onahty
Condensation
II
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
orse,applicable to any work of literature.
Mr Dalton has $uggesred to me that 'he opening scene of Haml" can be .
hown to be en- tirely concer~ with .
.
x""l inten:ouri!
e.
"The principle th~refoTC S<<n'UIto be a lunatiC Ont, and yet I believe lhal in the case of FW it ha$' certain validity , Any,hing in FW i.
indeed aboUI.
nything el$C'-hw oldy in th.
fall <>/an i,,?
}in;" 'eg"" of plam.
of mtanil!
,\'.
The all-irnporlllnt que.
- !
ion, in my view, i$ how to get the.
.
plan.
, of m~~ning into the right order, and into 'he right perspective.
'
But in much of FW [he reader is unable to usign priority 10 any major gJo. s. ThCT(: uists here a par:alld with the gr:adient of rnlity in the 'Cir~' epUnde of Uly"e,. Some of the 'Circe' speeches constitute dil"? Cl transcriplt of . "'erio. events. OthcT$
are embellished by Bloom', pa. -. . noia, otbers arc pieces of interior monologue comparable with tho"" in other episodQ" whilst othert
, 0 . . un, P r o b l m > . . . F d t z S<nn. ' " -r. . , - a t < oC O v < r . f ' t O d . . . . , A W N I . ' ( ' ~
,4
. d. by 0;. . , Hart""" Fdt. Sentt (S)'dne)' Uru. . . . . . . p". . " '96$), i---9.
'1b< EIep. . . . . , in ,I>< ! kklyo ~ oC F; '''? '''' W<IV. in A W . DWm,
? ore dilations of len c"IUciou. phenomena. With the latter, a few s<<<>nd. ' experience may Q(XuPY IruIny pog'" of pSy<heddic fan- . ,. . ia and a . ingle . peech may include inforrruotion known only to Bloom and information known only to Stephen, in an illuS\r. ltive
I1lther than a reprodue,ive sen. e. Joyce neither separates nor iden- tifies these gmel1l, thereby implying the arbi'rary rutture of their bound? . Obviouslyccrtl. inpartsoflhe Ctmtinuurn. cannot be defini_ tively alloned to anyone level. In FWwe find far more levels and far mOr<: llltC<'rtl. inty.
Omsider for ("ltlImple 02S. 0S' 'her lex'. sa! ig'. T he Ltx: Sllli. a, the rrankish ~lie Law, is pertinenl in the ':<""0<1 (widowhood) because of its pronouneem<n1$ on male and fe""'le rights of de_ scent. The syntactic echo, however, is 'her leg'. sdig' (German: 'happy"). 11:uot i. to say, . he i. not sufficiently grave, as would
b e c o m e . r e c e n t w i d o w . W e m a y ala<> f i n d t h e D u t c h z a l i g , ' " " , a n _ ing delicious, or hl",. . d, but the word ""'"' dearly fitting the reservation of the carlier pan of the . emenee i. Irish salach, 'dirty'. " Devil. hayfork'. w10llll with her only her leg'. dirty.
A ta certain point . . . . tur~tion occurs ~ the mind (ail. to ",(:;lin and Ttconcile a luperfluity of levels. In many cases their meaningS grt. te (e. g. 'bl",=! ' and 'dirty'), adding to the difficulty. A fre- quent panern i. an initial ludicrou. in'Ulge, lat. " found to be justi- fied by the supporting rt. ,ionale. Take on ("ltlIrnple from 1. 6. 1,
which is "",rked m in the British Mu. . um manuscript? . " AI 13'. 09"""11 'his Tiar. l ~ . oon", was held unfiIlable till one Liam Foil{dIed him in Westmun. tcr. ' John Garvin" explains thaI this refers 'to the . tone, Lia Foil, on which Irish tingo we", crowned atTart. ,whichwaol. . . " forasimilarceremonyatScon~inScOIland and kept there until brought away by the Engl,sh and in. . rttd in the coronation chair in W . ,tmin. ,er Abbey. ' If w<: cLusify the other plan. . of meaning in this phl'll"" W<= may say that one iden- tifies m wi'" Parnell, 'uncrowned King of Ireland', who. . fol-
lowe" fa,ltd him in W",nninsler. Another, via 'Tart. of the Kinga', makes him the last High King, Roderick o'Omnor. A third ",lateslOHumph",y Chimpden Earwickec, who in I. ~ rnttts King William (Irish I. jam), and a fourth to the infallible papacy. Beneath Ihi. a flurry of intimation. constellate into a grotesque
'lI<mhoim,A un"",<{du 0. . '" . . 'p _ w. . v,>0.
