I1rum l
Cumbrum!
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake
ion i.
simpicr, as 1hnwn in Figure S on the oppoSite page.
m is here depicted botween tit<: twO 'jinni. . ' -u- and tit<: 'three lipoleum boyne' A, A: and ~ The three inverted sigla muM bo his own army, the enemy ",fleeted in the river. 0 Hehir's comment
is iruO"uctive,
If, at the Banle ofWlterloo"" Shaun is the dark 'dooley
boy', then Shem musl bo the 'hinnessy' (olo. C>. jff. ). If so, he must bo fair, in contra${ 10 'dot>ley,' for the first dement in his name is undoubtedly fionn (fin), 'fair'. . . . T he con- trasting dements in tbeir name? ? ", OJnjoined to produce the 'hinndoo' (,fair-dark'), who", norm, Shimar Shin, i, ? compound ofShem and Shaun, U i, revealed particularly in the Fi. . , Draft and Joyce'. diagram of the battle. '
T hi. i, in order uccpt insofar as I: i. Dooley and A Hennessy rath<< thantheotherway, both in r<1pt"<:t ofthe charactersofF. P. Dunne'soriginal. andofthenormalool1IJ(>tli. tiomofdark and light inFW. Joyce'. Waterlooculmina,. . wbenm tende. . hi. matchbox
10 Shimar Shin, who ligbts. fuse and blows m off his horse. This cari(:lltuTCS the sabotage of Kin! ! " Billy's equestrian '''''uc on CoI- leie Green just after midnight on 7 April 1836. '. The rid<<'was blown . everal feet into the air. It W ,," pretty appropriate, becouse William 111'. death in 170Z had been caused by a fall from bi, horse. I think a valid 1'"". 1101 exists between this and Buckley'. shooting of m, and that we can therefore "'" in Buclcley the COn- glome"'te of nr. sons, threalening him.
VI. B. 13. 186 gives 'Crimea A: & m'. Th. original anecdote i. ,et near $eva. ,,,,,,,1 (338. 14) as Bun (Buckley "'turned from the war) 'ells his companion Talf. " Taff wants the G. :neral describcod in military language (338. '7-33). He wa. , Butt repli. . , a diny old man, cursed, and envelop<<! in seven ittmo of clothing from Ken",'. , 'the men', confes. ioners' (Freruoh, '''''/#<'''''''''''', (>Utfit-
'~r). They boTe the oevcn prismatic colours (339. 28-9). Taff is awed by the otreng,h, glory and deptavhy of m, whose a. pitat;"'n
to marry -l seem. the obscene lewdnes$ of aJltd impottntt. 'GL, _ .
". ~;. John Gilb<rt, A H~""" <fdo< c#y <flNi>Ii. HI, $j .
" "Ill<"""". . . . . . . _ of! h;,""'ionor. . . . . tysedinR. McH"Ih,A E. ,'I'. . 'Fi. . . _ a",W. . . . . S,. . . ,G""'i',inAll;J. I11HrJ1. ,,,,,,,00-1J~Joy<<S. . . . . . . . . . -
('1"_" '9U)'l"-'9?
? 14 The Sigla 01 Finn. ,,,,,. WoA;. misscyenlrlmndiJCO\'~bo:[Wttft"'1--2ndA . c:I:I. i"! he
Wllerloo map (339. 07'-<); ). 4O. lo-n, lZ-3, l. 5-)O). V1. B. ,8. 107 ddi. nn Ut;. :
TIu: appliance in the pub il now definitely a televi. ion and illu. . ? ra'" Ihe same confi,u",,;"n in I racinj report (342. ' 9-26). Afler . hi. inlerlude Bun . . ,. pl. in. that . he Gemr:iil was dd"~'ina w)M,n llrat observed. Run HSumed he . . . . , 'Iyoking foe I stooleuy rOT 10 nem. . ilplouch . ILafnnb and for to u lubnote h~1f wiUt I n ull. . . d. . . . . . heavenly mass ? ? his base' U43. 2? -9). Bu. in fief m WII 'upousin, his old ~inf,,1 ~Ir laillonom by 1IIIln"",Ynn, in opm ord"", to ",nno",,,. . . . ,,,,,, wi. h the cowru. ad. in 'heir . in$lt
pleau",ry' Ind whe" B"IIIO' ? full view of him he . . . 1 bibbe:ritlg witb fcae and had,,? t the heln ! O shoot (]44. 1 l- HS. O}).
