of it, like my 1"""1 bedst rriend, 10 augur in the hUrry of the till,"' thaI il
wiJloooonuncnd
thewidestcirculliion.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
re.
"", il is .
live
_round a $UJl of Em>Prian maaic-to
TIu: moll imponmt '? . rlion of Ihe Egyplian night/day myUt it the confiiCl of Set, Ihe inaorlllltion of darkncsl, with hit nephew
? Hnw Buckley 5001 the Ru. . ian General Ss
Horml, rep,,,,enling Ihe 'U11 of the approaching morrow. It is 'the night of making Homse to crihumph over hi. enemy' (328. 34- 5)- Mr Athenon luis identified Hnncc, the tailor, . . . HorU$" and we can add Joyce'. Zurich acquaintance Horace Taylor, who is mentioned at 326. 01. Old Set (324. I5) traditionally throw. excre- ment in his nephew" face, bUI Horus succeed, in CIIstralinR him and <lay'. victory is certain. " The plucking of the Golden Bough of course abo represent> the god's casu:iltion precedins his death _
During Butt', copmlogy Tatfhas lavished powerful word. upon the innkeeper, r. . . ultilli in the . ppear. tnce of aMther Guinn",. (345. 16-23), whichhe p. . . . . to Bun, whodnn4 it_A second tele-
vised interlude MW di. play. Vicon;"n re""lutions, Bun i, then constrained to say hi. piece and not 10 leave oul 'he sod of turf
(346,2t) with which the General wip"d himself. The course of in- etrrialion, however, lead. him into noot:l. l]lic ineptitude. H. . . . y.
tha,heha,. bottlefulofmomori. . . inhisix>SOm,OS withplatonic love he recall' his dead comrad. . . and dri~ to them (348. 01-1 I). They barracked in Clongowes Wood (348. 20-2t), 'thurkmen
three' (A C. C).
A third interlude app""n. The 'scanning firespo" of Ihe ttle_
vi. ion tube traC. . . . . Still on the . creen, the figure of the eidolon m, 'Popey O'JAmQslwugh, the je'WItI"al <1 tllt 'us"","" (349. '7-
XI)_He seem, prepared to die, but T . <<has firs' 10 endure a further twO pas. . . of reminiscencoover Bun', halcyon day. , which never went WTong un,il the RU01ian Gcncralame up and Butt SJ,'" how --11- 'gove love 10 him and how he uJQk the ward from u' (odinus the fly fly flurtation of hi, him and hero I1""' mairrnaid maddcling it wn it he wa. ! ),. (352. 06-8)
The f"llest treatment of the . hooting i. given on 353. 15-ZI , In somevc",ionamth. victoryofHorusoverScI, the time is 'p"'ified as midnight _ Bun Sllys W t when he ,,",w m, and twelve o'dock
rolling all over Ireland's land, heaving "p that sod of turf t<> cI""n hia, to wipe himself_y, and undoing hi. cuwtW in an Exitu. f. ,. ~1neEgypUJ---lOt thaI insulT to luland-hc raised hi. gun and
fiTed. MeT/h!
This provoket on the serun an ",ent . ntided. 'Th. aJ",ihih'. atlon
of'he <<ym'. B = Mitchcll" ezplain, that this m""", 'Tlu: anni_ hilation of the atom by the gTinder of Lord RutherfoTd' and refero [ 0 the famous a'. ,. ". . ,plitlina- experiment of 1919. Although Joyce
"8_,>00.
"$;, II- A. Wam, B. . . . , God! c{ ,Io,q,-,,,,,. ,
""'Tho N<W<r AIcb<m, : lord RWlerford U>d Fj,. "". , WOV , A W N III_5
(,96<1), g6-. o. ,
I, ~15_
? wrote the passage in (9)8, he SCtm1 to have appreciated the theoretical pouibility of nuclear weapom, which IP""'" Crom Ein? sldn's demolition of the a"thoritati~ "temile of the indeotructi? bilicy ofmln. . . . III 11. 2 we . . . w the ,rowth of Relltivity OOvelltiled w;,hthe. ronscelld<m:cofthcWMd, thcetym. m, the '. ged monad' (34t. ? ]), is mI,"",denroy"d in the aromi~ Ro. "",rok . nd by . he inunatcrialismof Berkeley. He is . bo Finn, whose . . sauw~ followen of Goll, 10 W I on the n a l page 'Iu ! (J/ls by Golr. lill. . . ' (}54. 13), II Bun and Tiff fuse into a . in,le penon, 1:. .
