Our reading stopped at "Watch!" (499.29)
Apart from learning from McHugh that the paragraph starting with 'Bappy-go-gully' contains 29 words for death in at least 15 different languages, (don't ask for their significance! All I know is that Finnegan's Wake deals with wake i.e., death), we recognised that the four old men are still at their cross examination of Shawn, whose voice has by now been taken over by ALP, who is defending her husband against the rumours of the Phoenix park incidence.
We also thought we recognised Finnegan at his wake (Funnycoon's wick/p. 499) BUT Joseph Campbell says "... the scene is strangely amplified and magically transformed; the body on the bier seems to be, not Finnegan of primeval times, but HCE in the full glory of his empire." (P. 250 in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake)
Apart from learning from McHugh that the paragraph starting with 'Bappy-go-gully' contains 29 words for death in at least 15 different languages, (don't ask for their significance! All I know is that Finnegan's Wake deals with wake i.e., death), we recognised that the four old men are still at their cross examination of Shawn, whose voice has by now been taken over by ALP, who is defending her husband against the rumours of the Phoenix park incidence.
We also thought we recognised Finnegan at his wake (Funnycoon's wick/p. 499) BUT Joseph Campbell says "... the scene is strangely amplified and magically transformed; the body on the bier seems to be, not Finnegan of primeval times, but HCE in the full glory of his empire." (P. 250 in A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake)
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