FW 15.1a --Shaun/Yawn asleep--

15.1a: Lowly, longly, a wail went forth. Pure Yawn lay low....
15.1b: Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did...
15.1c: Yawn in a semiswoon lay awailing and (hooh!) what helpings...


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FDV: "Lowly, longly a wail went forth. Pure Yawn lay low. In the mead
of the hillock he lay, the brief wallet by his side, one hand still loosely
on his staff of citron wood." →
"Lowly, longly a wail went forth. Pure Yawn lay low. On the mead
of the hillock he lay, the brief wallet by his side, one arm still loosely
on his staff of citron briar."

synopsis: Yawn sleeps in the landscape — he sighs, he wails




Lowly, longly, a wail went forth.

Penguin omits 2nd comma


Pure Yawn lay low.

Irish Sheain: John (vocative; pronunciation 'Yawn')

to lay low = to knock down/out [wkt]


On the mead of the hillock lay,

mead = meadow
mead = alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water

(he) lay


heartsoul dormant mid shadowed landshape,

in Egyptian theology, the heart-soul (ba) and the shadow (khaibit) were two constituents of a man's soul (discussed in Book of the Dead cxlvi-cxlviii, cc-cci, and elsewhere)

dormant = sleeping, hibernating

amid

shadows are most prominent when the sun is low, early morning or late afternoon

landscape

(what shape is this landshape?)


brief wallet to his side, and arm loose,

brief = short written message [wkt]
briefcase, cf German Brieftasche: wallet (literally 'letter bag')

"loose" = not held close to his side? relaxed?

harmless??


by his staff of citron briar,

citron wood

briar wood

these two woods are mutually exclusive


tradition stick-pass-on.

cane traditionally passed down? (aboriginal ceremony?)
did HCE pass it to Shaun?

stick a (railroad) pass on it?

(it sounds a little like a spoonerism: pickstation? patrickstan?)

cf?? fw27: "Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!"


His dream monologue was over, of cause,

dream monologue = mental rehearsal of planned speech? (Stephen does a lot of this in Ulysses 1-3)

of course
for cause

cause/effect
dream/drama
monologue/polylogue


but his drama parapolylogic had yet to be, affact.

'para-' from Ancient Greek παρά ‎(pará, “beside; next to, near, from; against, contrary to”) [wkt]

paralogism: false reasoning of which reasoner is unconscious
archaic polylogy: much speaking, loquacity, garrulousness

'affacciate' (Italian) = you all are showing
in fact
affect




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