Annotated Finnegans Wake (with Wakepedia): August 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

FW 1.75c --the cat's doing well--

on the Pollockses' woolly round tabouret cushion

(Castor and) Pollux

Round Table

tabouret: low, drum-shaped stool without arms or back

watching her sewing a dream together,

goddess weaves world on loom

the tailor's daughter, stitch to her last.

phrase stick to one's last
last ditch
without a stitch

Or, while waiting for winter to fire the enchantment,

enchantment

decoying more nesters to fall down the flue.

Serbo-Croatian nestera: niece
nesting birds
Esthers?

It's an allavalonche that blows nopussy food.

proverb It's an ill wind that blows nobody good

French à l'aval: downstream
avalanche
hell of a lunch?
alluvial?

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.75d --HCE's nostalgia for ALP--

1.75a: I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate and the butter, trust me...
1.75b: The sternwheel's crawling strong. I seen your missus in the hall...
1.75c: Bald Tib does be yawning and smirking cats' hours on the Pollockses'...
1.75d: If you only were there to explain the meaning, best of men...
1.75e: She was flirtsome then and she's fluttersome yet. She can second...
1.75f: News, news, all the news. Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez...
1.75g: There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night...

[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]

FDV: [nothing]

If you only were there to explain the meaning,

best of men, and talk to her nice of guldenselver.

'best of men': an epithet of the Buddha

Dutch gulden: golden; guilder, florin
gold and silver
anachronism: Gildersleeve

The lips would moisten once again.

As when you drove with her to Findrinny Fair.

cf? fw628: "Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair."

AngloIrish findrinny: silver-bronze, white-bronze (from Irish fionndruine)

Letters I.348 16Oct34: 'A 30-year wedding should be called a 'findrinny' one. Findrinny is a kind of white gold mixed with silver'

What with reins here and ribbons there all your hands were employed

archaic reins: kidneys, loins

colloquial ribbons: reins (for driving)

cf U225: " I was tucking the rug under her and settling her boa all the time. Know what I mean?"

so she never knew was she on land or at sea

or swooped through the blue like Airwinger's bride.

fw446: "Aerwenger's my breed"

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.75e --ALP's femininity--

Cain/Abel

apple dumpling

and is in her merlin chair assotted,

merlin chair: an invalid wheelchair invented by J.J. Merlin

aseated
besotted

reading her Evening World.

Evening World: a New York City newspaper, 1887-1931 [wiki]

To see is it smarts, full lengths or swaggers.

smart: (of clothing) stylish

full-length coat

swagger coat: a type of three-quarter-length woman's coat (fashionable in the 1930s)

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.75f --ALP sees herself in news stories--

Fez: city, Morocco

Angry scenes at Stormount.

Stormont: the seat of the Northern Ireland parliament

Stilla Star with her lucky in goingaways.

Italian stilla: drop
Italian stella: star

her bridegroom? fiance?

going-away clothes: clothes worn by a bride when going off on her honeymoon

Opportunity fair with the China floods

phrase

1931

and we hear these rosy rumours.

rare

Ding Tams he noise about all same Harry chap.

Dick, Tom, Harry
damnall?

knows

Harry chap

She's seeking her way, a chickle a chuckle,

in and out of their serial story, Les Loves of Selskar et Pervenche,

(Selskar and Periwinkle) [388.06] [580.17-.18]

Danish elsker: loves

Selskar Gunn: son of Michael Gunn, manager of Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (Selskar was one year younger than Joyce, their families were friendly in Dublin, and he further socialised with Joyce in Paris in the 1920s) [626.19]

French pervenche: periwinkle

freely adopted to The Novvergin's Viv.

no virgin

Norwegian's

Danish viv: wife

French vive: lively (feminine)

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.75g --ALP has many years left--

1.75a: I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate and the butter, trust me...
1.75b: The sternwheel's crawling strong. I seen your missus in the hall...
1.75c: Bald Tib does be yawning and smirking cats' hours on the Pollockses'...
1.75d: If you only were there to explain the meaning, best of men...
1.75e: She was flirtsome then and she's fluttersome yet. She can second...
1.75f: News, news, all the news. Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez...
1.75g: There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night...

[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]

FDV: "Her hair's as brown as ever it was. And wivvy and wavy. Repose you now! Finn no more!"

