Finnegans Wake Notes

[004.01-004.17]: storms of warfare — fall and rise.

004.01    What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-

004.02 gods! Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu!

004.03 Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still

004.04 out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons cata-

004.05 pelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie

004.06 Head. Assiegates and boomeringstroms. Sod's brood, be me fear!

004.07 Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms, appalling. Killykill-

004.08 killy: a toll, a toll. What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired

004.09 and ventilated! What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetab-

004.10 solvers! What true feeling for their's hayair with what strawng

004.11 voice of false jiccup! O here here how hoth sprowled met the

004.12 duskt the father of fornicationists but, (O my shining stars and

004.13 body!) how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of

004.14 soft advertisement! But was iz? Iseut? Ere were sewers? The oaks

004.15 of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall* if

004.16 you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the

004.17 pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

[004.18-005.04]: Tim Finnegan the masterbuilder — his tower.

004.18    Bygmester* Finnegan, of the Stuttering* Hand, freemen's mau-

004.19 rer, lived in the broadest way immarginable in his rushlit toofar-

004.20 back for messuages before joshuan judges had given us numbers

004.21 or Helviticus committed deuteronomy (one yeastyday he sternely

004.22 struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates but ere

004.23 he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of moses, the very wat-

004.24 er was eviparated and all the guenneses had met their exodus so

004.25 that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!)

004.26 and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi-

004.27 fices in Toper's Thorp piled buildung supra buildung pon the

004.28 banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle liddle phifie Annie*

004.29 ugged the little craythur. Wither hayre in honds tuck up your part

004.30 inher. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in

004.31 grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed, like

004.32 Haroun Childeric Eggeberth he would caligulate by multiplicab-

004.33 les the alltitude and malltitude until he seesaw by neatlight of the

004.34 liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple of other days

004.35 to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!), a waalworth

004.36 of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly, erigenating from*

Summary Page 4 (after the first 4 paragraphs starting on Page 3).

The first twenty-five pages of Joyce’s narrative (4-28) deal directly with the subject of the title theme: the fall, the wake, and the portended resurrection of the prehistoric hod carrier Finnegan.Primordial Big Master Finnegan, free mason, lived, loved, and laboured in the broadest way imaginable: piled buildings on the river banks, swilled ale, jigged with his little Annie, and would calculate the altitude of the skyscraper erections, (5) hierarchitectitiptitoploftical, rising under his hand. This is a good word on which ro practice. Note the way in which it combines the words “hierarchy,” “architect,” “tipsy,” and “toplofty,” climbing up and up, beyond every expectation, like a skyscraper. In Joyce’s text, the phrase “with larrons o’toolers clittering up and tombles a’buckets clottering down” refers to Lawrence O’Toole and Thomas a Becket, bishops respectively of Dublin and Canterbury in the time of Henry II. The former advanced his personal career, the latter was martyred,