Day 3

Page 5 now. From the previous page, Joyce continues to describe the building of the Woolworth skyscraper. And then midstream starts talking about the heirarchy of the church, comparing workers as going up and pontiff-types tumbling down.

Finnegan is visited (perhaps in a dream) by Saint Thomas a Becket, the Archbishop of Cantebury. Is this an allusion to the divine comedy, but without the Catholic overtones?

Joyce goes on to describe some goat heraldry, and a scrotum.

He make a horrible pun about Finnegan's name and reincarnation (you named the fucking character, Joyce. I don't think you get to use this tone to pun his name).

Yep. It's the divine comedy. Oh jesus. This puzzle he's created.

It's a monday, but it jumps to thursday. Thor is mentioned for a third time in three page, each time a little differently. Page 3 has reference to a litany of different words for thunder from all over the world. My guess? Thunder is Finnegans Wake's version of fire from Dante's Inferno.

Also note. there is not apostrophe in Finnegans. Did I mention this before?

Oh good. Some racist remarks about Muslims in London.

There is a reference to nabir which is from the Illiad, a reference to Zeus. Another god of thunder. My o' my. Just tell your fucking story, pal.

Near the end of the page. "Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea." Devil and the deep blue sea. A jebel is also a mountain and the Jypsian sea is also the Sea of Japan. Rock and a hard place. What a complicated pun. I hate it.

The page ends with a bunch of nonsense words that sound like cockney slang for lazy people. He also throws in a jewish reference. Not sure if it's a slight, or a nod. The rambling runs off into the next page, which I'll explore on Day 4.

Too many of these phrases are lost to time and geography. How am I supposed to know Merlinburrow Burrocks is a reference to specific army barracks in Dublin. There are about 20 words here at the end to describe how the modern world with all its stone buildings is too much for Finnegan. Peaking ahead onto the next page, yes. Finnegan fell and there are two more dick jokes coming.

Am I left with a question from page 3. Does Finnegan see himself as Tristan from King Arthur? Or does he love a woman name Isolde?