Ii",t ~ ) ; thwcracy is well to the fore Mnce a large I1umkr of Greek and
Egyptian
gods p.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
andhi.
Joyce evidently want< uS to imagine thaI w me_ thing of the na.
ture of the purging .
.
.
.
cnto in Book IV OCCUIl
, Sn below, Oa. plor lht. . " II. ? SIC ~5.
. ~5
? ? ? ? ? Cyclic Furm
betwttn t:'Ou? pait of major events . r cydet in Fiut,altl W4II;. , which are . . ,panted by the 'siIroc<:' motif. Follov. ~nlJ cach of Ihese motif_otatemcnu ther<' is a rejuvenation of'lylc and tone; the I}'mbolic COl\tent ;. simplified and infOl'TlU'd by a youthful e~rgy.
A further deuUl of JO)'<<', pat"'"' of C)'cia; was almost cet'- tainly deriwd from theosophy, and probably from Bbvatsky in parti(ubr. Th;. il lhe intportant l\umber-motif, '43~'. The S. f;e/'I. ~ KIJ appul'1 to attribute it to J oyce'$ reading of the EdeW. ,? but a much obviouJ SOUree for the figure ;. 10 be found
in the ~ponl c. alculatiom 'nociatcd with tlu: ca1! cm "'OI'ld- eyelet, and especially those of the Hindul. Bla,-al'! ky anaches
gr<'at importance 10 the figure, and in Ihe firsl chapler of ',u U<Wi/. ed di>cUIICI in OOTlOiderabic detail the oyslem of eyel. " which if; . . . . . . . . . . on it. The impooing Grand Period. , . . . . ' Kalpa. ', . . Cl<pwned by her, may be summarised al follows',
111_. ,1in 0"1#-
lit (Krl. l. -)Yuga
2nd (Tlttya-)Vuga 3m (Dvapa. ra_)Yuga ilh (Kali. )Vuga
nJ. . ,tIn <:1<10-/,-
71 Maha_Yugas
+ one sandhi J ,d-ordn ryd_
'4 Manvanura. + one pndhi
1,7~8,ooo }'rs ,,~! j6,ooo )'fl
86VIOO )'fl 432,000 }'1'1
306,120,000 yl'1 , ,pB,ooo yrs
4,3,8,~7~,OOO yl'1 ',728,000 yrs
4,3~,00II,OOO )'111 - one Kalpa. , or Mahamanvantara
, SK is.
I /,it UOHiIi. I, vd. t, PI' 3" If.
5'
? C~lit F()nn
We au at present said to be in the Kali-Yuga of the twenty_ eighth Maha_Yuga of the ! ICVUIth ManvantarL A talking clodt puodiet this piece of infunnatioOl and telL. U$ what point "'~ have readied in the 'Gnnd Period' ofFitatt,. . ,. . Wilt. by the beginningofBook IV,
'Upon the 111U1U trok. ,. truck, chim, it will be eucdyso fewer houl1 by Ie) many minul"" ofthe ope orthe dium oflhc ",. might of the muned of the Y""" oCthe age of the madamanvantu. . . . . ' (Sg8? 30)
Thue . re PQling a! lu';olU to the Yu,. . . in the Sanskril_ satu. . . . tnI contcxtoftheopo:ningofBook IV, "'hile lbe Manvan. tan and ~"'hamanvanlMa rum up U 21,1,'7 and 297. 30- The figura 432 or 43W appear 0. 1 1e. . . 1 nine lim. ,. ' and are ah. -. ys ~. . udued with the pattern nfthe <;yc. lea. In 11. 2Joytt permutes and combines them in a long scria or heady cakulatio~ whlch
mock at B! avatsky':
'They are never erring, ]>"r]>"lually recurring numbe. . . . un_ veiling to him who " udies the """rell of Nature, a truly divine ')"Ilem, an UWlip plan in COMnOg<IIIy, which resull! in nalunl oounk. divilions of times, oeuons. invisible influel>CU, . . . Iro- nomical phenomena, with thrir action and lUeticn on terra-- trial and even . . -aI narn,. . ,; on bini! , death, and growth, on health and di. ! caac. '
AI this point it would be u wdl to demomtn. tc bow J oyce pUll Klme of the abo. . . . : cyclic i<k. . . 10 work in organising an individual chapter. The fullowing i. an anal)"lis of IlL,. Ihe fint and moJt immediately acc"';ble ofShalln', 'four watch"" of the night'. Its Itructure, mainly Vic:nnian but incorporaling
a silenl . . . ndhi, i. a the pro~ for many other (hapten. PRELUDE
The opening paragraphs form a ,hart p~ludc which recalh ,he four-pat. agraph OVerture at Ihe bo. ginning of FiM#&"'" IVIZ. b.
