Tuesday 19 March 2019

Monday, 18 March 2019, Pages 539 - 540

We stopped at "... quite out of time now." (540.31)

Continuing to talk about himself, Earwicker, 'pro clam a shun's (proclaims) how 'things are not as they were' since he came to Dublin and 'platzed ... residenze' (established his home) there. He also opened a pub for the 'mean straits male and evorage fimmel' (average man of the street and average woman.)

But Finnegans Wake would not be Finnegans Wake if he does not embellish his statements, hiding in them, not only names of various cities - Prague, New York, Madras, Berlin ... - but also names of well known plays by Ibsen - Peer Gynt, Caesar & Galilean, The Lady from the Sea, Hedda Gabler*, Ghosts, When We Dead Awaken, Pillars of Society and Rosmersholm.

* Watch the 1962 movie, Hedda Gabler, with Ingrid Bergman here!

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