Difference between revisions of "Regginbrow"

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Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are dew and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie; When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld"

Regenbogen: (German) rainbow → the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow

Genesis 9:12-16: the rainbow has been used in the past to symbolize God's promise to Noah after the Flood that He would never again try to destroy the world

Regin: a character in Norse mythology corresponding to Mime in Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen; in one version he is a dwarf, who raises Siegfried to kill the dragon/giant Fafnir and steal the Nibelung hoard; in another version he is Fasolt, the brother of Fafnir, and again he raises Siegfried to win back the hoard for him

brow: eyebrow (on HCE's head); brow or edge of a hill (i.e. the Hill of Howth)

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 ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
-* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are [[rory|dew]] and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie"''
+* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"regginbrow = German regenbogen + rainbow; At the rainbow's end are [[rory|dew]] and the colour red: bloody end to the lie in Anglo-Irish = no lie; When all vegetation is covered by the flood there are no eyebrows on the face of the Waterworld"''
 * '''Regenbogen:''' (''German'') rainbow &rarr; the 7 clauses in this paragraph symbolize the 7 colours of the rainbow