, S. . Coo>oordan<e.
, H. P. IIlav. . . . . y, 'n. . Sol. . . lH<triM,. voIt. , rain. Lorna, Calif. , '9011, vd. IT, p. 73.
"
? Age iii
(40PO -{'{. '{):
heroic
begin-
Cyclic Form
CYCLE I
Age i (fOS. ,6-{"S. oS): D<:scription <If Shalln as 'a picru,. . , primitive'; he does not 'p"u (fint
\'ironian Age).
A"" ii (f05. 04-{07. "9): Shaun ha, become a H~r"Q-'Bel <If
Ikam Walk'; ,here i. I an allusion 10 the heroic ,laying <If the Jabkr. wock and an elllenaining Raklai-
,jan description <If Shaun',
eating habits.
Introdllced by 'Ov. :rture and
nen'; this is the beginning Human Age, in which the god, can app"af only in dramatic rep"",enta- tion on a stage; Shann hal become
a popular rep~nlaliv<'-'vote of Ihe Irish'; the woro 'Amen' bring,
In an end the group of tIt",e Age. forming the main part of thi, first Viconian cycle.
~ iv (4'4? '4-. P 4. 18): A ,hort TUorsO brings ill back to tIte thwcralic Age with the introduc-
tion 10 the Fable. THU,", OER ( 4 I . p 9 )
CYCLE II
Age i (414. '2-4'9. ro): 'The Ondt and the Gracehoper' (Fable;" a charac:leri,tic of Vioo'.
Ii",t ~ ) ; thwcracy is well to the fore Mnce a large I1umkr of Greek and Egyptian gods p. . . . ide over
this section; it . "nc\ud"" wilh
'Allmen'.
Age ii (419. 11-42'. 14): The qu""tion 'Now~' lead, U! into a
f""h 'exploolion', Ihi, time <If the 'Letter', which ;" an e"edlen!
58
of the
? Cyclic Form
~xample of 'extreme verbal scrupu_
loum. . . ' and of'taking pre<:aUliom by the u'"' ofcenain proper word,';
the s<<tion end. . at'Stop',
Age iii (~Q! 'I 5-oj. ~-l-(3): Vico', 'vulgar spetth'- the 's1anguag<"
of Shcm--io both used and dio- euucd; tbe section end. with 'Ex.
Ex. Ex. E>:. '
Age iv (4~P 4-i~4'~O) : A riam. rai"", the question of why
Age i
Shaun revile> Shern. As this is one of the moot basic questions in the book, . . di. cn#ion of it mmt entail a rehearsal of the whole cycLe, 1:. . _ ginning with the thunderbolt.
TReND"" (424. 20) CYCLE 1Il
(42,P3-425. 03) : Shaun I>oldJ fonh from his 'Kingdom ofHu. ven'.
Age ii (425. 04- 426. 04): Begins with 'Still'; Shaun docend. from Heaven, is incamated-
'muttermdk of his blood donor beginning to wark'-and then . peak> . . . . a prophet (Mohammed with 'immenue! UQeS').
