Finnegans Wake p. 161-180

p. 161

"Burrus and Caseous...selldear to soldthere"

Once again, Julius Caesar.

"Burrus...is a genuine prime...Caseous...revise of him...not an ideal choose by any meals,"

Cassius is the opposite of Brutus.

p. 162

"hazzy hates to having a hazbane in her noze."

Hazzy hazzy hazbone.

"Deus v Deus!"

God vs. God!

p. 163 (nothin)

p. 164

"We now romp through a period of pure lyricism of shambred music (technologically, let me say, the appetising entry of this subject on a fool chest of vialds"

Now we're getting into the good part of the nonsense.

p. 165

"I should like to ask that Shedlock Homes person who is out for removing the roofs of our criminal classics by what deductio ad domunum he hopes de tacto to detect anything unless he happens of himself,"

I don't quite understand, but I caught the obvious Sherlock Holmes reference.

p. 166

"teaching His Infant Majesty how to make waters words."

I like. It reminds me of Haroun.

p. 167

"who kennot tail a bomb from a painapple when he steals one and wannot psing his psalmen"

I just like the part about pineapples and bombs.

"The thundering legion has stormed Olymp that it end."

Man has usurped the gods?

p. 168

"Sacer esto? Answer: Semus sumus!"

I know the first part means "Let him be accursed" in Latin. Dunno about the second part.

p. 169

"in the land of the space of today knows that his back life will not stand being written about in black and white. Putting truth and untruth together a shot may be made at what this hybrid actually was like to look at."

I thought this was an attempt to say that when we die, the words that talk about it are not enough. To add that color, truth and lies must be combined--we are turned into a story.

p. 170

"when the angel of death kicks the bucket of life,"

I like this, a nice changing of "kick the bucket".

"Shem was a sham and a low sham and his lowness creeped out first via foodstuffs. So low was he that he preferred Gibsen's teatime salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing,"

Shem is apparently a pretty "low" dude.

p. 171

"O! The lowness of him was beneath all up to that sunk to!"

Shem was below all the levels that he sunk to.

p. 172

"[Johns...COMMUNICATED.]"

This whole passage is pretty cool, it's like a commercial for a butcher shop.

p. 173

"on your gullible's travels"

Haha, a Gulliver's Travels pun!

"with a meticulosity bordering on the insane,"

Was OCD a diagnosed disorder yet?

p. 174

"he was called in to umpire any octagonal argument among slangwhangers"

This just sounds funny.

p. 175

"Lefty takes the cherubcake while Rights cloves his hoof."

Left being good, (God gets the cherubs), Right being bad (Devil gets things with cloven feet)?

p. 176

"Hely Baba and the Forty Thieves"

Another Arabian Nights reference!

p. 177

"How a Guy Finks and Fawkes When He Is Going Batty,"

How a guy thinks and talks/Guy Fawkes?

p. 178 (nothin')

p. 179

"over was an aisling vision more gorgeous than the one before t.i.t.s.,"

Hehe.

p. 180

"the tetters on his tumtytum...the bats in his belfry, the budgerigars and bumbosolom beaubirds,"

This just cracked me up.