There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres

bluebells growing
bubbles blowing

cf fw626: "But I read in Tobecontinued's tale that while blubles blows there'll still be sealskers."

cf fw628?? "the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms"

the night she signs her final tear. Zee End.

actress's final performance

teastain motif

Z (end of alphabet)
Dutch zee: sea
see (ie, cross-reference to the end of the book)

fw628 "the"

But that's a world of ways away.

Congreve: The Way of the World

Till track laws time.

track law (horse racing)

lost track of time

last time

Proust: In Search of Lost Time

No silver ash or switches for that one!

switch: a coil of false hair, worn by women as a hair-supplement

While flattering candles flare.

German flattern: to waver, to flutter

Anna Stacey's how are you!

Greek anastasê: resurrection

AngloIrish how are you!: don't be absurd! (Letter: How Are You)

Worther waist in the noblest,

German Wörter: words

worth her weight

says Adams and Sons, the wouldpay actionneers.

J. Adams and Sons, Dublin auctioneers

would-be

French actionnaire: shareholder

Her hair's as brown as ever it was.

And wivvy and wavy.

Italian vivi: alive (plural)

Repose you now! Finn no more!

French reposez-vous: have a lie down (literally 'repose you')

New Testament John 8:11: 'sin no more'

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.76a --a young HCE replacement--

there's already a big rody ram lad

Smollett (1721-1771) title-names cluster: [fweet-7] [wiki]
Roderick Random (1748) "rody ram lad at random"
Peregrine Pickle (1751) "pocked wife in pickle"
Humphry Clinker (1771) "lice nittle clinkers"
(not included in Oxen parodies?)

Hebrew ram: high, tall (cf below: "the height of Brewster's chimpney")

Tristram

at random on the premises of his haunt of the hungred bordles,

cf ROC4 "the socalled last free supper he greatly gave in his umbrageous house of the hundred bottles"
Conn of the Hundred Battles: legendary Irish king

hungry
hung, red

French bordel: brothel
bottles

as it is told me, Shop Illicit,

illicit drink shop
Chapelizod

flourishing like a lordmajor or a buaboabaybohm,

Penguin has "lord-major"

Lord-Mayor (of Dublin)

stuttering

baobab: African tree with a very thick trunk

German Baum: Dutch boom: tree

litting flop a deadlop (aloose!) to lea

letting
why lItting? littering?

cow-flop = manure
let flop = to shit?

colloquial dollop: a lump, a quantity
deadlock
dead-drop = unlucky drip-sound (Scottish)

alas!

the lee side and the weather side of a ship "to lea... on the breezy side"

but lifting a benbranch a yardalong (ivoeh!)

fw1 has "bennbranch"

Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798–1868) father of:
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840–1915)
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927) [wakp]

Hebrew ben: son

drop deadlop/ lift benbranch = Shaun/Shem?

a yard long

German i wo!: heavens no!, not a bit of it!
Latin evoe: shout of joy (of the Bacchantes)

on the breezy side (for showm!),

for show
for shame!
Shem/Shaun

the height of Brewster's chimpney

dialect brewster: brewer
Brewster [fweet-5] incl Blanchette Brewster, Josephine Brewser, Brigid Brewster
1901 census shows 163 Brewsters in ireland

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
chimney

Guinness brewery chimney

and as broad below as Phineas Barnum,

height vs width

Phineas T. Barnum: American showman

fw1 had semicolon

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Saturday, August 30, 2014

FW 1.76b --the replacement's family--

in a pickle = having difficulties
slang in pickle: venereally infected?

Smollett: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle [wiki]

firefly (insects)
why flyfire?

and three lice nittle clinkers,

3 = Shem/Shaun/Issy

lice (insects)
nice little

fdv: "sly"

nits (insects)

Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [wiki]

two twilling bugs and one midgit pucelle.

Danish twilling: twin

bugs (insects)
boys

midge: small gnat-like insect (insects)
Barnum exhibited midgets
idiot?

French puce: flea (insects)
French pucelle: virgin

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.76c --opinions of his guilt vary--

or he was neverdone seeing what you coolpigeons know,

seen doing... done seeing

your... you

stool pigeons
pigeons = lipoleums

weep the clouds aboon for smiledown witnesses,

with

clouds weeping = rain

dialect aboon: above (Scottish)
alone
a boon

weep/smile

why oneword smiledown? lockdown? (cf deadlop above) smiled on?
crown witness? friendly witness?