Ag. . iii (426. 05;27. 08): }kgins with a lr. . rui! ionofShaun from prophet to commOn man- 'pug;_ liler? . ? broke down. . . o,""r_ powered by hinuelfwith ~ of thc tearailver . . . ? Iob of the world
. . ? load. of fC"llng in him. . . fruhfallen calef; the ""ction end. as Shann vanishClo in death: 'vanes-
shed, ? . Ah, mean! '
Age iv (427. <>9-427. I4): R~? TS. q quiet interlude or nocturne,
leading into the SILENCE (427-'! "l-I6)
"
? Cyclic Fonn
"The ,ilent paute which open. Cycle IV il particularly inu. resting:
'And the tamp went out a. it couldn't glow on burning, yep the Imp wnt out fOr it couldn't ltay aUght'.
Shaun', 'belted lamp', which lights him through the obscuriti. . of the midnight dream, is nlingu;'hed '" he 'dies', (Th;' im_ portant symbolic lamp . . ,ems to o,',e somelhing to the lightJ ,aid to be used by spirits to guide them on their way hack to their old home. <. ') joyce amusingly illusttau. , the ntingui. hing of the ligbt in the '. ;Ieneing' of the wcrds 'lamp' and 'wen! ' (by the excUion of their vowels). The rhythm of the ,entence ;. based on Ihat of thc song 'Ca. cy jon. ,',' which h", already appeared in FimugallJ Wakt, towar-d the end of the television
cpL. ode (349. 35); it i, ';gnificant that th;. cadicr nceurrence of the song i, in the immediate vicinity of an amu. ing pa,. . ,. ge d. . . ribiog the momentary black-out of tho televilion oereen, whcnjoycc uoe, the ,arne device ofexci' ing the v<>web (349. ~6)? . The residual word 'Imp' h. . "- furthor and more profound ,ignilican? ? in thi, context, however, for 'LMP' i. the commonly accepted gynaecological abbreviation fur 'but menstrual period'. InU' the \ran,ition from the old age to the new i. ,hifted from the levd <>fwon:U and mechanico to that ofhuman- ity- a 'cycle' is over," birth;' to COme. 11. i. inLimate feminine touch is a filrcwarning of tI,,: I. . . . t sad occaJion OIl which Anna Livia will flow out to sea, prior 10 the rebirth of the g<>d.
After the Silence with which it hegan, Cycle IV brinS' II! . ! to a condtUion with a prayer, apparently said surtl. o, to Shaun the god-figure, who i. 10 be resurrected in Ihe next chapter. A
, S;,- Jonl<> h . . ",. , Tk GoUt. Boq~, abridg<<! ""n. , Lond"", '9>4, p. 374?
, S. . M. J. C. H",~" . . nd M. p. W<)rth;"lfi"", ~ "' 1M W. . . ks tf J - . . " J ' 7 ' " X < w Y O l k , '9~. p . ' ] 7 .
? for tom< <<n""'. . . . . . "" the we of. . ,. ,. ~ ;n F. . . . l"'" W. . . , '" bd<. w. I'_'~I,
60
? Cyclic Form
num~r of phra. <e> in thi, TU;"". oeTVe to tie together the begin_ ning and end of the chapteT: Shaun, passing from nin;ana to rebirth, ;" identified all the ' p"ctre we . . . . w in the Prelude-- 'Spickspookspokesman ofOUTapectur~uc rilcnooume,,'_and there is an allusion to the opening litany of beU. -'n. d,"e o'dock scholars'. A long ocTi. ,. of further correspondences be_ tween ! hi! beautiful P'Wag<: and Book IV gear the minor cycle of the cbapter even more closely 10 tbe greal cycle of F;. "'gans
1V4k(. Some of the,e correspondences are ",t out below: III. 1 >V
thou art paW-ng hene<: . loth to lea""
~oofi
allliclcdly fond Fuinn feelt we miM your smile
Sirdand calls you yougander, only onG<: more
they are becoming lothed to me . . . I'm loothing them Ihat', here and all I lothe . . "I am pa"ing out (627. [7- 34)
So oft (620.