' 1--<<> Knurn, 'Tn>l<h . . r; . . . uu W . U . AWN VIII. > ('97'), n , . o t , . 1.
"S<<: v. )' bolo. . .
,,? Somt Inlll ond """". 1,;. 10 AlIuoiom . . R". . . . . . W _ . J _ Joy<< a. -.
". /yXI. ) ISorina: 1914), '1).
Pe. . . .
onahty Condensation II
? monarch wearing! oOOlles around his forehelld. Bu, would i, DOl be m<Ir'C accun! C 10 repro this tlranjle Iii"'" as the intrinsic m whieh the other b d s support 1AdopUna this p"""i,. . our '''K 'P_ ,;bili,~ . ~ '" ""'. . . . in f~umcies whidt m ligures potKSl. In tM t"l<Imple dt<: ioolarioa and Ib,gran' ambition of the hero, fol-
lowed by ? di. . ,. ,,,,,,,, fall, le! ""'t the im. oge and suatsl other m oomponcnts such as Adlm and Oocar Wilde. F urther away _
dislingui. h person. wOO mimed the crescendo by buildini and t h e n f a U I n i f r o m l a l l b u i l d i n g s , . u e h . . T i m F i n n e R a n i n t h e b a Uad 'Tim F1lIMgan', Wokc:' and Ibsm. '. ~Icrbuilder Sol,. . . . ? ? JO)'<<', eumplara are frequmtly very tall, or . hey have I hunch- bid, or pcrhllpS ,hey I'uller, According '0 ' 07. 2I-)S :
In t. ct, under the closed eyes of the ilt$l"'CtOQ tbe <nit. fearuring the d/itUOrcuro COIolesce, their OXt. . . . rie,ies ellmi- . . . . ,M, inone . . . . ble . . . . . cbody. imillfly as by the providen- tial WlIrring ofhcamhakcr with hous. ebn:aker and ofdram- drinker against frfflhink. . our social somethina bowls
llonl . . . rxPC:rimcinll jolling ""ries of prcatT&natd dis- Ippoinunenu, down Ihe lon,llne of. . . Keneralionl, more genera,;"m and tlill more ,encn. tions.
The ruder ""'Y conclude Ihllt m i, an arch. . rypc, or ~m thaI m is God, bu. the utili. y 01such pronoUIloCemcn", ;1 dubioul. The QOIIRoCOI;rion b<<wttn ITI'lltuttctin,and God's thunder hu been
. t w j p u z e d b y M . A d " , n o n u a I y m p " " " o f J U i l t . ' ? I . a l s o impl~ ferrili[y. Jupiler Tonans appelll in . . . . . ny hislorictl mnrinacncieo, evm in ",lotion to Dublin. 111e chancr forged by rnonb in 964 AD for K ina EdgIr, dliminll)Of'Cnionoftbc city by him, includes . be: phra"" 'by the abundarll mercy of God who ,hulldcrcth from
on high'," rK:OlIcd at 061,14. ThundCT in FW speaks by mean, of ""rloul hundl"ed. -Ic! lered wordl, C. 8. 003. 1$- 17.
Lilte God m i. alloal, . thing IOURh. , a re,Ort. o ,he cnill"'l of crealion, ? pOtentially dangerous hut obs<:$&ively desired pDW(:r or U"\I. h,. thingendowcd wi. h sanctity. For the purpolCt of FW, 'the impcclon' mlY be foll:Jon: collectors, civic annalis" or uplorcn oftht Upper Nile, but they arc all $Cdcinl m They Ire allO, as will [><. '"I''' cl<:ar, the fOlll" old men d<:n1)lM by the li,lum
It I turve d<montuatcd el_hcrc" that a pr<>CUI of obtcu. . tion . tfc:cu m ;0 book I, . endinalo defeal th. c incrcalin[l: prccilion,
"&. /rt, J1.