ProVeIJI 0( the Nil! :htlelUt"
II. ] h. a$ $0 f? ? rcire",led ",,"C11I1limes . he homO<"Opa(hy of the Nightktrer with incN:lIing di. ectn. . . , . . spol. w anecdote and b. . . . . 'h"' impuutioll. m, as the publio. n. has ~Ulny becollle corucious of it and from lH. lt proffers his defence. He admits . he . . . . . . swtion of <kopots in the Solomon hland~, modern Off? many, Am";. . and ancient ElYpl, and add, that be ba, ilimsclf di""tedthewri! lennprnsionoltheintelli,clIC<:. BullIis. _ . . . . , , " I o f u . t i . e u p o n l I i n u d f i s . . . b o r d i n a l e d t o h i s c n v i J l i f o r <' 1"01 i ? . ism. The lene. becomes Wilde', StJl~, wilh Herod m, ~Jome -4 and John L m concedes hally approval 10 it. li terary merit : '. (suppressed) book. . . . Enough, howev. . . . , have I Its<!
of it, like my 1"""1 bedst rriend, 10 augur in the hUrry of the till,"' thaI il wiJloooonuncnd thewidestcirculliion. . . . It hi. arnbuHished with cxputp. ivc plata. . . . of . . . Mr Auhcyron Birdslay' (356. 19- lS7. 03J.
DrooIin,uponthejoylIofthe ha. . . . . . , idly lUminaov. . . the loose ",,"ves, m ha. an invnlunrary nolion tha. lie il Cltmi", ",",,,,bon 0( mcmorandlo of distant relation, from ,lmillr plac. . . . . Con? templlting dovc and riven ( -41-) he ;. highly pleased and deeply gladdened 10 sec bow bia and aood lie is (3j7. 16-3S8. 16).
The cusmmtr5 n a , adduce a formal denunciation hased on Ii. ~ha'"ltes bn:>ui! >t apinst th" bCN:tic P<:/agius. " It is litled (358. 30)
Docummt No. I, the name De Valera'. follower. pV" the Irish Treaty in COIItrut 10 Ill. proposcd altcrnative, Document :-. to. J 069. ~370( 14). The CUlIOmer1 u. y that m . . . . s 10 die and that they . . . . . . nt to lte lIirn locked up. Aloot I pentIed lsu. ult, tile . ub? scquent accOunt again trealll it u a radio diuemination: 'yO\!
have jest (a ham) beamed list. . . . ill, throuab (a ham pis) bit Iut\ll<ed~'. 'ThenatP. . . . . . """"comis. . of"'"dewfold<<l
? ""n8 of the nightingal. . . . -it- a", Proene and l'hilomenl; m i$ T ereu. , and on the following page Jack me Ripper (36'. ~7-S). The identificationofm wirh the rapi". stimulates new indigno. _
tion from hi. ~u. tomen ('a ilidigiUlrian leg:i<m on druid drdc'), to which he i. obliged to <<ply (36). w--366,30). ? He i. 'Guilty but fellow. culpam! ' A happy faul'--je/ix (u/p<>-wa. indeed fd, hy bim, but be is incapahle of unlifting upfallen girl,. Hi. intentions w. r. mi. und. . . . t<>Od. T beT? ? '" now twenty to twmty_'_ tlwu- sand mailc<la~hes preparinl! : to Ulke 'branch offerdngs' to tbe pott parcel. dcpartmem.