, Sn below, Oa. plor lht. . " II. ? SIC ~5.
. ~5
? ? ? ? ? Cyclic Furm
betwttn t:'Ou? pait of major events . r cydet in Fiut,altl W4II;. , which are . . ,panted by the 'siIroc<:' motif. Follov. ~nlJ cach of Ihese motif_otatemcnu ther<' is a rejuvenation of'lylc and tone; the I}'mbolic COl\tent ;. simplified and infOl'TlU'd by a youthful e~rgy.
A further deuUl of JO)'<<', pat"'"' of C)'cia; was almost cet'- tainly deriwd from theosophy, and probably from Bbvatsky in parti(ubr. Th;. il lhe intportant l\umber-motif, '43~'. The S. f;e/'I. ~ KIJ appul'1 to attribute it to J oyce'$ reading of the EdeW. ,? but a much obviouJ SOUree for the figure ;. 10 be found
in the ~ponl c. alculatiom 'nociatcd with tlu: ca1! cm "'OI'ld- eyelet, and especially those of the Hindul. Bla,-al'! ky anaches
gr<'at importance 10 the figure, and in Ihe firsl chapler of ',u U<Wi/. ed di>cUIICI in OOTlOiderabic detail the oyslem of eyel. " which if; . . . . . . . . . . on it. The impooing Grand Period. , . . . . ' Kalpa. ', . . Cl<pwned by her, may be summarised al follows',
111_. ,1in 0"1#-
lit (Krl. l. -)Yuga
2nd (Tlttya-)Vuga 3m (Dvapa. ra_)Yuga ilh (Kali. )Vuga
nJ. . ,tIn <:1<10-/,-
71 Maha_Yugas
+ one sandhi J ,d-ordn ryd_
'4 Manvanura. + one pndhi
1,7~8,ooo }'rs ,,~! j6,ooo )'fl
86VIOO )'fl 432,000 }'1'1
306,120,000 yl'1 , ,pB,ooo yrs
4,3,8,~7~,OOO yl'1 ',728,000 yrs
4,3~,00II,OOO )'111 - one Kalpa. , or Mahamanvantara
, SK is.
I /,it UOHiIi. I, vd. t, PI' 3" If.
5'
? C~lit F()nn
We au at present said to be in the Kali-Yuga of the twenty_ eighth Maha_Yuga of the ! ICVUIth ManvantarL A talking clodt puodiet this piece of infunnatioOl and telL. U$ what point "'~ have readied in the 'Gnnd Period' ofFitatt,. . ,. . Wilt. by the beginningofBook IV,
'Upon the 111U1U trok. ,. truck, chim, it will be eucdyso fewer houl1 by Ie) many minul"" ofthe ope orthe dium oflhc ",. might of the muned of the Y""" oCthe age of the madamanvantu. . . . . ' (Sg8? 30)
Thue . re PQling a! lu';olU to the Yu,. . . in the Sanskril_ satu. . . . tnI contcxtoftheopo:ningofBook IV, "'hile lbe Manvan. tan and ~"'hamanvanlMa rum up U 21,1,'7 and 297. 30- The figura 432 or 43W appear 0. 1 1e. . . 1 nine lim. ,. ' and are ah. -. ys ~. . udued with the pattern nfthe <;yc. lea. In 11. 2Joytt permutes and combines them in a long scria or heady cakulatio~ whlch
mock at B! avatsky':
'They are never erring, ]>"r]>"lually recurring numbe. . . . un_ veiling to him who " udies the """rell of Nature, a truly divine ')"Ilem, an UWlip plan in COMnOg<IIIy, which resull! in nalunl oounk. divilions of times, oeuons. invisible influel>CU, . . . Iro- nomical phenomena, with thrir action and lUeticn on terra-- trial and even . . -aI narn,. . ,; on bini! , death, and growth, on health and di. ! caac. '
AI this point it would be u wdl to demomtn. tc bow J oyce pUll Klme of the abo. . . . : cyclic i<k. . . 10 work in organising an individual chapter. The fullowing i. an anal)"lis of IlL,. Ihe fint and moJt immediately acc"';ble ofShalln', 'four watch"" of the night'. Its Itructure, mainly Vic:nnian but incorporaling
a silenl . . . ndhi, i. a the pro~ for many other (hapten. PRELUDE
The opening paragraphs form a ,hart p~ludc which recalh ,he four-pat. agraph OVerture at Ihe bo. ginning of FiM#&"'" IVIZ. b.