"J. WotbunM. R<. . J. WIIi1<Iow _ R<. . R. W. l>h, A Hi'l<<)! <I ,I>< VOl f1/
DW/i. I (U>noIox>, Cad<ll II, . }, . ,6. "'I1"';p;. r. . "'"'""'"of,lotGoIftrt",(Xi, '8-3>-
? $ChoJ~rship and objectivity of tboo<: ,. . ,king him. Thi. epitomizes the way in which . ucceeding S. ne. . . . ri"n. of hillorian. become more captious and "ien,ific whilst the historical figuces ,bey pur- port to tludy become kg<ndary and unreal.
One of the primary m av:atan i. Tim FinneRan the builder, who fall. from a ladder and i. taken home wi,h a fractured . kull, a. . umed d""d. Wh<n . plashed with whiskey duritlg hi. wake he revives. The resurrection myth i. influential in 1. 1. Finnegan falh al006. 07- 10. nd anemptS to rii(' at 024. IS, the word. ofthe ballad being parodied ot both poin. . . The intervening substance i. devoted to aguidedtourofthe background, with particularanen-
tion 10 i1! l hill? . These have been compicuous from the fint pase with iu now_familiar portrayal of O ublin as tl>< ,upine body of
"""' must be 111'. ecect penis (s. . , 008. 3S, 009. 34). Allus;"ns to lTf. towerbuilding are "mnipresent inl. l, and this like the thunder relates ro his procreative capacity. HUI beyond. certain boundary the toweu and hills merge with the olxlisked tomb holdir4! : ITfs
rentJ. ins.
When we fira, <nler one of Ihese sepukhres, the 'mu~mound'
(ooR-oS), we di. c<lVCT the legacy of warfa", in congealed wax. m is an <<tuestriancommandrr: Wellington, Napoleon, W iniam III. When we emerge to pursue OUT 'lVersight of the banlefield we find thaI the Emperor (010. 3S) lies dead; the survivon have flown south like the Wild G = after the Jac<>bite ddeat. While the banle'. detritus i? . . uvas<cd W<: extend our ",view of the mound, and hill. (OU,'9-21). The Magazine Fort in the Park, the . ubject of Swift'. epill",m used at OU_36-013'O), is close to the lite of an unfinished fori,. . ,. ', the Star Fort, once called 'Whanon'.
Folly'. The excrescences on mounds bear r-ttnNb of m just . s their innards do_A pattern . urvives on the dc. :aying wall of the fort, a compilation from the ,ime of OW, Sitric and lv:ac, r"'peclive legendary founders of Dublin, W . ,erford and L imerick ao:ocding to Giraldus, It ",sembI", ""n of the AIIMIs of rhe I'our Mw'''''
" [D11><,On<. . 0 '_ (n. Hi""",q ,10<('_ <JD.
But in much of FW [he reader is unable to usign priority 10 any major gJo. s. ThCT(: uists here a par:alld with the gr:adient of rnlity in the 'Cir~' epUnde of Uly"e,. Some of the 'Circe' speeches constitute dil"? Cl transcriplt of . "'erio. events. OthcT$
are embellished by Bloom', pa. -. . noia, otbers arc pieces of interior monologue comparable with tho"" in other episodQ" whilst othert
, 0 . . un, P r o b l m > . . . F d t z S<nn. ' " -r. . , - a t < oC O v < r . f ' t O d . . . . , A W N I . ' ( ' ~
,4
. d. by 0;. . , Hart""" Fdt. Sentt (S)'dne)' Uru. . . . . . . p". . " '96$), i---9.
'1b< EIep. . . . . , in ,I>< ! kklyo ~ oC F; '''? '''' W<IV. in A W . DWm,
? ore dilations of len c"IUciou. phenomena. With the latter, a few s<<<>nd. ' experience may Q(XuPY IruIny pog'" of pSy<heddic fan- . ,. . ia and a . ingle . peech may include inforrruotion known only to Bloom and information known only to Stephen, in an illuS\r. ltive
I1lther than a reprodue,ive sen. e. Joyce neither separates nor iden- tifies these gmel1l, thereby implying the arbi'rary rutture of their bound? . Obviouslyccrtl. inpartsoflhe Ctmtinuurn. cannot be defini_ tively alloned to anyone level. In FWwe find far more levels and far mOr<: llltC<'rtl. inty.
Omsider for ("ltlImple 02S. 0S' 'her lex'. sa! ig'. T he Ltx: Sllli. a, the rrankish ~lie Law, is pertinenl in the ':<""0<1 (widowhood) because of its pronouneem<n1$ on male and fe""'le rights of de_ scent. The syntactic echo, however, is 'her leg'. sdig' (German: 'happy"). 11:uot i. to say, . he i. not sufficiently grave, as would
b e c o m e . r e c e n t w i d o w . W e m a y ala<> f i n d t h e D u t c h z a l i g , ' " " , a n _ ing delicious, or hl",. . d, but the word ""'"' dearly fitting the reservation of the carlier pan of the . emenee i. Irish salach, 'dirty'. " Devil. hayfork'. w10llll with her only her leg'. dirty.
A ta certain point . . . . tur~tion occurs ~ the mind (ail. to ",(:;lin and Ttconcile a luperfluity of levels. In many cases their meaningS grt. te (e. g. 'bl",=! ' and 'dirty'), adding to the difficulty. A fre- quent panern i. an initial ludicrou. in'Ulge, lat. " found to be justi- fied by the supporting rt. ,ionale. Take on ("ltlIrnple from 1. 6. 1,
which is "",rked m in the British Mu. . um manuscript? . " AI 13'. 09"""11 'his Tiar. l ~ . oon", was held unfiIlable till one Liam Foil{dIed him in Westmun. tcr. ' John Garvin" explains thaI this refers 'to the . tone, Lia Foil, on which Irish tingo we", crowned atTart. ,whichwaol. . . " forasimilarceremonyatScon~inScOIland and kept there until brought away by the Engl,sh and in. . rttd in the coronation chair in W . ,tmin. ,er Abbey. ' If w<: cLusify the other plan. . of meaning in this phl'll"" W<= may say that one iden- tifies m wi'" Parnell, 'uncrowned King of Ireland', who. . fol-
lowe" fa,ltd him in W",nninsler. Another, via 'Tart. of the Kinga', makes him the last High King, Roderick o'Omnor. A third ",lateslOHumph",y Chimpden Earwickec, who in I. ~ rnttts King William (Irish I. jam), and a fourth to the infallible papacy. Beneath Ihi. a flurry of intimation. constellate into a grotesque
'lI<mhoim,A un"",<{du 0. . '" . . 'p _ w. . v,>0.
' 1--<<> Knurn, 'Tn>l<h . . r; . . . uu W . U . AWN VIII. > ('97'), n , . o t , . 1.
"S<<: v. )' bolo. . .
,,? Somt Inlll ond """". 1,;. 10 AlIuoiom . . R". . . . . . W _ . J _ Joy<< a. -.
". /yXI. ) ISorina: 1914), '1).
Pe. . . .
onahty Condensation II
? monarch wearing! oOOlles around his forehelld. Bu, would i, DOl be m<Ir'C accun! C 10 repro this tlranjle Iii"'" as the intrinsic m whieh the other b d s support 1AdopUna this p"""i,. . our '''K 'P_ ,;bili,~ . ~ '" ""'. . . . in f~umcies whidt m ligures potKSl. In tM t"l<Imple dt<: ioolarioa and Ib,gran' ambition of the hero, fol-
lowed by ? di. . ,. ,,,,,,,, fall, le! ""'t the im. oge and suatsl other m oomponcnts such as Adlm and Oocar Wilde. F urther away _
dislingui. h person. wOO mimed the crescendo by buildini and t h e n f a U I n i f r o m l a l l b u i l d i n g s , . u e h . . T i m F i n n e R a n i n t h e b a Uad 'Tim F1lIMgan', Wokc:' and Ibsm. '. ~Icrbuilder Sol,. . . . ? ? JO)'<<', eumplara are frequmtly very tall, or . hey have I hunch- bid, or pcrhllpS ,hey I'uller, According '0 ' 07. 2I-)S :
In t. ct, under the closed eyes of the ilt$l"'CtOQ tbe <nit. fearuring the d/itUOrcuro COIolesce, their OXt. . . . rie,ies ellmi- . . . . ,M, inone . . . . ble . . . . . cbody. imillfly as by the providen- tial WlIrring ofhcamhakcr with hous. ebn:aker and ofdram- drinker against frfflhink. . our social somethina bowls
llonl . . . rxPC:rimcinll jolling ""ries of prcatT&natd dis- Ippoinunenu, down Ihe lon,llne of. . . Keneralionl, more genera,;"m and tlill more ,encn. tions.
