111

The number 111 appears many times in Finnegans Wake as a motif.

• Anna Livia's "untitled mamafesta" (104.4) has 111 titles.
• In the Kabbalah, the Hebrew letter A, or aleph = 111 when spelled in full (aleph-lamek-pa).
• 1+1+1=3 which suggests a triangle or ALP's Delta symbol: ∆
• ALP has 111 children: "she who had given his eye for her bed and a tooth for a child till one one and one ten and one hundred again" (101.35)
• "Some say she had three figures to fill and confined herself to a hundred eleven, wan bywan bywan" (201.29)
• "and every youthfully yours makes alleven add the hundred" (283.41 F2)
• "a hundred and eleven ploose one thousand and one other blessings" (617.3)
• "A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me?" (627.14)
• "And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue" (19.24)
• "among a hundred and eleven others in her usual curtsey" (28.15)
• "about ten or eleven hundred years" (73.22)