Sunday 27 October 2019

Monday, 21 October 2019, Pages 583 - 584

We read as far as "I lob him." (584.8)

The paragraph we read has names of various moons of different planets such as Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn. The next paragraph teems with terminology connected to the game, cricket.

The central theme though is copulation. The man in the street sees the shadows of the act HCE and ALP are engaged in on the Persian blinds of the room. The news will spread far and wide (through all Urania soon). It was half past quick in the morning ... i.e., ... kicksolock in the morm.

Sunday 20 October 2019

Monday, 14 October 2019, Pages 581-583

We stopped at " . . . the bulloge she bears!" (583.4)

What is bulloge? It has many meanings: bullock, belly. It also refers to the place Bulloge in the County of Galway. In this book, it could also mean the bulge (i.e, belly). After all what we have been reading can be interpreted on one level as the sexual act between HCE and ALP. So ALP has to bear the burden of HCE's bulge.

At this stage, FW is becoming quite openly sexual. A witness to what is going on in HCE's bedroom is Luke, one of the four evangelists. The current section (starting with the sentence, Third position of concord;  582.29) is a report of what Luke sees. He has an excellent view from front but does not see HCE completely as female [is] imperfectly masking male. Another witness is the man in the street [who] can see the coming event. We meet him in our next reading.

Saturday 5 October 2019

Monday, 30 September 2019, Pages 579 - 581

We read as far as "... right renownsable patriarch?" (581.5)

At our last reading, we had come across a number of slogans, almost like posters which Earwicker could have put up in his pub. The last ones we had read were: Scrape your souls (soles of shoes?). Commit no miracles. Postpone no bills.

We read more this time. Some nice ones are, Hatenot havenots. My time is on draught. Bottle your own. Love my label like myself.... Oil's wells in our lands. Let earwigged's wivable teach you the dance! (Let Earwicker's able wife teach you the dance?)

We also read that they (HCE & ALP) met and mated and bedded and buckled and got and gave and reared and raised ... tried to mingle and managed to save and feathered foes' nests and fouled their own ...

In this way HCE & ALP represent the most common, the most widely spread type of husband and wife team. Here Comes Everybody! After all that is what Finnegans Wake is supposed to be about.

IMPORTANT:
Please note that there will be no reading on Monday, October 7th.
The next session will be on October 14th.