Rot

• Not → Rot
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Rot: (German) red → the colour at one end of the rainbow → see line 4, violer d'amores, for the violet at the other end
  • Genesis 9.12 ff: the rainbow is a sign of the Covenant God made with Noah after the Flood → in FW the rainbow appears after the Flood which ends the novel

• rotten

• rot → The expression rot a peck varies the phonology of not yet, continuing the series of negative clauses... n → r for alliteration with following words (brewed ... arclilght ... rory .... regginbrow ... ringsome)