Difference between revisions of "Nor avoice from afire"

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as in the burning bush seen by Moses (Exodus 3:2-6)
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* '''nor a voice redffire''' → '''nor avoice from afire'''
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** [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]
  
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* [[Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926]]: ''"The flame of Christianity kindled by [[Thuartpeatrick|S. Patrick]] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Saturday Holy Saturday] in defiance of royal order"''
  
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cf. [[bellowsed]]
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* '''a voice from a fire''' → the voice of god in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush burning bush] seen by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] ([http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Exodus#Chapter_3 Exodus 3:2-6])
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* '''a voice from afar''' → cf. [[bellowsed]]
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** '''[[Page_407|FW 407.14-15]]:''' "voise from afar ... Tu es Petrus"; see also [[Thuartpeatrick|thuartpeatrick]]
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** Telephone: From Ancient Greek tēle, “afar” + phōnē, “voice”. '''Bell'''owsed: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell Alexander Graham Bell].
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* '''voice from a fire''' → [[Issy|Issy's]] voice transmitted down the chimney flue from her bedroom, which is directly above [[HCE|HCE's]], as she and her alter ego converse together
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* '''Nor a'''voice from afire''' → [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Barnacle Nora Barnacle], Joyce's wife
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0238&isize=L&q1=Nora Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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*  '''fire''' → [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid_of_Ireland St Brigid's] flame → is there an allusion here to the zodiacal sign of Virgo?
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0127&isize=L&q1=Brigid Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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* '''avoice from afire''' → '''SPEECH OF THE FLAME''' in ''[http://www.archive.org/stream/papyrusanireprod02budg#page/627/mode/1up The papyrus of Ani]''; see also [[Mishe_mishe|mishe mishe]]
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* '''a fire''' → the fireplace in [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom, linking this, the third of seven clauses in this paragraph, with [[Eve_and_Adam's|Adam's]] (i.e. the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Adam Robert Adam's] mantel), the third of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 3rd of 7 elements in a second circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom
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* '''avoice from afire''' → Both 'no voice from no fire' (cf. Greek prefix ''a-'' or ''an'', 'not') and its opposite (cf. OE intensifier ''a-'' as in ''arise'' or ''awake'')
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* '''afire:''' on fire
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[[Category: Old Testament]]

Latest revision as of 20:22, 25 June 2012

  • voice from a fire → Issy's voice transmitted down the chimney flue from her bedroom, which is directly above HCE's, as she and her alter ego converse together
  • a fire → the fireplace in HCE's bedroom, linking this, the third of seven clauses in this paragraph, with Adam's (i.e. the Robert Adam's mantel), the third of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 3rd of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
  • avoice from afire → Both 'no voice from no fire' (cf. Greek prefix a- or an, 'not') and its opposite (cf. OE intensifier a- as in arise or awake)
  • afire: on fire
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