FW 1.3b --HCE's fragments scattered across Dublin--

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1.3b: The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan...

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FDV: "The fall of the wall at once entailed the fall of Finnigan, and the humpty hill himself promptly sends an inquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes. Two facts have come down to us {Their resting} is at the knock out in the park where there have always been oranges on the green always & ever since the Devlin first loved liffey." →
"The great fall of the wall entailed at such short notice the fall of Finnigan, the solid man, that the humpty hillhead himself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes. The upturnpikepoint for place is at the knock out in the park where there have been oranges laid on the green ever & evermore since the Devlins first loved livy."



The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice

according to the 1st draft, the wall fell first, followed by Finnigan

Humpty Dumpty: 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall'

rugby has on-walls and off-walls

French oeuf: egg (Humpty Dumpty)

awful?

tail: the posterior

why "at such short notice"?


the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man,

there's a Pfitsch, Italy about 200 miles from Trieste

French chute: fall
Schute = barge (German)

FDV, surprisingly, has "Finnigan" suggesting the book-title might once have been Finnigans Wake

_Obs_ Erse = Irish, or Scottish Gaelic

_G_ erste: first

erstwhile

else (_M,L/R_)

alias (_M,L/R_)

arse: the posterior

'The Solid Man': W.J. Ashcroft, American-Irish Dublin music hall performer (because of his famous rendering of song Muldoon the Solid Man)




healthy (solid), wealthy (_L_ solidus) and wise (Solomon)


that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes:

Humpty Dumpty

a sleeping giant with Howth Hill as his head and with his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park

himself
(do i hear an echo of Winnie the Pooh, 1926?)

promptly
rump: the posterior
longshot: un: in Egyptian mythology, the hare as a symbol of Osiris
enquiring
un-quiring = taking apart a book

Amenti (originally meant 'The West'), Osiris' kingdom, is the Egyptian underworld

inquest

(Osiris was dismembered by Set and his organs scattered)

(five toes)

phrase: turn up one's toes: to die


and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park

HCE managed the royal turnpike at Chapelizod

early turnpike design

pike

pike: a point at the toe of a shoe, fashionable in the 14thC
point: in ballet, the tip of the toes

Irish cnoc: hill (so 'the hill in the park'?)
Castleknock, just northwest of Phoenix Park, from Irish: Caisleán Cnucha, meaning "Cnucha's Castle" (site of the battle where Finn MacCool's father, Cumhal, was killed)
i can't find anyone using 'the knock' for a place


where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since devlins first loved livvy.

orange/green = Protestant/Catholic

the Basque word for orange (laranja) is possibly folk-etymologised as 'the fruit that was first eaten' (ie by Adam and Eve)
Biddy the hen will find the Letter in a dungheap with orangepeels

organs?
laid to rest: buried
Dutch rust: rest

De Valera
Dublin
devils
Adam loved Eve
Liffey river
FW1 had "devlinsfirst"

dubious Fweets:
Russian palec: toe? pronounced paLETZ not place
slang orange: female genitalia



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