Finnegans Wake p. 281-300

Oops, Forgot this the other day.

p. 281

There's some French going on here.

"But Bruto and Cassio"

There they are again.

p. 282

"But where, O where, is me lickle dig done?"

Ah, nursery rhymes.

p. 283 (nothin')

p. 284

"Ba be bi bo bum."

Jack and the Beanstalk again!

p. 285 (nothin')

p. 286

"As Rhombulus and Rhebus went building rhomes one day."

Romulus and Remus once again, for the win!

p. 287

"Now, whole in applepine erdor...If we each could always do all we ever did."

If we could have our ways, we would all recline against apple and pine trees.

p. 288

"in spite of all the bloot, all the braim, all the brawn, all the brile, that was shod, that were hat, that was shuk all the while, "

This is just really grotesque sounding.

p. 289

"Benjermine Funkling"

This guy sounds better than Benjamin Franklin. Funkling sounds like the kind of guy I'd want to hang out with.

p. 290

"such a coolcold douche as him"

That sounds really uncomfortable.

p. 291

"were a wrigular writher neonovene babe! Charles de Simples had an inirmierity complexe before he died a natural death."

I just like the wordplay between inferiority and infirmary.

p. 292

"equally so, the crame of the whole faustian fustian,"

New this Spring, The Faustian Line of Menswear. I like it.

"Plutonic loveliaks twinnt Platonic yearlings--you must, ow, in undivided reawlity draw the line somewhawre"

There is no difference between night and day, sleeping and waking, but the human mind needs to draw the line, create the distinction.

p. 293

There's a lot to be taken from the picture. If you talk to me, I'll show you what I thought.

"Anna...Ante Ann...Aiaiaiai, Antiann"

Anna Plurabelle, and Auntie Em, Auntie Em!

p. 294

"Lumps, lavas and all...We're all found of our anmal matter."

Ooh, a contrast between the animate and the inanimate.

p. 295

"When I'm dreaming back like that I begins to see we're only all telescopes."

I like to think of all of us as telescopes.

"All's fair on all fours,"

All's fair in love and war. And if you're an animal.

"The haves and the havenots: a distinction."

Old school economic definitions. Nice.

p. 296

"With a geing groan grunt and a croak click cluck."

Old McDonald! YAY!

"hogwarts"

HARRY POTTER! ZOMG!

p. 297

"Fin for fun!"

Finish for fun? I think not. The fun is in the reading.

"Hurdlebury Fenn,"

Nice.

p. 298

"Ecclasiastical and Celestial Hieracrchies. The Ascending. The Descending."

Wisdom leads to ascension, blind worship leads to hell.

p. 299

"As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother."

Oliver Cromwell slept with/under his grandmother?

Read footnote 4, about the Doodles family. Awesome.

p. 300

"noland's browne jesus"

This line is pretty interesting.