to the
desecration
of 1T1'.
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
n 1<1nmorph.
l .
IInn1 1hat oW Ire no1 "luau , b", T riunosin and oth~.
.
.
.
, adamant .
boutlhcir oDnaini.
.
, four clementi' ~m.
!
or .
he shell I.
Earth, and the While i.
Wiler,
but the skin bctw<<tt <he , hell and the Whl", is Air, and S<'pIINIQ the Earth from the Wa,et; the Yolk is Iin: . . ? in Ih. middk of thc Yolk thcu is the FIfTH ELEMENT, Oul 0( which the yoUlli
chicken bursts Ind IlroWl. '''
I anno. possibly do ju. tiu h. . . . , 10 the """ mytholocial con-
~ts offour-. part division, and had bell recommend 10 rhe rcader chip! e. . . . V_VII of ken and Rccs'. ""Inc H m 'IIV< "" ? IlQl
synopsis. Themeridianorientation<IfFWisIUggested by 114. 01- 7 and further implies the meridian orientation of the fourtqU<lre apocaJYI',i<; Jerusalem, with ill {Wclve P''''' named for the twelve lribt$. or of Wake', Go1aooOOOZlO, or of the fectaJlaular Roman <:ill. . . quar'ered by tw (I ~all1f<ttS . unnina 'north-1ou<h in ,h~ Ncnueo and Bul<. arahul direcdOflS "'hil< th~ othen &0 wesl-cut in $eatCh from MlliziiQ with lIulpr&d for . . . it hal its ardinal poinl$. ' At $52. 14-'5 we obstrve the same division, with infernal IWdt ftI htolv. . . . Ind celnrilol ro. dI ftI hell. BUI the . . . . . ,. . po_rfully charged quadnlrurc, to wbich Recs and Rett devote <:OnlidtnhLe spice, is lhat of Ihe Banqueting H. IL II Tarl, in "'hid! Ihe men of Uhler, Munster, u instcr and Cor\nach. occupied northern, ",uthem, . . . . em . nd western halls about the king, jU! ! ? ? the
provincel them",lv<:I " , e n : dClposcd. around Uisn. cacb. A. C. L Brown explains :
The Irish ~"' ICCUltomed to identify fairyland with Ireland and ~ fairy a ide with tM bowquetina; hooD "' T . . . . Professor Nil. e hIlS lhown tM I the internal arranae- maUsoftheGrliLcutleI"" ublclhoseofthehanquainl
haU. 1'lla1 ramou. haU wa. oblong hut facffi the fou. winds and had beoide it. ro\1l\d royal cud? .
Thtancimt 10th Ioaoled 1M bndofthe dead in 1 . . . . . . 1 i 1 l l . n d : T e d ! D u i n n 10 t h e l O U t h , T o . , . I s l a n d o r t h e O . k . neyo 10 th. north. uter they placed il in Norway. TIM Welsh put 1M land 01 the dead north of tM R<lmIn Wan
. . . ~ . . . T. . . . sje' (;poou<I,), S,. . ot-JSHio. Us Is1(, (I ,,'-. , K<. . . . 1'0\11 '9>1), ). >,
? in G:i. lloway, Lothain, and Oom:. They also p! a<:ed it in the Orkneys and in Norway. ~ ""rawny dc;oth-honeand the death-waggon found thcir way ibto Joucney to Fairy_ land . tories. From thc land ofthe dead came the two asd", offairyland : the r<:d, iron tower of the Fomorians and the sq. . . . . . e, cosmic palace of the numeco. . . fb::. . . .
The cOIltrapositiOll of Xand 0 is seen at 17S. 1S-<i: 'Till tho faur SIrM<l of d4f Tory J. /and 1. 1 th. doUZl dwnm Eirewhigg, ra'II? . " We consider<:d earlier tbe <elation of I: with the Fomorian. and Uu>. t Of A w i t h t h e T u a t h a D e O a n a n n ( f b : : . ) . W e c a n p c r h a p s n o w intmduce the . un-god Lugh, whose ancestry included both race! !
and who mil! :ht therefore be c. . He was identified by Cae. . . with Mer<:ury, and in ous<ing King Nuad 01 T ara resembles. c defeat_ ing m 13&. m and 344? 36 JIUlkc Nuad m, and 090. 18-20 JIUlk. . his doock. . pc,. . Gamal and Camel I: and A, but 044. ", 507. 12 and 594. 19 treat Lugh as m. Thi. place. him in Ihe same ca~_ iOry as, say, Parnell: connections betwttll. Lugh and Finn and betwecn l. ugh and thc maimed Fioher King have been
established. "
We can lill a few more notebook entries of a les, helpful type:
VI. B. 18. 116: VI. B. t9. 183: VI. B. W? 95 :
VI. B? 31. 83 :
[J painted blue during night 811 come by wa. . . to [J
D aily Mail
tell, story of
o
[J. do YOIl remember falling againsl?
