Pharce

• pharce → pharce for the nunce
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• farce: a comedy of extravagant humour

• Pharos: lighthouse at Alexandria; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  • Boulogne lighthouse, founded by Caligula, and kept by St Patrick’s father Calpornius
  • cf. the allusion to the Danish beacon at Arklow in the previous paragraph: arclight
  • HCE's bright red nose, sticking up above the flagpatch quilt (FW 559.13) as he lies abed, resembles a lighthouse beacon
  • Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• phare: (French) lighthouse

• phallos → Phall (line 15) → L/R split