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| − | * ''' | + | * '''rainy year''' → torrential rain in the morning delayed the battle of Waterloo (recounted at [[Page_8|FW 008.09]] - [[Page_10|FW 010.23]]), ensuring Napoleon’s defeat → like Richard Wagner's ''Ring of the Nibelung'', FW ends with a flood, which not only accounts for the allusions to Noah's rainbow in the opening chapter, but also explains why the ground is still wet the following morning |
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050061&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:] "Rainy" | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl000500050061&isize=M A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake:] "Rainy" | ||
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* '''''s [[Little Annie Rooney]]''''' → [[little Anny Ruiny]] | * '''''s [[Little Annie Rooney]]''''' → [[little Anny Ruiny]] | ||
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Revision as of 13:54, 2 August 2006
- rainy year → torrential rain in the morning delayed the battle of Waterloo (recounted at FW 008.09 - FW 010.23), ensuring Napoleon’s defeat → like Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, FW ends with a flood, which not only accounts for the allusions to Noah's rainbow in the opening chapter, but also explains why the ground is still wet the following morning
- I abha, abhainn: river → the Irish Abhainn Life ("River Liffey") was Anglicized as Annie Liffey, personifying the river
