n physics, where he found this liule scientific joke from which to
construct
another of the book'.
Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake
as 'ShaUD d'-a title for ""hieb more justification is n~eded than the trivial facl lhal Shaun appear:; ;n a few plaCQ ;n it al an infant in a GOI.
1nc explanatinn nf Ih.
titl~ "".
nu, in f a c t , t o l i e i n t h e jd~ntily o f t h e n a r r a t o r .
W e " " ' c e h a p t e n I t t !
and 111.
2 (and poaiWy "bo 111.
3) ttr Johnny'lloquaciou.
Au, hut the ,\" is dearly not rapomibl~ for 111.
4- In this cut: !
he
narnUN' is almolt certainly Shaun himaelf. Occasionally he COn~withShem,ason~Iand~r-8,when:hereo
pe. awlly addresses him by his English n~, 'Jimmy'. At ~60. 35 he indentifies himoclf through the commenl 'I 110M UI I'm hable', for S! t. aun is the SttrM and the Sttrnu ofSt. Stephen? . . . he i, abo Abel. F"Tth~r identification i. provided by hi. refuring \0 ! ::. arwieller lUId hil wife as 'Mr of our fathen' and 'Ollr modderecn ro' (:'58. ~9). and by hil implied association ,,~th 11Obe1:
'hca. """ ofthe . . . . y the night lhat firal . . ~ met ,be is bound 10 be. ntethinu. ""d not in vain, lhe darling ofmy hean'. ($56. 12) He at. o I1tentions hit drinking of " obd '. urinc:, which is Shaun', characteristic form of GOmmllnlon with the BVM':
'How very IWC<:I of her and what an excessively Iovttharming milJY7l. ame to fo. . . . . ke. now Ihat J COme \0 drink nf it filtn:d, a
gracecup foiled nfbilt~rncu'. (5{i1. (2)
This, then, i, Shaun'. ChapteT bee,,,,,, he is n:spoNible for
n. . . . . ting it. Thu m. , Dal'Tattrr is aiJ,o ""leep seemo 10 be esublishcd by the opening. . . . . . . . . . u of IIIe ebapter:
'Whu was tha. . . ? ~'og WIll whaas? Too mult . lccpth. Let . Ioepth'. (555. 01 )
Af'er thae alctpy mumblinJ! ! l of a misty h. ilbide fi. gur~ who is fast diMolving away, Ihe tone and pace of Ihe writing change Tapldly,indicatingjus{,ucha. hiftoffocwa, w~,houldexpect when making a {raruilion from One "ate of cnruc'on. \ncu to
, s. . below, p. 207.
88
? The Drwm-Slruclure
"",other_Until ",meone can produce convillCing evidence to the m no-ary, therefore, I ,hall {r<:a{ liLt. '" Shaull" dream,
Al III. 3 co","" to all end with Earwicw'. confe"ioWl in the magni6cent 'Haveth Childen Everywhere' episode, the body of {he slumbering Shaun, O<p'lKd on the mound, finally melts into a pictllU ofw Irish landscape with the Porter', bedroom at its centre of gravity. By di! appearing into the earth Shaun achieveo on. neu with both Father "nd Mother. ' The Four, who had b<<n continually approaching the cetltreofthe human cross on the mound in the pr<:viou. chapter,' are now rigid and 'tationary '" the four po:! ts of the bed. In the middle of the bed-located at ShaUll" navel- Me Y,arwicker and his wife. In this itutanee the Son i. seen to be father not only of the Man but ofhi. con,. . ,rt:lS well, Like St~ph~n, who rinll' up Adam by mean, of a daisy_chain of umbilical mrd. (the 'Hullo Eve Cenograph', {8! \. 23), we make direct contact with the older generation owShann', "ni_ Here;" a bedded axle_tree ind""". Although Sh'LllTl;" travt:lIing away to the weol in Book ut, we fu! low him in hisjournry and learn to knnw him more intimately a. < the Book devt:lop? . At the beginning of the Book we had alr<:ady plunged below the . nna<:e of One mind to enter Ear_ wicker's unconsciou" and here onCe again in 1l1. 4 we pau through the 'mind_harrier' to emerge in the world ofShaun', dream,jwt as Alice palSC(\ through her gl<IM to enter a neW and . trikingly different dream_world. As:lO often in Jij""'laJU Wakt, the t""hnique iJ e. ssentially cin emat<>graphic : we move vi$ually
clo. er 10 the rer,umbent figure, there i1 a fade-out, and we ar~ transported to the context of his thoughts. The oecond dream c y c l e ; " c l o o e d . . . w e c o m e f u l l d r d o h a c k t o o u r . I a r t i n g _p o i n t : the old couple;n their grave_like bed. Thj. ;" yet another $erue in which Shun moves backward< through the night. If, in Viconian terms, Book III in general;$ the Age of the Futur<:, then 1I1. 4, in which we oee tile p<trt:nl$ finally $upplantecl, m. . . t surely be the Future I'en""t: Shaun will be; the Earwickell
will have been.
