Annotated Finnegans Wake (with Wakepedia): p5

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Friday, September 26, 2014

FW 1.5f --his majestic erection--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitectitiptitoploftical...

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synopsis: Tim Finnegan the masterbuilder — his tower

FDV: "and larrons of toolers clittering up on it & tumblers a' buckets clottering down."

erigenating from next to nothing

Latin erigens: building, erecting; arousing, stimulating
nervi erigentes: nerves involved in the erection of the penis
Greek êrigeneia: early-born (an epithet of Dawn)
originating

EB11 vol. IX, 'Erigena, Johannes Scotus', 744a: 'The infinite essence of God, which may indeed be described as nihilum (nothing) is that from which all is created, from which all proceeds or emanates'
Irish philosopher who theorised a quadripartite cyclical nature of the universe (his name means 'Irish-born')

and celescalating the himals and all,

celestial
escalating

German Himmel: sky, heavens
Himalaya

why "and all"?
Hell?

hierarchitectitiptitoploftical,

12 syllables ...ascending?

hierarchy
architect
tiptop
ti-tip-ti-top
colloquial toploftical: haughty

with a burning bush abob off its baubletop

Moses' burning bush

lights at top of high buildings such as Eiffel Tower and Woolworth Building (warn planes, guide travelers, impress all)

builders' tradition of placing a bush, wreath or small tree, sometimes adorned with red ribbons, on top of a new building [more]

a bush was a sign of an inn or place where liquor is sold ('The idea of the pub sign came to Britain at the time of the Roman invasion. Wine bars in ancient Rome hung bunches of vine leaves outside as trading signs but when the Romans came here, they found precious few vines in the inhospitable climate. Instead, they hung up bushes to mark out the inns and the names Bush or Bull & Bush still survive.' cite)

obsolete abob: to astonish, to confound
German Bau: building, construction
Tower of Babel

and with larrons o'toolers clittering up

workmen with tools and buckets

French larron: thief

St Laurence O'Toole, bishop and patron of Dublin, was a contemporary of St Thomas à Becket, bishop of Canterbury, at the time of Henry II (the former advanced his personal career, the latter was martyred)

alpha/omega

Thom's 1905: lists Richard Toole, James Beckett and William Beckett as Dublin builders

AngloIrish clittering: the noise of hurrying feet (from Irish cliotar)
German klettern: to climb
clitoris

and tombles a'buckets clottering down.

tumbles (...in hay?)

Becket was martyred

French phrase: il en tombe à seaux: it's raining (tomber = to fall) in buckets (seaux)

SwissGerman: lottern = to wobble

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FW 1.6a --his coat of arms tells his story--

1.6a: Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg...
1.6b: Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister...

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synopsis: his crest of heraldry — his fate

FDV: "The first was he to bare arms and the name. His creast a hegoat, horrid, horned. His shield, fessed, helio of the second." →
"The first was he to bare arms and the name. His creast in vert with ancillars: a hegoat, horrid, horned. His shield, fessed, helio with archers strung, of the second."

there's two themes strongly associated with Leopold Bloom that may be introduced here, ambiguously:
HCE as cuckold: huroldry, ancillars, horned
HCE as victim: troublant, poursuivant, horrid, fessed

Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg.

Hamlet V.1.27-35: 'CLOWN:... There is no ancient gentlemen but gard'ners, ditchers, and grave-makers. They hold up Adam's profession... 'A was the first that ever bore arms... The Scripture says Adam digg'd. Could he dig without arms?'

