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- list like
- list (archaic) listen, listen to. This harks back to two earlier passages: one in the opening chapter, and the other just a few pages before the present passage:
Hear? By the mausolime wall. Fimfim fimfim. With a grand funferall. Fumfum fumfum. ’Tis optophone which ontophanes. List! Wheatstone’s magic lyer! They will be tuggling foriver. They will be lichening for allof. They will be pretumbling forover. The harps-dischord shall be theirs for ollaves.
Whence it is a slipperish matter, given the wet and low visibility ... to idendifine the individuone in scratch wig, squarecuts, stock, lavaleer, regattable oxeter, baggy pants and shufflers ... with already an incipience (lust!) in the direction of area baldness ... who was asked by free boardschool shirkers ... to tell them ... that fishabed ghoatstory ...
In both cases, the allusion is to the Ghost in Hamlet, who enjoins his son to List, Hamlet, O list! Hamlet meeting the ghost of his own father is one of the literary antecedents of the Oedipal Encounter in Finnegans Wake.
- Liszt Franz Liszt is relevant in the passage with Wheatstone’s magic lyre. He is probably not relevant in the present passage, but who knows?