This profound sleep of the heir during 1ll. 4 iJ alluded to in
, . 0;. , Ch. a~ Fi",.
? The lffeam-Structure
Book IV: 'a ,ucc. e"ive gen"""tion h. . . be<:n in the d~p deep d~ps of o. ,epe<<:ru' (S95. ~7). A. alwaY", Shaun'. mind is ccntuci primarily on the Father, who dominates this chapter. Despite the fact that we are her<: at the d<:<:pest levd of the dream, the chapter is characterised by its corWderabk $C"ual franknes, and ",alistic darity. Dawn is about to ],. . ,ak afier these crucial ! . cenes and "" it may be that Joyce is C(lnforming not only to the proverb about the darkest hour, but also to Ihe Freudian principle tbat a d",am is both m""t fundamental and mo. l lucid toward, its end. The most memorable revelation vouch. . . . fed us here is Ihal of . ? arwicker'. fleshy hindquarteT1! _ Shaun on his mouod is lookiog up to a M QSe1I'. eye view of the Father. Creator, aod or CO"n . llW chapler furms part four of the general cycle orBook III, rcpr=nled by the direction wat, which I'arac. ebll' associatc<\ with th<: human buttoch. ' These re. . . . . ru are perhaps 3ufficient to explain Ihe dominance in
IIl. 4 ofth"t particular part of the human anatomy, hut it mUIt be remembered that Shann'. dream is abo Earwieker's, and it is p<>SSihk that there is a further and rather more . <<hrtc/tJ reawn for the old man', broad view of hinudf fmm the real' through his son', eyes. Book III is a circular excursion thr<lugh 'pace-lime, and it had become <;ommon knowledgt: during Joyce'. lifetime that a long ,traight view in front, circling the four4meruional hypeT1! phe", or a ,. . ,. entrant univ"","" might
theomically give a man a 'ight of himself from behind. Thh idea """ill to be implied in two p. . . . . . gt:, from lIL4 :
'the only w;. . , in a muck', world 10 look on iudf from before_ hand; mirrormlnded curiosite. . . e' (S76. ~~)
'down the gullies of the era. we may catch ourselves looking forward to what will in no lime be 'taring you larriuru on the pmtface in that multimirror megaron of returningtieo, whirled without end to end'. (580. 18)
A! J I have al"'ady indicated, Joyce dabbled in mod. .
n physics, where he found this liule scientific joke from which to construct another of the book'. many epicycles.
PlWing into Earwicker', mind on page 403 w. . . equivalent , 0 . . " " l ' . ~,.
