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* '''Not a peck of malt''' → '''Rot a peck of malt''' → '''Rot a peck of pa's malt''' ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] ** see '''pa''' in [[past Eve and Adam's]] and [[had passencore rearrived]] * [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"Willy brewed a peck of maut; Noah planted the vine and was drunk"'' ** '''''[http://www.robertburns.org/works/281.shtml Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut]'':''' a [http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPECKMAUT;ttPECKMAUT.html song] composed by the Scottish poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns Robert Burns] in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in Waterside, Moffat, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire]. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "[[twins]]" * '''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 * '''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'') * '''rot ... pa's malt:''' [[HCE|HCE's]] rotten urine in the commode's ([[by a commodius vicus of recirculation|commodius]] in line 2) chamber-pot recycles the alcohol that he has drunk → thus this, the sixth of seven clauses in the second paragraph, corresponds to "commodious vicus of recirculation" in the first paragraph → the 6th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom * '''pecker:''' penis

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