Annotated Finnegans Wake (with Wakepedia): p594

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Monday, February 6, 2012

FW 17.5a --greeting the master--

Sanskrit cluster (hard to verify nuances)

Vah! Suvarn Sur!

Sanskrit 'vah' = to flow, carry, lead, transport, experience, take in marriage, convey in carriage (imperative directed at god?? why separate exclamation marks? announcing him?)

it's not 'go, sir' it's more like 'behold, a god'? cf the Sirens watching the viceregal cavalcade U245&c

Sanskrit: svarNa(स्वर्ण)/ Suvarna means 'gold' in Sanskrit, joining 'Su' (beautiful) and 'varna' (color). In the Mahabharata, Suvarna was the daughter of Ikshvaku (so, feminine?)

Sanskrit sur: sun, god, sage

Sanskrit Suvarn sur: 'god of good shape' (ie, golden)
sovereign sir

Scatter brand to the reneweller of the sky, thou who agnitest!

fdv: "Scatter fire to [...] of the sky." (imperative)

longshot: scatterbrain (wrong syntax)

Danish brand: a fire
firebrand = torch, agitator
Ibsen's "Brand" heroic outsider idealist

why "to"? set fire to?

renewer, renewal
newel: in architecture, the pillar forming the centre from which the steps of a winding stair radiate (U666: 'staircase...treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail') so, one who holds up the sky-- ie, Atlas?
so is this reneweller the sun, or something the sun shines on??

"thou" imperative

ignites
Sanskrit agni: fire
Agni: Hindu god of fire
obsolete agnition: recognition

Agnus Dei (Christ as Lamb of the Sacrifice)

Dah! Arcthur is coming! Be!

Sanskrit dah: to burn, scorch ("Vah! ...Dah! ...Be!")

fw1 had "Arcthuris comeing!"
Greek arcturos: guardian

Arthur
author

'be' = pray (Scandinavian languages)

Verb imprincipiant through the entrancitive spaces!

Vulgate New Testament John 1:1: 'In Principio erat Verbum': 'In the beginning was the Word'

the verb 'to be'?

imprint
incipient (cf U122: "—Incipient jigs. Sad case.")

fw1 had "umprincipiant... trancitive "

entrance, entrancing
intransitive verb

'verb' = time, vs 'spaces'?

Kilt by kelt shall kithagain with kinagain.

fdv identical: "Kilt by kelt shall kithagain with kinagain."

AngloIrish accent: kilt: killed
kilt = plaid Scottish men's skirt

celt: prehistoric chisel/axe
Celt = Celtic tribesman
killed by a celt

fw1 had "shell"

phrase kith and kin
Finnegan

465.31 "Be ownkind. Be kithkinish. Be bloodysibby. Be irish."

eternal brother-battle

We elect for thee, Tirtangel.

'we * for thee' [gBks] weep, pray, wait, mourn, make ready

elect = vote, choose, select
the elect = those who qualify for heaven

tuhrTANGEuhl or tuhrTAINjel?

Irish tir: land

Tintagel, Cornwall: site of Mark's castle and birthplace of Arthur (a 'rotten borough' before 1832) tinTADGEuhl

angel = Shaun?

Svadesia salve!

Hindustani: Svadesia: self-government
Sanskrit svadesia: self-guider, thou who movest spontaneously in thy proper course

(why no comma?)

salve = ointment
Latin salve: hail! (so probably 2 syllables)
save

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FW 17.5b --praying HCE's path be clear--

asta = rod (Italian and Spanish)
catamite?
astra = star
dynamite?? [fweet-5]

through dimdom done till light kindling light has led,

Tim/Tom
Lord's Prayer: 'kingdom come'
dingdong bell?

dimness ended?

Cardinal Newman's song Lead, Kindly Light ♬
light kindling light like St Patrick's vision of fire of Christianity

fw1 lacked commas around "we hopas" (so fw2 may be imposing nonjoycean punctuation here)
has led us hopping back?

we hopas, but hunt me the journeyon,

Swedish hoppas: hope [why Swedish here?]
hops

find me

French journée: day
Geryon: monster killed by Hercules? [wiki]
journeyman, itinerant (terms applicable to tinkers, among others)
journey on
yon
"adjure... journeyon"

iteritinerant, the kal his course,

itinerant
Latin iter, itineris: journey, course, route, road
iterate (wandering again?)
literate

Sanskrit kal, Kali: supreme spirit regarded as destroyer of universe

VI.C15.179: 'Kal = gill' [???]

