. . by M. fl. Morpn.
Catnbrid(e, '9'4. pp. 7''"3?
'37
? Spatial C. JClu : 11- The C. oss
and to coincide. In the diagram on p~ 293 the ouvd and g. :nit. aIia are l'CI~ tivdy the upper and lower vel'tica of the ccnU'3. 1 rhombus. Dolph, with the mystical power which ~nab1", rum to bring about the coincidence of antith. ,. . ,. , tilb
'by her ,earn hem and jabote at the ,picbicst of her m1r. kikanl . ? . the maid. apronofOur A. L. r. . , . till itsnether nadir il V{)rt;cally whe. . . " ? . iu na~d'i napex will ha~e to heandhe:
(297? 08)
Shaun', na~el, like that of Vilhnu,' i. as much a centre of generation II iI Shem's lifcwand, and becomes confu. ed with his phall. . . throughout IlJ. 3. The laJci,inu. and pcrvwed Four arc in fact involved in producing an erection from the lethargic Sh<lun, whose initial . J;u:knca teems to he implied in the opening description : 'on the verge ofclosing time'. ' Shaun's Ioeation on the fuming dunghe. . p, J oyt:e'. "ymbol for the fertile primordia] Chac. , estab]"'h. ,. him as an incarnation ofthe Finl
Cau. . . . . . -'take your mut for " first ~ginning, hig to bog' (287'0! l)- whilc hi! . . . ,lationship 10 (he Four and their nccc:aary function ofcalling forth the latent mattrial within him luggcsta the relationship of First Cawoc 10 the four Second Ca. . . . ,. , In hil JIIMUJ~ps mflSlJ, Mr. Stuart Gilbert commen'" on the na,,,I, presumably with Joy<<:'. authority':
, '"Ilu: AnciHlu placo:<! the aatr. ll tout of man, the ". . . ri or his self-consciousness, in the pit of the stomach. The BrahmaN ohar. . :! this helief with Plato and Ihe other philoool'l",n ? . ? The navel wu regarded a. 'the circle of the sun', the ""at of
internal divine light" [In's Urwtiltd, xlv. ] Simii. o. rly, H. rmet T';Imcgist". held thaI the midst of the world's body is Cl<. O. ctly
beneath the ccntn: of heaven, and Robc:rt F1udd Ii", . . . nuen : Muii titndllril <tIIlnm< w ,",II: ",- go. . INn rl/lllOrlr. , p. mtt/l'lfl <eIl"d. w StcUiIImt qlUUda. a . . llIMiIiaI. T his portiODof the body, the navd, has, partly for rymbolic reasollS, httn :utoe;a! cd by aoterie . . . nten with the! OUrcc ofprophetic inlpir:atioo, . . . when
Pythia w ll nylcd fIt1I! rih'l"" H''','
, $to J. Campb<lI. 'Fionqan . . . . e W. \e', in Giv<n>. pp. 37<> If. t O'. l'rudI. . . p,
? Londoror, '95>, p. 60.
",
? Spatial Cydu: /I-The Crrm
Furthermore, sino::o: Sho. un is hue 10 be idcutilied with the. . . ,
we rn. . . t bear in milld tho. . l 'M ' wu a . .