Hebrews 12:1: 'compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses'

"Clouds of Witness" was a 1926 Dorothy Sayers detective novel [wiki]

(how could the clouds witness him NOT doing anything?)

and that'll do now about the fairyhees and the frailyshees.

that will do = please no more [def]

he/she
fair/frail?
fairies

Anglo-Irish shee: fairy (from Irish sídhe)
but why heEs? heels?

is 'fraily' a (multilingual?) pun?
frail-ish?

ie, no more gossip about his sins with boys and girls

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.76d --it's our Creation--

fw1 has 'Eset'
Hebrew eshet: wife of (form of Hebrew isha: woman, wife)
East

fib: lie
fiddle

Zephyr: the west wind personified
Sephiroth: the ten emanations of Ain Soph in kabbalistic lore
zenith?

and Artsa zoom it round her heavens for ever.

Eseb and Artsa = Adam and Eve? Eve and Adam??

Hebrew artsa: to the earth (form of Hebrew erets: earth, country)
a star (anagram)
arts
Latin astra: star

'zoom' as a verb dates to 1892? [wkt]

Creator, he has created for his creatured ones a creation.

create (x4)

creator = artist?

featured
created
chosen?

White monothoist? Red theatrocrat?

in PoA, the white rose was York, the red Lancaster

White and Red political factions (especially during the Russian Civil War)
red = communist

white dwarf (1932??), red giant (1921): types of stars

monotheist: a believer in one god
(but why THO? thou? thought?)
rhinoceros???

rule by theatre?
theocracy: priest-rule (Viconian age)

And all the pinkprophets cohalething? Very much so!

red + white = pink (compromise)

(why no space?)

profits

coalescing
Hebrew 'qoheleth' = Ecclesiastes (after its author/assembler 'preacher'?)

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.76e --but he was once real--

FW 1.76f --he arrived by ship--

the twin turbane dhow The Bey for Dybbling,

turban (see also below)
turbine

dhow: a native vessel used in the Arabian Sea

why cap 'The'?

bey: Turkish governor

Dublin Bay
"fibble it... Dybbling"

this archipelago's first visiting schooner,

visiting scholar

with a wicklowpattern waxenwench at her prow for a figurehead,

County Wicklow
willow pattern: a pattern of blue-white English crockery, depicting willow-trees as a prominent feature

waxwork statue
obsolete waxen: grown up

dialect wench: young woman; maidservant

the deadsea dugong updipdripping from his depths,

Dead Sea

dugong: a marine mammal, perhaps responsible for mermaid stories

cf fw1.11 "With a nip nippy nip and a trip trippy trip so airy" and fw65 "in his tippy, upindown dippy, tiptoptippy canoodle, can you?"

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.76g --doing his thing--

1.76a: For, be that samesake sibsubstitute of a hooky salmon, there's already a big rody ram...
1.76b: humphing his share of the showthers is senken on him he's such a grandfallar...
1.76c: And aither he cursed and recursed and was everseen doing what your fourfootlers saw...
1.76d: Though Eset fibble it to the zephiroth and Artsa zoom it round her heavens...
1.76e: But however 'twas 'tis sure for one thing, what Sherif Toragh voucherfors...
1.76f: with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow, The Bey for Dybbling...
1.76g: and has been repreaching himself like a fishmummer these sixtyten years ever since...
1.76h: our old offender was humile, commune and ensectuous from his nature...

[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]

FDV: "and has been repeating himself like fish ever since {an also for all the bulkihead}" →
"and has been repeating himself like fish ever since as also batin the bulkihead, he bloats about, ~~the~~ {that} innebbiate,"

and has been repreaching himself like a fishmummer these sixtyten years ever since,

reproaching
repeating
preaching again

fdv: "repeating himself like fish" ??? not 'A fish'

fishmonger
mummer

French soixante-dix: seventy (literally 'sixty-ten')
1939 - 70 = 1869
1904 - 70 = 1834

his shebi by his shide, adi and aid,

Sheba (ie, wife)
Turkish shebi: likeness
Hebrew shevi: captivity
Hebrew sheva: seven

Anglo-Irish accent: shide: side

Turkish adi: ordinary
Hebrew adi: ornament
Hebrew adey ad: for evermore

Adam and Eve
daddy and maid?
he's adi, she's aid

growing hoarish under his turban

hoary = old, white
Horus: Egyptian god

VI.B1.8: 'grow old under turban'
an 'under-turban' is a thing

"twin turbane dhow... turban"

turban hides white hair?

and changing cane sugar into sethulose starch

VI.B1.17: 'plants turn sugar into starch & cellulose'
Daedalus or Science and the Future 37: 'the average plant turns most of its sugar not into starch which is digestible [by humans], but into cellulose which is not, but forms its woody skeleton' [etext]

