Star Trek and Finnegans Wake p. 441-460

The line I found that matched the Star Trek episode we watched was this one, from line 82:

"Time past and time future

Allow but a little consciousness.

To be conscious is not to be in time

But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,

The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,

The moment int the draughty church at smokefall

Be remembered; involved with past and future.

Only through time time is conquered."

It seems that one of the moments that the episode draws much attention to, is the idea of being fully conscious in your lifetime (like the poem above), be it 20 minutes, or 80 years. There's also a moment in the movie Star Trek: Insurrection, where time slows for two of the characters, which I think is a good representation of the idea of time being conquered by time. Just watch all of the Star Trek movies, great entertainment. (Especially First Contact, best homage to Moby Dick EVER!)

p. 441

"The inimitable in puresuet of the inevitable!"

Those who seek to be free of imitation will find, inevitably, that it is impossible.

"braying aloud like Brahaam's ass,"

Another Bible reference. Balaam! And Brahman.

p. 442 (nothin')

p. 443

"Home Surgeon Hume, the algebrist"

Another mysterious reference to David Hume?

p. 444

"fecundclass family of upwards of a decade,"

A creative family?

"The pleasure of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime."

Good line.

p. 445 (nothin')

p. 446

"We'll circumcivicise all Dublin country."

Circumcise? Civilize? Civics?

p. 447 (nothin')

p. 448 (nada')

p. 449

"O, the vanity of Vanissy!"

"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." One of my favorite lines in the whole bible (Ecclesiastes!).

"hoopoe's"

Haroun, anyone?

p. 450

"Dash the gaudy deathcup."

Epic.

"Birdsnests is birdsnests."

Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

p. 451

"I'd come out with my magic fluke in close time,"

This just reminds me of the Star Trek we just watched.

p. 452

"The Vico road goes round and round to meet where terms begin."

Sounds a lot like Bilbo's song from The Lord of the Rings. Plus Vico.

"I'm not half Norawain for nothing."

Yeah, being pale-skinned sucks.

p. 453

"exciting your mucuses, turning breakfarts"

Hehe.

p. 454

"No petty family squabbles Up There"

In Heaven?

p. 455

"cupahurling nor apuckalips nor no puncheon jodelling nor no nothing."

No apocalypse in 2012. No nothing.

"we may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we're presurely destined to be odd's without ends."

My new favorite line.

p. 456 (nothin')

p. 457

"which I'm sorry, my precious,"

LOTR again. Nice.

p. 458

"Ahim. That's the stupidest little cough."

Is Joyce coming out here?

p. 459

"O, the wicked untruth!"

I agree.

p. 460

"Lock my mearest next myself."

I want to know what this means.