Finnegans Wake p. 521-540

Just had a fire drill in the building where I work. It's 4am. Figured I'd do some homework.

p. 521

"Farewell, but whenever! Buy!"

Goodbye!

p. 522 (nothin')

p. 523

"weflected, wepowtew, that the evil what though it was willed might nevewtheless lead somehow on to good towawd the genewality."

Evil might lead to good?

p. 524 (nothin')

p. 525

"Gubbernathor!"

Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governator.

"boatloads of spermin spunk about."

Ewww.

"Romunculus Remus, plying the rape,"

Romulus and Remus again.

p. 526

"Nircississies are as the doaters of inversion."

Narcissism/Narcissus/Necessity is the mother/doater?

p. 527

"A tickey for tie taughts!"

Nice wordplay. Rolls off the tongue.

p. 528

"You last led the first when we last but we'll first trump your last with a lasting."

Try and wrap your head around that one.

p. 529

There's a weird little 2L at the bottom of the page.

p. 530

"Let succuba succumb,"

More wordplay! Succubus.

p. 531

"By sylph and salamander and all the trolls and tritons, I mean to top her drive and to tip the tap of this, at last."

What a thing to say!

"His thoughts that wouldbe words, his livings that havebeen deeds."

This sounds cool and philosophical.

p. 532

"Fa Fe Fi Fo Fum!"

There's Jack and the Beanstalk again.

p. 533 (nothin')

p. 534

"Tiktak. Tikkak. Awind abuzz awater falling."

Morning sounds?

p. 535

"Tell the woyld I have lived true thousand hells."

This is epic stuff.

p. 536

"Well, yeamen, I have bared my whole past, I flatter myself, on both sides."

Is this the world talking to us through Finnegans Wake?

p. 537 (nothin')

p. 538

"A pipple on the panis,"

Gross.

p. 539 (nothin')

p. 540

"Things are not as they were. Let me briefly survey."

You're tellin' me.