)( hypnotiSts [J
The fint of these probably refe. . .
to the desecration of 1T1'. memorial. Unlike most sigla [J seem 10 lad:; lCXUal significance, bolh phallic and receptacular imagery being comprehended in, for irurance, 'vellumtomesmuniment' (595. 22). [Jprobably rilites to, bm is not identical with, sped6a. lly female repositories (the
. . no. o. y;. '" w Until ~ (Cambri<\t<. M. s. . , H. n<ao"<! Uni. enity Pre. . 1\>4)). 3'J 70?
MS<< P. ). By"". /. ;,J, K~. -I H;p. . K~ (1 _ , Ibtoford '91)), II.
Inanimate Sigla "7
? 118 Tht Si8la of FiMtganl Wak~
wQmb, the Veri<~ 1';1<1" lIle kettle of! loll). It i. perha! >> m0$1 effec-
tively uruicrStQOd Iry the aid of a table. C includes ,
(i) the d""ument: any book, lenu, wriling, lrea,ure (ii) the container of tbe d'>ewnent: tbe envelope, pillu_
box, mailbag, middenbeap, Ark <If {be Covenant
the con",iner of m '. remai",,: Ibe coffin, tbe cb. . . t COn- taining Osiri. , Baldor'. boal, Noab', Ark, the tomb, burialrnound, "beli. k, '! lIlUe
the container of m ' l living b<Jdy: the CiIY, me house, me bed, the egg:sbell, me Iotu. , the en<:y1unenu of me
""
accorded a view <If Old O>pcnhagcn """,pri. ing the whole dura- ti"n of its existence, with iu Viconi:m air"', wateb. , "f the night, dkhotomi. . , . pe<:tra and interminglings, be wQuld . tem to be . te-
inS a kaleidOK<lpe.
Comparing 1. 6. 9 wilb 1. 6. 3 w<: find a greater emphasi. on tern?
p<>I"I\1pan(11lS uoppooed to spatial on. . . InStead <If the fout cordi_ nal pOin" or provifiCe1l oudirst orientation draws on the V;ro"ian pattern, the four book. of FW. After a quantity of fcuitl. . . re- . """,h I have deeided {hal no case is to be made for linking the four boob with Ihe partS of X, or tbe comp"" pOints. "Inc Viconian parallels, h"wtvn, l till have mucb 10 yield. For in,tance, lbe reason tbatl. 6 appears whe~ it does i$ lurely lhat Vico main- tained lbe extreme antiquity of the Twdvc T abl. . of lbe Law ('T. wclvc tabular lime1till now have I edicled it', t67. ~1), placing their origin in hi$ fint ase. To this age al$O belonged the juri. pru_ dence based on observance of au,pices, hence 1:'. magic of 1. 7. The ju,isprudence of me b<TOic "ie depended On 'taking p~- cautions by lbe use of certain pn>per words'," hence Ibe . peech of book II consi"ing frequently offormulac and inv0C8lion. , con-
nuting wim me empirical lolPc of book Ill, appropria. . to Vico's 'human jurupru<ience'. . .
" SMFW,n
" no. N . . . Sco? -. cf 0;-. ,,;,. . v;. ", J09, po. . . )"'1.
( iii)
Ov)
A =nd inanimate tenagonal aiglum require, precise dis- tiru::tion from [l This is . , assigned to 1. 6. 9. Oive Hart" bas o! >><:rved that its form i' that ofa mandala, tha{ is, a n. dially sym- metrical strnctme d. . . igned for contemplation. The typical man- dala is quadripartite wim d~trically inverted ornament. 1. 6. 9 was analysed in the fir" twO i? ? u. , of the Old Series of AWN (March and April 1962). It states tha{ if a human being were
? Vicodoesno',aswmecommen. . . ". >,. . appear to thinl<,consider (he"corso? . . ,pa. . teoge, He. . . )'1 ~erylinleaboulit,andismostly cone<:rned to . po! ligh' tM reappearane<: of t. . ils from previous ages. As hi. chief model i. the Romon Empir<:, the "corso must ~ the collapse r<:. ultane upon the depreda,ions "fthe hoedes, In FW we ar<: obliged to 1001< for an equinlont effect ope. . tive in book IV, and I think we muSt find it in Ihe ene"",ehmen, "f exter- naHty. T he dream crumble. i:>efor<: the sunlight JUIl as Rome crumbled ~fo'" the ba,barian? .
We might at this point consider Vico himself in FW, He i, alway. ooed as . n "ntar of m, despiIe tM "'volutionary tendency of hi. work, one significan, coinciden"" being that a. a child he broke hi, skull in ? f. n," The N= Selene. , initially ncglecred, gatbered momentum th"'ugh the decades and might Ih=fore be t2ken a. an dement in the Nighdetter. BUI ,h= i, an objtct;"n to thi. , dependenl upon the , lructuTO of 1I,2. Vico', Sl2ndpoinl
i, specifically aH,erary_hi. ooricd <:>ne, in nppo. ition 10 the mathe- maticaltbought nf (particularly) Descartes. I I is thus reaOOl\llble that we shoold find thefi. . t halfof II,2 which i. Hlerary-historical, culminating in a paragraph from Vim', prol"'gandi. 1 Edgar Quinet, while the geometrician of 'he second half <<<:laims 'you make me a reborn of the caeds . . . cog it 00', here goes ? sum' (304. 21-31). " T he -Iletler, lransmitted to J; ror thi' own use, is thWl Vico'. theory, popularized by Quinel and Michelet, prior '0 its influencing marxiSi phdMophy preparamry '0 the TOvoluti,m.
Apaet from the rise of m at 532. 06, representing ,he Ii. . , of weak monarchies in Ihe <bird . g<:, there i. linle internal differentiation in the Viconian segmento <>f . . . . W. More appears in respee! of other temporal eyeles, The mosl prominenI of tMl<:, the day and the year, have been diseussed by Qive Han. " In the former we . hould
ob&ervc midday in the 1. 2 chimes, evening at the close of b"ok I, midnight in the chim. . opening book III and dawn in book IV. In the loner, book I . . . ,presents . ummer leading 00 autumn in the (dtciduous) elm of 1. 8. Book II includes Q lT ist= in the Nighlle"e,,, no-one ! ! Cems to have nor:i~ 'he equation of tM old year with Ihe dyintl m, celebrated in the "'petitions of 'Auld Lang Sync' in 1I. 4- Book III includes February in lIb ; book IV i, Eaater.
"Loo K,,",h, ",rid< "" JOy<< in M. .
but the skin bctw<<tt <he , hell and the Whl", is Air, and S<'pIINIQ the Earth from the Wa,et; the Yolk is Iin: . . ? in Ih. middk of thc Yolk thcu is the FIfTH ELEMENT, Oul 0( which the yoUlli
chicken bursts Ind IlroWl. '''
I anno. possibly do ju. tiu h. . . . , 10 the """ mytholocial con-
~ts offour-. part division, and had bell recommend 10 rhe rcader chip! e. . . . V_VII of ken and Rccs'. ""Inc H m 'IIV< "" ? IlQl
synopsis. Themeridianorientation<IfFWisIUggested by 114. 01- 7 and further implies the meridian orientation of the fourtqU<lre apocaJYI',i<; Jerusalem, with ill {Wclve P''''' named for the twelve lribt$. or of Wake', Go1aooOOOZlO, or of the fectaJlaular Roman <:ill. . . quar'ered by tw (I ~all1f<ttS . unnina 'north-1ou<h in ,h~ Ncnueo and Bul<. arahul direcdOflS "'hil< th~ othen &0 wesl-cut in $eatCh from MlliziiQ with lIulpr&d for . . . it hal its ardinal poinl$. ' At $52. 14-'5 we obstrve the same division, with infernal IWdt ftI htolv. . . . Ind celnrilol ro. dI ftI hell. BUI the . . . . . ,. . po_rfully charged quadnlrurc, to wbich Recs and Rett devote <:OnlidtnhLe spice, is lhat of Ihe Banqueting H. IL II Tarl, in "'hid! Ihe men of Uhler, Munster, u instcr and Cor\nach. occupied northern, ",uthem, . . . . em . nd western halls about the king, jU! ! ? ? the
provincel them",lv<:I " , e n : dClposcd. around Uisn. cacb. A. C. L Brown explains :
The Irish ~"' ICCUltomed to identify fairyland with Ireland and ~ fairy a ide with tM bowquetina; hooD "' T . . . . Professor Nil. e hIlS lhown tM I the internal arranae- maUsoftheGrliLcutleI"" ublclhoseofthehanquainl
haU. 1'lla1 ramou. haU wa. oblong hut facffi the fou. winds and had beoide it. ro\1l\d royal cud? .
