Humptyhillhead of humself

• the humpty hill himself → the humpty hillhead himself → humptyhillhead of humself
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• Humpty Dumpty: character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → Humpty Dumpty
  • Wikipedia
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Humpty Dumpty → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"

• humped, humpbacked → HCE is a hunchback

• hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish: hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park

• humped self → HCE

• humus: (Latin) earth; the ground

• inhumare: (Latin) to bury in the ground → Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a giant interred in the Dublin landscape

• Humphrey → Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker (HCE)