Annotated Finnegans Wake (with Wakepedia): p19

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

FW 1.64f --letters as money--

1.64a: (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed!...
1.64b: Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin...
1.64c: In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits...
1.64d: But with a rush out of his navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vivelyonview this...
1.64e: Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and arming bellicose figurines see here...
1.64f: When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit. Here (please to stoop)...
1.64g: Right rank ragnar rocks and with these rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong. Wisha, wisha...
1.64h: Olives, beets, kimmells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. Owlets' eegs (O stoop to please!)...
1.64i: Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie...
1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.

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FDV: "When a piece does for the whole we soon get used to an allforabit. Here are selveram cued little peas of quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make payroll." →
"When a piece does duty for the whole we soon get used to an allphorabit. Here are selveram cued ~~petty~~ petteet peas of quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as they are the pellets that make the ~~tomtums~~ tomtummy's payroll."
'does for' = dooms

When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit.

synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, or the whole for a part

Giordano Bruno held that every tiny particle embodies the entire universe within itself (quantum physics considers this a real possibility)

French petit: small

Greek holos: whole

all for a bit (synecdoche)
alphabet

Here (please to stoop) are selveran cued peteet peas

"(Stoop)... (please stoop)..." above

several
selve = jungle (French)
selves
FDV = "selveram" (veram = true)
silver
Elvery's elephant house?

cute little

"ptee... peteet"

P/Q

French petits pois cuits: cooked peas (cuire = to cook)
in 'Two Gallants' Lenehan can only afford a plate of peas
cf Cad3: "after having eaten very excellent peas boiled with malt vinegar, a plateful he frankly relished in raw weather"

of quite a pecuniar interest inaslittle as

Latin pecunia: money
peculiar

interest = attention; accrual to capital

inasmuch

they are the pellets that make the tomtummy's pay roll.

pellets = peas?

Danish tom: empty
colloquial tummy: stomach ('roll' = queasy?)
colloquial Tommy: a private in the British army

French parole: spoken word, speech (letters make words)
payroll (were soldiers ever paid in dry peas?)

cf T&I3: "Her role was to roll on the darkblue ocean roll that rolled on round the round roll Robert Roly rolled round."

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FW 1.64g --letter-coins as weapons--

1.64a: (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed!...
1.64b: Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin...
1.64c: In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits...
1.64d: But with a rush out of his navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vivelyonview this...
1.64e: Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and arming bellicose figurines see here...
1.64f: When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit. Here (please to stoop)...
1.64g: Right rank ragnar rocks and with these rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong. Wisha, wisha...
1.64h: Olives, beets, kimmells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. Owlets' eegs (O stoop to please!)...
1.64i: Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie...
1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.

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FDV: "Right are rocks and with these rocks rogues rangled rough & ?rightgoring. Wisha, wisha, whydidthe? This is for thorn that's tuck in its toil like tom anger. {What a middenhide's hoard of abjects!}" →
"Right are rocks and with these rocks orangotangoes rangled rough & ?rightgorong. Wisha, wisha, whydidtha? Thik is for thorn that's tuck in its toil like tomfool's traitor thrust for vengeance. What a mnice old mness it mnakes, mniddenhide's hoard of abjects!"

Right rank ragnar rocks

FDV: "Right are rocks"
right as rain

Ragnar = given name 'army-counsel'

U-Calypso (Molly): "O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words."

Old Norse Ragnarøkr: destruction (fate) of the Norse gods

Matthew 16:18: 'thou art Peter and upon this rock'

and with these rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong.

throwing pellet-peas at each other?

FDV: "and with these rocks rogues rangled rough & ?rightgoring"
with this ring I thee wed

why roX? singular like 'ring'?

Portuguese orangotangos: orang-utans (from Malay for 'forest dweller')

wrangled
obsolete rangle: to rove, to wander

AngloIrish phrase: right go wrong: regardless of consequences

tongue-twister 'Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran'

Wisha, wisha, whydidtha?

AngloIrish wisha: indeed, well (from Irish muise) [fweet-8]

why did you?

Thik is for thorn that's thuck in its thoil

FDV: "This is for thorn that's tuck in its toil like tom anger."

VI.A Eolus? 'a fool's word like a thorn in hand'

thorn: runic and Old English letter (th)

stuck
'tuck in its tail' = scared (eg cats, dogs) (does this describe the lettershape?)

toil
tail
soil

like thumfool's thraitor thrust for vengeance.

some fool's
thumb
Tom Thumb?

traitor
threat?

(Hamlet and arras?)

What a mnice old mness it all mnakes!

what a nice old mess it all makes

A middenhide hoard of abjects!

midden: dunghill, refuse heap
hidden
Malahide

midnight

FW1 has "objects"

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FW 1.64h --the letters' personalities--

E's
eggs
X (Mmlj?)

creakish from age and all now quite epsilene,

Greekish (cf U-Sirens Bloom: "Remember write Greek ees.")