Thtancimt 10th Ioaoled 1M bndofthe dead in 1 . . . . . . 1 i 1 l l . n d : T e d ! D u i n n 10 t h e l O U t h , T o . , . I s l a n d o r t h e O . k . neyo 10 th. north. uter they placed il in Norway. TIM Welsh put 1M land 01 the dead north of tM R<lmIn Wan
. . . ~ . . . T. . . . sje' (;poou<I,), S,. . ot-JSHio. Us Is1(, (I ,,'-. , K<. . . . 1'0\11 '9>1), ). >,
? in G:i. lloway, Lothain, and Oom:. They also p! a<:ed it in the Orkneys and in Norway. ~ ""rawny dc;oth-honeand the death-waggon found thcir way ibto Joucney to Fairy_ land . tories. From thc land ofthe dead came the two asd", offairyland : the r<:d, iron tower of the Fomorians and the sq. . . . . . e, cosmic palace of the numeco. . . fb::. . . .
The cOIltrapositiOll of Xand 0 is seen at 17S. 1S-<i: 'Till tho faur SIrM<l of d4f Tory J. /and 1. 1 th. doUZl dwnm Eirewhigg, ra'II? . " We consider<:d earlier tbe <elation of I: with the Fomorian. and Uu>. t Of A w i t h t h e T u a t h a D e O a n a n n ( f b : : . ) . W e c a n p c r h a p s n o w intmduce the . un-god Lugh, whose ancestry included both race! !
and who mil! :ht therefore be c. . He was identified by Cae. . . with Mer<:ury, and in ous<ing King Nuad 01 T ara resembles. c defeat_ ing m 13&. m and 344? 36 JIUlkc Nuad m, and 090. 18-20 JIUlk. . his doock. . pc,. . Gamal and Camel I: and A, but 044. ", 507. 12 and 594. 19 treat Lugh as m. Thi. place. him in Ihe same ca~_ iOry as, say, Parnell: connections betwttll. Lugh and Finn and betwecn l. ugh and thc maimed Fioher King have been
established. "
We can lill a few more notebook entries of a les, helpful type:
VI. B. 18. 116: VI. B. t9. 183: VI. B. W? 95 :
VI. B? 31. 83 :
[J painted blue during night 811 come by wa. . . to [J
D aily Mail
tell, story of
o
[J. do YOIl remember falling againsl?
)( hypnotiSts [J
The fint of these probably refe. . .
to the desecration of 1T1'. memorial. Unlike most sigla [J seem 10 lad:; lCXUal significance, bolh phallic and receptacular imagery being comprehended in, for irurance, 'vellumtomesmuniment' (595. 22). [Jprobably rilites to, bm is not identical with, sped6a. lly female repositories (the
. . no. o. y;. '" w Until ~ (Cambri<\t<. M. s. . , H. n<ao"<! Uni. enity Pre. . 1\>4)). 3'J 70?
MS<< P. ). By"". /. ;,J, K~. -I H;p. . K~ (1 _ , Ibtoford '91)), II.
Inanimate Sigla "7
? 118 Tht Si8la of FiMtganl Wak~
wQmb, the Veri<~ 1';1<1" lIle kettle of! loll). It i. perha! >> m0$1 effec-
tively uruicrStQOd Iry the aid of a table. C includes ,
(i) the d""ument: any book, lenu, wriling, lrea,ure (ii) the container of tbe d'>ewnent: tbe envelope, pillu_
box, mailbag, middenbeap, Ark <If {be Covenant
the con",iner of m '. remai",,: Ibe coffin, tbe cb. . . t COn- taining Osiri. , Baldor'. boal, Noab', Ark, the tomb, burialrnound, "beli. k, '! lIlUe
the container of m ' l living b<Jdy: the CiIY, me house, me bed, the egg:sbell, me Iotu. , the en<:y1unenu of me
""
accorded a view <If Old O>pcnhagcn """,pri. ing the whole dura- ti"n of its existence, with iu Viconi:m air"', wateb. , "f the night, dkhotomi. . , . pe<:tra and interminglings, be wQuld . tem to be . te-
inS a kaleidOK<lpe.