The", are two significant connecti"". between Ute . "bjccl of excrement and Ute role of m here. The firs. brin,. u, back to Walerloo. In the I. . dionma '? Ibis is Wil! ingdone cry. Brum!
I1rum l Cumbrum! ' (009. 26-"7). Whenord. o:. w to retrcln, Genera l Cambtonrle le. . . . . . . d ' M "d,! ' Ind held ou' in isolation umillhe blnlewuiost. 15'. 31-2 ucbiml'Myrrdin aloer l? ? old Mtnellas Cambriann. . . puts his:
1 be. . -cond connection i. more rompla. Bruno', Copeqlic:a. . . . i,m reflCCI:I hi. enlution of Egyp. iln soIar mythoJoay, Q F. . . nas
A. Yat. . has shown:
Bruno wu an OUt_. nd. . ,Ul magician, an ' Hayp,;"n' and Hermetist of . h. d~pce. dye, for whom ,h. CoJxmican [u,li<X>! ntn. :;ty h . . . . ld. d! . he rtlum ofmagia. 1reIi! Pon, who in hi. d;1put. wilh Ut. Oxford doctora l. sociIted Copemi- canism with Ute ma,k of Ficino'. [k o;j", e<<linu <<1M- t><n'DWIlJ, for whom Ute Copcrrucan diagram was ? hiero- a! yph of the divine . . . Th<= earth """'. . . t. re. "", il is . live
_round a $UJl of Em>Prian maaic-to
TIu: moll imponmt '? . rlion of Ihe Egyplian night/day myUt it the confiiCl of Set, Ihe inaorlllltion of darkncsl, with hit nephew
? Hnw Buckley 5001 the Ru. . ian General Ss
Horml, rep,,,,enling Ihe 'U11 of the approaching morrow. It is 'the night of making Homse to crihumph over hi. enemy' (328. 34- 5)- Mr Athenon luis identified Hnncc, the tailor, . . . HorU$" and we can add Joyce'. Zurich acquaintance Horace Taylor, who is mentioned at 326. 01. Old Set (324. I5) traditionally throw. excre- ment in his nephew" face, bUI Horus succeed, in CIIstralinR him and <lay'. victory is certain. " The plucking of the Golden Bough of course abo represent> the god's casu:iltion precedins his death _
During Butt', copmlogy Tatfhas lavished powerful word. upon the innkeeper, r. . . ultilli in the . ppear. tnce of aMther Guinn",. (345. 16-23), whichhe p. . . . . to Bun, whodnn4 it_A second tele-
vised interlude MW di. play. Vicon;"n re""lutions, Bun i, then constrained to say hi. piece and not 10 leave oul 'he sod of turf
(346,2t) with which the General wip"d himself. The course of in- etrrialion, however, lead. him into noot:l. l]lic ineptitude. H. . . . y.
tha,heha,. bottlefulofmomori. . . inhisix>SOm,OS withplatonic love he recall' his dead comrad. . . and dri~ to them (348. 01-1 I). They barracked in Clongowes Wood (348. 20-2t), 'thurkmen
three' (A C. C).