FDV: "creakish with the hoopoocough" = Mmlj

longshot: French fromage: cheese

epicene: partaking of the characteristics of both sexes; feeble, effeminate (Mmlj again)
epsilon
obsolete

and oldwoldy wobblewers haudworth a wipe o grass.

old world
wold = forest or meadow

wobble
W's
ewes
ewers = jugs
Dialect ewer: udder

Latin haud: not

a/o

Sss! See the snake wurrums everyside!

snake's hiss

obsolete wurm: snake, worm

'wurra' is an Irish ejaculation that refers to hubbub, negative or positive, usually repeated two or three times (cf "Wisha, wisha" above)
a humorous 1911 book called 'Wurra-Wurra; a legend of Saint Patrick at Tara' depicts an idol with that name supposedly destroyed by St Patrick

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FW 1.64i --the S snakes--

1.64a: (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed!...
1.64b: Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin...
1.64c: In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits...
1.64d: But with a rush out of his navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vivelyonview this...
1.64e: Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and arming bellicose figurines see here...
1.64f: When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit. Here (please to stoop)...
1.64g: Right rank ragnar rocks and with these rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong. Wisha, wisha...
1.64h: Olives, beets, kimmells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. Owlets' eegs (O stoop to please!)...
1.64i: Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie...
1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.

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FDV: "Sss! See the snake ~~worms~~ wurrums everywhere our ?~~durst~~ durl bin is sworming with sneaks!"

Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks.

Dublin
dustbin
why duRlbin? cricketer Durling?

worm
swarming with snakes

They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie,

VI.B6.89: 'S came in a cargo of fruit'
NPFJr 22Feb24: 'The ss. Reventazon was landing a cargo of bananas from Jamaica when a strange little creature was discovered hiding among the fruit... its precise genus seems to have baffled everyone... Now, what is it?'

VI.B3.04: 'triangular Spain'
IISS 27: Saint Columcille's 'name not only became illustrious throughout the whole of our own Ireland and Britain, but reached even to triangular Spain and Gaul and Italy, and also to the city of Rome itself' (Spain is quite square)

French touche-à-tout: nosy person, busybody (literally 'touch-all')
French toucher terre: to land
French Angleterre: England

wet prairie: a tract of grassland characterised by the abundance of stagnant water in the soil (primarily referring to North American prairies)

rared up in the midst of the cargon of prohibitive pomefructs,

reared up (from birth, or elevation)

Genesis 3:3: 'the tree which is in the midst of the garden'

cargo
jargon?

prohibitive not prohibited

Eve's apple
French pomme: apple
Latin fructus: fruit
cf 'usufruct' (legal)

but along landed Paddy Dippingham and his garbagecans cotched the creeps of them

FW1 has "Wippingham" (Whippingham is a real place)
Dippingham is an obscure imaginary placename

St Patrick said to have banished serpents from Ireland

dialect cotched: catched

Macbeth III.2.13: 'We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it'

pricker than our whosethere outofman could quick up her whatsthats.

(is this maybe a little playlet with a cheating wife hastily concealing evidence when the doorbell rings?)

slang prick: penis
quicker

who's there

Genesis 2:23: 'she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man'
Ottoman (ie, foreigner, or footstool)

pick up her (drawers)

what's that

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FW 1.64k-65a --numerology--

1.64a: (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop), in this allaphbed!...
1.64b: Many. Miscegenations on miscegenations. Tieckle. They lived und laughed ant loved end left. Forsin...
1.64c: In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits...
1.64d: But with a rush out of his navel reaching the reredos of Ramasbatham. A terricolous vivelyonview this...
1.64e: Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. Mounting and arming bellicose figurines see here...
1.64f: When a part so ptee does duty for the holos we soon grow to use of an allforabit. Here (please to stoop)...
1.64g: Right rank ragnar rocks and with these rox orangotangos rangled rough and rightgorong. Wisha, wisha...
1.64h: Olives, beets, kimmells, dollies, alfrids, beatties, cormacks and daltons. Owlets' eegs (O stoop to please!)...
1.64i: Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie...
1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.
1.65a: Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus...
1.65b: Starting off with a big boaboa and threelegged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths...
1.65c: What a meanderthalltale to unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor...

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synopsis: of the number 111 — sons and daughters

FDV: "Subdivide and sumdolot and the tale comes out the same. {Axe ?plays axe on axe axewise.} One by one please one be three and one before. Two nursus one make free and idem behind." →
"Subdivide and sumdolot but the tale comes out the same balifuson. Axe on thwacks on ~~acks~~ thracks axewise. One by one place one be three and one before. Two nursus one make ~~tree~~ free and idem behind."

Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson.

subdivide and sum the lot
some divide (procreate) and some do not

tale
viconian cycle
same way

VI.B15.159: 'balofuseni balifusion'
SOA 203: (of the Ogham alphabet) 'The alphabet is divided into four aicmes or groups, each containing five letters: the first aicme, B, L, F, S, N... the fourth aicme, comprising the vowels A, O, U, E, I'

Racketeers and bottloggers.

bootleggers
bottle loggers (lagers?)

Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise.

FDV: "Axe ?plays axe on axe axewise."
x + x on xxy's

1 on 2 on 3
thwack = hit
tracks, on track

oxenwise
axon

longshot: the Avestan words 'taša' (axe) and 'thwaxš-' (be busy) both derive from the Proto-Indo-European root 'tek-' (to make), which in English gave rise to such words as 'text' and 'texture'

One by one place one be three, dittoh, and one before.

FDV: "One by one please one be three and one before."
1
by 1 [where is 2?]
plus 1
= 3
and 1
= 4?

Two nursus one make a plausible free and idim behind.

two nurses/nursemaids
two versus one
2+1=3
2 minus 1?

Latin idem: the same
hid him

"and one before... and idim behind"

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FW 1.65b --omens--

1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.
1.65a: Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus...
1.65b: Starting off with a big boaboa and threelegged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths...
1.65c: What a meanderthalltale to unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor...

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Starting off with a big boaboa and threelegged calvers

boa constrictor
maga-boaboa = evilsmelling abyss (Oceanic)

MKSC 49: (examples of omens) 'Three-legged calves, big snakes, the discovery of rocks of strange appearance'

Dutch kalvers: calves

and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths.

Igraine: mother of King Arthur

evergreen

William Archer: The Green Goddess (1921 play; Archer is better known for being Ibsen's translator; Joyce corresponded with him in 1900-2)

MKSC 45: (before Confucius's birth) 'a fabulous animal known as a chi lin appeared before the prospective mother, bearing in its mouth a jade tablet inscribed with a message prophesying future greatness for the son then about to be born. The young girl tied a silken scarf around the single horn of the animal and it disappeared the same night, only (according to the story) to reappear more than seventy years later, just after the death of Master Kung'

And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue

dread-filled

111
unleavened

MKSC 43: (in ancient China) 'Most of the writing done was laboriously inscribed with a stylus on slips of bamboo... a book the size of the volume now in the reader's hands would fill a small truck. It was said of one industrious scholar that he read 'a hundredweight daily''

Latin liber: book
Latin liberorumque: and of children

French slang: queue: penis

to con an we can till allhorrors eve.

archaic con: to study, to commit to memory
French slang: con: female genitalia
Conan: one of the Fianna, Finn's army

an = if

archaic All Hallows' Eve: Halloween

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FW 1.65c --rallying cries--

1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.
1.65a: Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus...
1.65b: Starting off with a big boaboa and threelegged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths...
1.65c: What a meanderthalltale to unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor...

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FDV: "What a tale to unfurl & with what an end in view {of squattor autosquattor auntisquattor & postprone[...]squattor}! And to say that we are all every tim mick & larry of us, sons of the sod, when we are not every sue, ciss & sally of us, dugters of ?Jor." →
"What a tale to unfurl & with what an end in view of auntisquattor & postproneauntisquattor! And to say we us to be are all every tim mick & larry of us, sons of the sod, sons littlesons, yea & ~~weelittlesons~~ leastlittlesons when usses not to be every sue, ciss & sally of us, dugters of Nan."

What a meanderthalltale to unfurl

meander (from the Meander river in Greece, noted for its winding course)
Neanderthal

tall tale
Latin talis: ending

unfurl like flag (cf Willingdone above)

and with what an end in view of squattor and auntisquattor and postproneauntisquattor!

squatter (squatting to defecate with one's 'end' in view)
squalor
Latin quattuor: four

anti- (one squats, another protests squatting)
aunt (Isolde is sometimes called Tristan's aunt)

postpone
prone (squat = sitting, prone = lying, postprone = getting up?)