"has led... the kal his course"

cf? "Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension and don't be walking abroad. Sure you'd only lose yourself in Healiopolis now the way your roads in Kapelavaster are that winding there after the calvary, the North Umbrian and the Fivs Barrow and Waddlings Raid and the Bower Moore and wet your feet maybe with the foggy dew's abroad." (end of ch1 mirrors start of ch17?)

amid the semitary of Somnionia.

Latin semita: path
cemetery
seminary

sem/Som = Shem/Shaun?

Latin somnium: a dream
Babylonia, Catalonia, Estonia, Macedonia, Patagonia
ammonia??
amnion = embryo sac [wkt]

Semonia = Roman goddess of crops (semen = seeds) [wkt]

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FW 17.5c --HCE needs washing--

castellated battlements

Now if soomone felched a twoel

why sOOme? (Finnish 'pretty'??) why not soomEone?
salmon??

fetched
filched
(Google offers a supremely gross current definition 'felch' that sort of fits the context; but Wikipedia dates it to 1972, and Joyce seems pretty limited in his knowledge of oral-sex slang)

towel
Swedish tvål: soap
tool
dowel (cf newel above?)

and soomonelses warmt watter

someone else warmed water

someone else's warmed water (drinking bathwater?? or urine???)

Swedish varmet vatten: warm water

we could, while you was saying Morkret Miry

Swedish mörkret: the dark
longshot: meercat

Margaret Mary
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque [wiki] 'preferred drinking water in which laundry has been washed'
U193: "Buck Mulligan, his pious eyes upturned, prayed: —Blessed Margaret Mary Anycock!"

mir = peace (Russian); quick (Irish)

cf? 'quicker than you can say Jack Robinson'

or Smud, Brunt and Rubbinsen,

Smith, Brown and Robinson [jjon-13kb] [Dudeney puzzles?]

cf Tom, Dick and Harry

Danish smudsig: dirty
smudge

Swedish brunt: brown

rub in
rubbings
(why -sEn? Ibsen?!)

make sunlike sylp

Sunlight Soap

sylph
syrup?

om this warful dune's battam.

Sanskrit om (a word of solemn or sacred affirmation, not unlike 'amen')

on (U692: "the last time he came on my bottom")

Woeful Dane Bottom: valley in Gloucestershire, possibly site of a Danish defeat [340.09] [369.12] [503.21] gMaps

awful
wonderful??

why dune?

battle

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FW 17.5d --HCE promised charity--

17.5a: Vah! Suvarn Sur! Scatter brand to the reneweller of the sky,...
17.5b: We, Durbalanars, theeadjure. A way, the Margan, from our astamite,...
17.5c: Even unto Heliotropolis, the castellated, the enchanting. Now if soomone...
17.5d: Yet clarify begins at. Whither the spot for? Whence the hour by? See but!...
17.5e: A flasch and, rasch, it shall come to pasch, as hearth by hearth leaps live....
17.5f: The spearspid of dawnfire totouches ain the tablestoane ath the centre...
17.5g: Overwhere. Gaunt grey ghostly gossips growing grubber in the glow. Past now palls....
17.5h: Let shrill their duan Gallus, han, and she, hon, the Sassqueehenna,...
17.5i: Kwhat serves to rob with Alliman, saelior, a turnkeyed trot to Seapoint, pierrotettes,...
17.5k: Death banes and the quick quoke. But life wends and the dombs spake!...
17.5l: Lambel on the up! We may plesently heal Geoglyphy's twentynine ways...
17.5m: For korfs, for streamfish, for confects, for bullyoungs, for smearsassage,...
17.5n: for lungfortes, for moonyhaunts, for fairmoneys, for coffins,...
17.5o: Tep. Come lead, crom lech! Top. Wisely for us Old Bruton has withdrawn his theory....
17.5p: We seem to understand apad vellumtomes muniment, Arans Duhkha,...
17.5q: how the mudden research in the topaia that was Mankaylands...

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FDV: [nothing]

Yet clarify begins at.

proverb Charity begins at home
clarified butter? [wiki]

cleanliness?

Whither the spot for? Whence the hour by?

time and place (for meeting?)

cf "He was poached on in that eggtentical spot."; "she washed the blessings of the lovespots off the jiminy with soap sulliver suddles"

See but! Lever hulme! Take in!

