ina ,,- M I l running
backwardll
Ihm"'" book III.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
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<<Ii;;'''''"'''to;"this_,,,,,tho, 'th<wuIfin_ I_tid.
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_t><t<danimal.
and _""";"<0<1 ",;,h <II< <uIl of ,he ,un: " See he""". p. '1'"
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12) and PQ. . ihly even Finnegan speaking Ihrough II (499_. 6-\8): 'Your soulstothe devil, do ye think I'm dead;' This ti"",l outburst infuriates the in"estigalOrs, who abuse (h<ir mtdimn. II responds by invoking magical force. : siaLic babhle P<"SKaS? S the Ndio and
. . panicstricken strife of <<IngtIcS culminate? . 01 $OI. OS-{i: 'WL-~->
- TIt. ,. . . t . . t"eU . . . SILENCE
ThiS requirescompari""nwith014. 06. A,0'3_10 XalUlOunctd that four things in Dublin nc'er . hall fail till hcathersmoke and doudweed Eire', i. le . hall pall. lbcse four laSt things a,. . , 00rl- . peeta of m, 4, -I and CIA. They are fun listed in running print in coll. lion wi. h . he Jewish calendar, and . hen in tabular form againSt the dat. . 1132 AD, S66 AD, S66 AD and 1132 AD. At the cent,. . , of the table the word 'Silent' ItprCSrnt$ Ihe Norse Gin- nunga Gap """"rding 10014_. 6_ Now, Ihe Annals of 1M Four Mas. . ", which a,. . , mentioned ! . eVe. . . ltimes here, put . 1>( dc-Ath
of Finn Mace""",l against the year 283 ADI
The Age of Christ, 283. The oixteenth year of Dieh",. Finn, RI'\lndson of Baisgne, fen by Aichlea~h,Inn ofOuibh- d",ann, and the sonsof UirgIeann ofthe L""ighni Teamh-
raeh,. t Ath-Brea, upon the fIoinn (lJoyne]. . . . "
Now, 283 Xl = S66 and 283 x 4 - 1'32. We may therefore regard . he silenceson 0'4 and so. . . interruptions occasioned by nrs demise. Xcall the laner gap a 'oje'ta' (sou o), and ;( il apparen. that time has passed during it. For at 481. "'1-6 X have inqui,. . ,d as 10 ITf< place and time. Was he in Oxman. town, whence in the year 1098 King William Rufu, obttintd the wood for the roof of W es. m;",,,,r Han, 'where no F. nglish spider webl>(th or breedeth 10 this day';" Was he 'He fair, Chris'? Yes, II <<plieo, 'Ikfurchl christ I' Butnn th. mhe< side of the lacuna another . ime_
check bringS th. reply 'Amnis Dominae' (SI3. 0S)_
111. 3 is thu. spht into two parts, the second including 'Haveth OIilden'. Ea<:h part opens with. limple altcrnaring examination of II by)( In """h there i. a S<<rinn CtlJIC<:rntd with (;JII polarity, . hough in the second pan I: and A are chicll. y ",presented by the tie<: and '<<Inc (S03-~6-505. 31). In both pans II is an u _partici_ pant al the Wake (49? . 01-); S'+'9-2r) and thus informed about
"''''''' 0'000",. _, (<</. ), AmwI. o <Jrio. K " '_ <>I hoJ. . . d, by to. F _ M. ". . . , (Dublin, H~""" Smido " )<J I, "9-"_
. . , . D ? M " " , . : n . . H i " " " , ' " ,~. c . - y <>I v . u ; " . <1. 4"
The Drama Parap"lyJogic 47
? ? m. In the KOODd pUt, pr. --d for ""mils, he rev". ,l. tht point of nr. . . aurrccti<m: '\uolf! \ana IIW, Ii. . . , if be waUl't ooantina; his a. lk\lb body b8c1r. ' Cst6. ? S- ,6). Conjoino;d m <he wU. t is th~ 'c-pic I,maik'ofmandhi,_ibnlwhichben:odI=sfrom I. ? :IC art . pin the judgn. Vlrious pa. . . Ueb an: ob"ious in boIh "'. - ,ions: if ! he: . . saul. on m tquall tht . . . . . . ination of Brian Boru by the Vikina Brodir at the Baule of OonlMf we an rompart oh. O) wilh "7. 05 to lOme pllrpoa. c. " agr~ that the eVCOtl dc-
ICrlbtd by lCoe<:urt"cl ("7. 01-519. 1): they then refu. e 10 belle", him. They hive dcdue<:d lhat if there WAI plenty of . . . in, It "
As in the fiJ$' part of III. ) fllrther voices ;aut from I\, who dilcbimJruponSibilityfortheopinionstheyprnMI. We'CCOj:- nille Sylvia SilmO! ' of 06'. 01-1 1 eI '2J. ~ She is followed by TlTlde Tom (523. 11'"S15. 05J, HOllY ("S. ll-6), . . . (531. 02- 518. 1J),? (530. 13-4),K(j30. )6-n? . ,6Jandofc:oun. o:m(nuI6- 554. 08). In Ihi. fmal m elch " ICfln. to fade away inoolUtqucmly.