arne of the Egypliaa Su. . . . Cod'; th~1 il is abo Old None word for God'; and that
VUIIIU, wilh his fertik umhili~, i, himtelf a Sun-God. ' The oombinro ph. o. llicurnbi&al fertility of SItaUII is dr:amatic:ally w<>rkro OUI in tlte big climax at ~99-~01, which is pl:ainly orgMmic and is 'u'. . . . . unded with ,. ""uallugge! tion:
'the. . ,', lcpt or flam in Funnycoon'. Wick. ' (499. 13)
'D'yu meUl 10 ",II there wh~re y'are now, coddlin your lUper. nurncr. lry I"" wi'mat bi~r lOngue in yur tolkoltap, and your hindieo and Ihindic:s, lib: a muck in a markel, Sortey boy, n:pc:atin<< yu. . . . I[ ' (499. '9)
'wilh all that', huried ofi;illl illunce i"",wed inoid. . . . f=:
(. 99-~5)
'Acl drop. Stand by! Blioders! Curtain up. Juice, pic. . ,. ,! }'oou! '
(5? 1. 07)
This exciting moment, led up to be :0 I"'mendous accd. . . . . tion of the dialogue, is thc prineipal foc. . . of the ch:ap. et. Aft. . . the cat:acl)'lm, life begins Once more 10 climb out "r the W<>m. b of aboolute zero. Frosty imagery ahounds, :and it gr;odually be- COma apparer. t that . . . . "C ha~. . , now bftn ~ pit:atcd in. o the Cim. unga-Gap of the Eddas. ' Yawn, perhaps '" be idctui/ied
nnw wilh the recumbent Ymir, the origin:ll R]T11oI:-Cianl, then pro<:<<diIO describe Yggdra1. il, the Wotid_Tr<<, whlch, by his choice of l:anguligt. he managa to ",latc to virtually every
olber . ymbolic t. . ,e. ~inc<: we are dealing hcf'<: with the ' pring_ ing (If all experience from a First c. . UIC, one of the 0\011 im_ portant of thetc (lthtt" growllu is the TI'tt of J eooe (5"". (13) whicb, in mediaeval arl, som. ~titnCI lwcuriuer. out of the ,upine
Jt:OS? '. ph:allus, just as the loh. ,. . ftower--thc 'family umbroglia, (~I4-04)-bursu from Shau,,_Vishnu', umbilicus. ? ? . . . :tlusiom 10
D~rwin ~nd the ChiP. ~fS". . w c~ny the family IJ"tt funhe! -.
, I',. . "'. ! Iuds"7JIt&cotof""n-r,3""'"-. 1 h. . , 19"'1, ,"Ol. I,P. 601. ? Athe. . "", p. 'OJ.
? J-;. . q,lf/oHitJ
1. . &<10< MJ'oW. 1\. ,'("" I~
_ ic. ,I"h <<In. , 'Vw. n~'; lL Zimmer. M. y. . . .
p. 193.
? J. Compboll, 't'into"! ! . . ,, tho Woke', Itt G i_, pp. 57" If.
? S K 4~.
,
'"
? ! <J1)(Jtiul Cyrus: I I - TIu CrOJs
Tne great t= . pringing from the e<:ntre of the quincunx on the orange-mound of Ireland emulalCS the T = of the Know_ ledge ofGood and Evil which grew in the cent", ofEden: 'tm. tree of . . . ga",rden' (350. 02). But the fateful t",e plant<:d in l'aradise hal traditionally been comidered a . ymbolic pre-
cunor of the cross-tree placed on Calvary, and 00 J <>yce'. tree U given . . . much the asp<"<:t of a g-,dlows as of a living tree
('T yburn', SO'Pol). That Christ's aou uhere intended is made apparent by the indw. ion of many of the supplementary symbols which <. ". 'hristlan iconography frc<[uently a. oocialeS with the CrtlM, . w:h al the ol<ull at the thot (5? 1. 25) and the sun and the mOOn above (504. 36). "lbus a vertical cro. . has grown out of the cent'" of a horizontal one; tht; fertile quincuncial 'multi_ plication' . igo iJ doing ilS work.
Shaun, crucified on the ,nidden, may ,cem to form a ""'" ;mm':"o-the now traditional Crou of Christ--ao easily as a Cross of 51. Anthony. At 377. 23 the Foot . . '" described . . . 'interprovincial crucifixioncn', and since the Christian Cr-o$I, when horizontal, is alwaY' tymholically oriented toward the e. . . t, Johnny (Wo. t) i. at the lower or earthy end of it, oonrutent with Paracd. m' equation of weat and the human buttocks. ' And ifJohnny U OOIated at the t;nd <lf the long arm of a cross, we have one amwing enough re3. $(ln fur m. oonanuaitardine. s, n<lt only is he encumb"red with hiI . Iow_moving """, but he has farther to go, like Thuroday'l child, Shaun-son. . of. Thunder, whn mako. m. long pilgrimage oul of the night of Book III.
The Old Men'. CI"O! :S i, most often called a 'quincunx'. The word is attractive to Joyce beea. . . . :: it Can ",adlly be made to suggcat belth . . . exual vulgarism and the 'Tunc' page of the B~ DfKtlls (fulio l~?