Dutch zie maar: German sieh' nur: just have a look (literally 'see but')

lever = tool for amplifying effort (probably LEEvuhr, not LEHvuhr)
W.H. Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme: British industrialist whose first and major product was Sunlight Soap (pronounced like Hume?)
leave (her) home?

fw1 had "Take in."

Respassers should be pursaccoutred.

Swedish respass: travel ticket, travel voucher
repast = meal

trespassers will be prosecuted

diners should be given money in purses?

purse
pursued?
accoutred: attired, dressed, equipped (for some purpose)

this sounds like the St Laurence promise to feed visitors to Howth Castle

maybe: sinners should be forgiven?

Qui stabat Meius quantum qui stabat Peius.

Latin qui stabat: who was standing
stabat mater = the mother stood (Rossini's mentioned three times in Ulysses)

fw1 had "Meins... Peins"
German mein: my
German Pein: pain, torture

melius (Latin) = better

Latin quantum: as much as

peius (Latin) = worse

maybe 'who buys a drink for the generous buys a drink as well as for the ungenerous'?

As of yours. We annew.

days of yore

Annu: the Egyptian name of Heliopolis
Swedish ännu: yet, still
Swedish ånyo: again?
renew, anew

same/new?

Our shades of minglings mengle them and help help horizons.

shades = colors; ghosts

German mengen: to mix
mangle
longshot: Mencius = Master Meng

hip, hip, hurray!

horizon [fweet-11] incl 590.23 "How johnny! Finest view from horizon. Tableau final."

(how do shades of gray help border/horizons?)

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FW 17.5e --HCE's flame spreads--

one who drinks in clubs and pubs?? or who owns a club or pub?
one who pubs/publishes clubs?

fw1 omits "Blz!"
blitz
buzz
balls? bells? bulls?
please?

Atriathroughwards, Lugh the Brathwacker will be the listened after

Latin atria: plural of atriums; ie? the whole house
through the atriums
afterwards
(is there a single-word five-syllable pun here? atriATHruwards? cf "The house of Atreox is fallen indeedust" the gods of the Greek mythology cursed the descendants of Tantalus, most notably the House of Atreus (the father of Agamemnon; Latin atrox: cruel)

Lugh Lámh-fhada: Lugh of the Long Arm: god of sun and genius [wiki]
prononced loo or guttural loo(ch)

Irish bráth: judgment, doom
Earwicker
thwack
German wacker: brave

cf? "Cropherb the Crunchbracken"

listen after: listen to dwindling sound of departure

and he larruping sparks out of his teiney ones.

larrup = smack; fuck
LARupping? or laRUPPing?

Irish teine: fire
tiny
(if they're already on fire, could he be trying to put them out?)

tiny ones = small children; small women

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FW 17.5f --a solar extreme--

'table' supported by dolmens

(is joyce picturing a tablestone as the highest point?)

why stoAne? (Wiktionary has nothing for stoane or stoan)

at
Irish áth: ford

of the great circle of the macroliths of Helusbelus

fdv: "of the circle of the macroliths."

great circle

midsummer sunrise at Stonehenge

hell's bells! (oath) [fweet-5]
'helo' is brightness in Esperanto
bolus = lump of chewed food??
'belus' = mountains (Volapuk)
'belo' is 'I bleat' in Italian; 'beauty' in Esperanto and Portuguese
Heliopolis, Egypt (literally 'sun town')

in the boshiman brush on this our peneplain

bushman
bosh = nonsense

peneplain: tract of land almost a plain

by Fangaluva Bight

Fangalawa Bay, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea [wiki]
this is the first of ten allusions to New Ireland [fweet-10]

one of Blake's 4 Zoas: Luvah, pitying & weeping

bight: an area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf

whence the horned cairns erge,

HCE

horned cairns have two stone 'horns' when seen in plan (some in Ireland)

Greek ergon: work
emerge

stanserstanded, to floran frohn,

Norwegian stanse: stop, check
stance
standing stones

floran = related to flora

German froh: merry
frown

cf rhythm? fw17 "Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlworlds."

idols of isthmians.