Virgil: Aeneid: (opens) 'I sing of arms and the man'

archaic wassail: a salutation used when drinking to someone's health, the liquor thus drunk
Irish uasal: Mr, gentleman

Vasily Buslaev aka Vasili Buslaevich: hero-warrior-giant of 15thC Russian ballad cycle of Novgorod (Vasily derives from Greek basileus: king)

vassal, boss

boos/ laugh
Dutch boos: angry, evil, malicious (cf 'boast')
Irish sliabh: mountain (eg Slieve Bloom)

there was a folklorist named Buslaev

Riesengebirge: German giant (riesen) mountain range (gebirge) on Czech-Polish border famous for waterfall

German geboren: born

(it's remarkable/atypical that this prominently positioned name: "Wassaily Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg" is so unfamiliar and literally far-fetched)

His crest of huroldry, in vert with ancillars, troublant, argent,

coat of arms
Vico assigned heraldry to be the language of the heroic age

heraldry: crest: a figure borne above the shield in a coat of arms

German Hure: whore
cuckoldry?

heraldry: vert = green
invert = gay

Latin ancillae: handmaidens, maidservants (two female supporters on the Dublin coat of arms

antlers? (cuckoldry)

French troublant: perturbing, disturbing, alluring

heraldry: argent: silver, white

urgent?

a hegoak, poursuivant, horrid, horned.

which pronunciation? he-goat or hedge oak

oak tree (on the O'Reilly of East Breffny coat of arms)

French poursuivant: suitor, pursuer
pursuivant: a junior heraldic officer

AngloIrish horrid horn: fool ('Horrid-horn, a term of reproach amongst the street Irish, meaning a fool, or half-witted fellow, from the Anglo-Irish omadhaun, Irish and Gaelic amadan')

obsolete horned: cuckolded

His scutchum, fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second.

heraldry: escutcheon: the shield on which a coat of arms is depicted
scrotum?
FW1 had "scutschum" (no comma)

heraldry: fesse: a third of the field, enclosed by two horizontal lines
French fesses: buttocks
French fesser: to spank
first

handmaidens/archers = maggies/ soldiers (important sigla)

German Arsch: arse

strung: fitted with strings; tense

he-lion (lions on the Finnegan coat of arms)

Greek hêlios: the sun
helium is the second element of the periodic table

heraldry: 'of the second': of the second colour in the description of a heraldic object (ie argent)

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FW 1.6b --ridiculed in nursery rhymes--

1.6a: Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Booslaeugh of Riesengeborg...
1.6b: Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister...

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FDV: "Haitch is for Husbandman planting his hoe. Hohohoho Mister Finn you're going to be Mr Finn again. Comeday morning when and your senday end you're {?foulin} Vinegar. Hahahaha Mister Finn you're going to be fined again." →
"Haitch is for Husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho Mister Finn you're going to be Mister Finn again. Comeday morn ~~you're feelin ho~~ oh, you're Vine! senday ~~evening~~ eve, and, ah, Vinegar. Hahahaha Mister ~~Fine~~ Funn you're going to be fined again."

Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe.

H (HCE)

VI.B6.151: 'hootch'
US slang hootch: cheap or illegal alcohol (from Hoochinoo, an Alaskan Indian village that produced it)

cf Tom Thumb's Alphabet 'H was a hunter and hunted a buck. I was an innkeeper, who loved to boose'

husbandman (cuckold motif)

"handling his hoe" = masturbating

Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain!

'ho' times four

alpha/omega

Irish fionn: fair, white

Comeday morm and, O, you're vine!

comedy

Monday? morn

norm

fine

Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar!

come/send

Sunday eve

O/ah

wine sours to vinegar

Hahahaha, Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again!

Finn/Funn

fined = refined, or penalized, or stopped

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FW 1.7a --an islamic perspective on his fall--

clubhouse

Earwicker
eyewitness (ear/eye)

VI.B45.106: 'Mt Arafat thunderous'
The Story of Mohammed 52: 'In his early days as a shepherd Mohammed had lived much with nature; he had seen the pale dawn touch the grim summits of Mount Hira and Mount Arafat, had heard the thunder roll through the sounding passes of the hills'

Mt Arafat

Our Father: The Lord's Prayer
farts

but we hear also through successive ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlehimissilehims

VI.B45.106: 'Sheb (rock)'
The Story of Mohammed 58: 'The mountains on the eastern side of Meccah rise very steeply, like cliffs, quite close to the town, and between their spurs are long narrow ravines called Shebs. The word Sheb means, in Arabic, a rock' (Arabic sheb = a ravine, not a rock)

shabby chorus of unqualified

VI.B45.109: 'Choraysh' (the entry is preceded by a cancelled 'K')
The Story of Mohammed 91: 'There were many exiles from Meccah, who had fled from the persecutions of the Kuraysh' (the ruling tribe at Meccah, to which Mohammed also belonged)

VI.B45.106: 'Khalif (successor)'
The Story of Mohammed 57: 'Like Abu Bakr, Omar became one of the Prophet's chief advisers; in after years they both succeeded him as head of Islam, or Khalif, a word which means Successor'

FW2: muzzlehimissilehims ← muzzlenimiissilehims (6 syllables, not 8)

archaic Mussulmen: Muslims

missiles (stones thrown in Muslim pilgrimage ceremony of 'pelting the devil', in memory of Abraham having similarly driven the devil away when tempted to disobey the command to sacrifice Isaac)

that would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven.

slander
black, white (dark/fair)
whitest one

VI.B45.104: 'inblack stone' ('in-'?)
The Story of Mohammed 22: (of the Kaabah in Meccah) 'At the southeast corner of the building, near the only door, is inserted a mysterious Black Stone, which has been held in reverence by countless generations. A legend tells that it once fell from heaven, and was originally white, until the sins of the world changed it to its present colour'

hurtled, hurled
turtled = moved slowly

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FW 1.7b --islamic prayer--

1.7a: What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business?...
1.7b: Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sustainer, what time we rise and when...
1.7c: Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb...
1.7d: It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus...
1.7e: (what with the wallhall's horrors of rollsrights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees...
1.7f: and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite...
1.7g: and the noobibusses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping...
1.7h: of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum...
1.7i: wan warning Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall...

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Stay us wherefore in our search for righteousness, O Sustainer,

VI.B45.105: 'Islam (strife for righteousness)'
Holland: The Story of Mohammed 45: (of Mohammed's religion) 'the particular name he gave it was Islam, which signifies "striving for righteousness"'

FW1 had "tighteousness,"
slang tight: drunk

VI.B45.110: 'O Sustainer'
The Story of Mohammed 99: (addressing Allah, in a parable about the strength of charity) ''O our Sustainer,' said the angels, 'is there anything in Thy creation stronger than wind?''

what time we rise and when we take up to toothpick

VI.B45.109: 'what time thou risest and in the night and at the fading of the stars'
The Story of Mohammed 93: 'Mohammed enjoined his followers to pray five times a day. 1. Before sunrise. 2. When the sun has begun to decline. 3. In the afternoon. 4. A little after sunset. 5. At night fall... but many... pray at other time as well. For it is written, "Celebrate the praises of thy Lord what time thou risest, and in the night, and at the fading of the stars"'

Mohammed used toothpicks (Ayesha handed him one as he lay dying)

FW1 had "toothmick"

and before we lump down upown our leatherbed

down, feather

upon
own

VI.B45.109: 'leather mattress,...'
The Story of Mohammed 96: 'The Prophet's bed was a leather mattress, stuffed with palm leaves, which was laid on the floor'

and in the night and at the fading of the stars!

VI.B45.109: 'what time thou risest and in the night and at the fading of the stars'
The Story of Mohammed 93: 'Mohammed enjoined his followers to pray five times a day. 1. Before sunrise. 2. When the sun has begun to decline. 3. In the afternoon. 4. A little after sunset. 5. At night fall... but many... pray at other time as well. For it is written, "Celebrate the praises of thy Lord what time thou risest, and in the night, and at the fading of the stars"'

For a nod to the nabir is better than a wink to the wabsanti.

proverb A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

VI.B45.109: 'Prayer is better than sleep'
The Story of Mohammed 94: (of Bilal, the first muezzin) 'Before the early morning prayer he added, "Prayer is better than sleep"'

Arabic: nabi: prophet
neighbor

FW1 had "than wink" (no 'a')

Wahabi: a Muslim sect
wasabi?
absent
Italian santi: saints

what does this mean? being kind to your neighbors is better than praying to absent saints??

