FW004_18-006_12notes.doc FINNEGANS WAKE Workshop 97 Ed.by Eishiro Ito General Notes on FW004.18-006.12: See also Joycean Japan,vols.3-5 <*004.18~*> 4.18. Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's mau- Ibsen, bygmester Solness[A] Parnell&Lewis Carrol G “Freimaurer= freemason[A] stuttered.[A] 4.19. rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar- Broadway[A] imaginable[A]+marginal sl. rushlight Dub sl.= =liquor[A] house with rusty? 2 back rooms[A] 4.20. back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers ?buttock dwelling house plus adjacent JOSHUA[A] JUDGES[A] NUMBERS[A] land and buildings[A] Heb.Yah:saves OF<L.= law- speaking 4.21. or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely LEVITICUS[A] (commit to writing) DEUTERONOMY[A] yesterday[A] Sterne/Swift[A] Helvetia = lit.L.Gk.second law: Easter, feast day Switzerland[CL] (nomos law) 4.22. struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere Styx[A]+shrunk F. tête: Swift’s wash the features of his face[A] head Tale of a Tub G .waschen: to watch 4.23. he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wa- shock+took+ Moses wrote Pentateuch Cf. Noah’s Flood stood+stuck +shook 4.24. ter was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so L.vater: evaporated[A] GENESIS EXODUS father L. aevipario: Guinness[A] lit.out of way to give birth to eternity[CL] Gk.gnoses<gnosis: knowledges Cf.Gen. 4.25. that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!) Pentateuch, Punch & Judy G. panschen: mix (water & wine) Jean-Jeudi: penis(Lazare Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais, Paris, 1922) patriarchy chap→Noah? Gk.pente: 5+G.Schatz:treasure, fig.sweetheart+F.jeu:play,jest - 1 / 9 - FW004_18-006_12notes.doc 4.26. and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi- God years = man of God(Deut.33.1) = Moses[A] Anno Domini = man of flood = Noah in the years of our Lord H C E 4.27. fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the tope = drink village[A] G. Bildung: L.: above, upon heavily[A] Thor+pope education[A] previously, F.pont: 大酒飲み +Thoth +dung more[CL] bridge 4.28. banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie rivers r Hwang-ho add+addle Alice Liddell wifie Ir. eanaigh: so-&-so +had+paddle H.G.Liddell,+fifefenny, marshy +saddle... lexicographer Anna A L P 4.29. ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part :to fear+hugged[A] creature+crater wither(ed)+ hay+hey+ hands[A] take+ with+her hair+hare hounds tuck+ +hoar fonds fuck with her hair[A] take up your partner 4.30. inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in in+her+ often+while L. balbulus:stuttring[A] Mithra; on head towel inner L. Balbus: Roman cognomen[CL] Mithras mitre 4.31. grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like ivory+oiled+ ?all over L. habitaculum: dwelling place[A] fancied[A] roil L. habitaculum: little(monk’s)habit[CL] fond+see+seed 4.32. Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab- Haroun-al- three Frankish kings[TC] Egbert: Caligula,Roman Emperor[A] multiplication[A] Raschild+ éiric: fine,ransom[GaeL] West Saxon king[TC] calculate multiplicable harum-scarum Childeric+child H C E 4.33. les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the sl. in one’s altitude: malt[A] see+saw+sow neat+night+light drunk multitude+mal+malt +seesaw all+attitude 4.34. liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days where+’tween+twin roundheaded+ steeple+staple Round Table[A] 4.35. to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth wondrous[A] maison+ Da. opstandelse: joy+grand+tit+ Woolworth Building, undressed Freemasonry resurrection[A] gigantic+granite NYC[A] +wall+ upstanding well+worth+whirl 4.36. of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from fire escape[A] awful, Eiffel Howth/ tower+entirely originating/Ir. philosopher sky+fire escape+ Tower[A] height[A] John Scotus Erigena/ skyscraper L. erigo: Ir. erect[A] Ir. êrigeneria: early born: epithet of Dawn[CL] - 2 / 9 - FW004_18-006_12notes.doc <*005*> 5.01. next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchitec- L. caeli: heavens[A] G. Himmel: hierarchy+architect+ L. scalae: ladder[CL] sky, heavens; tipsy+toplofty[SK] celebrating+escalating Himalaya[A] 5.02. titiptitoploftical, with a burning bush abob off its baubletop and G. hierax: a hawk+G. hierarchês: Moses’burning bush: above+bob[A] Tower of Babel[A] high-priest+G. arch-: first-+ Bush is sign of an inn bauble+babble+ G. architekteô: to be builder+ or place where liquor bubble+top G. tektainô: to frame, design sold[A] bush on top of newbuilt tower[A] 5.03. with larrons o'toolers clittering up and tombles a'buckets clotter- F. larron: thief[A] ÓTuathil: des. Da. klatre: climb[A] tomb+less+ bucket Lawrence of Tuathal: Ang Ir. clittering: Thomas à Becket people-mighty[GaeL] noise of hurrying feet[A] tumble at buckets St Lawrence O’Toole, patron of Dublin, contemporary of St Thomas à Becket[A] 5.04. ing down. 5.05. Of the first was he to bare arms and a name: Wassaily Boos- Hamlet,v,1,29: [Adam] ‘was the first that ever bore arms.