Lokk

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• lok: (Old Norse) fastening, lock
  • Online Etymological Dictionary

• Loki: Norse god of mischief and evil; in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, he appears as Loge, god of fire → does this mean that we are back in the bedroom looking into the fire? The picture of St Michael slaying the dragon is above the bedroom fireplace, and the comments in parenthesis might be Issy's comments emanating from the chimney flue?
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake