B46: Wij hebben, upseek, courant (journal) good township, a bitty, door (thro)
Dutch: we hebben -> we have; upzoeken -> inspect, look up; een beetje -> a little; door -> through; courant -> newspaper; want -> for; 't -> it
habben carries inhabitant, for me
we have to look up/ inspect a little through our town's newspapers, for we knew it (...but we've forgotten it now?)
courants -> currants, currents
wind blows up her skirts?
why courantS?
courants is letter-as-journalism/history, hce's crimes written publicly, the northroomer pegging glatt stones and insults, but also maybe toilet paper for his anxious seat (below)?
There may be a pattern in the Dutch, of a hunted figure fleeing: was he then looking up some travel schedule in the township's courants? looking for signs they've noticed his flight? he checks all the papers out of paranoia?
Biddy Doran, the hen ALP
bitty door -> Alice in Wonderland
the littlest door, high up on the wall, leading to the biggest room?
peeked up her skirts?
A-Exiles2 9 "Fluchende Frau as long as my hole looks down?" cursing (German) Mop
want -> once
is newt possibly phallic?
The three "it may be"s on 75, each followed by a Dutch phrase, still puzzle me. I notice the first of the three phrases is about mail, the second about speech, and the third about newspapers. I also notice that Joyce has a characteristic way of handling foreign phrases, deforming them into almostEnglish words, often centered loosely (!) around a perpendicular-to-theliteral-meaning theme. My prototype for this is the cad's question, which HCE hears as "Guinness thaw tool in jew me dinner ouzel fin?" (35.15) (-> How are you today my fair gentleman, in Irish), which seems to carry a vaguely sexual improper suggestion.
Nautical theme: deep sea
the homily about wasted time seems strikingly banal. does it hide something?
11.140 "wishing is good time wasted"
be merry, for tomorrow...
petrified may have been dropped because of redundancy with petrifake, etc (below)
petrified -> terrified
petrified -> mummified by passage of ages
shaman = witch doctor
Rose and O'Hanlon found 'tent' in "shamanah" via "shamianah", which the OED calls a tent-awning, from the Urdu. (When I find something like this in the OED, I always check the citations to see if it's in Shakespeare or someone else Joyce-probable, but I didn't find any source I knew, here.)
why patriarchal? the great white father in his tent, besieged by revolting natives?
Dual: lion in cage/ hunter in tent
shame, Shem
Dutch (not from B46-- the final FW form predates the 1938 Dutch flood): brood -> bread; steen -> stone
Steyne = pillar in Dublin erected by Vikings
Broadstone Railway Terminus, Dublin, not far from Eccles street (not elevated, surely?)
Patriarchal shaman, Brodstein (Rabbi perhaps?) (sem. Bloom)
Possibly also Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky's real name)?
by = town (Danish)
In the movie "Svengali," which I presume was based on the popular play current in Joyce's youth, Svengali calls telepathically to Trilby from the window of a turret above the rooftops of the city.
"Trilby" was first a novel, I think.
The "(Twillby! Twillby!)" on 75.15 sounds like an emphasis on the coming City of God. That is, it's: "... broadsteyne 'bove citie (Twillby! Twillby!) he conscious of enemies ...". HCE's municipal associations often lead to his coming salvation in terms of the restoration of his city (Dublin) as the New Jerusalem. See also the next page, line 8 - 9: " ... the obedience of the citizens elp the ealth of the ole.", echoing the Dublin city motto "Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas", with an emphasis on ALP and healing. HCE is looking forward to his resurrection and redemption. This fits quite well with the current Viconian 'coordinates': this is the fourth chapter, of the first main cycle of chapters. So I think Twillby! sounds like 'Twill be!
Twillby, is also, perhaps, it will pass, by, not necessarily be. And by is also buy...
This reminds me of "where wilby citie by law of isthmon" at 017.21... but I don't know what that means!
