Pharce

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  • farce: a comedy of extravagant humour
  • Pharos: lighthouse at Alexandria; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    • Boulogne lighthouse, founded by Caligula, and kept by St Patrick’s father Calpornius
    • cf. the allusion to the Danish beacon at Arklow in the previous paragraph: arclight
    • HCE's bright red nose, sticking up above the flagpatch quilt (FW 559.13) as he lies abed, resembles a lighthouse beacon
    • Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head
    • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
  • phare: (French) lighthouse