@Phoenix - mythical bird that burns up and rises again from its own ashes
#o felix culpa - happy/fortunate fault "O Phoenix culprit!"
&We are all fallen but this gives us the opportunity for redemption
%"James Jokester" Winnegans Fake
!The difference between cosmic and comic is only one symbol
$Joyce prescribed a scrupulous meanness to his short story
*epiphany is when everything comes together in wholeness, harmony, and radiance (a sudden manifestation of the divine)
@to abstract - to remove things
"Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross where you shall see a lady on a white horse with bells on her fingers and bells on her toes. She shall have music where ever she goes"
#Joyce is OCD, not chaotic - a person who likes to keep their underwear completely separate from everything else
&Chaos is simply a name we put to an order we don't understand yet
@The pedophile Charles Dodson (Lewis Carroll) was good friends with Joyce
#Portmanteau - a piece of luggage with lots of compartments, carpet bag, also a word with all sorts of meanings or compartments
&VICO - Gods to Heros to Men to Chaos and the language degresses from hieroglyphic (pictures) to poetic (Aristocratic) to economic (utilitarian) to hypnotic (Mutt n Jeff)
%Freud believed that all memory is personal and that we can remember everything even prenatal memories
!Jung said however that expulsion from the womb is social not biological
$archetype - primordial types of things (arcane and esoteric image in dreams)
*Humpty-Dumpty - putting Humpty together again
*HCE appears many times in the text of Finnegans Wake and in many different forms. HCE is short for Humphrey (or Harold) Chimpden Earwicker "Here Comes Everbody, the male character
@Pantheism - gods inhabit all things including landscape
#Tip appears 10 times, there are ten claps of thunder with 100 words each in them
&The characters in FW form a square that is all round, each character must play the role of everybody
%ALP - Anna Livia Plurabell, river mountain, the female, mother character
!Issy - Iseult (the queen of King Mark who fell in love with Tristram), Isis, daughter
$Shem and Shaun are the sons, they're twins who represent and live out the eternal battle between brothers
*Finnegans Wake is paranomasia gone CRaZy
@Joyce almost predicted the structure of the Internet "emaila"
#Lethe - lethal deadly, a river in Hades
&We are most asleep when we are awake and vice versa
%Remember - to reassemble carnally, Re-member
!A scar is an act of remembrance, an inscription or mutilation
$Memory theatre - imagining an enclosed space with familiar walls or niches
*Nietzsche believed that we are destined to live the same life for all eternity, never learning new things
*We really don't have access to the greater amound of light
*The road to the afterlife is a 1000 year journey on a high road or a low road, one of which opens onto a large field with straws strew about. Each straw is a new life. Once a new life is picked, the person drinks from the river Lethe and forgets everything
*Chaos - khaos - greek khaino - to yawn, open wide
*Aletheia - truth/unconcealment
*How is forgetting turned into revealing? Can you stretch memory back far enough to see the future?
*Forget the good things so that we can discover them again for the first time
"I'd like to do that again"