? I'M Dream-Stru(lurt
to p? ? i", into an inv<<ted mirror-world,' and I<> ellter ShaUll" mind . . -e have bd I<> p;III t. ItrouSh a IIeCOnd mirror. Thil doIIble-rninor UnaI""Y il present in ! he quotatio~ a""""; tw\> minon are n. ormally II~ for a man to see hit bulroeb in practice. The idea of p. . . . ing through a mirror into the new environment ofa past or future cpoch was not new IOlJOlyce iri F'iMl$= WQkt fOlr he had already made ""t. ,nlive use of il in UbJ,ru ill as,ocialKIII with the motif 'looking bad in a retroape<:t;vc alTall("mcnl', d~. ? In Ihe 'Oxen of I"'" Sun' Bloom IftI h;rrucl( aa if in a double_inverud rdlttti<m, aa a
ocboolboy:
'No longer it Leopold, as he oits t~ , ruminating, chewing the cudofreminitc. ,. . "" that. Iaidagentofpublicityandholderof a modctt JUbolance in the fundi. He is youn, Lt:opold, as in a r<:troopect;ve alTangement, a mirror within a mirroc (hey prestoI), he bc:bolde\h hitmelf. That young figure Olf then is seen, precociou,ly manly, willing on a nipping morning from ! he old home in QambraWl llm:I IOl the high school . _ . (al. . . , a thing now of the past! ) _ . . BUI ! ley. pre",o, the mirror is breathed on and ! he young knigh~",nt recedes. , . hri~"b. , ro I tiny lpttk within the mist'. (U 394)
And abo:
'Inoki", bad now in a ,u ,uspulive kind of arrangemc:nt, aU . . . . ,med I kind of dream. And the <<Iming back waa the wont
thing )'Ou eve. did because it wenl without ,aying )'Ou would red out ofplace as things alwaY' moved with the timcs? . (U 6t3) 'Rudolph Bloo'" (de",ased) narrated to hit IOn l . eopold Bloom (aged 6) I retroopecti"" amu\gemc:nl of migrations and Kille- menU. . . '(U68! >>
Earwicl<er . . . ,,,," to be engagN in the lame kind of dreamin! n:miniscell<:e, though on a gr;Inder 0<"aIe.
In Vil':Olliall I~rms Book III is the Cycle ofthe Future, as the SJ;tI. 11nI Ii. . ,explains:
"The principal figure of uu. d",am is Shaun. envisioned at a greRi man of the future, carrying forward tho mighty tradition
,s. . .
, No. Mm. FoI," ' v. ,. ,. . . ,. . . w. d <<In. ? N. . . . York, '959. I' . 8,.
below. I' 99.
9'
? TM Dream. . . 5lruc/u1'e
of hi> ancesto. . . and winning with blith. . t e,. . . , the battles \o$t byhi! father', (SK 211)
In so far'" Earwicker'. son i. to succeed hun, thU reading U valid enough, but a! a. 'Ome",ha! more lite~l and urta1nly more important level Ihe situation i. quite the reve. . . . " fur if ~'alher and Son arc one, Shaun is Earwid,cr', p"'t a, well ", hi> future, In U! Psu Stephen, hnlding 'to the nnw, the here' '" he mUO(:, on man', ,piritual continuity, calb the fut~ 'Ihe sil ler of the P"'{' (U ,63), Earwiek<:r i> dreaming b a d into hit
much glorified past, ,tacting with his prel"nt deathlik "ale (iO,~) and working back to hi> hinh: 'Yet they wend il back, qual hi, leif' (sSo,13), In following h;, career back to iu origins in h;, incarnation", the Son, Earwick<:r ;, engaged in the Yeat$ian proces,,,, of Dreami. , B",k, Return, and T/tt Shifting, (293,03,295. 10,295,'5, 5? O. O. j,) which in A V'u,;,n are ,aid to follow immediately on death, preceding the desired . pirilUai 'Marriage' wilh the Ddty and allowing the "lui to Ira"" it.