In c:oncludingwcmlY nole d Ull lO m e of the C'lenU in book II I proceed forwarda, "th~ backwlrda. Wc Jh,aUfind IILaI the Illltr procnl il mar. important. Theff is. currenl oCincra, ina Co",," runnin, forwards throush boot I and a currc. " of increu.
ina ,,- M I l running backwardll Ihm"'" book III. In book II thnc: Curren. mtf:L
I.
~'. Ol, he . hould I"lO'l olio ha"c a",,,d II 501. 1) thai
'ar<<<!
the moon was shinin, (j 19. ? 8-1S). " obliges rhem. by Iweorina that. U hi. . . . . io;l. . . ,,,. up 10 lhe prU<:n1 1La, bt<:n fab<: (51O. 18-H).
? Chapter 4 -t I- 0
The Mirror and the Rainbow
The H(JUs, by ,Iu Churchyard, ? pOrtr'lli. of old Chapc]iZO<! by Joseph Sheridan 1. <: Fanu, i. fuqueotly utilized in FW. A fntgmem of . ong appeao amongst its pages, sung by ,he tenor IXv. r<:ux 10 the hemin. Lilia"
And me smiled upon the . . ream, LiU one who smiles at folly,
A d",amer on a dr<:am.
The mirT<>! ' i? ? vehicle of ab. traction. Impermeable to . ounds, omeU. and physical contag;,. , the specular unive= rerna;", inert, clinical, indiff. . ,. "". h' corporeal ;nocttl. ihiHry allies i1 to the
drC:lmworld; ilS countl. . , facct! , each n divisible", its material compl=tnt, fa. cinate in=. . ntly by the pttcision with which . hey comTadic? . "lb. motivalion> di<,ingui. hing C and A can be rationalized verbally, hut the remale . pHI i. too ahsolute for thi? . A. -I S"'re$ into rhe riv<:' she can see nothing bullate. . . . l invet1ion.
Nt) ohsecver can okrive hOI polaritie. from . . speCific influence, for they are simultaneously all difforenc. . and no differe,",? .
-I calls her reflCCtion 'nur# Madge. my Unkingclas. girl. . . . I conhor Sosy becau", . he'uosiety for rru: and she saY$ souy while I say I<Issy and $he saY" will you have oome mor< scorns while
[ oay won't y<>n take a few more schools and. ru: "'Ito. ahout ithel dear while I simply nevcr talk abon. arne! darling' (4$9. 04-'4). Mr Atherton observes:
T ooppose rne identity ofoppnsites which causes a fusion ofoppns<d cha. . . . cters Joyce ",to a tendency on the part of allhischarae! 'n10splitupinlotwO part. _The chiefoQurce for thi. has al,. . ,ady been pointed out by Adaline Gla. heen.
II is Th. n;"o. u. rirm oj a l'ers<mai;,y by Morton Prince, a . . . urologist who had as patient in SolIton, Mass. , a young
? 30
The Sigla of F;tm<gans Wak.
wornanwhrunhccalls 'Mill Christine L Beo. ud. . . . np', and who was one of the most famous ell''' of multiple per- sonality. . . . It is also noces. ary to remornber that these cases of what is now called dis~i. ated personality would not long ago have been described a. demonic possession. . . . But it is not usual in the Wa~. for women to be pos? . . . . . ed by devil,. This i, a thing which happen. 10 men while women oimply split up inlO pam. '
One migh' fault this distinc'ion on the ba$i, of 1. 8, whert I: and A:are givenfemak attribu'. " bu, then 1. 8 i. pre. :ed<:d by the atypi<:al conncctinn ofa male entity, 1:, with a mir. . . ". . Justi"" tell,
Merci"" 'you have become of twosome twiminds . . . Look! Do you sec your di. al in the rocl<inggla. . ? . . . Sh! Shem, you arc. Sh!
You are mad! ' (188. 14-t93. zS). We might infer that during the mbsequent speech, Mercius gaz<< into the mirror and hi, voice becom<< ,ha,of the washe"""man in ~onsequrntt. But can the 'blackwa,chW<)lnen, all in whit. e' (379. 33) be related to -t and her reflection? ~86. '3- ' ~ ttnainly equate. 'laundresses' and 'maggie,'. The aC\X>un' on ~08. 19-509_03 of 'the subligate ,iste. . . , p, and Q, . . . the prettiest pickl. . of unmatchemahle mu,e ant. . I ever bopecped at . ,. whi. . in black arpisu' containt 'he query 'Where do you ad ,hat wash;' Lateral inv. . sion i. con'picuou. here, in paired drawe. ,. (Italian, mmatitk) and in the letters p and q which were exchanged in tbe linguistic di""rgencc of ! he ancient Welsb and I",h. ' PerhaPl' we c. n now understand tbe evolulion of tbe sig! wn J. inlO. WO separa,e ';gla -t and 1-.
Originally, in Mareh '9'4, Joyce defined J. OJ 'b"jde', wbut.
and _""";"<0<1 ",;,h <II< <uIl of ,he ,un: " See he""". p. '1'"
? 1
12) and PQ. . ihly even Finnegan speaking Ihrough II (499_. 6-\8): 'Your soulstothe devil, do ye think I'm dead;' This ti"",l outburst infuriates the in"estigalOrs, who abuse (h<ir mtdimn. II responds by invoking magical force. : siaLic babhle P<"SKaS? S the Ndio and
. . panicstricken strife of <<IngtIcS culminate? . 01 $OI. OS-{i: 'WL-~->
- TIt. ,. . . t . . t"eU . . . SILENCE
ThiS requirescompari""nwith014. 06. A,0'3_10 XalUlOunctd that four things in Dublin nc'er . hall fail till hcathersmoke and doudweed Eire', i. le . hall pall. lbcse four laSt things a,. . , 00rl- . peeta of m, 4, -I and CIA. They are fun listed in running print in coll. lion wi. h . he Jewish calendar, and . hen in tabular form againSt the dat. . 1132 AD, S66 AD, S66 AD and 1132 AD. At the cent,. . , of the table the word 'Silent' ItprCSrnt$ Ihe Norse Gin- nunga Gap """"rding 10014_. 6_ Now, Ihe Annals of 1M Four Mas. . ", which a,. . , mentioned ! . eVe. . . ltimes here, put . 1>( dc-Ath
of Finn Mace""",l against the year 283 ADI
The Age of Christ, 283. The oixteenth year of Dieh",. Finn, RI'\lndson of Baisgne, fen by Aichlea~h,Inn ofOuibh- d",ann, and the sonsof UirgIeann ofthe L""ighni Teamh-
raeh,. t Ath-Brea, upon the fIoinn (lJoyne]. . . . "
Now, 283 Xl = S66 and 283 x 4 - 1'32. We may therefore regard . he silenceson 0'4 and so. . . interruptions occasioned by nrs demise. Xcall the laner gap a 'oje'ta' (sou o), and ;( il apparen. that time has passed during it. For at 481. "'1-6 X have inqui,. . ,d as 10 ITf< place and time. Was he in Oxman. town, whence in the year 1098 King William Rufu, obttintd the wood for the roof of W es. m;",,,,r Han, 'where no F. nglish spider webl>(th or breedeth 10 this day';" Was he 'He fair, Chris'? Yes, II <<plieo, 'Ikfurchl christ I' Butnn th. mhe< side of the lacuna another . ime_
check bringS th. reply 'Amnis Dominae' (SI3. 0S)_
111. 3 is thu. spht into two parts, the second including 'Haveth OIilden'. Ea<:h part opens with. limple altcrnaring examination of II by)( In """h there i. a S<<rinn CtlJIC<:rntd with (;JII polarity, . hough in the second pan I: and A are chicll. y ",presented by the tie<: and '<<Inc (S03-~6-505. 31). In both pans II is an u _partici_ pant al the Wake (49? . 01-); S'+'9-2r) and thus informed about
"''''''' 0'000",. _, (<</. ), AmwI. o <Jrio. K " '_ <>I hoJ. . . d, by to. F _ M. ". . . , (Dublin, H~""" Smido " )<J I, "9-"_
. . , . D ? M " " , . : n . . H i " " " , ' " ,~. c . - y <>I v . u ; " . <1. 4"
The Drama Parap"lyJogic 47
? ? m. In the KOODd pUt, pr. --d for ""mils, he rev". ,l. tht point of nr. . . aurrccti<m: '\uolf! \ana IIW, Ii. . . , if be waUl't ooantina; his a. lk\lb body b8c1r. ' Cst6. ? S- ,6). Conjoino;d m <he wU. t is th~ 'c-pic I,maik'ofmandhi,_ibnlwhichben:odI=sfrom I. ? :IC art . pin the judgn. Vlrious pa. . . Ueb an: ob"ious in boIh "'. - ,ions: if ! he: . . saul. on m tquall tht . . . . . . ination of Brian Boru by the Vikina Brodir at the Baule of OonlMf we an rompart oh. O) wilh "7. 05 to lOme pllrpoa. c. " agr~ that the eVCOtl dc-
ICrlbtd by lCoe<:urt"cl ("7. 01-519. 1): they then refu. e 10 belle", him. They hive dcdue<:d lhat if there WAI plenty of . . . in, It "
As in the fiJ$' part of III. ) fllrther voices ;aut from I\, who dilcbimJruponSibilityfortheopinionstheyprnMI. We'CCOj:- nille Sylvia SilmO! ' of 06'. 01-1 1 eI '2J. ~ She is followed by TlTlde Tom (523. 11'"S15. 05J, HOllY ("S. ll-6), . . . (531. 02- 518. 1J),? (530. 13-4),K(j30. )6-n? . ,6Jandofc:oun. o:m(nuI6- 554. 08). In Ihi. fmal m elch " ICfln. to fade away inoolUtqucmly.
In c:oncludingwcmlY nole d Ull lO m e of the C'lenU in book II I proceed forwarda, "th~ backwlrda. Wc Jh,aUfind IILaI the Illltr procnl il mar. important. Theff is. currenl oCincra, ina Co",," runnin, forwards throush boot I and a currc. " of increu.
ina ,,- M I l running backwardll Ihm"'" book III. In book II thnc: Curren. mtf:L
I.
~'. Ol, he . hould I"lO'l olio ha"c a",,,d II 501. 1) thai
'ar<<<!
the moon was shinin, (j 19. ? 8-1S). " obliges rhem. by Iweorina that. U hi. . . . . io;l. . . ,,,. up 10 lhe prU<:n1 1La, bt<:n fab<: (51O. 18-H).
? Chapter 4 -t I- 0
The Mirror and the Rainbow
The H(JUs, by ,Iu Churchyard, ? pOrtr'lli. of old Chapc]iZO<! by Joseph Sheridan 1. <: Fanu, i. fuqueotly utilized in FW. A fntgmem of . ong appeao amongst its pages, sung by ,he tenor IXv. r<:ux 10 the hemin. Lilia"
And me smiled upon the . . ream, LiU one who smiles at folly,
A d",amer on a dr<:am.
The mirT<>! ' i? ? vehicle of ab. traction. Impermeable to . ounds, omeU. and physical contag;,. , the specular unive= rerna;", inert, clinical, indiff. . ,. "". h' corporeal ;nocttl. ihiHry allies i1 to the
drC:lmworld; ilS countl. . , facct! , each n divisible", its material compl=tnt, fa. cinate in=. . ntly by the pttcision with which . hey comTadic? . "lb. motivalion> di<,ingui. hing C and A can be rationalized verbally, hut the remale . pHI i. too ahsolute for thi? . A. -I S"'re$ into rhe riv<:' she can see nothing bullate. . . . l invet1ion.
Nt) ohsecver can okrive hOI polaritie. from . . speCific influence, for they are simultaneously all difforenc. . and no differe,",? .
-I calls her reflCCtion 'nur# Madge. my Unkingclas. girl. . . . I conhor Sosy becau", . he'uosiety for rru: and she saY$ souy while I say I<Issy and $he saY" will you have oome mor< scorns while
[ oay won't y<>n take a few more schools and. ru: "'Ito. ahout ithel dear while I simply nevcr talk abon. arne! darling' (4$9. 04-'4). Mr Atherton observes:
T ooppose rne identity ofoppnsites which causes a fusion ofoppns<d cha. . . . cters Joyce ",to a tendency on the part of allhischarae! 'n10splitupinlotwO part. _The chiefoQurce for thi. has al,. . ,ady been pointed out by Adaline Gla. heen.
II is Th. n;"o. u. rirm oj a l'ers<mai;,y by Morton Prince, a . . . urologist who had as patient in SolIton, Mass. , a young
? 30
The Sigla of F;tm<gans Wak.
wornanwhrunhccalls 'Mill Christine L Beo. ud. . . . np', and who was one of the most famous ell''' of multiple per- sonality. . . . It is also noces. ary to remornber that these cases of what is now called dis~i. ated personality would not long ago have been described a. demonic possession. . . . But it is not usual in the Wa~. for women to be pos? . . . . . ed by devil,. This i, a thing which happen. 10 men while women oimply split up inlO pam. '
One migh' fault this distinc'ion on the ba$i, of 1. 8, whert I: and A:are givenfemak attribu'. " bu, then 1. 8 i. pre. :ed<:d by the atypi<:al conncctinn ofa male entity, 1:, with a mir. . . ". . Justi"" tell,
Merci"" 'you have become of twosome twiminds . . . Look! Do you sec your di. al in the rocl<inggla. . ? . . . Sh! Shem, you arc. Sh!
You are mad! ' (188. 14-t93. zS). We might infer that during the mbsequent speech, Mercius gaz<< into the mirror and hi, voice becom<< ,ha,of the washe"""man in ~onsequrntt. But can the 'blackwa,chW<)lnen, all in whit. e' (379. 33) be related to -t and her reflection? ~86. '3- ' ~ ttnainly equate. 'laundresses' and 'maggie,'. The aC\X>un' on ~08. 19-509_03 of 'the subligate ,iste. . . , p, and Q, . . . the prettiest pickl. . of unmatchemahle mu,e ant. . I ever bopecped at . ,. whi. . in black arpisu' containt 'he query 'Where do you ad ,hat wash;' Lateral inv. . sion i. con'picuou. here, in paired drawe. ,. (Italian, mmatitk) and in the letters p and q which were exchanged in tbe linguistic di""rgencc of ! he ancient Welsb and I",h. ' PerhaPl' we c. n now understand tbe evolulion of tbe sig! wn J. inlO. WO separa,e ';gla -t and 1-.
Originally, in Mareh '9'4, Joyce defined J. OJ 'b"jde', wbut.