A third interlude app""n. The 'scanning firespo" of Ihe ttle_
vi. ion tube traC. . . . . Still on the . creen, the figure of the eidolon m, 'Popey O'JAmQslwugh, the je'WItI"al <1 tllt 'us"","" (349. '7-
XI)_He seem, prepared to die, but T . <<has firs' 10 endure a further twO pas. . . of reminiscencoover Bun', halcyon day. , which never went WTong un,il the RU01ian Gcncralame up and Butt SJ,'" how --11- 'gove love 10 him and how he uJQk the ward from u' (odinus the fly fly flurtation of hi, him and hero I1""' mairrnaid maddcling it wn it he wa. ! ),. (352. 06-8)
The f"llest treatment of the . hooting i. given on 353. 15-ZI , In somevc",ionamth. victoryofHorusoverScI, the time is 'p"'ified as midnight _ Bun Sllys W t when he ,,",w m, and twelve o'dock
rolling all over Ireland's land, heaving "p that sod of turf t<> cI""n hia, to wipe himself_y, and undoing hi. cuwtW in an Exitu. f. ,. ~1neEgypUJ---lOt thaI insulT to luland-hc raised hi. gun and
fiTed. MeT/h!
This provoket on the serun an ",ent . ntided. 'Th. aJ",ihih'. atlon
of'he <<ym'. B = Mitchcll" ezplain, that this m""", 'Tlu: anni_ hilation of the atom by the gTinder of Lord RutherfoTd' and refero [ 0 the famous a'. ,. ". . ,plitlina- experiment of 1919. Although Joyce
"8_,>00.
"$;, II- A. Wam, B. . . . , God! c{ ,Io,q,-,,,,,. ,
""'Tho N<W<r AIcb<m, : lord RWlerford U>d Fj,. "". , WOV , A W N III_5
(,96<1), g6-. o. ,
I, ~15_
? wrote the passage in (9)8, he SCtm1 to have appreciated the theoretical pouibility of nuclear weapom, which IP""'" Crom Ein? sldn's demolition of the a"thoritati~ "temile of the indeotructi? bilicy ofmln. . . . III 11. 2 we . . . w the ,rowth of Relltivity OOvelltiled w;,hthe. ronscelld<m:cofthcWMd, thcetym. m, the '. ged monad' (34t. ? ]), is mI,"",denroy"d in the aromi~ Ro. "",rok . nd by . he inunatcrialismof Berkeley. He is . bo Finn, whose . . sauw~ followen of Goll, 10 W I on the n a l page 'Iu ! (J/ls by Golr.
m is here depicted botween tit<: twO 'jinni. . ' -u- and tit<: 'three lipoleum boyne' A, A: and ~ The three inverted sigla muM bo his own army, the enemy ",fleeted in the river. 0 Hehir's comment
is iruO"uctive,
If, at the Banle ofWlterloo"" Shaun is the dark 'dooley
boy', then Shem musl bo the 'hinnessy' (olo. C>. jff. ). If so, he must bo fair, in contra${ 10 'dot>ley,' for the first dement in his name is undoubtedly fionn (fin), 'fair'. . . . T he con- trasting dements in tbeir name? ? ", OJnjoined to produce the 'hinndoo' (,fair-dark'), who", norm, Shimar Shin, i, ? compound ofShem and Shaun, U i, revealed particularly in the Fi. . , Draft and Joyce'. diagram of the battle. '
T hi. i, in order uccpt insofar as I: i. Dooley and A Hennessy rath<< thantheotherway, both in r<1pt"<:t ofthe charactersofF. P. Dunne'soriginal. andofthenormalool1IJ(>tli. tiomofdark and light inFW. Joyce'. Waterlooculmina,. . wbenm tende. . hi. matchbox
10 Shimar Shin, who ligbts. fuse and blows m off his horse. This cari(:lltuTCS the sabotage of Kin! ! " Billy's equestrian '''''uc on CoI- leie Green just after midnight on 7 April 1836. '. The rid<<'was blown . everal feet into the air. It W ,," pretty appropriate, becouse William 111'. death in 170Z had been caused by a fall from bi, horse. I think a valid 1'"". 1101 exists between this and Buckley'. shooting of m, and that we can therefore "'" in Buclcley the COn- glome"'te of nr. sons, threalening him.