364. 08--'4 ilhmutC'$ m~ l1UIwkidt duline of m in tbi. phase, F. . mnnourW of . . . . '. scbo<:>l, 0, he yearn. to put himself in their
C~)rh. . and leap wilh them, to . how tb. , he too i. bisexual. He makes an 'Atttmption' to imitate their prose (Dear and lest I forg~t Maggy and how do you do, Maggy ? ). If his wife runs cacldinR abou, it lih a hen, h~ remain. ? born gentleman (364- Z9-365. 0S). Furrher, withoutan arom of bia, from m , 0 acquiesced. in the mis- d. meanour (365. '0-. '). Condudinl! : (366. 29-30) that . he Ides of March makes a good day ! O be shot aI, he sulfen yot mou 100$ of prestige. Down w~nl McGin,y to 'he bottom nf the wall, dre'i~din hi. old ,ui'ofdoth. . . And he grew back into hi. gmcery h""inos', and there you Or<:.
Docwnen, No , ~ i, the nextupcet of the Nigb! leller and again oompri. es . ix pain,", of wbi~h the /l. r" t _ a", no. too arcane. In (a ) th~ "'cretaI)' hird -I pretended, amid autt>ougges1iom from Shem Ihe Penman, to write some _rdt, laughing that the ben (1TI'0 wife) would be rhe death of her. In (6) Maggy, the addrC'$$<< (1-) i. alway. hoping for the I. . ,er '0 lum up, which is part and
parcel of rhe s. antc G<:n~ral Po" Office, 00 that tbe latter end of the I~'tct might emerg<: arter a lun.
The remainder or 11. 3 will be oonsidered in chaplen 7 and 9, excepting the Roderick o'Connor fragmenl (380. 07- 3SZ_30) whicb el""es it. This i. the final memberof a . cries offalll (314_07- 9,334. 3I,3S). ZI,366. )Z-3). RoderickO'Connorwum. IUtIrish
Hil/hKing, diiplaced by the Anglo_Norman invade". He i. made heTC t" ltive a ]a. t . upper to an array . ,r earlier colonist. 'that he did not ""'" the royal . pil oul of hi. ""ten,ible moum about. ' They. ", the custome. . . , he is rhe publican. M. er meir departure he collapses from alcoholic ,tupor ,nd hi, mind drift> out to
~.
\
Progrc. . of rh~ Nightletter 87
? 88 T he Sigla of H""qra~l Wakt- C. as Unity and Triad
It i1 n<:ccaso. ry to examine here the treannen. of C. in the note""""'. In describing hi, overthrowof m we have largely ignortd . he func- tion of -l the""in. But VI,B.
_round a $UJl of Em>Prian maaic-to
TIu: moll imponmt '? . rlion of Ihe Egyplian night/day myUt it the confiiCl of Set, Ihe inaorlllltion of darkncsl, with hit nephew
? Hnw Buckley 5001 the Ru. . ian General Ss
Horml, rep,,,,enling Ihe 'U11 of the approaching morrow. It is 'the night of making Homse to crihumph over hi. enemy' (328. 34- 5)- Mr Athenon luis identified Hnncc, the tailor, . . . HorU$" and we can add Joyce'. Zurich acquaintance Horace Taylor, who is mentioned at 326. 01. Old Set (324. I5) traditionally throw. excre- ment in his nephew" face, bUI Horus succeed, in CIIstralinR him and <lay'. victory is certain. " The plucking of the Golden Bough of course abo represent> the god's casu:iltion precedins his death _
During Butt', copmlogy Tatfhas lavished powerful word. upon the innkeeper, r. . . ultilli in the . ppear. tnce of aMther Guinn",. (345. 16-23), whichhe p. . . . . to Bun, whodnn4 it_A second tele-
vised interlude MW di. play. Vicon;"n re""lutions, Bun i, then constrained to say hi. piece and not 10 leave oul 'he sod of turf
(346,2t) with which the General wip"d himself. The course of in- etrrialion, however, lead. him into noot:l. l]lic ineptitude. H. . . . y.
tha,heha,. bottlefulofmomori. . . inhisix>SOm,OS withplatonic love he recall' his dead comrad. . . and dri~ to them (348. 01-1 I). They barracked in Clongowes Wood (348. 20-2t), 'thurkmen
three' (A C. C).
