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− | *''' | + | * '''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Genesis#Chapter_2 Genesis 2:10]:''' "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads." |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Revelation#Chapter_22 Revelation 22:1]: '''"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."''' |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge], [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kubla_Khan ''Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment]''''', lines 1-4: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where '''Alph''', the sacred '''river, ran''' / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea." → with a possible hint that this word is the Alpha of FW and symbolizes [[ALP]]. For [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kublai_Khan Kubla Khan] see ([[Page 32|FW 32]]). |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Erinnerung Erinnerung]:''' (''German'') remembrance; memory (i.e. a thing remembered) |
+ | ** '''[[Vico]], ''The New Science'' ¶ 1:''' “... you will find that this tableau aids your imagination in retaining my work in your memory” | ||
+ | ** '''[[Vico]], ''[http://www.archive.org/stream/newscienceofgiam030174mbp#page/n303/mode/1up The New Science ¶ 819]:''''' “... memory is the same thing as imagination ... the theological poets called Memory the mother of the Muses” | ||
+ | ** '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud Sigmund Freud], ''[http://www.archive.org/stream/interpretationof1913freu#page/138/mode/1up The Interpretation of Dreams'' (Chapter 5)]:''' Freud identifies memories as a principal source of the manifest content of dreams | ||
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine river Rhine]''' → cf. the connections between FW and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner Wagner's] operatic tetralogy ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Ring_des_Nibelungen Der Ring des Nibelungen]'', which starts with the theft of the gold in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Rheingold Das Rheingold]'', and ends with the gold being [[The_keys_to._Given%21|Given!]] ([[Page_628|FW 628.15]]) back to the Rhinemaidens at the conclusion of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotterdammerung Gotterdammerung]'' |
− | *''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/watercourse watercourse]''' → the Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes the Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course" |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reverie reverie]''': an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reverend reverend]''': (''informal'') a member of the clergy |
− | * ''' | + | * '''Reverend:''' (''adj'') 1. (initial capital letter) used as a title of respect applied or prefixed to the name of a member of the clergy or a religious order, cf. [[ALP|ALP's]] letter ([[Page_615|FW 615 ff]]): "Dear. And we go on to Dirtdump. Reverend."; 2. worthy to be revered; entitled to reverence; 3. pertaining to or characteristic of the clergy |
− | + | ** '''Reverend [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift Jonathan Swift]''' ? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels Gulliver's Travels] was also a Menippean satire of decadence | |
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− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/err err]:''' to make a mistake; to sin; to wander from the right way; to go astray |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/run#Old_English run]''' (''Old English'') mystery, secret; advice, counsel; writing; a rune |
+ | ** '''river rune''' | ||
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ri- ri-]''' (''Italian'') Prefix used with verbal roots to mean repetition; re-, again |
− | + | ** ''ricorso'' (''Italian'') = return → [[Vico|Vico’s]] ''ricorso storico'' (“historical return”) | |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rivenire#Italian riverranno]:''' (''Italian'') they will return; they will come back [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/riverranno] |
− | * ''' | + | *'''riveran:''' (''Italian Dialect'') they will arrive |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/riverain riverain]:''' (''adj'') pertaining to a river or a riverbank; situated or dwelling on or near a river |
− | * '''riverain:''' ('' | + | * '''riverain:''' (''n'') a district situated beside a river |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/riverine riverine]:''' riverain (''adj'') |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%C3%AAver#French rêverons]:''' (''French'') let us dream |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reverie#English reveries]:''' (''French'') day-dreams; reveries; ravings; delusions |
− | * ''' | + | * '''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reverrons reverrons]:''' (''French'') let us see again |
− | * ''' | + | * '''reverence:''' (''French'') curtsey |
− | * ''' | + | * '''riverain:''' (''French'') inhabitant |
− | *'''Ragnarok:''' (''Old Norse'') fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world | + | *'''[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ragnarok Ragnarok]:''' (''Old Norse'') fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world |
− | * '''River Jordan:''' a river in the Holy Land → Giordano Bruno, whose name means literally "Brown Jordan" → the River Liffey ([[Page_194|FW 194.22]] [[turfbrown mummy]]) → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = a chamber-pot. Giordano wrote mnemonic works ( see ''Erinnerung'' above ). | + | * '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Jordan River Jordan]:''' a river in the Holy Land → [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno Giordano Bruno], whose name means literally "Brown Jordan" → the River Liffey ([[Page_194|FW 194.22]] [[turfbrown mummy]]) → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = a chamber-pot. Giordano wrote mnemonic works ( see ''Erinnerung'' above ). |
− | * ''' | + | * '''water faucet:''' is there a washhand basin with a tap in the corner of HCE's bedroom? → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom |
− | * ''' | + | * '''elvelop:''' (''Norwegian'') the course of the river, translates directly as riverrun (river - ''elv''; run - ''lop'' (noun or imperative)) |
* '''ALP''' | * '''ALP''' | ||
− | * ''' | + | *'''liv amhran:''' ( [[L/R split]] ) Liv ( Livy, Vico's "first loved" historian; Anna Livia Plurabelle; Lucia Joyce ) + Irish "sing". |
− | * ''' | + | * '''Rivalin:''' Tristram's father → [[L/R split]] |
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==Commentary== | ==Commentary== |
Revision as of 02:23, 19 March 2012
- Genesis 2:10: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads."
