Finnegans Wake p. 381-400

I'm on call tonight, so I'm doing this at like 1 in the morning.

p. 381

"Firbolgs"

Cool mythology reference, specifically, Irish.

p. 382

There's a part about beer at the top of the page.

"So sailed the stout ship Nansy Hans. From Liff away...Now follow we out by Starloe!"

And so the dreamship begins its voyage.

p. 383

"Trustan with Usolde."

There they are once again!

p. 384

"handson and huntsem, that was palpably wrong and bulbubly improper, and cuddling her and kissing her,"

Sounds like a sailor talking.

p. 385 (nothin')

p. 386

"yambling around with their old pantometer"

Dang old men, wandering around talking in their old pentameter.

p. 387

"Queen Baltersby, the Fourth Buzzersbee"

Queen "B".

p. 388

"(noo poopery!)"

Poop/pomp/poetry?

p. 389

"Queh? Quos?"

Reminds me of the French "quelquefois", which means sometimes.

p. 390

"earing his wick"

There's ol' HCE!

p. 391 (nothin')

p. 392

"poor Matt, the old pergrime matriarch, and a queenly man,"

Oooh, gender reversal!

p. 393

"from playing their gastspiels,"

Gatsby? Gospels?

p. 394

"dephlegmatised his gutterful of throatyfrogs,"

Someone has cleared their phlegmy throat?

p. 395

"for the rosecrumpler, the thrilldriver, the sighinspirer"

I think he's talking about a girl here, and she's a FOX.

p. 396

"What would Ewe do?"

Good question.

"Since Edem was in the boags noavy"

Perhaps a reference to the Firbolgs from earlier. Adam and Eve are on opposite ends?

p. 397

"Mamalujo"

There they are: good ol' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

"M.M.L.J"

There they are again!

p. 398

"for the lives of Lazarus"

This is pretty cool. There are two different characters in the New Testament named Lazarus. Lazarus is also raised from the dead, giving another life.

p. 399

"Its pith is full. The way is free. Their lot is cast. So, to john for a john, johnajeams, led it be!"

EPIC.

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