Difference between revisions of "Rot a peck of pa's malt"

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Not a peck of malt → Rot a peck of malt → Rot a peck of pa's malt
- A first-draft version of Finnegans wake
- see pa in past Eve and Adam's and had passencore rearrived

Rot: (German) red → the colour at one end of the rainbow → see line 4, violer d'amores, for the violet at the other end
- Genesis 9.12 ff: the rainbow is a sign of the Covenant God made with Noah after the Flood → in FW the rainbow appears after the Flood which ends the novel

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"

rot → The expression rot a peck varies the phonology of not yet, continuing the series of negative clauses... n → r for alliteration with following words (brewed ... arclilght ... rory .... regginbrow ... ringsome)

rot ... pa's malt: HCE's rotten urine in the commode's (commodius in line 2) chamber-pot recycles the alcohol that he has drunk → thus this, the sixth of seven clauses in the second paragraph, corresponds to "commodious vicus of recirculation" in the first paragraph → the 6th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom

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 * [[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 [[Brewed]] a Peck o' Malt'':''' a [http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPECKMAUT;ttPECKMAUT.html song] composed by the Scottish poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns Robert Burns] in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in  Waterside, Moffat, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire]. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "[[twins]]"
+** '''''[http://www.robertburns.org/works/281.shtml Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut]'':''' a [http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiPECKMAUT;ttPECKMAUT.html song] composed by the Scottish poet [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns Robert Burns] in the gardens of a house on the site of the Coach House in  Waterside, Moffat, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire]. The song celebrates whiskey as well as beer. Whiskey and beer are "[[twins]]"
 * '''rot''' &rarr; The expression ''rot a peck'' varies the phonology of ''not yet'', continuing the series of negative clauses... ''n'' &rarr; ''r'' for alliteration with following words (''brewed ... arclilght ... rory .... regginbrow ... ringsome'')