VI. B. 13. 186 gives 'Crimea A: & m'. Th. original anecdote i. ,et near $eva. ,,,,,,,1 (338. 14) as Bun (Buckley "'turned from the war) 'ells his companion Talf. " Taff wants the G. :neral describcod in military language (338. '7-33). He wa. , Butt repli. . , a diny old man, cursed, and envelop<<! in seven ittmo of clothing from Ken",'. , 'the men', confes. ioners' (Freruoh, '''''/#<'''''''''''', (>Utfit-
'~r). They boTe the oevcn prismatic colours (339. 28-9). Taff is awed by the otreng,h, glory and deptavhy of m, whose a. pitat;"'n
to marry -l seem. the obscene lewdnes$ of aJltd impottntt. 'GL, _ .
". ~;. John Gilb<rt, A H~""" <fdo< c#y <flNi>Ii. HI, $j .
" "Ill<"""". . . . . . . _ of! h;,""'ionor. . . . . tysedinR. McH"Ih,A E. ,'I'. . 'Fi. . . _ a",W. . . . . S,. . . ,G""'i',inAll;J. I11HrJ1. ,,,,,,,00-1J~Joy<<S. . . . . . . . . . -
('1"_" '9U)'l"-'9?
? 14 The Sigla 01 Finn. ,,,,,. WoA;. misscyenlrlmndiJCO\'~bo:[Wttft"'1--2ndA . c:I:I. i"! he
Wllerloo map (339. 07'-<); ). 4O. lo-n, lZ-3, l. 5-)O). V1. B. ,8. 107 ddi. nn Ut;. :
TIu: appliance in the pub il now definitely a televi. ion and illu. . ? ra'" Ihe same confi,u",,;"n in I racinj report (342. ' 9-26). Afler . hi. inlerlude Bun . . ,. pl. in. that . he Gemr:iil was dd"~'ina w)M,n llrat observed. Run HSumed he . . . . , 'Iyoking foe I stooleuy rOT 10 nem. . ilplouch . ILafnnb and for to u lubnote h~1f wiUt I n ull. . . d. . . . . . heavenly mass ? ? his base' U43. 2? -9). Bu. in fief m WII 'upousin, his old ~inf,,1 ~Ir laillonom by 1IIIln"",Ynn, in opm ord"", to ",nno",,,. . . . ,,,,,, wi. h the cowru. ad. in 'heir . in$lt
pleau",ry' Ind whe" B"IIIO' ? full view of him he . . . 1 bibbe:ritlg witb fcae and had,,? t the heln ! O shoot (]44. 1 l- HS. O}).
The", are two significant connecti"". between Ute . "bjccl of excrement and Ute role of m here. The firs. brin,. u, back to Walerloo. In the I. . dionma '? Ibis is Wil! ingdone cry. Brum!
I1rum l Cumbrum! ' (009. 26-"7). Whenord. o:. w to retrcln, Genera l Cambtonrle le. . . . . . . d ' M "d,! ' Ind held ou' in isolation umillhe blnlewuiost. 15'. 31-2 ucbiml'Myrrdin aloer l? ? old Mtnellas Cambriann. . . puts his:
1 be. . -cond connection i. more rompla. Bruno', Copeqlic:a. . . . i,m reflCCI:I hi. enlution of Egyp. iln soIar mythoJoay, Q F. . . nas
A. Yat. . has shown:
Bruno wu an OUt_. nd. . ,Ul magician, an ' Hayp,;"n' and Hermetist of . h. d~pce. dye, for whom ,h. CoJxmican [u,li<X>! ntn. :;ty h . . . . ld. d! . he rtlum ofmagia. 1reIi! Pon, who in hi. d;1put. wilh Ut. Oxford doctora l. sociIted Copemi- canism with Ute ma,k of Ficino'. [k o;j", e<<linu <<1M- t><n'DWIlJ, for whom Ute Copcrrucan diagram was ? hiero- a! yph of the divine . . . Th<= earth """'. . . t. re. "", il is . live
_round a $UJl of Em>Prian maaic-to
TIu: moll imponmt '? . rlion of Ihe Egyplian night/day myUt it the confiiCl of Set, Ihe inaorlllltion of darkncsl, with hit nephew
? Hnw Buckley 5001 the Ru. . ian General Ss
Horml, rep,,,,enling Ihe 'U11 of the approaching morrow. It is 'the night of making Homse to crihumph over hi. enemy' (328. 34- 5)- Mr Athenon luis identified Hnncc, the tailor, . . . HorU$" and we can add Joyce'. Zurich acquaintance Horace Taylor, who is mentioned at 326. 01. Old Set (324. I5) traditionally throw. excre- ment in his nephew" face, bUI Horus succeed, in CIIstralinR him and <lay'. victory is certain. " The plucking of the Golden Bough of course abo represent> the god's casu:iltion precedins his death _
During Butt', copmlogy Tatfhas lavished powerful word. upon the innkeeper, r. . . ultilli in the . ppear. tnce of aMther Guinn",. (345. 16-23), whichhe p. . . . . to Bun, whodnn4 it_A second tele-
vised interlude MW di. play. Vicon;"n re""lutions, Bun i, then constrained to say hi. piece and not 10 leave oul 'he sod of turf
(346,2t) with which the General wip"d himself. The course of in- etrrialion, however, lead. him into noot:l. l]lic ineptitude. H. . . . y.