progrt. :$, in the rev""", direction, right ba<:k to birth' :
'In the Drt~ming BIUt the Spirit;' compelled to live over and over again the evenU that had most moved it; there can be
nothing new, but the old events . tand furth in a light which i. dim or bright according to the intemity Qf the pa$si. on that accompanied them . ? . After its imprironment by oome event
in the Drwming BlUk, the Spi. il relives that evenl in the Rtlu,n and tufm it into knowledge, and then falls inlo the D,,~ming BlUk once more. The Spirit find, the concrete events in the PassioMk Body but the na:rnes and words of the drama it mwt obtain, the Fa. . . ltiu having gone when tbe H",k and PlUno""k Body disappMred, from lOme incarnale Mind, and Ihi. it ;, able to do becaUle all spirits inhabit our consciomness, or, "" Swedenbo'1l said, arc the J)ramati. Penonae of our dreams . . . The mOl'1O complete the Drwming Bad: the more complete the Return and the mOT<: bappy or fortunale the n a t incarnation. After ~aeh event of tIu: D""ming Bl1tk the Spinl explo= not
merely tJu: eauSCI but the cotUt:quences ofthat event. . . [And, in tJu: Siliftings:] ? . . In '0 far ru tbe man did good without
, ,t y;,. "" pp. ~o&-so.
9'
? The Drram-StrnctUTt
knowing evil, hi. nature is reversed until tho. t knowledge is obtained. Th. Spirit live! ! . . . "The bCJ! t Jl""5ible Life in the won! possible ,urrounding. " or the contrary of this; yet there is n n ,uffering: " For in a , tate of ~uilibrium there is neither emotion nnr oemation" '.
T h . Slot/elm! Ki f ' reIerena: to the con! ,. ,. . ! between Earwicl. cr', failure, and Shaun'. 'uc~ is illuminated by the Shijlingr, while the oscillations betwrcn famMY and narurali,m in Book
III find a rationalisation in tho: cyek, of Dreami~g lJ(J(;k and &turn. The whole of Book TIl, including the ""gr= in H1. 4
when Shaun begins his own epic. yelic Dr. -ing R(J(;k, is thm, in thoe ~rm" a my$tical pilgrimage of Earwi~ker'? ? pirit, . ed:ing ,alvation through Jdf. knowlrdge, working ba<:k tow:>. ro an "". mun! of his own gene';".
J "yee mak. ,. this DrMmu. , Back function at the universal", well a$ the personal level, 10 that the history of mankind is traced back to the Flood by the end ofIlI. 4 (s89-90). (I have already notrd that in thischap~r the Earwicun ,eem to belong to a past generation. ') The idea of a\lnwing the ! ",ychie
proc= to upand in this way to the racial levd scnru to have had its origin in a brief but in~fC! lting no~ in the Large
Notebook' :
'dream thoughts are ",-au thoughts of a:nturie! ! ago: uncon? sciom memory: great "",urrenee: race memori.
narnUN' is almolt certainly Shaun himaelf. Occasionally he COn~withShem,ason~Iand~r-8,when:hereo
pe. awlly addresses him by his English n~, 'Jimmy'. At ~60. 35 he indentifies himoclf through the commenl 'I 110M UI I'm hable', for S! t. aun is the SttrM and the Sttrnu ofSt. Stephen? . . . he i, abo Abel. F"Tth~r identification i. provided by hi. refuring \0 ! ::. arwieller lUId hil wife as 'Mr of our fathen' and 'Ollr modderecn ro' (:'58. ~9). and by hil implied association ,,~th 11Obe1:
'hca. """ ofthe . . . . y the night lhat firal . . ~ met ,be is bound 10 be. ntethinu. ""d not in vain, lhe darling ofmy hean'. ($56. 12) He at. o I1tentions hit drinking of " obd '. urinc:, which is Shaun', characteristic form of GOmmllnlon with the BVM':
'How very IWC<:I of her and what an excessively Iovttharming milJY7l. ame to fo. . . . . ke. now Ihat J COme \0 drink nf it filtn:d, a
gracecup foiled nfbilt~rncu'. (5{i1. (2)
This, then, i, Shaun'. ChapteT bee,,,,,, he is n:spoNible for
n. . . . . ting it. Thu m. , Dal'Tattrr is aiJ,o ""leep seemo 10 be esublishcd by the opening. . . . . . . . . . u of IIIe ebapter:
'Whu was tha. . . ? ~'og WIll whaas? Too mult . lccpth. Let . Ioepth'. (555. 01 )
Af'er thae alctpy mumblinJ! ! l of a misty h. ilbide fi. gur~ who is fast diMolving away, Ihe tone and pace of Ihe writing change Tapldly,indicatingjus{,ucha. hiftoffocwa, w~,houldexpect when making a {raruilion from One "ate of cnruc'on. \ncu to
, s. . below, p. 207.
