In the ignorance that implies impression

• In the ignorance ... ensuance of existentiality → Buddha’s twelvefold chain of dependent origination: Ignorance → Impression → Knowledge → Name and Form → the Six Senses → Sensation → Desire → Attachment → Existence → Birth → Old Age and Death → Ignorance (The doctrine of pratītyasamutpāda)

Commentary

"In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality."

Buddhism – the 12-fold chain of dependent origination: ignorance –> impression –> knowledge –> name and form –> the six senses –> sensation –> desire –> attachment –> existence –> birth –> old age and death –> ignorance (Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake)

Ignorance is the first and last link, implying a cycle → cf. FW and 1132

Note also that links 9, 10 and 11 occur in reversed order!