We read as far as "... but shekleton's my fortune?" (512.28)
As on earlier pages, an inquest/enquiry is going on. A witness is being asked question after question. Who could be this witness? Who is the questioner?
At the start of this chapter 38 pages earlier (only 38 pages earlier (!), on page 474) Shaun was being interrogated by four old men, whom we have met many times in earlier chapters too. So, let us assume that the witness, the one being asked questions, is still Shaun. And that the one who is asking questions is one of the four old men. And that the entire inquest is taking place in the dream world of Earwicker.
Last week we had read about a ball that took place in the Taylors' Hall and the breakfast afterwards at Heaven and Covenant. Only two people, the bride and the priest were sober. McGraw the wedding beastsman was kicking the bedding out of the old sexton. The witness, Shaun, says that while that was going on he and some others were gickling his missus to gackles (tickling Mcgraw's wife to giggles?).
He also describes the dress the bride was wearing: a floating panel, secretairslidingdraws, a budge of knees on her schalter,...
Joseph Campbell says that here 'Joyce is describing the costume of the bride in terms of modern paintings (Dali, Klee, Croce) and esthetic philosophies.'
As on earlier pages, an inquest/enquiry is going on. A witness is being asked question after question. Who could be this witness? Who is the questioner?
At the start of this chapter 38 pages earlier (only 38 pages earlier (!), on page 474) Shaun was being interrogated by four old men, whom we have met many times in earlier chapters too. So, let us assume that the witness, the one being asked questions, is still Shaun. And that the one who is asking questions is one of the four old men. And that the entire inquest is taking place in the dream world of Earwicker.
Last week we had read about a ball that took place in the Taylors' Hall and the breakfast afterwards at Heaven and Covenant. Only two people, the bride and the priest were sober. McGraw the wedding beastsman was kicking the bedding out of the old sexton. The witness, Shaun, says that while that was going on he and some others were gickling his missus to gackles (tickling Mcgraw's wife to giggles?).
He also describes the dress the bride was wearing: a floating panel, secretairslidingdraws, a budge of knees on her schalter,...
Joseph Campbell says that here 'Joyce is describing the costume of the bride in terms of modern paintings (Dali, Klee, Croce) and esthetic philosophies.'
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