88
? The Drwm-Slruclure
"",other_Until ",meone can produce convillCing evidence to the m no-ary, therefore, I ,hall {r<:a{ liLt. '" Shaull" dream,
Al III. 3 co","" to all end with Earwicw'. confe"ioWl in the magni6cent 'Haveth Childen Everywhere' episode, the body of {he slumbering Shaun, O<p'lKd on the mound, finally melts into a pictllU ofw Irish landscape with the Porter', bedroom at its centre of gravity. By di! appearing into the earth Shaun achieveo on. neu with both Father "nd Mother. ' The Four, who had b<<n continually approaching the cetltreofthe human cross on the mound in the pr<:viou. chapter,' are now rigid and 'tationary '" the four po:! ts of the bed. In the middle of the bed-located at ShaUll" navel- Me Y,arwicker and his wife. In this itutanee the Son i. seen to be father not only of the Man but ofhi. con,. . ,rt:lS well, Like St~ph~n, who rinll' up Adam by mean, of a daisy_chain of umbilical mrd. (the 'Hullo Eve Cenograph', {8! \. 23), we make direct contact with the older generation owShann', "ni_ Here;" a bedded axle_tree ind""". Although Sh'LllTl;" travt:lIing away to the weol in Book ut, we fu! low him in hisjournry and learn to knnw him more intimately a. < the Book devt:lop? . At the beginning of the Book we had alr<:ady plunged below the . nna<:e of One mind to enter Ear_ wicker's unconsciou" and here onCe again in 1l1. 4 we pau through the 'mind_harrier' to emerge in the world ofShaun', dream,jwt as Alice palSC(\ through her gl<IM to enter a neW and . trikingly different dream_world. As:lO often in Jij""'laJU Wakt, the t""hnique iJ e. ssentially cin emat<>graphic : we move vi$ually
clo. er 10 the rer,umbent figure, there i1 a fade-out, and we ar~ transported to the context of his thoughts. The oecond dream c y c l e ; " c l o o e d . . . w e c o m e f u l l d r d o h a c k t o o u r . I a r t i n g _p o i n t : the old couple;n their grave_like bed. Thj. ;" yet another $erue in which Shun moves backward< through the night. If, in Viconian terms, Book III in general;$ the Age of the Futur<:, then 1I1. 4, in which we oee tile p<trt:nl$ finally $upplantecl, m. . . t surely be the Future I'en""t: Shaun will be; the Earwickell
will have been.
This profound sleep of the heir during 1ll. 4 iJ alluded to in
, . 0;. , Ch. a~ Fi",.
? The lffeam-Structure
Book IV: 'a ,ucc. e"ive gen"""tion h. . . be<:n in the d~p deep d~ps of o. ,epe<<:ru' (S95. ~7). A. alwaY", Shaun'. mind is ccntuci primarily on the Father, who dominates this chapter. Despite the fact that we are her<: at the d<:<:pest levd of the dream, the chapter is characterised by its corWderabk $C"ual franknes, and ",alistic darity. Dawn is about to ],. . ,ak afier these crucial ! . cenes and "" it may be that Joyce is C(lnforming not only to the proverb about the darkest hour, but also to Ihe Freudian principle tbat a d",am is both m""t fundamental and mo. l lucid toward, its end. The most memorable revelation vouch. . . . fed us here is Ihal of . ? arwicker'. fleshy hindquarteT1! _ Shaun on his mouod is lookiog up to a M QSe1I'. eye view of the Father. Creator, aod or CO"n . llW chapler furms part four of the general cycle orBook III, rcpr=nled by the direction wat, which I'arac. ebll' associatc<\ with th<: human buttoch. ' These re. . . . . ru are perhaps 3ufficient to explain Ihe dominance in
IIl. 4 ofth"t particular part of the human anatomy, hut it mUIt be remembered that Shann'. dream is abo Earwieker's, and it is p<>SSihk that there is a further and rather more . <<hrtc/tJ reawn for the old man', broad view of hinudf fmm the real' through his son', eyes. Book III is a circular excursion thr<lugh 'pace-lime, and it had become <;ommon knowledgt: during Joyce'. lifetime that a long ,traight view in front, circling the four4meruional hypeT1! phe", or a ,. . ,. entrant univ"","" might
theomically give a man a 'ight of himself from behind. Thh idea """ill to be implied in two p. . . . . . gt:, from lIL4 :
'the only w;. . , in a muck', world 10 look on iudf from before_ hand; mirrormlnded curiosite. . . e' (S76. ~~)
'down the gullies of the era. we may catch ourselves looking forward to what will in no lime be 'taring you larriuru on the pmtface in that multimirror megaron of returningtieo, whirled without end to end'. (580. 18)
A! J I have al"'ady indicated, Joyce dabbled in mod. .