, S. . Coo>oordan<e.
, H. P. IIlav. . . . . y, 'n. . Sol. . . lH<triM,. voIt. , rain. Lorna, Calif. , '9011, vd. IT, p. 73.
"
? Age iii
(40PO -{'{. '{):
heroic
begin-
Cyclic Form
CYCLE I
Age i (fOS. ,6-{"S. oS): D<:scription <If Shalln as 'a picru,. . , primitive'; he does not 'p"u (fint
\'ironian Age).
A"" ii (f05. 04-{07. "9): Shaun ha, become a H~r"Q-'Bel <If
Ikam Walk'; ,here i. I an allusion 10 the heroic ,laying <If the Jabkr. wock and an elllenaining Raklai-
,jan description <If Shaun',
eating habits.
Introdllced by 'Ov. :rture and
nen'; this is the beginning Human Age, in which the god, can app"af only in dramatic rep"",enta- tion on a stage; Shann hal become
a popular rep~nlaliv<'-'vote of Ihe Irish'; the woro 'Amen' bring,
In an end the group of tIt",e Age. forming the main part of thi, first Viconian cycle.
~ iv (4'4? '4-. P 4. 18): A ,hort TUorsO brings ill back to tIte thwcralic Age with the introduc-
tion 10 the Fable. THU,", OER ( 4 I . p 9 )
CYCLE II
Age i (414. '2-4'9. ro): 'The Ondt and the Gracehoper' (Fable;" a charac:leri,tic of Vioo'.
Ii",t ~ ) ; thwcracy is well to the fore Mnce a large I1umkr of Greek and Egyptian gods p. . . . ide over
this section; it . "nc\ud"" wilh
'Allmen'.
Age ii (419. 11-42'. 14): The qu""tion 'Now~' lead, U! into a
f""h 'exploolion', Ihi, time <If the 'Letter', which ;" an e"edlen!
58
of the
? Cyclic Form
~xample of 'extreme verbal scrupu_
loum. . . ' and of'taking pre<:aUliom by the u'"' ofcenain proper word,';
the s<<tion end. . at'Stop',
Age iii (~Q! 'I 5-oj. ~-l-(3): Vico', 'vulgar spetth'- the 's1anguag<"
of Shcm--io both used and dio- euucd; tbe section end. with 'Ex.
Ex. Ex. E>:. '
Age iv (4~P 4-i~4'~O) : A riam. rai"", the question of why
Age i
Shaun revile> Shern. As this is one of the moot basic questions in the book, . . di. cn#ion of it mmt entail a rehearsal of the whole cycLe, 1:. . _ ginning with the thunderbolt.
TReND"" (424. 20) CYCLE 1Il
(42,P3-425. 03) : Shaun I>oldJ fonh from his 'Kingdom ofHu. ven'.
Age ii (425. 04- 426. 04): Begins with 'Still'; Shaun docend. from Heaven, is incamated-
'muttermdk of his blood donor beginning to wark'-and then . peak> . . . . a prophet (Mohammed with 'immenue! UQeS').
