Finnegans Wake p. 61-80

p. 61

"...her vowelthreaded syllabelles:...evew..wepotew...sheew gweatness...twadgedy...Nevewtheless...considewed...fow..."

I love the wordplay here, sounds like a 2-year-old is attempting to communicated complex concepts with me.

p. 62

"humping a suspicious parcel"

I just love the naughty parts of this book.

p. 63 (nada)

p. 64

"A pinch in time of the ideal, musketeers! Alphos, Burkos, and Caramis,"

I really like this reference to Athos, Porthos, and Aramis from Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers. I don't know what the second two are, but the first is Greek for leperosy.

p. 65

"and he would like to canoodle her too some part of the time for he is downright fond of his number one"

I just like the word canoodle.

p. 66 (nada)

p. 67

"Because it is a horrible thing to have to say to say to day but one delilah, Lupita Lorette, shortly after in a fit of the unexpectedness drank carbolic"

There is a biblical reference here that is eluding me.

p. 68

"Aslim-all-Muslim"

This is a cool phrase, a combination of Aslim Taslam with Muslim, creating something like accept all Muslims. Which I like.

"violence to life, limb and chattels, often as not, has been the expression, direct or through an agent male, of womanhid offended, (ah! ah!), has not levy of black mail from the times the fairies were in it, and fain for wilde erthe blothom followed an impressive private reputation for whispered sins?"

This a really cool section. I don't know if understand it, but I translate the first bit as violence for life, health and property. I also like the part about whispered sins.

p. 69

"drema of Sorestost Areas, Diseased."

Is this a reference to Sophocles?

p. 70

"Titus,"

Weirdest play ever.

p. 71-2

"to be kept on file of all abusive names he was called...Wheatears...Grease with the Butter...Swad Puddlefoot...Eggs...Thunder and Turf Married into Clandorf...Bad Humborg...Mister Fatmate"

I love all these names! Next time I need an insult, this is where I'm going. Especially "grease with the butter".

"reconnoitring through his semisubconcious"

Once again, Joyce is being self-referential, oooh, we're in dreamland.

p. 73 (nada)

p. 74

"Liverpoor? Sot a bit of it! His braynes coolt parritch, his pelt nassy, his heart's adrone, his bluidstreams acrawl..."

This last paragraph is cool, personifying Liverpool (I think).

p. 75

"lililiths undeveiled"

Ooo, an extrabiblical reference!

p. 76

"obedience of the citizens elp the ealth of the ole...Let us leave theories there and return to here's here."

Cool philosophizing, why are we always obedient to the citizens of the "Earth of Old", and then a U-turn reminding us we need to get back to the nonsense.

p. 77

"inhumationary bric au brac for the adornment of his glasstone honophreum"

Something about decorating a coffin with junk?

p. 78

"embalmed, of grand age, rich in death anticipated."

Cool line.

p. 79

"(called after the ugliest Danadune)"

It rhymes with Xanadu!

"King Hamlaugh's gulden dayne"

Hamlet was a Dane, right?

p. 80

"Mithra...Shiva...Posidonius O'Fluctuary! Lave that bloody stone as it is!"

References galore, and another to Sisyphus!