disagrees.44 Amn't I up since the damp dawn, marthared mary allacook, with Corrigan's pulse and varicoarse veins, my pramaxle smashed, Alice Jane in decline and my oneeyed mongrel twice run over, soaking and bleaching boiler rags, and sweating cold, a widow like me, for to deck my tennis champion son, the laundryman with the lavandier flannels? You won your limpopo45 limp from the husky46 hussars when Collars and Cuffs was heir to the town and your slur gave the stink to Carlow.47 Holy Scamander,48 I sar49 it again! Near the golden falls. Icis on us! Seints of light! Zezere!50 Subdue your noise, you hamble creature! What is it but a blackburry growth or the dwyergray ass them four old codgers51 owns. Are you meanam52 Tarpey and Lyons and Gregory?53 I meyne now, thank all, the four of them, and the roar of them, that draves54 that stray in the mist and old Johnny MacDougal along with them. Is that the Poolbeg flasher beyant,55 pharphar, or a fireboat coasting nyar56 the Kishtna57 or a glow I behold within a hedge or my Garry come back from the Indes? Wait till the honeying of the lune,58 love! Die eve, little eve, die!59 We see that
31. Umbra (shade; Latin) + Umba (river in Africa). 'Ussa,' 'Ulla,' and 'IVlezha' are also river names; each contains a number of other meanings. 32. Bank (of river). 33. Spund (bung; German). 34. A multiple pun: Irrawady (river in Burma) + irritating 4- wadding. This and the following sentence may be paraphrased: 'It's that wadding I've stuck in my ears. It hushes the least sound.' 35. Oroonoko (novel by Aphra Behn about a 'noble savage,' published ca. 1678) + Orinoco (river in Venezuela). 36. Fionn mac Cumhail (Finn MacCool), legendary hero of ancient Ireland. 37. Comic kimono. Joki is the Finnish word for river; the name Joachim is perhaps also implied. 38. According to tradition, Hengist was the Jute invader of England (with Horsa), ca. 449; he founded the kingdom of Kent. 39. Father of Waters (i.e., the Mississippi) + Father of Orders (i.e., Saint Patrick). 40. Philip Astley's Royal Amphitheatre was a famous late-18th-century English circus, specializing in trained horses. 'Pepper's Ghost' was a popular circus act. One of the washerwomen has been reproving the other, who thought she saw the great Finn himself riding his high horse, by telling her that once before she had to be restrained by a policeman for making 'sugarstuck pouts' at a circus horse. 41. The temperance reformer Father Matthew had as his slogan 'Ireland sober is Ireland free.' 42. I thought so + Izonzo (river in Italy). 43. Hobbledehoy + wobbly hips. 44. The sentence is a punning discussion of her hard work and ailments. 45. A river in south Africa. 46. Cf. uisge (whiskey, but literally 'water [of life]'; Gaelic). 47. I.e., 'You got a slur on your reputation carrying on with soldiers in the Age of Elegance, and the scandal was all over Ireland' (ALP is being addressed and some of her many lovers are mentioned). 'Carlow': a county in Ireland. 48. River near Troy, famous in classical legend. 49. 1 saw + Isar (river in Germany). 50. See there + Zezere (river in Portugal). 51. The Four Old Men, who represent, among other things, the authors of the Gospels, and the four elements. 52. Meaning + Menam (river in Thailand). 53. Tarpey, Lyons, Gregory, and MacDougal (next sentence) are the 'four old codgers.' 54. Drives + Drave (river in Hungary). 55. I.e., the Poolbeg Lighthouse beyond (this lighthouse is in Dublin Bay). 'Pharphar': far far + Pharphar (river in Damascus) + pharos (lighthouse; Greek). 56. Near + Nyar (river in India). 57. City in ancient Mesopotamia, traditionally the ruling city after the Flood + Krishna (Hindu god of joy) + Kistna (river in India) + the Kish lightship (in Dublin Bay). 58. Loon (boy; Scottish) + lima (moon; Latin). 'Honeying of the lune': honeymoon, etc. 59. From a children's game in which a swing is
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224 2 / JAMES JOYCE
wonder in your eye. We'll meet again, we'll part once more. The spot I'll seek if the hour you'll find. My chart shines high where the blue milk's upset. Forgivemequick. I'm going! Bubye! And you, pluck your watch, forgetmenot. Your evenlode.60 So save to jurna's61 end! My sights are swimming thicker on me by the shadows to this place. I sow62 home slowly now by own way, moyvalley way. Towy I too, rathmine.63
Ah, but she was the queer old skeowsha64 anyhow, Anna Livia, trinkettoes! And sure he was the quare old buntz too, Dear Dirty Dumpling,65 foostherfather of fingalls66 and dotthergills. Gammer and gaffer we're all their gangsters. Hadn't he seven dams to wive him? And every dam had her seven crutches. And every crutch had its seven hues.67 And each hue had a differing cry. Sudds68 for me and supper for you and the doctor's bill for Joe John. Befor! Bifur!69 He married his markets, cheap by foul, I know, like any Etrurian Catholic Heathen, in their pinky limony creamy birnies70 and their turkiss indienne mauves. But at milkidmass71 who was the spouse? Then all that was was fair. Tys Elvenland!72 Teems of times and happy returns. The seim anew.73 Ordovico or viricordo. Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be.74 Northmen's thing made southfolk's place but howmulty plurators made each one in person? 75 Latin me that, my trinity scholard, out of eure sanscreed into oure eryan!76 Hircus Civis Eblanensis!77 He had buckgoat paps on him, soft ones for orphans. Ho,78 Lord! Twins of his bosom. Lord save us! And ho! Hey? What all men. Hot? His tittering daughters of. Whawk?
Can't hear with the waters of. The chittering waters of. Flittering bats, fieldmice bawk talk. Ho! Are you not gone ahome? What Thom Malone? Can't hear with bawk of bats, all thim liffeying waters of. Ho, talk save us! My foos won't moos.79 I feel as old as yonder elm. A tale told of Shaun or Shem? All
allowed to slow down to the refrain 'She's dead, little Eva, little Eva, she's dead.'
60. Evening load + Evenlode (river in England). 61. Journey + Jurna (river in Brazil). 62. Sow (river in England). 63. Moy is the name of an Irish river; Towy, a Welsh river. Moyvalley and Rathmine are names of Dublin suburbs. 64. Old timer, in Dublin. 65. 'Dumpling' suggests Humpty Dumpty, whose fall is one of the many involved in the vastly symbolic fall of Finnegan. The phrase 'Dear Dirty Dublin' occurs in Ulysses. 66. Blond and dark Scandinavian invaders of Ireland. 67. Colors of the rainbow (suggested a few lines later by 'pinky limony creamy' and 'turkiss indienne mauves'). In these sentences Joyce is parodying the nursery rhyme 'As I was going to St. Ives / I met a man with seven wives.' 68. Suds (slang for beer) + soap suds + sudd (the floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation on the White Nile). 69. Bifurcated creature! This image of human as a forked being suggests HCE (cf. 'Etrurian Catholic Heathen,' next sentence). HCE's marital history, in his role as the Great Parent or generator, is one theme in this passage. 70. Coats of mail. 71. Milking time + Michaelmas (September 29). 72. Tis the land of Elves + Tys Elv (Norway). 73. The same again -I- Seim (river in Ireland). 74. The Ordovices were an ancient British tribe in northern Wales, and Ordovician is a term for a geological period. 'Ordovico' is also a pun on Vico and his order of historical phases. Joyce is suggesting the cyclical nature of things: the marital history of HCE is the history of ever-renewing life ('the seim anew'), and HCE's bride is Everywoman, past, present, and future ('Anna was, Livia is, Plurabelle's to be'). 'Viricordo' is another verbal twist to Vico and his cycles, suggesting his ricorso ('recurrence,' i.e., the fourth stage of the cycle that brings back the first), as well as overtones from the Latin vir (man) and cor (heart): the heart of the individual beats on, through all phases of civilization.
75. This sentence may be paraphrased: 'The Northmen's assembly (thing) is now in Suffolk Place, but how many ancestors went into the making of each one of us?' 76. I.e., out of your Sanskrit into your Aryan. 'Sanscreed' has further punning meanings: sans screed (without script) + sans creed (without faith). Thus the phrase can read: 'out of your illiteracy or faithlessness into Irish' (Eire-an). I.e., the greatest skeptic must pause in reverence before the endless flow of life, represented by Irish history. 'Trinity': Trinity College, Dublin. 77. The Goat-Citizen of Dublin! (Latin). The goat is the symbol of lust and so of fecundity; 'Eblanensis' is the adjective form of Eblana, the name given by the 3rd-century Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy to what may have been the site of the modern Dublin. 78. River (Chinese). 79. Move 4-Moos (moss; German). Her foot ('foos') won't move; it is also turning to moss.
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D. H. LAWRENCE / 2243 Livia's daughter-sons. Dark hawks hear us. Night! Night! My ho head halls. I feel as heavy as yonder stone. Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters of? Night now! Tell me, tell me, tell me, elm! Night night! Telmetale of stem or stone.80 Beside the rivering waters of,
hitherandthithering waters of. Night! 1923-38 1939 80. Stone and elm tree are important symbols
