Finnegans Wake p. 601-628

I've done it. I've gotten to the beginning of Finnegans Wake. Now just to read it all over again. I'll do a blog about my experience soon.

p. 601 (nothin')

p. 602

"Is his moraltack still his best of weapons?"

Morality is the best of weapons?

p. 603

"Haves you the time...Heard you the crime, senny boy?"

You done the crime, but you don't have the time.

p. 604

"Ecclesia."

Again?

"the unity in altruism through stupefaction"

Altruism through religions/factions is for idiots? I don't know if I agree.

p. 605 (nothin')

p. 606

"cherubical loins"

Nice.

"style, stink and stigmataphoron are of one sum in the same person?"

All religions are one. The Trinity?

p. 607

"lovesoftfun at Finnegan's Wake."

Oh yes.

"Hail, regn of durknass,"

Hail sleep?

p. 608 (nothin')

p. 609

There's a conversation between Muta and Juva, which kinda reminds me of MaMaLuJo.

p. 610

"Peredos Last"

There's ol' Milton!

p. 611

"Rumnant Patholic...utpiam"

Roman Catholic? Utopia, by crazy-pants Thomas More?

p. 612

"Highup Big Cockywocky Sublissimime Autocrat,"

What a title.

p. 613

 We did this one in class. Good stuff.

p. 614

"What has gone? How it ends? Begin to forget it."

We dream, and we forget. That is how we begin to live?

p. 615 (nothin')

p. 616

"Moral."

Is there one?

p. 617

"Conan Boyles"

There he is! Sherlock makes yet another appearance. '

"The grand fooneral will now shortly occur."

Will it? Is Finn going to wake?

p. 618

"Shame! Thrice shame!"

For what?

p. 619

"Rise up, man of the hooths, you have slept so long! Or is it only so mesleems?"

We've slept so long. Or was it only a moment?

"A comforter as well."

Bedroom description?

p. 620 (nothin')

p. 621

"So not to see. Or see only a youth in his florizel, a boy in innocence, peeling a twig, a child beside a weenywhite steed."

This just sounds so beautiful.

p. 622

"Time? We have loads on our hangs."

We have so much time still left in the dream!

p. 623

"But once done, dealt and delivered, tattat, you're on the map."

You do stuff, you exist.

p. 624

"Before the naked universe."

I like that.

p. 625

"I've lapped so long."

Yes, yes you have.

p. 626

"And one time you'd rush upon me, darkly roaring, like a great black shadow with a sheeny stare to perce me rawly."

Whoa. This page sounds like someone expressing a love that can't be.

p. 627

"Thinking always if I go all goes."

Does the dream continue if we wake?

"They'll never see."

Nope.

p. 628

"Finn, again!...A way a lone a last a loved a long the"

And so it ends. And begins.