Cain and Seth (Genesis 4:25: 'And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew')

Set: Egyptian god

(Tuttut's cess to him!),

tut-tut (expressing disapproval, disdain or impatience)

Tut's curse (ie,Tutankhamen's curse) a 'grain Osiris' (mud molded into human form and sown with seed to grow within the tomb) was found in Tutankhamen's tomb

Italian tutto cessa: everything ends, everything comes to an end
Italian colloquial phrase: tutto un cesso: a real dump, a complete mess (literally 'all a latrine')

as also that, batin the bulkihood he bloats about when innebbiated,

insertion: "an also for all the bulkihead"

Turkish batin: Hebrew beten: belly, abdomen
Scottish bating: with the exception of
masturbating
beating (...his breast?)

bulkhead
likelihood
bullshit?

brags
bleats

inebriated
Italian annebbiato: clouded, foggy

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

FW 1.76h --he'll take the blame--

1.76a: For, be that samesake sibsubstitute of a hooky salmon, there's already a big rody ram...
1.76b: humphing his share of the showthers is senken on him he's such a grandfallar...
1.76c: And aither he cursed and recursed and was everseen doing what your fourfootlers saw...
1.76d: Though Eset fibble it to the zephiroth and Artsa zoom it round her heavens...
1.76e: But however 'twas 'tis sure for one thing, what Sherif Toragh voucherfors...
1.76f: with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow, The Bey for Dybbling...
1.76g: and has been repreaching himself like a fishmummer these sixtyten years ever since...
1.76h: our old offender was humile, commune and ensectuous from his nature...

[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]

FDV: "an that he was of humile commune & ensectuous nature, as ~~his~~ you may guess from his byname, & that he is he & no other he who is primarily responsible for the high cost of everything." →
"that he was humile commune & ensectuous from nature, as you may guess after his byname, & that he is he & no other he will be ultimendly respunchable for the hall cost of everything."

our old offender was humile, commune and ensectuous from his nature,

356.13: "the farst wriggle from the ubivence, whereom is man, that old offender, nother man, wheile he is asame"

fdv: "of humile commune & ensectuous nature" (more poetically earthy)

HCE

Latin humilis: lowly
humus = earth
hamile = pregnant (Turkish)

common
communist
immune?

insect (insects)
incestuous
enceinte = pregnant
encysted?

which you may gauge after the bynames was put under him

gage = pledge

German Beiname: nickname, epithet (archaic German: Beiname: surname)
byword, bylaw
goodbye?

earwigger

why "under"? cf put label on, call names after

in lashons of languages (honnein suit and praisers be!),

Hebrew lashon: tongue, speech, language
AngloIrish lashings: plenty (cf U225: "Lashings of stuff we put up: port wine and sherry...")
lessons
fashions

Motto of the Garter: Honi soit qui mal y pense: Evil Be (to Him) Who Evil Thinks of This [pron]

'hinein' = in (away from the speaker) (German)
Honein = obscure 9thC Arab Christian translator
Hebrew khanneni: pity me

HAHNayn SOOTE?

praises be
people who praise

and, totalisating him, even hamissim of himashim,

'totalization' is a word
totalling
cf generalisation, visualisation
taking him in total

Hebrew khamishim: fifty
Hebrew khamisha khumshey: five fifths, ie Pentateuch, or five kingdoms of ancient Ireland
Ham and Shem
'Al HaNissim (Hebrew: עַל הַנִסִּים, "on the miracles") is an addition to the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon on Hanukkah and Purim.' [wiki]

that he, sober serious, he is ee and no counter he

VI.B14.229: 'sober serious'
My People, Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales 25: 'What nonsense you talk out of the back of your head! Sober serious, mouth not that you have thrown gravel at Sara Jane's window!' ('in truth'?)

fdv: "he is he & no other he"

Pigott's forged Parnell letter began: 'Dear E!... let there be an end of this hesitency'
why EE?

no account
counterfeit, counterpart, counterpoint
U: counterjumper

who will be ultimendly respunchable for the hubbub caused in Edenborough.

ultimately responsible

Latin timendum: to be feared
end
untimely?

punchable

HCE
fdv: "~~high~~ {hall} cost of everything"

Hebrew khibbubh: fondness

Garden of Eden
Eden and Burgh Quays, Dublin, face one another across the Liffey river
Edinburgh
'-boro' [fweet-39] mostly one-syllable prefixes

[next]

full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29