Finnegans Wake concerns itself with the innermost layers of human consciousness, it tells of the ritual slaying of the divinity & its necessary resurrection, the depths of the earth erupting as hypersemiotized fountains, & ego destruction.
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Like Oxen of the Sun, the chapter attempts to reconcicle particular & universal; existence and becoming closely parallel a bar crawl. But there is also the excess: "Whom will comes over" and unity and Dionysian indifferentiation.
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Ainsof, the kabbalistic One with a footnote describing it as "Groupname for grapejuice," sums up both the chapter (bar crawl AND history as unity and circle) and FW's literary method. More on this.
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"But, to speak broken heaventalk, is he?" and "since primal made alter in garden of Idem" describe sexuality as a force that permeates the universe and produce its differentiation (to make alter) as well as its indifferentiation, in the dissolution of the subject (garden of Idem)
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From sexuality, the original unity of being becomes a duality, and then three. The men seem to be going to a brothel, but sexuality becomes Eternal Recurrence: "We seek the Blessed One, the Harbourer-cum-Enheritance. [...] Ever a-going, ever a-coming."
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"Preausteric man and his pursuit of pan-hysteric woman" - I feel "pan-hysteric" must be taken etymologically, as "all-encompassing uterus" where the subject dissolves itself in sexuality, which however allows it to create. That is to say, sexuality as a death and creation...
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... and Joyce's literary method as sexuality, sequence of death and creation, and circle, an overflow, an excess of sexuality which produces endless symbolic creation.
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"A is for Anna like L is for liv. [...] Dawn gives rise. Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall." The diagrams here, from oneness to alterity, from one to two and thence to three, manage to create both female and male sexual organs.pic.twitter.com/9BQ1Xg9rle
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What sustains as a keystone, this triangular organization of human consciousness, is, of course, the phallus, which dynamizes the cycle of self-dissolution and creation of meaning.
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The chapter ends on the Nightletter giving "youlldied" (future and past together) "greedings" to Parents and the Dead, concluding with "the babes that mean too", ie. the symbolic produced by the cycle of sexuality, by death and rebirth in oneness and differentiation.
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