[A] Vasily Buslaev, hero of ballad arms and a name: echoes arma Arms and the man[Ang Ir] cycle of Novgorod[A] L. virumque: first words of Vergil’s Aeneid[Ang Ir] Russian buslai: a fallen man or drunkard.[TC] wassily: wassail[A] 5.06. laeugh of Riesengeborg. His crest of huroldry, in vert with laoch: warrior[A] Risengebirge(Sudetic Mts) G. Hure: whore[A] Her. vert: green[A] laugh G. Riesen: giants[A] heraldry slaeugh: slaughter raise buslai: R drunkard[A] 5.07. ancillars, troublant, argent, a hegoak, poursuivant,horrid,horned. L. ancilla: hand- F. : perturbing Her: silver[A] he-goat an officer of the AngIr. horned maiden[A] trembling F: money he+go+oak College of Arms[A] horrid horn maid servant urgent +gawk F: poursuivre: chaser, horn: fool[A] ancile: Roman to court sacred shield 5.08. His scutschum fessed, with archers strung, helio, of the second. escutcheon[A] Her fesse[A] nr A Was an strong G. Helios: 2nd colour in scotch (whisky) Archer[A] sun-god[TC] description scratch of heraldic hello object=silver[A] 5.09. Hootch is for husbandman handling his hoe. Hohohoho, Mister US sl. hooch: farmer ho:whore liquor[A] husband +foe hootchee: penis which - 3 / 9 - FW004_18-006_12notes.doc 5.10. Finn, you're going to be Mister Finnagain! Comeday morm and, father of Ossian: Finn+again Monday morn[A] morn+ giant hero of the fine+again norm southern cycle of +finnagle Irish legend 5.11. O, you're vine! Sendday's eve and, ah, you're vinegar! Hahahaha, fine[A] Sunday eve[A] eve=woman send+day 5.12. Mister Funn, you're going to be fined again! fun[A] penalty money 5.13. What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday G. eigentlich: Gr. tragodia: goat song: Thursday < really[GerL] +tragedy[A]&[CL] Day of Thunder like an agent +gaud+goad thunder (ie.prophet, Moses, Noah) In the Irish context, the landagent ←→absentee:cf. wabsanti(005.22) 5.14. this municipal sin business? Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness principle Ir. that ----sin---- lit.trans. of Ka’aba, Earwicker[A] Munich centre of Islam[A] original{RG] G. Cubiculum: bedroom primal sin or scene? cubism, courthouse Arab. muntaquil: movable, inconstant, nomad, etc. Arab. muntaqim: avenger, revengeful ref. to what HCE committed with Issy (or at least so he dreams) (Fuse) 5.15. to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive Arafat[Gaze] “Our Father”(Lord’s Prayer)[A] L. ara: alter + fart[A] G. Vater: father, F. fatras: gabage Allah: Muslim God 5.16. ages that shebby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that shabby+ chorus unqualified muzzel+Muslims+Moslem+enemy+ T. shebi: likeness G. Gerausch[GerL] caliph missile+silly+mass+missal+dismissal sheba, shebeen: Koreish: ruling tribe Kali: Hindu +hym+Bethlehem+silem(Ir I think) associated with in Mecca, persecuted death-goddess Cf. Atherton,Books at the Wake,210. the Irish Insur- Mohammed[A] [A] rectionists(Fuse) Koran Arab.kallaq, kaliq: Creator 5.17. would blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of blackguard whitestone: the famous hurl (Satanic image) braggart Blackstone of the Ka’aba turtle: turn over [OED] Cf.Atherton,210. hurtle←→turtle 5.18. heaven. Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness,O Sus- - 4 / 9 - FW004_18-006_12notes.doc tightness(=undrunkenness)righteousness[A] ←→shebeen(cf.005.16) (Fuse) 5.19. tainer, what time we rise and when we take up to toothmick and God, cane, etc. *“5 set times of day for Mohammedan prayer: just after Mohammed used toothpicks “Having prayed in vain sunset, at night fall, at daybreak, just afternoon, in mick: (derog.)shortened form to his cane to ‘Stay us.’[PS] mid-afternoon[A] applied Cf.Atherton,210. jocularly to an Irish- of proper name Michael, man & a Roman Catholic: =micky Micky Finn: a strong alco- holic drink,esp. adulterated with a narcotic or laxative.[COD] engageto take upin athe vigorous cudges: contest phr. to or debate [cudge = Ir. shille- lagh = Ir. shillelagh = toothpick(Fuse) to too...: (stuttering) 5.20. before we lump down upown our leatherbed and in the night and upon+own Koran, Sura 8: ownership of leather beds[A] *“in the night” down←→up *“The ownership of leather beds was one of is the prayer the subjects of discussion after the Battle when night of Badr.”[Atherton,211] has closed in.