Francis Bacon spoke of idols of the tribe, idols of the palace, idols of the cave, idols of the theatre, idols of the market, idols of parasites

Isthmian Games celebrated in first and third years of each Olympiad, in honour of Poseidon (re Isthmus of Corinth) [wiki]

isthmus (fweet says usually isthmus of Sutton, plus fw003's "isthmus of Europe Minor")

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FW 17.5g --HCE escapes in the dusk--

'causeur' = talkative

The Gossips: a pair of menhirs on the isle of Sein off the coast of Brittany (also the name of a few menhirs south of Penmarch, Brittany, France)

German grob: coarse
grubbier

the midsummer gleam immediately fades

Past now palls.

post no bills
U146: "All kind of places are good for ads. That quack doctor for the clap used to be stuck up in all the greenhouses. Never see it now. Strictly confidential. Dr Hy Franks. Didn't cost him a red like Maginni the dancing master self advertisement. Got fellows to stick them up or stick them up himself for that matter on the q.t. running in to loosen a button. Flybynight. Just the place too. POST NO BILLS. POST 110 PILLS. Some chap with a dose burning him."

pall = to cloak; to weaken [wkt]

fw1 had "pulls"

Cur one beast, even Dane the Great,

Latin cur: why
cur = low dog
cure
cue?

why 'one'?
cur non = why not?

great dane (dog)
Hamlet
Cnut the Great was a Dane

may treadspaths with sniffer he snout impursuant to byelegs.

tread the paths
trespass
fw1 had "treadspath"

without?

if he's not?

in pursuit
dog pursuing prey's legs by scent

impure
pursuant to = according to

bylaws, bygones, bylines

Edar's chuckal humuristic.

E.c.h.

Danish eder: you
Irish Beinn Éadair: Howth
Swedish eder: your (polite use, eg in correspondence)

chuckle
jackal
chuck all = give all up

Swedish humoristisk: humourous
humus
humours

the landscape laughs at us?

But why pit the cur afore the noxe?

phrase put the cart before the horse

pit = put dog into fightingpit
why set the dog after the night/fugitive?

Latin cur: why

after, before

Latin nox: night
oxen (Jespersen: Language: 'Another instance of secretion is -en as a plural ending in E. oexn, G. ochsen, etc. Here originally n belonged to the word in all cases and all numbers') [ebook]

cf?? fw55 "the clad pursue the bare, the bare the green, the green the frore, the frore the cladagain"

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FW 17.5h --a rooster crows--

17.5a: Vah! Suvarn Sur! Scatter brand to the reneweller of the sky,...
17.5b: We, Durbalanars, theeadjure. A way, the Margan, from our astamite,...
17.5c: Even unto Heliotropolis, the castellated, the enchanting. Now if soomone...
17.5d: Yet clarify begins at. Whither the spot for? Whence the hour by? See but!...
17.5e: A flasch and, rasch, it shall come to pasch, as hearth by hearth leaps live....
17.5f: The spearspid of dawnfire totouches ain the tablestoane ath the centre...
17.5g: Overwhere. Gaunt grey ghostly gossips growing grubber in the glow. Past now palls....
17.5h: Let shrill their duan Gallus, han, and she, hon, the Sassqueehenna,...
17.5i: Kwhat serves to rob with Alliman, saelior, a turnkeyed trot to Seapoint, pierrotettes,...
17.5k: Death banes and the quick quoke. But life wends and the dombs spake!...
17.5l: Lambel on the up! We may plesently heal Geoglyphy's twentynine ways...
17.5m: For korfs, for streamfish, for confects, for bullyoungs, for smearsassage,...
17.5n: for lungfortes, for moonyhaunts, for fairmoneys, for coffins,...
17.5o: Tep. Come lead, crom lech! Top. Wisely for us Old Bruton has withdrawn his theory....
17.5p: We seem to understand apad vellumtomes muniment, Arans Duhkha,...
17.5q: how the mudden research in the topaia that was Mankaylands...

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FDV: [nothing]

Let shrill their duan Gallus, han,

the the cock crow

HCE

Irish duan: poem
Cornish: duan: grief, sorrow
Duane
duet?

their dawn chorus
County Donegal?

Latin gallus: cock (why the cap?)

Swedish han: he
German Hahn: cock

and she, hon, the Sassqueehenna,

fw1 has "hou the"

ALP

Swedish hon: she

han/hon = a/o motif [fweet-117]

Susquehanna river
sassy queen henna
sesqui- = 150%

German Henne: hen
henna = red haircolor dye
U473: "KITTY... (She hiccups, then bends quickly her sailor hat under which her hair glows, red with henna.)"

makes ducksruns at crooked.