The ruder ""'Y conclude Ihllt m i, an arch. . rypc, or ~m thaI m is God, bu. the utili. y 01such pronoUIloCemcn", ;1 dubioul. The QOIIRoCOI;rion b<<wttn ITI'lltuttctin,and God's thunder hu been
. t w j p u z e d b y M . A d " , n o n u a I y m p " " " o f J U i l t . ' ? I . a l s o impl~ ferrili[y. Jupiler Tonans appelll in . . . . . ny hislorictl mnrinacncieo, evm in ",lotion to Dublin. 111e chancr forged by rnonb in 964 AD for K ina EdgIr, dliminll)Of'Cnionoftbc city by him, includes . be: phra"" 'by the abundarll mercy of God who ,hulldcrcth from
on high'," rK:OlIcd at 061,14. ThundCT in FW speaks by mean, of ""rloul hundl"ed. -Ic! lered wordl, C. 8. 003. 1$- 17.
Lilte God m i. alloal, . thing IOURh. , a re,Ort. o ,he cnill"'l of crealion, ? pOtentially dangerous hut obs<:$&ively desired pDW(:r or U"\I. h,. thingendowcd wi. h sanctity. For the purpolCt of FW, 'the impcclon' mlY be foll:Jon: collectors, civic annalis" or uplorcn oftht Upper Nile, but they arc all $Cdcinl m They Ire allO, as will [><. '"I''' cl<:ar, the fOlll" old men d<:n1)lM by the li,lum
It I turve d<montuatcd el_hcrc" that a pr<>CUI of obtcu. . tion . tfc:cu m ;0 book I, . endinalo defeal th. c incrcalin[l: prccilion,
"&. /rt, J1.
"J. WotbunM. R<. . J. WIIi1<Iow _ R<. . R. W. l>h, A Hi'l<<)! <I ,I>< VOl f1/
DW/i. I (U>noIox>, Cad<ll II, . }, . ,6. "'I1"';p;. r. . "'"'""'"of,lotGoIftrt",(Xi, '8-3>-
? $ChoJ~rship and objectivity of tboo<: ,. . ,king him. Thi. epitomizes the way in which . ucceeding S. ne. . . . ri"n. of hillorian. become more captious and "ien,ific whilst the historical figuces ,bey pur- port to tludy become kg<ndary and unreal.
One of the primary m av:atan i. Tim FinneRan the builder, who fall. from a ladder and i. taken home wi,h a fractured . kull, a. . umed d""d. Wh<n . plashed with whiskey duritlg hi. wake he revives. The resurrection myth i. influential in 1. 1. Finnegan falh al006. 07- 10. nd anemptS to rii(' at 024. IS, the word. ofthe ballad being parodied ot both poin. . . The intervening substance i. devoted to aguidedtourofthe background, with particularanen-
tion 10 i1! l hill? . These have been compicuous from the fint pase with iu now_familiar portrayal of O ublin as tl>< ,upine body of
"""' must be 111'. ecect penis (s. . , 008. 3S, 009. 34). Allus;"ns to lTf. towerbuilding are "mnipresent inl. l, and this like the thunder relates ro his procreative capacity. HUI beyond. certain boundary the toweu and hills merge with the olxlisked tomb holdir4! : ITfs
rentJ. ins.
When we fira, <nler one of Ihese sepukhres, the 'mu~mound'
(ooR-oS), we di. c<lVCT the legacy of warfa", in congealed wax. m is an <<tuestriancommandrr: Wellington, Napoleon, W iniam III. When we emerge to pursue OUT 'lVersight of the banlefield we find thaI the Emperor (010. 3S) lies dead; the survivon have flown south like the Wild G = after the Jac<>bite ddeat. While the banle'. detritus i? . . uvas<cd W<: extend our ",view of the mound, and hill. (OU,'9-21). The Magazine Fort in the Park, the . ubject of Swift'. epill",m used at OU_36-013'O), is close to the lite of an unfinished fori,. . ,. ', the Star Fort, once called 'Whanon'.
Folly'. The excrescences on mounds bear r-ttnNb of m just . s their innards do_A pattern . urvives on the dc. :aying wall of the fort, a compilation from the ,ime of OW, Sitric and lv:ac, r"'peclive legendary founders of Dublin, W . ,erford and L imerick ao:ocding to Giraldus, It ",sembI", ""n of the AIIMIs of rhe I'our Mw'''''
" [D11><,On<. . 0 '_ (n. Hi""",q ,10<('_ <JD.
