Finnegans Wake p. 501-520

p. 501

"SILENCE."

I love it when people yell this.

p. 502 (nothin')

p. 503

"Well, I faithly sincerely believe so indeed if all what I hope to charity is half true."

Hopefully, all our charitable hopes and dreams actually do something?

p. 504

"Cimmerian shudders."

The Cimmerians were an ancient group of nomadic people who rode horses. Also, Conan the Barbarian was one.

"killmaimthem pensioners"

Phew. That's intense.

p. 505

"Amengst menlike trees walking or trees like angels weeping nobirdy aviar soar anywing to eagle it. But rock of agues, cliffed for aye!"

Nobody's willing to "eagle" it? We're all rocks and cliffs, solid and unmoving?

p. 506

"How near do you feel to this capocapo promontory sir?"

Is this a reference to the Capos in concentration camps during the Holocaust?

p. 507 (nothin')

p. 508

"I hear these two goddesses are liable to sue him?"

Have you ever read mythology? Being sued is the least of this dude's worries. He's probably going to be turned into a squid or something.

p. 509

"I put it to you that this was solely in his sunflower state and that his halioraping het was why maids all sighed for him, ventured and vied for him. Hm?"

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!?

p. 510

"But the right reverent priest, Mr Hopsinbond, and the reverent bride eleft, Frizzy Fraufrau, were sober enough. I think they were sober."

This makes me giggle.

p. 511 (nothin')

p. 512

"Megalomagellan...Crestofer Carambas!"

I like the play on megalomania/Magellan. The theme of this page is...EXPLORERS!

p. 513 (nothin')

p. 514

"Big Arthur flugged the field at Annie's courting."

Is this a King Arthur reference? Who is Annie? Anna Plurabelle?

p. 515

"Five maim!...I should like to euphonise that."

Sometimes, even James Joyce can't find a euphemism for something.

p. 516

"coaccoackey the key of John Dunn's field"

As an English major, I feel like I should get a joke about John Donne, but I'm missing it.

p. 517

"No but Cox did to shin the punman...Trulytruly Asbestos"

Gotta love those puns.

"marcy buckup!"

French, but misspelled.

p. 518

"Yet this war has meed peace?"

War and Peace? Political philosophy?

p. 519 (nothin')

p. 520

"heehaw hell's flutes,"

Sounds fun.