"Let shrill... and she... makes..."?

duck: in cricket, out for no runs

crooked-running duck video [90sec]

cricket

Once for the chantermale,

cf Bratislava/Presburg hotel, 1854: "On the walls of each landing were painted directions for the visitor, as to the number of times he should ring the bell for any particular object, — viz., 1 for the Chambermaid. 2 — Waiter. 3 — Messenger. 4 — Porter. 5 — Water for bath. 6 — Stove to be lighted, &c., &c. This appears at first sight rather intricate, but the practice is very simple: you have only to take the bell rope in your hand, and pull any given number of times"

chambermaid
Chanticleer: a quasi-proper name applied to the cock (for example in the Reynard cycle)

twoce for the pother

twice

AngloIrish accent: pother: porter
fw303: "And Kev was wreathed with his pother."
pot
potherb?
bother

and once twoce threece for the waither.

thrice

AngloIrish accent: waither: waiter
wait her
weather

So an inedible yellowmeat

if (black) cannibals believe that eating the meat of a brave man will make them brave, they'll probably consider the meat of a (yellow) coward inedible [cf?]

(is the hen or rooster inedible for some reason?)

Wilde on fox hunters: 'The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.' [ebook]

suspicious tinge in beef or mutton [cite]

inedible/invasable
yellowmeat/blackth

turns out the invasable blackth.

turns out to be
turns out of the house, replaces?

inspires to turn out in droves (to eat it)

invisible
invadable: vulnerable to invasion

edible?

'An Invisible Black': a small role in an 1867 burlesque of Robinson Crusoe (co-written and played by W.S. Gilbert) [pic]

blackness, night

blackthorn?

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FW 17.5i --HCE's piracy/prisonbreak--

if you've tippertaps in your head or starting kursses, tailour,

Simon Tappertit: Gabriel Varden's (anarchical?) apprentice in Dickens Barnaby Rudge [wiki] 'chosen as leader [of rebellion]... his legs crushed in the riots, becomes a shoe-black' prison-break motif?

'taps in your head' sounds like delusions of spiritualism
cf? fw220.25 "the spirit's whispers in his magical helmet"

Ulysses 'tap' motif (blind stripling)

startling?
starting gun (or other signal) to begin race?
starting to curse but stopping to be polite???

curses
Swedish kurs: course (of instruction); exchange rate, valuation
starting a course
starting a racecourse?
Kersse, the tailor blames hunchback for illfitting suit
why tailoUr? (old French 'taillour', new French 'tailleur')

your right to Penmark, stommering silenced

fw1 had "you're silenced" here (missing 4 words)

turn right?
right of possession? of authorship??
write

Penmark = Welsh village/castle [wiki]
anachronism: Penmarric
mark of pen (ie signature?)
Denmark

stammering
Dutch stom: stupid, mute, dumb
stoma: orifice, pore (from Greek stoma: mouth)

how silenced?? stammering outgrown?
put into (silent) writing?

at Henge Ceollege, Exmooth, Ostbys for ost, boys, each and one?

Norwegian henge: hang
Stonehenge
himge

Irish ceol: music, singing
fw1 had "Ceolleges,"

Oxford colleges: Balliol College, Blackfriars, Brasenose College, Christ Church, Corpus Christi College, Exeter College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, Jesus College, Keble College, Lady Margaret Hall, Lincoln College, Magdalen College, Mansfield College, Merton College, New College, Oriel College, Pembroke College, The Queen's College, Regent's Park College, St Anne's College, St Benet's Hall, St Catherine's College, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda's College, St Hugh's College, St John's College, St Peter's College, St Stephen's House, Somerville College, Trinity College, University College, Wadham College, Worcester College, Wycliffe Hall

Cambridge colleges: Christ's College, Churchill College, Clare College, Corpus Christi College, Downing College, Emmanuel College, Fitzwilliam College, Girton College, Gonville and Caius College, Homerton College, Hughes Hall, Jesus College, King's College, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene College, Murray Edwards College, Newnham College, Pembroke College, Peterhouse, Queens' College, Robinson College, Selwyn College, Sidney Sussex College, St Catharine's College, St Edmund's College, St John's College, Trinity College, Trinity Hall, Wolfson College

Exmouth, town, Devonshire [wiki] resort in 19thC

Swedish östby: east-village
Danish østbys: east of the town
'Ostman': Viking (as in Oxmantown, part of North Dublin)
Danish by: town, city

for us

longshot: Catesby's for cost? (sounds like ad slogan)

Swedish öst: Danish øst: east
Swedish ost: Danish ost: cheese

boys (sailor addressing shipmates?) in Ulysses many different people use 'boys' to address groups

Swedish var och en: everybody (literally 'each and one')

they're all just boys?

every man for himself???
all for one and one for all?

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