We stopped at ". . . bowlers a rest!" (607, last line)
These pages are good examples of how the same words/sentences can be interpreted differently. It was clear to me that the sentence we started our reading today (The first exploder to make his ablations . . . /606.23 ) refers to HCE and the incidence in the Phoenix park. We had read of a trial on what HCE did/didn't do in the Phoenix park. But another interpretation was aired in the room that it refers to Adam in the Garden of Eden. Support to this interpretation is said to be lent by the sentence starting with "He comes out of the soil . . . " (606.28). The meaning of the name 'Adam' is given here.
Joseph Campbell explains lines 607.7 to 607.16 thus:
"There are four town clocks which show Jacob (with pipe) and Esau (with borrowed dish) and then a procession of the apostles, at every hours of changeover; this hourly puppet procession represents the first and last riddle of the universe. It is the signal for Finnegan's wake, for the old Lord of Chapelizod to seek the shades of his retirement, and for young Chappielassies to tease their partners."
These pages are good examples of how the same words/sentences can be interpreted differently. It was clear to me that the sentence we started our reading today (The first exploder to make his ablations . . . /606.23 ) refers to HCE and the incidence in the Phoenix park. We had read of a trial on what HCE did/didn't do in the Phoenix park. But another interpretation was aired in the room that it refers to Adam in the Garden of Eden. Support to this interpretation is said to be lent by the sentence starting with "He comes out of the soil . . . " (606.28). The meaning of the name 'Adam' is given here.
Joseph Campbell explains lines 607.7 to 607.16 thus:
"There are four town clocks which show Jacob (with pipe) and Esau (with borrowed dish) and then a procession of the apostles, at every hours of changeover; this hourly puppet procession represents the first and last riddle of the universe. It is the signal for Finnegan's wake, for the old Lord of Chapelizod to seek the shades of his retirement, and for young Chappielassies to tease their partners."
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