To say too us to be, every tim, mick and larry of us,

Tom, Dick and Harry
(why not capitalised?)

sons of the sod, sons, littlesons, yea and lealittlesons,

'sons of the sod' = Irish peasants? (phrase)

French petit-fils: grandson (literally 'little son')

the boys are all sons, but the girls aren't daughters???

when usses not to be, every sue, siss and sally of us, dugters of Nan!

plural of us

Cissy
sister

dug: udder, pap
Serbo-Croatian duga: rainbow
daughters

longshot: Paps of Anu (Ana?) Mountains, County Kerry (shaped like breasts)

Accusative ahnsire! Damadam to infinities!

accusative case
accursed

answer
German Ahn: ancestor

damn
madam
Adam

infinitives

all future generations cursed? by original sin

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FW 1.66a --Joyce's early days--

1.66a: True there was in nillohs dieybos as yet no lumpend papeer in the waste and mightmountain Penn...
1.66b: But the world, mind, is, was and will be writing its own wrunes for ever, man, on all matters that fall...
1.66c: But the horn, the drinking, the day of dread are not now. A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap...
1.66d: For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints...
1.66e: So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical...

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synopsis: ancient times — writings and readings

FDV: "True there was no paper in the waste and the mountain pen still groaned for the micies to deliver him. You gave me a boot and I ate the wind. I tipped you a quid and you went to quod." →
"True there was no lumpend papeer as yet in the waste and the mountain pen still groaned for the micies to deliver him. You gave me a boot (signs on it!) and I ate the wind. I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and you went to quod."

True there was in nilloh's dieybos

Latin in illis diebus: in those days (a formula to introduce lesson and gospel in Mass)
why NillOH's dieYbOs?

as yet no lumpend papeer in the waste

German Lumpenpapier = rag paper (ie, high quality)

Lumpen = cad
end

peer

wastepaper?
toilet paper?

"waste" = Sandymount Strand? U48: "That's twice I forgot to take slips from the library counter."

and mightmountain Penn still groaned for the micies to let flee.

man-mountain
cf below: "mulk mountynotty man"

fountain pen

longshot: Pepys denigrates Sir William Penn

constipation?

Horace: Ars Poetica 139: 'the mountains are in labour, a laughable little mouse is born'

mighty?

set him free
FDV: "for the micies to deliver him"

let fly?

All was of ancientry.

antiquity
anxiety?

You gave me a boot (signs on it!) and I ate the wind.

"You... I... I... you... you" could these be Joyce and Gogarty??

'give him the boot' = fired him
'give him a boot' = pressure him, nudge him

in Ulysses, Stephen wears boots given to him by Mulligan (Ulysses 3.16: 'My two feet in his boots')

mute religious acts were the language of Vico's first age

AngloIrish phrase: 'signs on it' = in confirmation (from Irish tá a shliocht air or Irish tá a rian air)

curse on it
U-Circe "THE VIRAGO Signs on you, hairy arse."

Carlyle used 'unless we could eat the wind' to mean seeking nourishment from empty air; but in the south Pacific it's a good thing, breathing fresh air

I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and you went to the quod.

asked you for one pound

Latin quis: who

Latin quid: what
phrase quid pro quo: tit for tat

quad (in Ulysses, 'quad' is never used, and "quadrangle" refers to Oxford)
Latin quod: because

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FW 1.66b --prophecy of obscene literature--

The speeches and table-talk of the Prophet Mohammad xiv: 'The hospitality of the Arab is a proverb... it is strictly true. The last milch-camel must be killed rather than the duties of the host neglected' [ebook]

cf U-Telemachus, of Stephen: "Pulses were beating in his eyes, veiling their sight"

STPM xxvii: (of Mohammad) 'Fine long arched eyebrows were divided by a vein, which throbbed visibly in moments of passion'
(aren't all veins heartveins?)

brown eyes

Mohammed = camel??

has still to moor before the tomb of his cousin charmian

moor = eg, Othello
the term 'moor' was applied by Europeans to north Africans, usually black, often Muslim, but Mohammed would not be considered a moor

STPM xxiii: (of ancient Arab superstition) 'a few tied camels to the graves of the dead that the corpse might ride mounted to the judgement-seat'

STPM xxvi: (of Mohammad) 'his rich cousin, Khadija, whom he presently married at the age of twenty-five'
their mothers were third cousins [wiki]
she died after 25yrs of monogamous marriage

cousin-german: first cousin (not related to 'German')
(did Joyce mistakenly think she was his 1st-cousin?)

the camel's cousin?

Charmian: lady attending on Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (based on Plutarch's account, where she is called Charmion)
(why no capital?)

where his date is tethered by the palm that's hers.

the camel moors where his date is tethered??

STPM xxx: (of Mohammad) 'his ordinary food was dates and water'
date-palm
cf U-Nestor, of Sargent: "On his cheek, dull and bloodless, a soft stain of ink lay, dateshaped, recent and damp as a snail's bed. "

STPM xxiii: (of ancient Arab superstition) 'a few tied camels to the graves of the dead that the corpse might ride mounted to the judgement-seat'
(cf Stephen wearing black for a year?)

"by" = beside, or by her hand?
(what palm is hers?)

(can this be obscenely depicting Mohammed-- and/or Gogarty-- as in incestuous love with a camel?)

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