I think the echo on page 17 fits very well. It's from the Mutt/Jute passage. Mutt is talking about the battles fought near Howth Head, in reference to the merging of the light and dark races. He refers to 'this albutisle' (Howth, a peninsula). The site of the ancient conflict is the seashore near Dublin, where a city will be: 'where wilby citie by law of isthmon'. Here's my understanding of this:
The 'isthmon' may refer to Sir Amory Tristram, first Earl of Howth, a foreign nobleman who moved to Ireland. In FW, he's usually associated with the 'Tristy' character, the combined version of the two sons who makes up the third soldier and is the personality who finally overthrows HCE as Buckley. My reasoning is this: 'isthmon' certainly reminds one of 'isthmus', and that is usually a reference to Howth. It also sounds to me like 'Ikhnaton', the Egyptian Pharaoh who ushered in monotheism through sun (!!) worship.
He Conscious of Enemies -> HCE
King Billy -> equestrian statue in Dublin of William III
King Billy -> last male Tasmanian aborigine, whose grave was robbed
WWI motif: I suggest that the main historical figure behind this portrait [of HCE] is Kaiser Wilhelm II, who during the composition of FW was in exile, and virtually emprisoned, in a castle above the Dutch town of Doorn. (Cf. "door:" 75.12) By far the most famous of tiergartens is the one in Berlin, surrounded by what what once the administrative center of the German empire. The echo of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" recalls WW I, when he was in his glory, before his fall. He is "besieged" where once he was "Sieger," i.e. Caesar (see 281.23), i.e. Kaiser. He has every cause to be "conscious of enemies, a kingbilly whitehorsed in a Finglass mill," with "whitehorsed" echoing "unhorsed" (and a king's horse put to work in a mill, like the horse of Gabriel Conroy's story, or like Samson, with perhaps a suggestion that the flour has powdered him white) and "on anxious seat," since during the early years of his exile there were calls all over Europe for his execution. Typically, the voice assailing him most violently here is English, "engles to the teeth."
About King Billy, see Yeats's "Lapis Lazuli":
Aeroplane and Zeppelin will come out,
Pitch like King Billy bomb-balls in
Until the town lie beaten flat. (ll.6-8)
In the notes Finneran says that this is "a pun on William III at the Battle of the Boyne... and Kaiser Wilhelm (1859-1941), German emperor and king of Prussia during World War I." He further notes-- and this too works in the Wake - that "The Battle of the Boyne" was also an anonymous ballad in _Irish Minstrelsy_ (1888) which describes how:
"King James he pitched his tents between
The lines for all to retire;
But King William threw his bomb-balls in,
And set them all on fire."
(And cp. "between the shifts" in the Yeatsian context of the diagram in II.ii.)
pitch a ball --> cricket?
William III stayed at Finglas after the Battle of Boyne, 1690
to be white-horsed is to obtain a job through influence (what's the story behind this one?)
echoes "unhorsed" (and a king's horse put to work in a mill, like the horse of Gabriel Conroy's story, or like Samson, with perhaps a suggestion that the flour has powdered him white)
There are many statues in Ireland of their British "masters" atop white horses (see Vincent Cheng's article in the new Joyce Studies Annual); this fits in with the general sense of signs of foreign invasion (the "broad*steyne*" on ln. 14). This and other things remind me of the museyroom scene: whitehorse as waterhouse (i.e. toilet) = waterloo. Note that "he sat on an anxious seat" (ln. 16); and "koorts order of the gorundwet" (076.17-8): the wet ground at Waterloo played a decisive role in Wellington's victory (a fact that amused Joyce and strengthened the waterloo-loowater link; SD said something to this effect in *Ulysses* (I can't find the ref. offhand); also in VIB 15 there is the entry "loowater carnage" JJA 32 p. 280, VIB 15 p. 73). The combination of toilet, war and sexual fantasy/frustration seems to add up to a solid link of some kind (but what kind?).
Finglas carries spun glass for me, or finespunglass!
Continuity: HCE is besieged in his own tavern. Whitehorsed in a mill suggests either that he's doing menial labor there, or maybe living in opulence, thru influence.
he's been retired, put out to pasture, put on display (king billy the aborigine), given sinecure, frightened by sieger.
Continuity: The anxious seat is so because the stones may come flying-- HCE maybe is not dreaming of the girls, but panicked about the boys.
also toilet seat, anxious implies constipated?
Did anyone mention Luther as the constipated visionary?
(ref back to museyroom {9.31.7-9.32.5}) 3&1/2 hrs on the seat, "Phew! What a warm time..." that WOULD be.