n physics, where he found this liule scientific joke from which to construct another of the book'. many epicycles.
PlWing into Earwicker', mind on page 403 w. . . equivalent , 0 . . " " l ' . ~,.
? I'M Dream-Stru(lurt
to p? ? i", into an inv<<ted mirror-world,' and I<> ellter ShaUll" mind . . -e have bd I<> p;III t. ItrouSh a IIeCOnd mirror. Thil doIIble-rninor UnaI""Y il present in ! he quotatio~ a""""; tw\> minon are n. ormally II~ for a man to see hit bulroeb in practice. The idea of p. . . . ing through a mirror into the new environment ofa past or future cpoch was not new IOlJOlyce iri F'iMl$= WQkt fOlr he had already made ""t. ,nlive use of il in UbJ,ru ill as,ocialKIII with the motif 'looking bad in a retroape<:t;vc alTall("mcnl', d~. ? In Ihe 'Oxen of I"'" Sun' Bloom IftI h;rrucl( aa if in a double_inverud rdlttti<m, aa a
ocboolboy:
'No longer it Leopold, as he oits t~ , ruminating, chewing the cudofreminitc. ,. . "" that. Iaidagentofpublicityandholderof a modctt JUbolance in the fundi. He is youn, Lt:opold, as in a r<:troopect;ve alTangement, a mirror within a mirroc (hey prestoI), he bc:bolde\h hitmelf. That young figure Olf then is seen, precociou,ly manly, willing on a nipping morning from ! he old home in QambraWl llm:I IOl the high school . _ . (al. . . , a thing now of the past! ) _ . . BUI ! ley. pre",o, the mirror is breathed on and ! he young knigh~",nt recedes. , . hri~"b. , ro I tiny lpttk within the mist'. (U 394)
And abo:
'Inoki", bad now in a ,u ,uspulive kind of arrangemc:nt, aU . . . . ,med I kind of dream. And the <<Iming back waa the wont
thing )'Ou eve. did because it wenl without ,aying )'Ou would red out ofplace as things alwaY' moved with the timcs? . (U 6t3) 'Rudolph Bloo'" (de",ased) narrated to hit IOn l . eopold Bloom (aged 6) I retroopecti"" amu\gemc:nl of migrations and Kille- menU. . . '(U68! >>
Earwicl<er . . . ,,,," to be engagN in the lame kind of dreamin! n:miniscell<:e, though on a gr;Inder 0<"aIe.
In Vil':Olliall I~rms Book III is the Cycle ofthe Future, as the SJ;tI. 11nI Ii. . ,explains:
"The principal figure of uu. d",am is Shaun. envisioned at a greRi man of the future, carrying forward tho mighty tradition
,s. . .
, No. Mm. FoI," ' v. ,. ,. . . ,. . . w. d <<In. ? N. . . . York, '959. I' . 8,.
below. I' 99.
