Finnegans Wake p. 461-480

p. 461

"MEN!"

What an exclamation.

p. 462

"eucherised to yous."

Something about the Eucharist?

p. 463

"Jonas wrocked in the belly of the whaves,"

Jonah rocked in the belly of the fish/he rocked on the waves.

p. 464

"Flu Flux Fans"

Probably my favorite wordplay so far.

"And old Auster and Hungrig?"

Austria-Hungary? HUNGRY.

p. 465

"Be hamlet."

Good advice.

p. 466

"my hero and lander!"

A reference to Hero and Leander?

p. 467

"And I see by his diarrhio he's dropping the stammer out of his silenced bladder"

Gross.

p. 468 (nothin')

p. 469

"Break ranks! After wage-of-battle bother I am thinking most. Fik yew!"

Sounds like somebody's about to sound the retreat.

p. 470

"A dream of favours, a favourable dream."

A fever dream? That's kinda what this book is.

"Eh jourd'weh! Oh jourd'woe!"

Today, there is a lot of woe? There's some weird French combos going on here.

p. 471 (nada)

p. 472

"Rest your voice! Feed your mind!"

Free your mind!

p. 473

"The silent cock shall crow at last. The west shall shake the east awake."

Reminds me of "the meek shall inherit the earth".

p. 474

This was a page we did in class.

p. 475 (nada)

p. 476

"a mamalujo by his cubical crib,"

You just can't escape Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

p. 477

"Or he's rehearsing somewan's funeral."

Is that someone Finnegan?

p. 478

There's some cool French going on here, that I don't exactly understand. Maybe Beckett helped out here.

"The duck is rising"

Nice play on "the dark is rising"

p. 479

The big paragraph on this page reminds me of a Sherlock Holmes mystery.

p. 480

"bare his breastpaps to give suck, to suckle me."

That really won't work.

"Hunkalus Childared Easterheld."

We just can't escape H.C.E.