Finnegans Wake p. 21-40

These pages were a little tougher for me, and I didn't get as much from them. Like I said, I probably won't pass Dr. Sexson's test, but I'm doing this for my enjoyment. Still truckin' though.

p. 20 (forgot to put this in the last post)

"The moviebles are scrawling in motions, marching, all of them ago, in pitpat and zingzang for every busy eerie whig's a bit of a torytale to tell."

All things, especially animate ones, have a story to tell?

"You can ask your ass if he believes it."

This cracked me up.

p. 21 (nothin')

p. 22

"Stop domb stop come back with my earring stop. But the prankquean swaradid: Am liking it."

 Don't really know what's going on here, but it sounds like the "prankquean" is going around pranking people. This part reminds me of her tickling someone.

p. 23 (nothin')

p. 24

"Now be aisy, good Mr. Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension and don't be walking abroad."

Probably the best simile ever.

p. 25

"No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king, or hung king."

All right, all right, I get it--no kings.

"Mick Mac Magnus MacCawley"

The alliteration made me giggle.

p. 26

"And that there texas is tow linen."

I imagine this line being said in a Texas drawl.

"For we have performed upon thee, thou abramanation, who comest ever without being invoked, whose coming is unknown, all the things which the company of the precentors and of the grammarians of Christpatrick's ordered concerning thee in the matter of the work of thy tombing."

This line makes me think, once again about the inevitability of death. However, it is steeped in Biblical references, and the second half makes me think that Christ will come and defeat death.

p. 27

"'Twould dilate your heart to go."

Instead of break your heart, your heart swells and explodes. Nice.

p. 28

"There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night she signs her final tear. Zee End. But that's a world of ways away...Finn no more!"

This seems like an end of this part of the dream, as we change to another part.

p. 29 (nothin')

p. 30

"(we are back in the presurnames prodromarith period, of course just when enos chalked halltraps)"

This is like a history teacher introducing a new part of history, before names mattered apparently.

p. 31

"smiled most heartily beneath his walrus moustaches and"

This reminded me of The Walrus in Haroun.

"Comes the question are these the facts of his nominigentilisation as recorded in both or either of the collateral andrewpaulmurphyc narratives."

I thought it was funny what I wrote in the margins of my book: "Are these him as gentile or Andrew Paul Murphy." Apparently, this book is making ME go crazy.

pg. 32

"this man is mountain and unto changeth doth one ascend."

This line is inspiring to me, it reminds me of one of my favorite essays, "The Myth of Sysiphus", by Albert Camus. Through repeated climbing and change we ascend our mountains, only to find another. We are the mountain. Oooh, philosophy.

pg. 33

"A baser meaning has been read into these characters the literal sense of which decency can safely scarcely hint."

In other words, what people think about these characters is so dirty that it can't be written down. (I think).

pg. 34

"Slander, let it lie its flattest, has never been able to convict our good and great"

I think this line speaks for itself.

pg. 35 (nothin')

pg. 36

"fibfib fabrications"

Ooh, a triple lie!

pg. 37 (nothin')

pg. 38 (nothing to speak of)

pg. 39 (nada)

pg. 40 (zip)

Until next time!