FW 1.18c --infinite reverberations of the fall--

1.18a: How charmingly exquisite! It reminds you of the outwashed engravure that we used to be blurring on the blotchwall...
1.18b: I say, the remains of the outworn gravemure where used to be blurried the Ptollmens of the Incabus. Used we?...
1.18c: By the mausolime wall. Fimfim fimfim. With a grand funferall. Fumfum fumfum. 'Tis optophone which ontophanes...


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FDV: "By the mausoleme wall. ?Finnfinn Fannfann. With with a grand funferall. Fumfum fumfum!
They will be tuggling forever.
They will be listling forever.
They will be pretumbling forever.
The harpsichord will be theirs forever." →
"By the mausolime wall. Fimfim fimfim. With with a grand funferall. Fumfum fumfum!
They will be tuggling forever.
They will be listling forever.
They will be pretumbling forever.
Their harpsdischord will be theirs forever."

after Yeats' play 'Cathleen ni Houlihan':
'They shall be remembered for ever,
They shall be alive for ever,
They shall be speaking for ever,
The people shall hear them for ever'


By the mausolime wall. Fimfim fimfim.

so we're back to HCE's sin?

Magazine wall
mausoleum

Finn


With a grand funferall. Fumfum fumfum.

Ltr,Funferall


'Tis optophone which ontophanes.

optophone: invented in 1914 by Fournier D'Albe to enable the blind to read by sound, using light sensitive cells to translate print into musical notes (the circuit includes an electrical device known as a Wheatstone bridge)

[wiki]

 Greek onto-: being, reality

Greek phaino: show


List! Wheatstone's magic lyer!

archaic list: listen
Hamlet

Wheatstone's Enchanted Lyre, 1821

This acoustical trick featured an ornate lyre suspended via a thin steel wire from the soundboards of pianos and other instruments in the room above, and which appeared to play 'of itself' by sound conduction and sympathetic resonance of its strings [cite]


They will be tuggling foriver.

who is "They"?

Yeats and Gregory: Cathleen ni Houlihan (play): 'They shall be remembered for ever, They shall be alive for ever, They shall be speaking for ever, The people shall hear them for ever'

struggling for Ivor

AngloIrish accent: foriver: forever
river


They will be lichening for allof.

FDV: listling

archaic lich: body
lichens (on stones)
likeness?

listening for Olaf
ollav


They will be pretumbling forover.

forever
Danish forover: forwards
German vorüber: past, gone


The harpsdischord shall be theirs for ollaves.

harpsichord discord
(harp official symbol of Ireland)

AngloIrish ollav: sage



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