A third interlude app""n. The 'scanning firespo" of Ihe ttle_
vi. ion tube traC. . . . . Still on the . creen, the figure of the eidolon m, 'Popey O'JAmQslwugh, the je'WItI"al <1 tllt 'us"","" (349. '7-
XI)_He seem, prepared to die, but T . <<has firs' 10 endure a further twO pas. . . of reminiscencoover Bun', halcyon day. , which never went WTong un,il the RU01ian Gcncralame up and Butt SJ,'" how --11- 'gove love 10 him and how he uJQk the ward from u' (odinus the fly fly flurtation of hi, him and hero I1""' mairrnaid maddcling it wn it he wa. ! ),. (352. 06-8)
The f"llest treatment of the . hooting i. given on 353. 15-ZI , In somevc",ionamth. victoryofHorusoverScI, the time is 'p"'ified as midnight _ Bun Sllys W t when he ,,",w m, and twelve o'dock
rolling all over Ireland's land, heaving "p that sod of turf t<> cI""n hia, to wipe himself_y, and undoing hi. cuwtW in an Exitu. f. ,. ~1neEgypUJ---lOt thaI insulT to luland-hc raised hi. gun and
fiTed. MeT/h!
This provoket on the serun an ",ent . ntided. 'Th. aJ",ihih'. atlon
of'he <<ym'. B = Mitchcll" ezplain, that this m""", 'Tlu: anni_ hilation of the atom by the gTinder of Lord RutherfoTd' and refero [ 0 the famous a'. ,. ". . ,plitlina- experiment of 1919. Although Joyce
"8_,>00.
"$;, II- A. Wam, B. . . . , God! c{ ,Io,q,-,,,,,. ,
""'Tho N<W<r AIcb<m, : lord RWlerford U>d Fj,. "". , WOV , A W N III_5
(,96<1), g6-. o. ,
I, ~15_
? wrote the passage in (9)8, he SCtm1 to have appreciated the theoretical pouibility of nuclear weapom, which IP""'" Crom Ein? sldn's demolition of the a"thoritati~ "temile of the indeotructi? bilicy ofmln. . . . III 11. 2 we . . . w the ,rowth of Relltivity OOvelltiled w;,hthe. ronscelld<m:cofthcWMd, thcetym. m, the '. ged monad' (34t. ? ]), is mI,"",denroy"d in the aromi~ Ro. "",rok . nd by . he inunatcrialismof Berkeley. He is . bo Finn, whose . . sauw~ followen of Goll, 10 W I on the n a l page 'Iu ! (J/ls by Golr. lill. . . ' (}54. 13), II Bun and Tiff fuse into a . in,le penon, 1:. .
ProVeIJI 0( the Nil! :htlelUt"
II. ] h. a$ $0 f? ? rcire",led ",,"C11I1limes . he homO<"Opa(hy of the Nightktrer with incN:lIing di. ectn. . . , . . spol. w anecdote and b. . . . . 'h"' impuutioll. m, as the publio. n. has ~Ulny becollle corucious of it and from lH. lt proffers his defence. He admits . he . . . . . . swtion of <kopots in the Solomon hland~, modern Off? many, Am";. . and ancient ElYpl, and add, that be ba, ilimsclf di""tedthewri! lennprnsionoltheintelli,clIC<:. BullIis. _ . . . . , , " I o f u . t i . e u p o n l I i n u d f i s . . . b o r d i n a l e d t o h i s c n v i J l i f o r <' 1"01 i ? . ism. The lene. becomes Wilde', StJl~, wilh Herod m, ~Jome -4 and John L m concedes hally approval 10 it. li terary merit : '. (suppressed) book. . . . Enough, howev. . . . , have I Its<!
of it, like my 1"""1 bedst rriend, 10 augur in the hUrry of the till,"' thaI il wiJloooonuncnd thewidestcirculliion. . . . It hi. arnbuHished with cxputp. ivc plata. . . . of . . . Mr Auhcyron Birdslay' (356. 19- lS7. 03J.
DrooIin,uponthejoylIofthe ha. . . . . . , idly lUminaov. . . the loose ",,"ves, m ha. an invnlunrary nolion tha. lie il Cltmi", ",",,,,bon 0( mcmorandlo of distant relation, from ,lmillr plac. . . . . Con? templlting dovc and riven ( -41-) he ;. highly pleased and deeply gladdened 10 sec bow bia and aood lie is (3j7. 16-3S8. 16).
