Finnegans Wake p. 181-200

p. 181

"[Jymes wishes to hear from wearers of abandoned female costumes,"

James Joyce? More self-reference?

p. 182 (nothin')
p. 183

"cutthroat ties...once current puns...godmothers' garters...princess promises...fresh horrors from Hades"

I don't know what this stuff really means, but the imagery it creates is fantastic!

p. 184

"Tulmult, son of Thunder,"

I'm getting two mythological characters here, Tiamat (a lord of chaos/sea from Babylonian myth) and Thor (the Norse god of thunder).

p. 185

"(did a piss, says he was dejected, ask to be exonerated),"

There's a ton of Latin surrounding this parenthetical, and this is what we get!?

p. 186

"transaccidentated through the slow fires of consciousness into a dividual chaos, perilous, potent, common to allflesh, human only, mortal)"

Is this some kind of philosophical statement about how we must transcend consciousness to become truly human?

p. 187

"Polthergeistkotzdondherhoploits"

I love it when this happens. Poltergeist, and a bunch of jumbled other words.

"Stand forth, Nayman of Noland (for no longer will I follow you obliquelike through the inspired form of the third person singular and the moods and hesitensies of the deponent but address myself to you,"

Joyce is telling Nayman of Noland that he's about to totally change the perspective from which the story is told. Very considerate of him, don't you think?

p. 188

"we all swim together in the pool of Sodom"

A reference to Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities God destroyed. Now, is this a good or a bad thing, or just a fact of life?

p. 189

"thick as the fluctuant sands of Chalwador"

Can't find a definition for this word, but I'm assuming it's a pretty sandy place.

p. 190

"metamorphoseous"

Once again, a reference to Morpheus. Maybe this is referential to the novel, we transform into the world of dream.

p. 191

"bourgeoismeister"

I like this word.

p. 192

"pas mal de siecle, which, by the by, Reynaldo, is the ordinary emetic French for the grenadier's drip."

A lot of siecle (whatever that is), and I think Reynard is trying to surface again. There's just a lot of French allusion going on here.

p. 193

"Cease to be civil, learn to say nay!"

Good advice, sounds like something protesters would chant.

"And the good brother feels he would need to defecate you."

WHAT!?

p. 194 (nothin')

p. 195

"He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak."

This is a really cool line, reminds me of Jesus. But what is a lifewand?

p. 196

"O/ tell me all about/  Anna Livia! I want to hear all"

This is a cool George Herbert-esque poem, and the next paragraph sounds a lot like a gossipy group of people.

p. 197 (nothin')

p. 198

"gay lord salomon"

I wouldn't say Solomon was "happy" gay, and I would say that if he is homosexual "gay", he's overcompensating quite a bit, seeing as how he had 700 wives.

p. 199

"Greenland's tay or a dzoupgan of Kaffue mokau"

Greenland tea, and a Cafe Mocha. The mocha sounds really good right now. :)

p. 200 (nothin')

WOO, PAGE 200!