tha,heha,. bottlefulofmomori. . . inhisix>SOm,OS withplatonic love he recall' his dead comrad. . . and dri~ to them (348. 01-1 I). They barracked in Clongowes Wood (348. 20-2t), 'thurkmen
three' (A C. C).
A third interlude app""n. The 'scanning firespo" of Ihe ttle_
vi. ion tube traC. . . . . Still on the . creen, the figure of the eidolon m, 'Popey O'JAmQslwugh, the je'WItI"al <1 tllt 'us"","" (349. '7-
XI)_He seem, prepared to die, but T . <<has firs' 10 endure a further twO pas. . . of reminiscencoover Bun', halcyon day. , which never went WTong un,il the RU01ian Gcncralame up and Butt SJ,'" how --11- 'gove love 10 him and how he uJQk the ward from u' (odinus the fly fly flurtation of hi, him and hero I1""' mairrnaid maddcling it wn it he wa. ! ),. (352. 06-8)
The f"llest treatment of the . hooting i. given on 353. 15-ZI , In somevc",ionamth. victoryofHorusoverScI, the time is 'p"'ified as midnight _ Bun Sllys W t when he ,,",w m, and twelve o'dock
rolling all over Ireland's land, heaving "p that sod of turf t<> cI""n hia, to wipe himself_y, and undoing hi. cuwtW in an Exitu. f. ,. ~1neEgypUJ---lOt thaI insulT to luland-hc raised hi. gun and
fiTed. MeT/h!
This provoket on the serun an ",ent . ntided. 'Th. aJ",ihih'. atlon
of'he <<ym'. B = Mitchcll" ezplain, that this m""", 'Tlu: anni_ hilation of the atom by the gTinder of Lord RutherfoTd' and refero [ 0 the famous a'. ,. ". . ,plitlina- experiment of 1919. Although Joyce
"8_,>00.
"$;, II- A. Wam, B. . . . , God! c{ ,Io,q,-,,,,,. ,
""'Tho N<W<r AIcb<m, : lord RWlerford U>d Fj,. "". , WOV , A W N III_5
(,96<1), g6-. o. ,
I, ~15_
? wrote the passage in (9)8, he SCtm1 to have appreciated the theoretical pouibility of nuclear weapom, which IP""'" Crom Ein? sldn's demolition of the a"thoritati~ "temile of the indeotructi? bilicy ofmln. . . . III 11. 2 we . . . w the ,rowth of Relltivity OOvelltiled w;,hthe. ronscelld<m:cofthcWMd, thcetym. m, the '. ged monad' (34t. ? ]), is mI,"",denroy"d in the aromi~ Ro. "",rok . nd by . he inunatcrialismof Berkeley. He is . bo Finn, whose . . sauw~ followen of Goll, 10 W I on the n a l page 'Iu ! (J/ls by Golr.
