Brewed by arclight

• brewed → brewed by arclight
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "Willy brewed a peck of maut; Noah planted the vine and was drunk"
  • Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut: a song composed by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in Waterside, Moffat, Dumfriesshire. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "twins"

• brewery → Guiness brewery, twin of Jameson distillery

• Genesis 9:20 - 9:21: "And Noah began [to be] an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent" → see Shem

• Brute mythical founder of Britain
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
• Brut title of five medivial chronicles:
  • Roman de Brut, a verse chronicle in Anglo-Norman by Wace
  • Layamon's Brut, an English chronicle by Layamon based on Wace
  • Brut y Tywysogion (Chronicle of the Princes), a Welsh mediaeval chronicle
  • Brut y Brenhinedd (Chronicle of the Kings), a Welsh mediaeval chronicle
  • The Brut Chronicle, a chronicle printed in English by Caxton as the Chronicles of England in 1480

• Brut: a type of champagne

• brood: offspring, children

• blued ? (L/R split)

• arc de ciel: (French) rainbow

• Arklow: a town in County Wicklow
  • logi: (Old Norse) flame → Arklow was named after a Danish navigational beacon
  • A Finnegan Wakes Gazetteer

• arclamp

• Ark-light: a light in Noah's Ark

• light: a lamp in HCE's bedroom? Or is the allusion to his bright red nose, the result of overindulgence in alcohol?

• Arc Light: a light that was used in early motion picture production. Joyce opened the first cinema in Ireland, the Volta, in 1909.

• Berkeley: George Berkeley (pronounced barklee), Irish philosopher and clergyman
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake