Perhaps as $Orne kind of
compensa_
tion for hi.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
.
.
,n to Haroun and
Znbaidah, but the Queen w. . . not convin""d ofM. . . rur'. truth- fulness and . . ,nt her nura<: for cQrroboration. This time al_Hasan
prdende<l to be dead. ill the reporB ,till differed, the Califand the Queen went together, only to find botb al_Hasan and Sug"'- cane stretched OUI . . . . if dead. T he dispute now turned On the point of who had died fin t, and tbe Calif declared that he would give ten tbousand dina. . . to the man who could tell him lhe lrUth mth. mailer. Al_Ha. <an then called out from beneath the . hroud tbat he should receive the money,'" he could tell the Calif tbat it W<U he who had died second, from grief. At this lCeming . pe<:cb from the dead the women ocreamed but the Calif guessed the trutb and realised hi. error in not providing al_H<uan wilb a pernion. A prompt and handsome payment w. . . accordingly made, together with an extra . um to celeb. . . . . te the ruing from {be dead.
Roth parB of th;' farcical. tory fit in perfectly with the design ,06
? Th? Dream-Structure
ofFi1I"'gaJIS Wakt. Abu the Beautiful i9 a type ofShaun, ! he Sou who aspire. to the condition of the Fath. . . After a sleep he awakens on a new plane, having . ymbolically become the Falhcr. I. ike Shaun, he is attended by twenty. . . ,ight rainbow- girls who offer him aIlth. ,aWfaction. of the flesh. They. like the twcnty. . . ,ighl girls in FimugalU Watt, dance in a ring around ai-Hasan, whose phallic prancing remind. ! m that Shaun is a maypole. The oociUatioru from <Inc world to aumher are . -c. fleeted in the many <>scillali""" ofJocale and IOrtune in Fil1lUgans
Watt:
'all? a? dreanu perhapsing under lucksloop at last are through . . . It is a sot <Ifa . wigswag, 'Y'tomy dystomy . ? . ' (597. ~O) The mock deaths and resurrectiono of Ihe 'C<! Qnd part arc perhap' even more relevant. T he alternate 'death. ,' ofmak and female parallel the . wingi ng mak_f~male polarity of ! he hook, while al_Haaan'. speech from under the shroud tteaU, Ihe nutbunt of the revived Finnegan nn hi$ bier.
Apart from the broad corresponden= mentioned above, Ihere a. -c at lelUl two detailed aIlUliom 10 the OIory 10 confirm IhatJ<ryU matk UK ofit. At 597. ~6 it is named, in a conlext
full ofallusions to the Th. ". wul! WI 0 . . . ,Nights: '''''''per awaken. ing', while the ,cis of SCven serving. maid! on their rich carpets are described at J~6"9: 'had 1""<:IIal , ucc"l$ivecoloured sc",hanmaido <In the same big white drawingroam horthrug'.
T he other ,tory from the TlwwaNf ani 0", NiKhtr whichJoyce scelll! to have used for the dream-structure is "111e T wo Lives of Sultan Mahmud'. Thi, is the tal~ of a Sultan who, though
pooscssed of a splendid palace in a . plendid capital, had pmod. of acute dcp",lIion when h e envied Ihe lot of the limple ~ple. One day when he wu more than ~uaUy dejecced h~ w. . . . visited by a wise man from che wt:S1 who cook him COa room in Ihe palace whose four windows looked to th~ four points of che campus. Opening e;oeh window in . ucceS$ion the wise man
caused the Sultan to ha1locinat<: fOur scparate ru. . a. . ten in his realm. Immediately afterward. . Mahmud was led CO a fountain b. . . m whkh "nod in the middle of the room. When he looked into the water the old man roughly forced hi$ face down below
"7
? The DTeam? Stmcture
the l urface. At that ""'1' iruUml the Sultan found him. ! . elf no longer in hill palace, but shipwr<:cl<ed in a fordgn land where he was traruformed into an . . . . and forced to work for five yean at a mill before he wa, able to . . ,gain tbe shape of a man. Still in the strange land of his 'other life', he was being forced by a friwlo,,", law to marry ~ frightful hag whell, with a '. . ,mendo", effon, hi. '. . ,al aclf' freed his head from the fountain. To
hi? ? urpnac he di$covere<l thaI only a few mnment. had elapacd ';lIte the old man had forced his face below Ih~ surface. As he was IIOW convinced of hh good fon unc al being a Sultan and 110 longer Jikdy tn wish for Ihe simple life, the wUc man dk- appear<: d.
Thi, moral talc "",ms to be one ",urce of a parrnth. su at 4. 2' :
'olle yeastyday he Ilern<:ly SlnIX\: bi. lete in a tub for to watoch Ihe future nf hh fatel but ere he swiftly 5100k il oul again, by the might of mnoes, the \"Cry water was eviparated and aU Ihe guenne. cs had n'et their exodw '" that ought to show you what a pcntsch=jouehy chap he wa. )'
Jt i. also a funher $(luree for Ihe use of time compfCS. '! ion and expansion in the book. A lifetime may be dreamed in an i""tant; the whole universe may be nothing but the p. . . . ing fancy of a God washing hi! face in the morning, Or the drunken illu';on ofa Finnegan who. e hud i. ,plashed wilh whisky.
<<.
? CHAPTER FOUR
SP ATI AL CYCLES:
I- THE CIRCLE ,
'o n~ cannot hdp noti(ing that rath~r mor~ than half of th~ lin"" nm north_oouth . . . while the other; go we. t--e>. ! t . . . for, tiny tol tbough it looks when schtschupni. ding alcngside oth~r incunabula, il has i", cardinal
points fOT aHthat . . . 11 i$ . . ,rioudy believed by $Orne that the intentio. n may havc been geodetic . . . ' (I '4,. (2)
Writing of "- . pecial kind of . patia! fonn in th~ nov~l, Mr.
Fo,. "ter, in a well known p. . . "age in hi. . kjJt&/s <1tilt . NtJ",I', deocribe, the patt<:rn "r two boob as like 'an hou. . . . g1a. . ? and a 'grand chain' rcspt:ctively.
Perhaps as $Orne kind of compensa_ tion for hi. pmhlindnel$, joyce i$ constantly concerned in hi. latu boob with ! . he probleJru of . ugge:<ting similar "mcture. apprehendablc hy the visual imagination. Wyndham Lrwi. chided j oyce for being time-cenlIed rather than 'pace-cenlred' and there is a sen"" in which his argument ;. valid,' but, . . . joyce ""ked Frank Rudgen, 'il it more than ten per cent ofthe truth ? '.
In I<) far as Iu: coruistendy organises hi, creations according 10 alm""t vi,ihle 'palia! patterns, j oyce is surely one of the moot spatially G<'>ILI<:iou; of writers. Indeed, 50 prominent i. Ihe 'palia], Hati<: "-'peel of j oyce', art that it provoked a very
, L<",,~",. '949. Ct"'P"" V I I I .
? Ti>>N. . J W,,1<No M. . . . l. on<Ion, '9'7. pp. 9'-'30.
? s. . S. K. Kwruu-, ? Space-Time ! '. :>la,ity in F_,,,,,, WoI. ', M""""
PIIdo"'D. vol. ! . IV. OQ. 4. Moy, 1~57, pp. '3<'-1.
? f. Budg<o, 'f~rth<< ReooI1<<""oo ofJ. rna Joyce', P",u-lIioitw, F. II,
'9~6, p. 539?
""
? Spatial CyclM: 1- The Ci,. d~
imelliptatlaCk byMr. JosephFnonkinb. U'Spatial}'ormin the ~lockm Novc:I". In A p_. u, . . Mr. Ellmann hu d """riy ? . . . ,. . . . ,1, Ibe paucm achi",? td is thaIofa developingcnbr)'o--a ~tr101 point involvM in laye. . after la~ of ever mon: relined materi. li in U[1JJn, as eve'1"'"C now tab:t fo. - gl1lntcd, tb. pattcm is thai of the labyrinthine dIy, on the plan of whi. ch lin.
afler line . ,traced " ntil the minalun: Odl"""Y is complete ; in Pi""'lam Jl'ak. , . . . we . ho llld ex~1 of an essentially arch. typa l hook, though all these patterns and more an: ""bourne<! , Ihe underlying mucturc is simpl. . . . (Ven ifourface details IOm<:Ul1l<':J tau:i1O obseure il. T he two main spatial configuratiON go>1:rn. ing iu Sh3pe an: those wllleh have a1waya had p",-emincnce in _ternsymboLogy--thccircleandthee. . . . """therwith their
combination in a 1l=c-dim~aJ figure romisting of IWO circlel intenc<:ting on the . urface ofIl Iphe. . . ? The impanance
thai Joyce attached to these . truclurallymboh may ~ judged from lhe facl that he . . . . ;gned Ihe mandala symbol (R) to the k~y passage in 1. 6 dealing with the pattt:m of cycle. in
Fi. luuIDJIJ W. . . . . (qu. "tion 9),' The interxctlng circl. ,. are of couf'Ie also "'presentt:d in the t. . . 'O-dimc~ diagram On
page 293.
Joya's otw. ivc cono:rn with hi. nalh~ city has been dis-
cussed al length by almoM all hi. eritia. Yet . . . ? hiIe he d. . . . . . :: never to go outside Dublin for hU Kiting and principal malmal, h~ leaned rnO", and I'IIO'" loward uni\'en. olity of Iheme al hi. art matured. T he Dublin of Ulynss i, already bunting al the ""altU, 10 . tuffed i. it wilh txtra-ltibcmian material. Howth has rnyneriowly absorbed Gihraltar, the B. . . y of Dublin Ihe Mcditt:rrlnean Sea, and 10 on. BUI the two views lhatJnya tal<eo of his Dublin- t he naturalistic and the syrnbolic---are
n~ r endrcly fusa! in lRJUu andJoy<< f""luendy aIIow5lhe symbolic ovcnon. " to fade a. . . . . y. I<<ving the city a pooed in
i1:l n. tun. 1 unadorned squalor. The technique of juxlapooiing ,! ~J. W. "Id. . . . . (ro. ). ~I. . . ~,. . M. . . . . . FIt,;. ,N. . . York.
'9S'. pp. 4H6.
, Ethnonn, pp. 306---9
? S<o . '. ,. ,~ 111. 1. d _
? s. ;. iah Muoeum Add. MS 47413. f. "~to
,"
?
Znbaidah, but the Queen w. . . not convin""d ofM. . . rur'. truth- fulness and . . ,nt her nura<: for cQrroboration. This time al_Hasan
prdende<l to be dead. ill the reporB ,till differed, the Califand the Queen went together, only to find botb al_Hasan and Sug"'- cane stretched OUI . . . . if dead. T he dispute now turned On the point of who had died fin t, and tbe Calif declared that he would give ten tbousand dina. . . to the man who could tell him lhe lrUth mth. mailer. Al_Ha. <an then called out from beneath the . hroud tbat he should receive the money,'" he could tell the Calif tbat it W<U he who had died second, from grief. At this lCeming . pe<:cb from the dead the women ocreamed but the Calif guessed the trutb and realised hi. error in not providing al_H<uan wilb a pernion. A prompt and handsome payment w. . . accordingly made, together with an extra . um to celeb. . . . . te the ruing from {be dead.
Roth parB of th;' farcical. tory fit in perfectly with the design ,06
? Th? Dream-Structure
ofFi1I"'gaJIS Wakt. Abu the Beautiful i9 a type ofShaun, ! he Sou who aspire. to the condition of the Fath. . . After a sleep he awakens on a new plane, having . ymbolically become the Falhcr. I. ike Shaun, he is attended by twenty. . . ,ight rainbow- girls who offer him aIlth. ,aWfaction. of the flesh. They. like the twcnty. . . ,ighl girls in FimugalU Watt, dance in a ring around ai-Hasan, whose phallic prancing remind. ! m that Shaun is a maypole. The oociUatioru from <Inc world to aumher are . -c. fleeted in the many <>scillali""" ofJocale and IOrtune in Fil1lUgans
Watt:
'all? a? dreanu perhapsing under lucksloop at last are through . . . It is a sot <Ifa . wigswag, 'Y'tomy dystomy . ? . ' (597. ~O) The mock deaths and resurrectiono of Ihe 'C<! Qnd part arc perhap' even more relevant. T he alternate 'death. ,' ofmak and female parallel the . wingi ng mak_f~male polarity of ! he hook, while al_Haaan'. speech from under the shroud tteaU, Ihe nutbunt of the revived Finnegan nn hi$ bier.
Apart from the broad corresponden= mentioned above, Ihere a. -c at lelUl two detailed aIlUliom 10 the OIory 10 confirm IhatJ<ryU matk UK ofit. At 597. ~6 it is named, in a conlext
full ofallusions to the Th. ". wul! WI 0 . . . ,Nights: '''''''per awaken. ing', while the ,cis of SCven serving. maid! on their rich carpets are described at J~6"9: 'had 1""<:IIal , ucc"l$ivecoloured sc",hanmaido <In the same big white drawingroam horthrug'.
T he other ,tory from the TlwwaNf ani 0", NiKhtr whichJoyce scelll! to have used for the dream-structure is "111e T wo Lives of Sultan Mahmud'. Thi, is the tal~ of a Sultan who, though
pooscssed of a splendid palace in a . plendid capital, had pmod. of acute dcp",lIion when h e envied Ihe lot of the limple ~ple. One day when he wu more than ~uaUy dejecced h~ w. . . . visited by a wise man from che wt:S1 who cook him COa room in Ihe palace whose four windows looked to th~ four points of che campus. Opening e;oeh window in . ucceS$ion the wise man
caused the Sultan to ha1locinat<: fOur scparate ru. . a. . ten in his realm. Immediately afterward. . Mahmud was led CO a fountain b. . . m whkh "nod in the middle of the room. When he looked into the water the old man roughly forced hi$ face down below
"7
? The DTeam? Stmcture
the l urface. At that ""'1' iruUml the Sultan found him. ! . elf no longer in hill palace, but shipwr<:cl<ed in a fordgn land where he was traruformed into an . . . . and forced to work for five yean at a mill before he wa, able to . . ,gain tbe shape of a man. Still in the strange land of his 'other life', he was being forced by a friwlo,,", law to marry ~ frightful hag whell, with a '. . ,mendo", effon, hi. '. . ,al aclf' freed his head from the fountain. To
hi? ? urpnac he di$covere<l thaI only a few mnment. had elapacd ';lIte the old man had forced his face below Ih~ surface. As he was IIOW convinced of hh good fon unc al being a Sultan and 110 longer Jikdy tn wish for Ihe simple life, the wUc man dk- appear<: d.
Thi, moral talc "",ms to be one ",urce of a parrnth. su at 4. 2' :
'olle yeastyday he Ilern<:ly SlnIX\: bi. lete in a tub for to watoch Ihe future nf hh fatel but ere he swiftly 5100k il oul again, by the might of mnoes, the \"Cry water was eviparated and aU Ihe guenne. cs had n'et their exodw '" that ought to show you what a pcntsch=jouehy chap he wa. )'
Jt i. also a funher $(luree for Ihe use of time compfCS. '! ion and expansion in the book. A lifetime may be dreamed in an i""tant; the whole universe may be nothing but the p. . . . ing fancy of a God washing hi! face in the morning, Or the drunken illu';on ofa Finnegan who. e hud i. ,plashed wilh whisky.
<<.
? CHAPTER FOUR
SP ATI AL CYCLES:
I- THE CIRCLE ,
'o n~ cannot hdp noti(ing that rath~r mor~ than half of th~ lin"" nm north_oouth . . . while the other; go we. t--e>. ! t . . . for, tiny tol tbough it looks when schtschupni. ding alcngside oth~r incunabula, il has i", cardinal
points fOT aHthat . . . 11 i$ . . ,rioudy believed by $Orne that the intentio. n may havc been geodetic . . . ' (I '4,. (2)
Writing of "- . pecial kind of . patia! fonn in th~ nov~l, Mr.
Fo,. "ter, in a well known p. . . "age in hi. . kjJt&/s <1tilt . NtJ",I', deocribe, the patt<:rn "r two boob as like 'an hou. . . . g1a. . ? and a 'grand chain' rcspt:ctively.
Perhaps as $Orne kind of compensa_ tion for hi. pmhlindnel$, joyce i$ constantly concerned in hi. latu boob with ! . he probleJru of . ugge:<ting similar "mcture. apprehendablc hy the visual imagination. Wyndham Lrwi. chided j oyce for being time-cenlIed rather than 'pace-cenlred' and there is a sen"" in which his argument ;. valid,' but, . . . joyce ""ked Frank Rudgen, 'il it more than ten per cent ofthe truth ? '.
In I<) far as Iu: coruistendy organises hi, creations according 10 alm""t vi,ihle 'palia! patterns, j oyce is surely one of the moot spatially G<'>ILI<:iou; of writers. Indeed, 50 prominent i. Ihe 'palia], Hati<: "-'peel of j oyce', art that it provoked a very
, L<",,~",. '949. Ct"'P"" V I I I .
? Ti>>N. . J W,,1<No M. . . . l. on<Ion, '9'7. pp. 9'-'30.
? s. . S. K. Kwruu-, ? Space-Time ! '. :>la,ity in F_,,,,,, WoI. ', M""""
PIIdo"'D. vol. ! . IV. OQ. 4. Moy, 1~57, pp. '3<'-1.
? f. Budg<o, 'f~rth<< ReooI1<<""oo ofJ. rna Joyce', P",u-lIioitw, F. II,
'9~6, p. 539?
""
? Spatial CyclM: 1- The Ci,. d~
imelliptatlaCk byMr. JosephFnonkinb. U'Spatial}'ormin the ~lockm Novc:I". In A p_. u, . . Mr. Ellmann hu d """riy ? . . . ,. . . . ,1, Ibe paucm achi",? td is thaIofa developingcnbr)'o--a ~tr101 point involvM in laye. . after la~ of ever mon: relined materi. li in U[1JJn, as eve'1"'"C now tab:t fo. - gl1lntcd, tb. pattcm is thai of the labyrinthine dIy, on the plan of whi. ch lin.
afler line . ,traced " ntil the minalun: Odl"""Y is complete ; in Pi""'lam Jl'ak. , . . . we . ho llld ex~1 of an essentially arch. typa l hook, though all these patterns and more an: ""bourne<! , Ihe underlying mucturc is simpl. . . . (Ven ifourface details IOm<:Ul1l<':J tau:i1O obseure il. T he two main spatial configuratiON go>1:rn. ing iu Sh3pe an: those wllleh have a1waya had p",-emincnce in _ternsymboLogy--thccircleandthee. . . . """therwith their
combination in a 1l=c-dim~aJ figure romisting of IWO circlel intenc<:ting on the . urface ofIl Iphe. . . ? The impanance
thai Joyce attached to these . truclurallymboh may ~ judged from lhe facl that he . . . . ;gned Ihe mandala symbol (R) to the k~y passage in 1. 6 dealing with the pattt:m of cycle. in
Fi. luuIDJIJ W. . . . . (qu. "tion 9),' The interxctlng circl. ,. are of couf'Ie also "'presentt:d in the t. . . 'O-dimc~ diagram On
page 293.
Joya's otw. ivc cono:rn with hi. nalh~ city has been dis-
cussed al length by almoM all hi. eritia. Yet . . . ? hiIe he d. . . . . . :: never to go outside Dublin for hU Kiting and principal malmal, h~ leaned rnO", and I'IIO'" loward uni\'en. olity of Iheme al hi. art matured. T he Dublin of Ulynss i, already bunting al the ""altU, 10 . tuffed i. it wilh txtra-ltibcmian material. Howth has rnyneriowly absorbed Gihraltar, the B. . . y of Dublin Ihe Mcditt:rrlnean Sea, and 10 on. BUI the two views lhatJnya tal<eo of his Dublin- t he naturalistic and the syrnbolic---are
n~ r endrcly fusa! in lRJUu andJoy<< f""luendy aIIow5lhe symbolic ovcnon. " to fade a. . . . . y. I<<ving the city a pooed in
i1:l n. tun. 1 unadorned squalor. The technique of juxlapooiing ,! ~J. W. "Id. . . . . (ro. ). ~I. . . ~,. . M. . . . . . FIt,;. ,N. . . York.
'9S'. pp. 4H6.
, Ethnonn, pp. 306---9
? S<o . '. ,. ,~ 111. 1. d _
? s. ;. iah Muoeum Add. MS 47413. f. "~to
,"
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