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FW 1.7c --religious beliefs dismissed as random--

VI.B45.109: 'camel shall decide'
The Story of Mohammed 90: 'As Mohammed entered Medinah, he was beset on all sides by the invitations of the Faithful... But Mohammed, perhaps fearing to create jealousies by favouring one more than another, said: "The camel shall decide, let her go free"'

bracken ferns are poisonous to some animals

ie random throw?

Then we'll know if the feast is a flyday.

VI.B45.109: 'Friday mosque'
The Story of Mohammed 90: 'the procession halted, and Mohammed led the prayers and preached to the assembled people. On the spot where this happened in now a mosque, which is known as the "Friday Mosque." Friday was chosen, later on, as the day specially set apart for the service of God, like the Christian Sunday'
chosen randomly?

Latin musca: fly (sounds like 'mosque') (2-level pun = farfetched?)

Penguin: "know it the"

She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary.

why "She"?

second sight

Al-Kaswa = camel's name ()

all casually answers
occasionally?

VI.B45.109: 'ansar helper'
The Story of Mohammed 91: 'the citizens of Medinah, who were converts, were called Ansars, or Helpers'

dromedary camel

Heed! Heed!

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Penguin: "Heed! Heed."

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FW 1.7d --the causes of the fall--

FW 1.7e --(it was traffic noise--

car
Carnac: site of megaliths in Brittany (Joyce was there in summer 1924)

colloquial hack: hackney coach, taxi cab

tree/stone
Stonehenge: a famous site of megaliths

engines

FW1 has "stonengens," fweet prefers "stoneengens,"

kisstvanes, tramtrees, fargobawlers,

VI.B14.112: 'kistvaen'
kistvaen: a stone burial-chest or burial-chamber

vans

trams

Tristram used the name Tramtris when in Ireland (or Tristan/Tantris)

go far

Irish fág a bealach: clear the way (name for a useless person; motto of the Dublin Fusiliers)

autokinotons, hippohobbilies,

modern Greek autokinêton: self-moving (thing), automobile

Greek hippos: horse
hobby-horses
Colloquial hobbledehoy: a youth between boyhood and manhood (especially, a clumsy or awkward one)
cf VI.B.1.139: 'hobblesides' 'Aunt Hobblesides' was John Joyce's nickname for Aunt Josephine
cf VI.A "scribbledehobble"

streetfleets, tournintaxes,

Fleet Street, Dublin

VI.B10.43: 'fleet of motorcars'
Irish Times 18Nov22: (of Lord Northcliffe) 'he owned a wonderful fleet of motor cars'

VI.B16.49: 'Turn & Taxis'
Gallois: La Poste et les Moyens de Communication 91: (French 'the transition of the German postal organisation under the control of the princes of the famous family of Thurn und Taxis')

turning taxis

turn in (your) taxes

megaphoggs, circuses and wardsmoats

megaphones

Phileas Fogg: the main character in Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days

circus = open round street intersection
ward = division of city
moats = barrier-ditches?

wordsmiths??

and basilikerks and aeropagods

VI.B49c.02: 'basilica'
Greek basilikos: royal
basilisks

Dutch kerk: church

aero-
Aeropagus: the Supreme Court on the hill of Ares at Athens
pagodas

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FW 1.7f --it was the noisy bustle--

The Four Courts, Dublin
Four Masters old and boring
forecourts

Irish bóthar mór: main road, highway

and his blightblack workingstacks at twelvepins a dozen

Black Plague?

walking-sticks
smokestacks
working men

Twelve Pins: a mountain range in Joyce Country, County Galway (aka Twelve Bens)

tenpins = bowling
twelve pence (ie one shilling, $6.50 today)

twelve Citizens

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