Comparing 1. 6. 9 wilb 1. 6. 3 w<: find a greater emphasi. on tern?
p<>I"I\1pan(11lS uoppooed to spatial on. . . InStead <If the fout cordi_ nal pOin" or provifiCe1l oudirst orientation draws on the V;ro"ian pattern, the four book. of FW. After a quantity of fcuitl. . . re- . """,h I have deeided {hal no case is to be made for linking the four boob with Ihe partS of X, or tbe comp"" pOints. "Inc Viconian parallels, h"wtvn, l till have mucb 10 yield. For in,tance, lbe reason tbatl. 6 appears whe~ it does i$ lurely lhat Vico main- tained lbe extreme antiquity of the Twdvc T abl. . of lbe Law ('T. wclvc tabular lime1till now have I edicled it', t67. ~1), placing their origin in hi$ fint ase. To this age al$O belonged the juri. pru_ dence based on observance of au,pices, hence 1:'. magic of 1. 7. The ju,isprudence of me b<TOic "ie depended On 'taking p~- cautions by lbe use of certain pn>per words'," hence Ibe . peech of book II consi"ing frequently offormulac and inv0C8lion. , con-
nuting wim me empirical lolPc of book Ill, appropria. . to Vico's 'human jurupru<ience'. . .
" SMFW,n
" no. N . . . Sco? -. cf 0;-. ,,;,. . v;. ", J09, po. . . )"'1.
( iii)
Ov)
A =nd inanimate tenagonal aiglum require, precise dis- tiru::tion from [l This is . , assigned to 1. 6. 9. Oive Hart" bas o! >><:rved that its form i' that ofa mandala, tha{ is, a n. dially sym- metrical strnctme d. . . igned for contemplation. The typical man- dala is quadripartite wim d~trically inverted ornament. 1. 6. 9 was analysed in the fir" twO i? ? u. , of the Old Series of AWN (March and April 1962). It states tha{ if a human being were
? Vicodoesno',aswmecommen. . . ". >,. . appear to thinl<,consider (he"corso? . . ,pa. . teoge, He. . . )'1 ~erylinleaboulit,andismostly cone<:rned to . po! ligh' tM reappearane<: of t. . ils from previous ages. As hi. chief model i. the Romon Empir<:, the "corso must ~ the collapse r<:. ultane upon the depreda,ions "fthe hoedes, In FW we ar<: obliged to 1001< for an equinlont effect ope. . tive in book IV, and I think we muSt find it in Ihe ene"",ehmen, "f exter- naHty. T he dream crumble. i:>efor<: the sunlight JUIl as Rome crumbled ~fo'" the ba,barian? .
We might at this point consider Vico himself in FW, He i, alway. ooed as . n "ntar of m, despiIe tM "'volutionary tendency of hi. work, one significan, coinciden"" being that a. a child he broke hi, skull in ? f. n," The N= Selene. , initially ncglecred, gatbered momentum th"'ugh the decades and might Ih=fore be t2ken a. an dement in the Nighdetter. BUI ,h= i, an objtct;"n to thi. , dependenl upon the , lructuTO of 1I,2. Vico', Sl2ndpoinl
i, specifically aH,erary_hi. ooricd <:>ne, in nppo. ition 10 the mathe- maticaltbought nf (particularly) Descartes. I I is thus reaOOl\llble that we shoold find thefi. . t halfof II,2 which i. Hlerary-historical, culminating in a paragraph from Vim', prol"'gandi. 1 Edgar Quinet, while the geometrician of 'he second half <<<:laims 'you make me a reborn of the caeds . . . cog it 00', here goes ? sum' (304. 21-31). " T he -Iletler, lransmitted to J; ror thi' own use, is thWl Vico'. theory, popularized by Quinel and Michelet, prior '0 its influencing marxiSi phdMophy preparamry '0 the TOvoluti,m.
Apaet from the rise of m at 532. 06, representing ,he Ii. . , of weak monarchies in Ihe <bird . g<:, there i. linle internal differentiation in the Viconian segmento <>f . . . . W. More appears in respee! of other temporal eyeles, The mosl prominenI of tMl<:, the day and the year, have been diseussed by Qive Han. " In the former we . hould
ob&ervc midday in the 1. 2 chimes, evening at the close of b"ok I, midnight in the chim. . opening book III and dawn in book IV. In the loner, book I . . . ,presents . ummer leading 00 autumn in the (dtciduous) elm of 1. 8. Book II includes Q lT ist= in the Nighlle"e,,, no-one ! ! Cems to have nor:i~ 'he equation of tM old year with Ihe dyintl m, celebrated in the "'petitions of 'Auld Lang Sync' in 1I. 4- Book III includes February in lIb ; book IV i, Eaater.
"Loo K,,",h, ",rid< "" JOy<< in M. .
