Our Furnaced Planet & Hercules, Man of Calpe Fig.1, S5. Charcoal burning bright in a narghile's bowl. Photo: therook315.deviantart.com "It is a confoundyous injective so to say, Shaun the fiery boy shouted, naturally incensed, as he shook the red pepper out of his auricles. And another time please confine your glaring in- tinuations to some other mordant body. What on the physiog of this furnaced planet would I be doing besides your verjuice? That is more than I can fix, for the teom bihan, anyway". (412.13-18) I propose that my readings of the above passage, well along in the book, are related and complementary. I will use them to expose the imaginary, limestone Hercules colossus, with club, lion pelt, and oranges; emergent, towering at the embouchure of the Liffey. The Farnese Hercules1 of our "furnaced2 planet", this man of Calpe, for that is the name of the local Dublin limestone, is an example of a re-occurring theme in Finnegans Wake with a primary scene at the beginning of the work (approx. pp. 627-004). This essay was written as an accompaniment to Under the Astrolabe with Hercules3. First, the readings: Reading 1 "GLARING", a young, shining Shaun shouts invectives, injections, and ejections. He's fiery, incensed with anger (L. "Here is a small burnt patch of flooring; here incendo), aromatic (L. incensum) with rage, is the tinder from a little bundle of burnt shaking red pepper (hot by nature and paper, but not so light as usual, seeming to be coloured danger-hot), brazen, popping, steeped in something; and here is—is it the cinder of a small charred and broken log of yellow-orange embers, from behind the wood sprinkled with white ashes, or is it coal auricles of his heart/from about the ? O Horror, he is here! and this, from which auricles of his ears: stewing and fuming- we run away, striking out the light and overturning one another into the street, is all steam and smoke and so on. Naturally that represents him." Bleak House p.320. incensed? 4 Tin of mom's Phillips' Shaun? Fig. 2. Guppy finds Krook spontaneously What does he mean "doing their combusted.4 "Bleakrooks" (40.30) verjuice"? Bile? Something sexual, seedy ejaculation? Is "verjuice" verge juice (verge Fr. for yard, yerd, the male member). Or is it cheap wine ("verjuice"/vert jus, wine from too green pressed grapes). Is it 1 Marble after a bronze by Lysippos (c.390 BC) retrieved in 1546 from Caracalla's Baths, Rome (216 AD) and used as a garden gnome by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. 2 The Irish accent has "furnaced" pronounced closer to farnace than firnace. 3 Paré, D.G., 2013. Under the Astrolabe with Hercules. fuyublog.wordpress.com, 16 p. 4 Dickens, Charles, 1853. Bleak House, Bradbury & Owens, London, 624p. 1 Shaun's nature to be angry, smelly, and fuming? I don't follow the Doodle family much. As for the portmanteau "Confoundyous", Joyce passes from confoundment by a con fou, (Fr. for crazy .... ) or dummy (from cunny) to a "you" which becomes "us" in "yous" similar to 3rd person plural inventions such as "you all". Or is it ewes found by a con or con. Reading 2 STAND BACK from the aisle, between the pews and watch an alter boy, bowl of incense in hand, follow a thurifer with censer at the end of a slightly bent arm, his right; garlands of chains grouped in the other hand, his left; smoking mass swinging slowly, sweetly, back and forth, with silver's heft giving a slight jerk as the momentum of the orb lourdily reaches the end of its arc, smoke pouring through its fretwork: the little furnace's orifices. Inside, the small grains of bright, dried tree resin, greesy Fig. 3. The Botafumeiro, lustre, red dye fixed (Fr. "mordant" Santiago de Compostela. 412.16 and "more than I can fix" 412.18), looking a little like coarsely ground, hot, red pepper; underlain by the black, red corpuscle shaped, white ashed charcoal, the grains smolder, melt, and sublimate. The incense drifts up. Reading 3 AS IF to evoke impressions of similar processes to those of a censer, on a much larger scale, Joyce appears to describe the earth telling us to "please confine your glaring in-tinuations to some other mordant body"(412.16). Its orbit follows a similar circular trajectory as a swinging censer, although following through and completing its trajectory, Fig. 4. Eruption at Cotopaxi. Edwin admittedly slightly elliptical, all in Church, 1865. being naturally incensed. Our furnaced planet has a hot nickel core wrapped in its magma sludge blanket oozing and fuming from its pustulated "physiog", its geomorphologic face. The incensory (censer) too has a little, glaring furnace in the form of a red hot, charcoal that allows the incense to smoulder aromatically. You can buy