9'
? TM Dream. . . 5lruc/u1'e
of hi> ancesto. . . and winning with blith. . t e,. . . , the battles \o$t byhi! father', (SK 211)
In so far'" Earwicker'. son i. to succeed hun, thU reading U valid enough, but a! a. 'Ome",ha! more lite~l and urta1nly more important level Ihe situation i. quite the reve. . . . " fur if ~'alher and Son arc one, Shaun is Earwid,cr', p"'t a, well ", hi> future, In U! Psu Stephen, hnlding 'to the nnw, the here' '" he mUO(:, on man', ,piritual continuity, calb the fut~ 'Ihe sil ler of the P"'{' (U ,63), Earwiek<:r i> dreaming b a d into hit
much glorified past, ,tacting with his prel"nt deathlik "ale (iO,~) and working back to hi> hinh: 'Yet they wend il back, qual hi, leif' (sSo,13), In following h;, career back to iu origins in h;, incarnation", the Son, Earwick<:r ;, engaged in the Yeat$ian proces,,,, of Dreami. , B",k, Return, and T/tt Shifting, (293,03,295. 10,295,'5, 5? O. O. j,) which in A V'u,;,n are ,aid to follow immediately on death, preceding the desired . pirilUai 'Marriage' wilh the Ddty and allowing the "lui to Ira"" it.
progrt. :$, in the rev""", direction, right ba<:k to birth' :
'In the Drt~ming BIUt the Spirit;' compelled to live over and over again the evenU that had most moved it; there can be
nothing new, but the old events . tand furth in a light which i. dim or bright according to the intemity Qf the pa$si. on that accompanied them . ? . After its imprironment by oome event
in the Drwming BlUk, the Spi. il relives that evenl in the Rtlu,n and tufm it into knowledge, and then falls inlo the D,,~ming BlUk once more. The Spirit find, the concrete events in the PassioMk Body but the na:rnes and words of the drama it mwt obtain, the Fa. . . ltiu having gone when tbe H",k and PlUno""k Body disappMred, from lOme incarnale Mind, and Ihi. it ;, able to do becaUle all spirits inhabit our consciomness, or, "" Swedenbo'1l said, arc the J)ramati. Penonae of our dreams . . . The mOl'1O complete the Drwming Bad: the more complete the Return and the mOT<: bappy or fortunale the n a t incarnation. After ~aeh event of tIu: D""ming Bl1tk the Spinl explo= not
merely tJu: eauSCI but the cotUt:quences ofthat event. . . [And, in tJu: Siliftings:] ? . . In '0 far ru tbe man did good without
, ,t y;,. "" pp. ~o&-so.
9'
? The Drram-StrnctUTt
knowing evil, hi. nature is reversed until tho. t knowledge is obtained. Th. Spirit live! ! . . . "The bCJ! t Jl""5ible Life in the won! possible ,urrounding. " or the contrary of this; yet there is n n ,uffering: " For in a , tate of ~uilibrium there is neither emotion nnr oemation" '.
T h . Slot/elm! Ki f ' reIerena: to the con! ,. ,. . ! between Earwicl. cr', failure, and Shaun'. 'uc~ is illuminated by the Shijlingr, while the oscillations betwrcn famMY and narurali,m in Book
III find a rationalisation in tho: cyek, of Dreami~g lJ(J(;k and &turn. The whole of Book TIl, including the ""gr= in H1. 4
when Shaun begins his own epic. yelic Dr. -ing R(J(;k, is thm, in thoe ~rm" a my$tical pilgrimage of Earwi~ker'? ? pirit, . ed:ing ,alvation through Jdf. knowlrdge, working ba<:k tow:>. ro an "". mun! of his own gene';".
J "yee mak. ,. this DrMmu. , Back function at the universal", well a$ the personal level, 10 that the history of mankind is traced back to the Flood by the end ofIlI. 4 (s89-90). (I have already notrd that in thischap~r the Earwicun ,eem to belong to a past generation. ') The idea of a\lnwing the ! ",ychie
proc= to upand in this way to the racial levd scnru to have had its origin in a brief but in~fC! lting no~ in the Large
Notebook' :
'dream thoughts are ",-au thoughts of a:nturie! ! ago: uncon? sciom memory: great "",urrenee: race memori.
