Finnegans Wake p. 403-420

As I was reading FW, I had a little revelation, and I don't know about everyone else, but sometimes I feel like the book is reading my mind, mirroring my patterns of thought. For example, if someone is talking about some tall person, I think tall - tree - Amazon Rainforest - weird fact about Bird-Eating Spiders that live in the Amazon. Sometimes it has led me to some arguably awkward situations. But I digress. Anyhow, here's the latest thing I was thinking about while I was x-country skiing the other day: -skiing - skiing trails - trails loop - eternal return - Finnegans Wake - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. To elaborate further, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a French short film that made its way to the Twilight Zone. It's the exact definition of the 20-minute lifetime, and you can watch it on youtube. It's awesome, and I won't spoil it.

p. 403

"(it can't be) sax...(it must be) twelve."

It can't be morning yet, the dream must go on.

p. 404 (nothin')

p. 405

"Those jehovial oyeglances!"

Those jehovah-like eye glances/eye glasses!

p. 406

"Mabhrodaphne"

Aphrodite, Daphne, and Mephistopheles?

p. 407

"His handpalm lifted, his handshell cupped, his handsign pointed, his handheart mated, his handsign pointed, his handheard mated, his handaxe risen, his handleaf fallen."

Sounds like someone chopping wood or something.

p. 408

"virgin bush"

awwk-waaard.

p. 409

"Ear! Ear! Not ay! Eye! Eye!"

A bidding war? Eye for an eye? What is going on?

p. 410

Some cool answer/response dialogue begins here.

p. 411

"Your diogneses is anonest man's"

Diegesis/Diogenes?

"freudful mistake, excuse yourself!"

Once again, Joyce is knocking Freud!

p. 412

This is my memorization page!

p. 413

"This, my tears, is my last will intesticle"

All I can say is props, dude, props.

p. 414

"So vi et!"

Soviet? So be it!

p. 415 (nothin')

p. 416

"He had eaten all the whilepaper, swallowed the lustres, devoured forty flights of styearcases,"

We've got a house-eater on our hands people!

p. 417

"The Gracehoper who, though blind as batflea...tossed himself in the vico"

Even blind animals aren't excluded from Vico's "ages".

p. 418

"We are Wastenot with Want, precondamned, two and true,"

We are all contradictions, dualities, dream-world and waking-world.

p. 419

The last four lines of the "poem" are fantastic. Plus they sound like a cool blessing.

p. 420

Another list, YAY!