these special charcoals at church supply stores or at Middle Eastern groceries where the exact same charcoals are sold for hookahs, the tentacled furnaces meant for smoking tobacco, hashish, or opium. Finally, "furnaced planet" may refer to the 2 furnaces heating houses on the planet. The Hercules Furnace Company made a popular furnace about 1890 to 1940. More volcanoes and other smoking materials In another scene, where Joyce draws parallels between war and volcanogenic processes, he also alludes to the narghile5 or water pipe in a rather indirect manner: Docetism and " Match of a matchness, like your Bigdud dadder Didicism, Maya- in the boudeville song, Gorotsky Gollovar's Thaya. Tamas- Troubles, raucking his flavourite turvku in Rajas-Sattvas. the smukking precincts of lydias, 2 with Mary Owens and Dolly Monks seesidling to edge his cropulence and Blake-Roche, Kingston and Dockrell auriscenting him from afurz, our papacocopotl, 3 Abraham Bradley King? (ting ting! ting ng!) By his magmasine fall. Lumps, lavas and all.4 Bene! But, thunder and turf, it's not alover yet! One recalls Byzantium. The mystery repeats itself todate as our callback mother Gaudyanna," (fw294.21-33) 2 A vagrant need is a flagrant weed. 3 Grand for blowing off steam when you walk up in the morning. "Mary Owen" and "Dolly Monks", above, echo Garry Owen and Dollymount just as on p.147.32.6 The first, a Calvary ditty and regimental anthem (Garryowen); a side saddling woman, George Eliot, nom de plume of Mary Evens; or Mary "laudanum" Owens, Lincoln's Belle (see "Abraham" 294.28). The second, Dollymount, the beach behind the North wall of the terrible prongs at the mouth of the Liffey; a 7th Calvary Regiment, U.S. Army (also known as Garry Owen) horse named Dandy, General "blow-me-up" Custer's mount to be exact; and an Irish Hero who's lithoportrait hangs from the Sandycove giant's girdle (U. 281.29)7, another colossus perhaps (See Fig. Sup. 14). After a bit of ephemeral mammalian history, with a heavy emphasis on colonization, Joyce transitions to the more enduring, planetary history. From the excrement signaled by "cropulence", a melding of coprolites (fossilized feces), corpulence, and crap, through a process of "auriscenting" for fireworks, the oriflamme, ordinance, pyroclastics, and aroma. All under the paternal eye of the Popocatépetl ("papacocopotl") Volcano, Pueblo, Mexico. Note too "magmasine" forming up 5 Quickly surveying "we certney like gurgles love the nargleygargley so, arrah-beejee, tell that old frankay boyuk to bellows upthe tombucky in his tumtum argan" (230.31- 33) we see the "gurgles", "nargleygargley" (the hookha and its noise), "frankay boyuk" a reference to cigars, "bellows" and the slick "tombucky" (tobacky on the raft and Becky Thatcher). "argan", an edible Moroccan/Algerian oil. 6 Paré, D.G., 2013. Custard, War on the Plains. www.fuyublog.wordpress.com, 14 p. 7 Joyce, James, 1922. Ulysses. The Bodley Head, London, 742 p. 3 magma and magazine (big and small); lava; "mother Gaudyanna" or Gondwana, motherland land of the Gonds: "a large tract of hilly country in India which roughly corresponds with the greater part of the present Central Provinces. It is derived from the aboriginal tribe of Gonds, who still form the largest element in the population and who were at one time the ruling power. Gondwana was thus included in the dominions of the 8 Bhonsla raja of Nagpur, from whom it finally passed to the British in 1853." Gondwana is also the ancient, post-Carboniferous super continent of the Pangaea mother world splitting into little continents: thunder and turf and lava, and so on. Ting! ting! ting! Ting the bombletes ting! The hookah barely peeps through with the help of words such Fig. 5. A Gentleman With His Hookah- as "match", "Bigdud dadder" pointing to exotic Bagdad, and a Burdar, or Pipe-Bearer. Doyley, C. 1813. The European in India. London, 149 p. traveller to strange places smoking until "raucking" (Fr. rauque Scan: D.G Paré for hoarse) his flavourful, favourite Turkish tobacco (Latakia) in Lydian cafés in Anatolia. Note 1's flagrant vagrant with his fragrant weed and note 2's blowing off steam also support smoking. Farnese Hercules emerges All very fine, perhaps even reasonable as readings go, but where is the Farnese Hercules? Has Joyce, on p. 412 and about the book, built up a sense of a Hercules emerging from the text, the earth, the Liffey in our dreams, the Liffey in Heaven? Bearing in mind that Joyce uses any means, logical or hardly explainable, to evoke an image, the device here seems to associate "furnaced planet" or the Farnese Hercules with Atlas and Atlas with planet and back around. Please hold these thoughts or a minute. Fig.