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Book III in ,he Viconian ocheme is modern and democratic. . ITr . entnnce durina the Age of People oo"espond. to the ",e of weak bunaucn. ti~ monarchies which Vioo regarded . . an ulUue<<uful attempt to withstand the di. . . ,Iution of society. As modernity cheapens ritual, 1T1'. ,hlla<ion in the ,pirit W1)rld prior to his reappearance is a degraded one. Instead of Frazer'. e~giou. oom-spirit we hear a genteel pre. cncc tritely an- nouncing itself in a . piritualist seance: 'Here w. . are again! ' (~lM6--7)_
Joyce i. probably 'hinking mthe Dublin Theooophists in writ_ ing ,hi,. A. 'Scylla and Charybdis' intimates, Ihe narrowness of their imagination repelled him. BUI his foremost source is Heuer Trave" Smith', P. ycJt. '< M. uag. . i""" 0<<021" Wild. , which con-
? tIlina ~ul(>malic and ouija bo. . rd ""ript. produced in 1923 by M n T r. ve. . . . Smith and 'Mr V'. W iIM, ofttIt a majOT demen! in IT\, il here d escriW as 'w communicator' . . . di, r:inct ["'m 'the con- trol', another . pirit, who facilitated the tTanami. . ion. Wilde ooccches hi. medium, 'Pity Oscar Wilde-<>ne who in the world was. king of life . . . de. r lady . . . Oscar is 'peaking again . . . 1 am infinitely amused by the renutrks you aU make . . . ! king dead i. the most boring Oltpericnce in Hfe. '''
Compare the speech of 'CArnmuniClltOT' in 535. 20>-35. AUed for his views on UIY"tJ, Wilde exclaim, 'Shame upon Joyce, th>. me on hi. work, ,hame on hi, lying lI<Iull'" At H + J2-4 we find ? Shame upon Private M 1Shal! >e"! l nIT hi. fu! ",mene"! Shamu. "" hil atkin. cum? , Julul lying . uulen for an outea" ma. tiff littered in blo"d curti. h T' Thi, aho recalb a . pecclt made in '53" by Sir
William Skeffingron, then Lord Deputy"fDublin, whocalled hi, enemies 'outcoll mastives, linered in C\! rri,h blnod'. "
1would di. pute the connection, with Mn Traven Smith'. work postulated by Mr A,herton,K bUI it is perhaps significant lhat a . ing! ep~f<<)mitisparodiedaltheopposednodeofFW,i. e. the 1. 4 trial. QSS. OS-7 Tc-peal$ the ume qUOtation as Wilde: 'I ~ alw. J'! l one of those for whom the vi. ible world exi. ted. '''
M . . . Trave. . . Smith comment. upon her wort: ? If lhe medium could be diopensed with and a . uitable "telephone" invenled hctwe<:n this world and the other, no doubt results would be Ie. . WlCVtItand clearcr. 'u This is apt: muehofill. ) i. telephone con- vc""rion. At S46. ~S-8 Xare four telephone operators interrupling m'? ? pceeh to inquire t1u: numbeT . nught and as); whet1u:r the cor- rectchangehasbeenin&crted. A. III. 3operuI withape. . . . onnamed Yawn and 1l1. 4 displays the ing,esa of daylight upon the night
of FW, the note on VI. B. S. 29 is interesting:
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Dawn wirele,,"
rhought transference
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The City 19
? 30 Tbe Sigla of JIj,. ". g"", Ill''''''.
T he rader may rein. . . my urrym, him inlo u. . micltl of. new thlJ)ler wllooot opmina be haa ! loOt ye'I sludied. How. :Vtt, Joy. . . , hinudf,plil 1I1. }" ,hi.
poinl whn\h( published nts speech of Brs,. 4 in 19JO as a oepante book lIawllt CIriJdn. EwryttJller. , ? maoc:u! i"" counterpoise ,0 A~~" Lid . . PlMrabelk, now 1. 8. 'Hlveth Childe. . . ' i, an eJa,qumt I-tlf-vindication by the fourukr, arcbitect, vi. . . ,roy and Lord Mayor of Dublin l<:l<so:>pe<i into One J1"1'SQn. " is pcrmened ",Itb mediev. l Dublin placcnemcs, for example Giglones Hm, Skinner'. Alley, Big Buue. I. . . ne, Ke)'Kr'. l. . anc and Hangina T ower. VI. B. :8. l-4concain. an arny
ofLord Maron ofDublin ",lIich Joyce mewed amongs' ill ~ There are also variou. Q. . . ,rPQ from u. . 'Dublin Anml. ' of
TNJr,,', l)ir<<tory. Allhough Dublin is pr<:-em;nall, one fmdl m'lllY . UU$ionJ to (liner cities and IlIn r edifi""" or disoieu. I find in . UCC<eUion Ams,erdam, Rome, Bobyton, New Yort:, Pdin. . . Londool, OlIo, Frankfurt, Stockholm, L. i~l, Belt. . l, Bel? ,~, Riode Janeiro, Edinburgh, Moscow, Paris, Brisrol, Carth_ . . e, Washington, Naples, Bu~ Aires, Budapest, Cort, Cal- CUlla, Wa. . . . "" Prague:, Alllen! , Jerusalem, Copenhagen, St Petersburg, Granada, Con"anlinople, Sofia, Letcllworth (tile
r. . . . t Garden City), tbe c;tics of tile world', &ven WoruIel'l lJ\d Sydney .
