There from

• there ... from: it seems that a line of Joyce's text was omitted: it should read:
  • are we there haltagain. By recourse, of course, recoursing from tomtittot

• recourse: Vico's ricorso or return, which brings us back to the start of the Viconian cycle when one world cycle ends and another begins

• haltagain: recalls the popular round: There was a man called Michael Finnegan, He grew whiskers on his chin-egan, The wind came along and blew them in-egan, Poor old Michael Finnegan beginagain, etc → compare With his broad and hairy face in the left-hand margin