Number Wan Wan Wan
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Jump to navigationJump to search- 111 - Joyce's number for ALP (Hebrew: “Aleph” (=1) + “Lamed” (=30) + “Pe” (=80) = 111). This is the number of her children (Roman Numeral 3, III), also a number of renewal like 11 (one more after 10 and you start again), the three sides of ALP's sigla, Δ (the triangle, the river delta)
- wan: pale, sickly
- "Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn!:" (German) "Illusion! Illusion! Everywhere illusion!"; aria from Richard Wagner's Meistersinger (1868)
