Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Finnegans Wake p. 301-320

p. 301

"All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law."

Life sucks, and we live in fear until the day of Judgement?

p. 302 (nothin')
p. 303

"This is brave Danny weeping his spache for the popers. This is cool Connolly wiping his hearth with brave Danny." 

This is just gross.

"Ideal Present Alone Produces Real Future."

This just sounds cool.

p. 304

"MERCI BUCKUP, AND MIND WHO YOU'RE PUCKING,"

French (very much), and mind who you're (CENSORED)?

p. 305

"if you're not your bloater's kipper may I never curse again on that pint I took of Jamesons."

Cain, if you're not your brother's keeper, than I will never drink again!

p. 306 - 308

Lists. Yes.

"A place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career in the Civil Service, The Voice of Nature in the Forest, Your Favorite Hero or Heroine...The Uses and Abuses of Insects...Why we all Love our Little Lord Mayor...Should Ladies learn Music or Mathematics?"

There's a ton of famous mythological characters on the side of 307.

p. 309

"It may not or maybe a no concern of the Guinnesses but."

Is Guinness interchangeable with family/alcohol here?

p. 310 (nothin')
p. 311

"O, lord of the barrels, comer forth from Anow"

Lord of Barrels. Pretty prestigious title.

p. 312

"Group drinkards maaks grope thinkards"

Groupdrink makes groupthink. Tankards/thinkards, who grope things.

p. 313

"Godeown moseys and skeep the beeble bee."

Go down Moses, and tell Pharaoh to let thy people go! There's a cool spiritual that goes with this.

"dearagadye"

Didgeridoo?

p. 314 (nothin')
p. 315

"his rubmelucky truss rehorsing the pouffed skirts of his overhawl."

Are we talking trusses (hernia-girdles) right now. Because I can only imagine what pouffed skirts are.

p. 316

"make a rarely fine Ran's cattle of fish."

A fine kettle o' fish.

p. 317

"Cloth be laid!"

God be praised!

p. 318

"O wanderness be wondernest and now!"

Oh, the wilderness be wonderous and new/wandering the wilderness now?

p. 319 (nothin')
p. 320

"Infernal machinery (serial number: Bullysacre, dig care a dig)"

This interests me, I don't know what it means, but an Infernal machine is usually a reference to some kind of artillery.

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