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* Anna Livia's "untitled mamafesta" (104.4) has 111 titles. | * Anna Livia's "untitled mamafesta" (104.4) has 111 titles. | ||
* In the Kabbalah, the Hebrew letter A, or aleph = 111 when spelled in full (aleph-lamek-pa). | * In the Kabbalah, the Hebrew letter A, or aleph = 111 when spelled in full (aleph-lamek-pa). | ||
| + | * In Hebrew numerology, [[ALP]] = 111 (aleph = 1, lamedh = 30, pe = 80) | ||
* 1+1+1=3 which suggests a triangle or ALP's Delta symbol: ∆ | * 1+1+1=3 which suggests a triangle or ALP's Delta symbol: ∆ | ||
| − | * ALP has | + | * [[ALP]] has 111 children: "she who had given his eye for her bed and a tooth for a child till one one and one ten and one hundred again" (101.35) |
| + | * [[ALP]] also has three children (Shem, Shaun and Issy); in Roman numerals three is III, which resembles the Hindi-Arabic 111 | ||
* "Some say she had three figures to fill and confined herself to a hundred eleven, wan bywan bywan" (201.29) | * "Some say she had three figures to fill and confined herself to a hundred eleven, wan bywan bywan" (201.29) | ||
* "and every youthfully yours makes alleven add the hundred" (283.41 F2) | * "and every youthfully yours makes alleven add the hundred" (283.41 F2) | ||
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* "among a hundred and eleven others in her usual curtsey" (28.15) | * "among a hundred and eleven others in her usual curtsey" (28.15) | ||
* "about ten or eleven hundred years" (73.22) | * "about ten or eleven hundred years" (73.22) | ||
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Latest revision as of 04:11, 15 June 2007
The number 111 appears many times in Finnegans Wake as a motif.
- Anna Livia's "untitled mamafesta" (104.4) has 111 titles.
- In the Kabbalah, the Hebrew letter A, or aleph = 111 when spelled in full (aleph-lamek-pa).
- In Hebrew numerology, ALP = 111 (aleph = 1, lamedh = 30, pe = 80)
- 1+1+1=3 which suggests a triangle or ALP's Delta symbol: ∆
- ALP has 111 children: "she who had given his eye for her bed and a tooth for a child till one one and one ten and one hundred again" (101.35)
- ALP also has three children (Shem, Shaun and Issy); in Roman numerals three is III, which resembles the Hindi-Arabic 111
- "Some say she had three figures to fill and confined herself to a hundred eleven, wan bywan bywan" (201.29)
- "and every youthfully yours makes alleven add the hundred" (283.41 F2)
- "a hundred and eleven ploose one thousand and one other blessings" (617.3)
- "A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me?" (627.14)
- "And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue" (19.24)
- "among a hundred and eleven others in her usual curtsey" (28.15)
- "about ten or eleven hundred years" (73.22)