- Revelation 22:1: "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment, lines 1-4: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea." → with a possible hint that this word is the Alpha of FW and symbolizes ALP. For Kubla Khan see (FW 32).
- Erinnerung: (German) remembrance; memory (i.e. a thing remembered)
- Vico, The New Science ¶ 1: “... you will find that this tableau aids your imagination in retaining my work in your memory”
- Vico, The New Science ¶ 819: “... memory is the same thing as imagination ... the theological poets called Memory the mother of the Muses”
- Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Chapter 5): Freud identifies memories as a principal source of the manifest content of dreams
- river Rhine → cf. the connections between FW and Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, which starts with the theft of the gold in Das Rheingold, and ends with the gold being Given! (FW 628.15) back to the Rhinemaidens at the conclusion of Gotterdammerung
- watercourse → the Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes the Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course"
- reverie: an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction
- reverend: (informal) a member of the clergy
- Reverend: (adj) 1. (initial capital letter) used as a title of respect applied or prefixed to the name of a member of the clergy or a religious order, cf. ALP's letter (FW 615 ff): "Dear. And we go on to Dirtdump. Reverend."; 2. worthy to be revered; entitled to reverence; 3. pertaining to or characteristic of the clergy
- Reverend Jonathan Swift ? Gulliver's Travels was also a Menippean satire of decadence
- err: to make a mistake; to sin; to wander from the right way; to go astray
- run (Old English) mystery, secret; advice, counsel; writing; a rune
- river rune
- ri- (Italian) Prefix used with verbal roots to mean repetition; re-, again
- ricorso (Italian) = return → Vico’s ricorso storico (“historical return”)
- riverranno: (Italian) they will return; they will come back [1]
- riveran: (Italian Dialect) they will arrive
- riverain: (adj) pertaining to a river or a riverbank; situated or dwelling on or near a river
- riverain: (n) a district situated beside a river
- riverine: riverain (adj)
- rêverons: (French) let us dream
- reveries: (French) day-dreams; reveries; ravings; delusions
- reverrons: (French) let us see again
- reverence: (French) curtsey
- riverain: (French) inhabitant
- Ragnarok: (Old Norse) fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world
- River Jordan: a river in the Holy Land → Giordano Bruno, whose name means literally "Brown Jordan" → the River Liffey (FW 194.22 turfbrown mummy) → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = a chamber-pot. Giordano wrote mnemonic works ( see Erinnerung above ).
- water faucet: is there a washhand basin with a tap in the corner of HCE's bedroom? → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of HCE's bedroom
- elvelop: (Norwegian) the course of the river, translates directly as riverrun (river - elv; run - lop (noun or imperative))
- ALP
- liv amhran: ( L/R split ) Liv ( Livy, Vico's "first loved" historian; Anna Livia Plurabelle; Lucia Joyce ) + Irish "sing".
- Rivalin: Tristram's father → L/R split
Commentary
The first four paragraphs can be seen as a sort of prelude to FW; they offer possible answers to the questions where, when, what & how?
- Where are we at all? and whenabouts in the name of space? - FW 558.33
- Where are we? (1) In Dublin (2) In the master bedroom of the Mullingar House Hotel in Chapelizod, where the elderly landlord is just falling asleep at 11:32 pm
- When are we? Back at the beginning of a new Viconian cycle, when salient events in history have not yet occurred
- What is FW about? (1) The fall of man, and his subsequent rise again (2) the whole of human history and indeed the entire history of the World, of which the life of a single family or a single individual is a microcosm
- How does this story unfold? By conflict between opposites, which are actually striving for reconciliation and union through their Brunonian conflict
The following four paragraphs seem to comprise a single Viconian cycle of four ages, so that the true beginning of the story occurs in the paragraph beginning Hurrah .... FW 6