The owl globe wheels in view

• the oul' globe wheels in view → HCE turns over in bed, revealing his face to the "audience" for the first time → FW 558.35 ff., in which HCE and ALP in bed are portrayed as actors on stage or in a movie

• oul’: (dialect) old

• whole

• Eulenspiegel: (German) owl-glass → the name of a trickster character in German folklore → Richard Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Spiele (The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel), in which Till is hanged for his crimes, but his spirit lives on

• old globe → HCE’s corpulent form? or his head?

• Globe: Shakespeare’s theatre, the Globe
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• Glaube: (German) faith → the owl globe = the old faith, i.e. Catholicism in a Shakespearean context

• the oul' globe wheels anew → the Viconian cycle completes one turn and begins another → the previous four paragraphs constituted a Viconian cycle, as perhaps did the first four paragraphs of FW
  • A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake

• rising moon: the Moon or owl globe rises above the horizon or wheels in view → it is night