We stopped the reading with 'Plunk!' (495.20)
In the last post, I had written that it is pointless to ask why Joyce uses Indian origin words in one paragraph and then moves on to the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Many of us were also unsure as to who is talking. This chapter started with four old men interrogating Yawn (aka Shawn). But the voice on page 491 was no longer Shawn's. So I took refuge in Joseph Campbell's 'A Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake.'
Campbell identifies this new voice has the ring of the voice of ALP. He says, 'From a deeper level of Yawn's subconsciousness a female voice now is heard.' ALP takes on the role of the two girls in the Phoenix park, the two temptresses. One of them talks with the voice using the Indian origin words. Campbell continues: 'When ALP has her say as India, one the Four Old Men, in a prayer re-echoing the periods of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, bids the other temptress aspect to let herself be heard. She speaks forth now with the voice of Ireland....'
In the last post, I had written that it is pointless to ask why Joyce uses Indian origin words in one paragraph and then moves on to the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Many of us were also unsure as to who is talking. This chapter started with four old men interrogating Yawn (aka Shawn). But the voice on page 491 was no longer Shawn's. So I took refuge in Joseph Campbell's 'A Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake.'
Campbell identifies this new voice has the ring of the voice of ALP. He says, 'From a deeper level of Yawn's subconsciousness a female voice now is heard.' ALP takes on the role of the two girls in the Phoenix park, the two temptresses. One of them talks with the voice using the Indian origin words. Campbell continues: 'When ALP has her say as India, one the Four Old Men, in a prayer re-echoing the periods of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, bids the other temptress aspect to let herself be heard. She speaks forth now with the voice of Ireland....'
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