In til. opening 11&1'" of 'Havelll Childers' m'. <'OflCO:m is 10 ;"" ifyiii,conduct,wllicllhedocswilhoul""",isu:ncy,II. >IXftding elli"" annullu. , _lie. ones. He rescnu the &landers inflicted upon lIim linco: iii. depI"U~ iust II rlu: pS)'d1ic Wilde tUma UlY. ns. lie defmds his morality by affirming llis dcwrion to IIi. wife. H. tllen describes lIis pUt life in Dublin and til. improve_ m~nll consequent upon lIil etror" tbere. In S39. '~540. 08 lie explains IIow he arrived :ond planted hi. residence, lin. . . , wlli~h famine, di. . ,ase and ""il li. . . . . n have vanished. Durina tile inlerval
belWttn 1. 4 and tho prClCnt all 1\. 01 bttn tr:msfilJUred, as II. illus- trsl. . in 540-4J. He mentions \he disappearance 0( . harpoho<Ken,
founded hospitals and l ubdued rebeh. In iii. mayonl capacity be pt;rfotttwxl tile ceremony 0( 'rlclinl tile franclli. . . '. William Enalioh WI. bailiffin 14118 durina tIIis ptrambulation of tilt city boundaries. At one poinl the procnlion ""'r"Clled 'lOUlhwltd I I fl. n William Englisb IIi. oouse, wlli~1I they PISSed tllrough, mounting over the roofofanolh. er 0001"", and p. . . inj alto tllrou'"
tIIugt. ndiq>crs fromtheJU<<tI (540-19-32). W. bear
linl finance(s,. 4'. 07-'4)andhis'lfuul'"apinttfor. ilIl. windle" and V"1kine raidttlo (S4Q. 14- :W). He built "". . enrorb (s,p. 04-7), m,mo,ltotds,cotreehouJelandthe'ten. H. P""publiconrions,
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? several gardens, until 'My came to the Coomb. ''' Thi' features . '543. ,6-,8 and kad. directly into a . ummary of ,be unbygienic conditions prevailing in a . ingle dweUing.
Mr Atherton bu Ixgun ,be ,,"ollotirut "f 543. n- 545. u wi,b pbrase, taken from B. S. Rownt"",'. P",,? nly. In view of tit<: amnunt written aboul tit<: obsession witb ,,! uolor in UIy. . . . it i. strange to find the only extensive use of tbi, sort of IItlIteriol in FW deriving from a . tudy nor of Dublin but of York. But Rown_ tree's rca",m for Klc. :ting Yorl< wu iu lotal unexccptionobility.
Ifconditionl in York were as bad as Rownttee seemed to be prov- ing, the overaie British town-dwell. . at the tum (Jf the century looked in a pre,ty bid way. This i. tbe universal citizen of m. univenal city. m concludes (S45. 1. ~-23) by quoting Henry II's charter grantins Dublin to tit<: ciIi""n, of Bri'tol (Tolbris Mre). He relItllins unaffocted by the ruinous housing: 'Thus Ix hd<' be
eventually say. (s. . 6. 1}).
The remainder of the chapter is overshadowed by the marrLage
of the ci,y and the river, beglnning at 546. 29. Had the Liffey ( A) turned her hack and left her bed, one might ",It wbat rival intlu- encc drew her. But it was vasdy (Jlherwise. m oonfined the river beTWccn banks and walls, lea ding her from Leix! ip {o the Looplinc Bridge (s. . 7"5- ,6). At RinR'end he perfonned another part of Ihe fraru;biK ceremony: 'he Lord ~yor burls a apear int" Ihe Ka tu delimit the ciIY" extension ('my dart '" Ihmw', 547. 20).
Land was rttlairned in thi. region (547. 23-4) and the len bridges between OJapcliwd and the river'. mouth were built (547. 29-30).
Ships' siren. were heard. m proceed. to detail his beautification of the city for hi. bride: M mentio"" the manufacture of women', dothing, fasbions, novelties, tbe importation of e. otic food, the pr<>CC1'inn. of tit<: Dublin trades guilds, exhibitions, millie halls ~ndpm",,,,imes. Next(55'? 2'-552. 07)heOOmes'". . . entialcivic architecture, lhe oomtruction of tbe Grand and Royal Canal. ,
public convenience" universities, tbe Bank of Ireland (formerly die Parliament HouK), railway termini and catbedral? . He gives
a roU ofhonour ofarchil<<=lund sculp. o,. . : Richard C. . . .