Ag. . iii (426. 05;27. 08): }kgins with a lr. . rui! ionofShaun from prophet to commOn man- 'pug;_ liler? . ? broke down. . . o,""r_ powered by hinuelfwith ~ of thc tearailver . . . ? Iob of the world
. . ? load. of fC"llng in him. . . fruhfallen calef; the ""ction end. as Shann vanishClo in death: 'vanes-
shed, ? . Ah, mean! '
Age iv (427. <>9-427. I4): R~? TS. q quiet interlude or nocturne,
leading into the SILENCE (427-'! "l-I6)
"
? Cyclic Fonn
"The ,ilent paute which open. Cycle IV il particularly inu. resting:
'And the tamp went out a. it couldn't glow on burning, yep the Imp wnt out fOr it couldn't ltay aUght'.
Shaun', 'belted lamp', which lights him through the obscuriti. . of the midnight dream, is nlingu;'hed '" he 'dies', (Th;' im_ portant symbolic lamp . . ,ems to o,',e somelhing to the lightJ ,aid to be used by spirits to guide them on their way hack to their old home. <. ') joyce amusingly illusttau. , the ntingui. hing of the ligbt in the '. ;Ieneing' of the wcrds 'lamp' and 'wen! ' (by the excUion of their vowels). The rhythm of the ,entence ;. based on Ihat of thc song 'Ca. cy jon. ,',' which h", already appeared in FimugallJ Wakt, towar-d the end of the television
cpL. ode (349. 35); it i, ';gnificant that th;. cadicr nceurrence of the song i, in the immediate vicinity of an amu. ing pa,. . ,. ge d. . . ribiog the momentary black-out of tho televilion oereen, whcnjoycc uoe, the ,arne device ofexci' ing the v<>web (349. ~6)? . The residual word 'Imp' h. . "- furthor and more profound ,ignilican? ? in thi, context, however, for 'LMP' i. the commonly accepted gynaecological abbreviation fur 'but menstrual period'. InU' the \ran,ition from the old age to the new i. ,hifted from the levd <>fwon:U and mechanico to that ofhuman- ity- a 'cycle' is over," birth;' to COme. 11. i. inLimate feminine touch is a filrcwarning of tI,,: I. . . . t sad occaJion OIl which Anna Livia will flow out to sea, prior 10 the rebirth of the g<>d.
After the Silence with which it hegan, Cycle IV brinS' II! . ! to a condtUion with a prayer, apparently said surtl. o, to Shaun the god-figure, who i. 10 be resurrected in Ihe next chapter. A
, S;,- Jonl<> h . . ",. , Tk GoUt. Boq~, abridg<<! ""n. , Lond"", '9>4, p. 374?
, S. . M. J. C. H",~" . . nd M. p. W<)rth;"lfi"", ~ "' 1M W. . . ks tf J - . . " J ' 7 ' " X < w Y O l k , '9~. p . ' ] 7 .
? for tom< <<n""'. . . . . . "" the we of. . ,. ,. ~ ;n F. . . . l"'" W. . . , '" bd<. w. I'_'~I,
60
? Cyclic Form
num~r of phra. <e> in thi, TU;"". oeTVe to tie together the begin_ ning and end of the chapteT: Shaun, passing from nin;ana to rebirth, ;" identified all the ' p"ctre we . . . . w in the Prelude-- 'Spickspookspokesman ofOUTapectur~uc rilcnooume,,'_and there is an allusion to the opening litany of beU. -'n. d,"e o'dock scholars'. A long ocTi. ,. of further correspondences be_ tween ! hi! beautiful P'Wag<: and Book IV gear the minor cycle of the cbapter even more closely 10 tbe greal cycle of F;. "'gans
1V4k(. Some of the,e correspondences are ",t out below: III. 1 >V
thou art paW-ng hene<: . loth to lea""
~oofi
allliclcdly fond Fuinn feelt we miM your smile
Sirdand calls you yougander, only onG<: more
they are becoming lothed to me . . . I'm loothing them Ihat', here and all I lothe . . "I am pa"ing out (627. [7- 34)
So oft (620.