The cusmmtr5 n a , adduce a formal denunciation hased on Ii. ~ha'"ltes bn:>ui! >t apinst th" bCN:tic P<:/agius. " It is litled (358. 30)
Docummt No. I, the name De Valera'. follower. pV" the Irish Treaty in COIItrut 10 Ill. proposcd altcrnative, Document :-. to. J 069. ~370( 14). The CUlIOmer1 u. y that m . . . . s 10 die and that they . . . . . . nt to lte lIirn locked up. Aloot I pentIed lsu. ult, tile . ub? scquent accOunt again trealll it u a radio diuemination: 'yO\!
have jest (a ham) beamed list. . . . ill, throuab (a ham pis) bit Iut\ll<ed~'. 'ThenatP. . . . . . """"comis. . of"'"dewfold<<l
? ""n8 of the nightingal. . . . -it- a", Proene and l'hilomenl; m i$ T ereu. , and on the following page Jack me Ripper (36'. ~7-S). The identificationofm wirh the rapi". stimulates new indigno. _
tion from hi. ~u. tomen ('a ilidigiUlrian leg:i<m on druid drdc'), to which he i. obliged to <<ply (36). w--366,30). ? He i. 'Guilty but fellow. culpam! ' A happy faul'--je/ix (u/p<>-wa. indeed fd, hy bim, but be is incapahle of unlifting upfallen girl,. Hi. intentions w. r. mi. und. . . . t<>Od. T beT? ? '" now twenty to twmty_'_ tlwu- sand mailc<la~hes preparinl! : to Ulke 'branch offerdngs' to tbe pott parcel. dcpartmem.
364. 08--'4 ilhmutC'$ m~ l1UIwkidt duline of m in tbi. phase, F. . mnnourW of . . . . '. scbo<:>l, 0, he yearn. to put himself in their
C~)rh. . and leap wilh them, to . how tb. , he too i. bisexual. He makes an 'Atttmption' to imitate their prose (Dear and lest I forg~t Maggy and how do you do, Maggy ? ). If his wife runs cacldinR abou, it lih a hen, h~ remain. ? born gentleman (364- Z9-365. 0S). Furrher, withoutan arom of bia, from m , 0 acquiesced. in the mis- d. meanour (365. '0-. '). Condudinl! : (366. 29-30) that . he Ides of March makes a good day ! O be shot aI, he sulfen yot mou 100$ of prestige. Down w~nl McGin,y to 'he bottom nf the wall, dre'i~din hi. old ,ui'ofdoth. . . And he grew back into hi. gmcery h""inos', and there you Or<:.
Docwnen, No , ~ i, the nextupcet of the Nigb! leller and again oompri. es . ix pain,", of wbi~h the /l. r" t _ a", no. too arcane. In (a ) th~ "'cretaI)' hird -I pretended, amid autt>ougges1iom from Shem Ihe Penman, to write some _rdt, laughing that the ben (1TI'0 wife) would be rhe death of her. In (6) Maggy, the addrC'$$<< (1-) i. alway. hoping for the I. . ,er '0 lum up, which is part and
parcel of rhe s. antc G<:n~ral Po" Office, 00 that tbe latter end of the I~'tct might emerg<: arter a lun.
The remainder or 11. 3 will be oonsidered in chaplen 7 and 9, excepting the Roderick o'Connor fragmenl (380. 07- 3SZ_30) whicb el""es it. This i. the final memberof a . cries offalll (314_07- 9,334. 3I,3S). ZI,366. )Z-3). RoderickO'Connorwum. IUtIrish
Hil/hKing, diiplaced by the Anglo_Norman invade". He i. made heTC t" ltive a ]a. t . upper to an array . ,r earlier colonist. 'that he did not ""'" the royal . pil oul of hi. ""ten,ible moum about. ' They. ", the custome. . . , he is rhe publican. M. er meir departure he collapses from alcoholic ,tupor ,nd hi, mind drift> out to
~.
\
Progrc. . of rh~ Nightletter 87
? 88 T he Sigla of H""qra~l Wakt- C. as Unity and Triad
It i1 n<:ccaso. ry to examine here the treannen. of C. in the note""""'. In describing hi, overthrowof m we have largely ignortd . he func- tion of -l the""in. But VI,B.
