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* '''Haroun Childeric Eggebert:''' [[HCE]]
  
Most fans of the Wake know that the initials HCE are prominent. One meaning is "Here Comes Everybody."
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* '''Childeric I, II and III:''' three Frankish Merovingian kings; Childeric III was the last Merovingian king of France
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0143&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
  
What few know is that this phrase may refer in part to Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, a celebrated 19th Century British politician and statesman:
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* '''Haroun Childeric:''' Childe Harold, the world-weary hero of Lord Byron's narrative poem ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage''
  
"Towards the end of his ministerial career 'HCE' Childers was notable for his girth, and so acquired the nickname 'Here Comes Everybody.'" [wikipedia]
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* '''H. C. E. Childers:''' Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, a celebrated 19th Century British politician and statesman; towards the end of his ministerial career he was noted for his girth, and so acquired the nickname "Here Comes Everybody" (FW 032.18-19); he was a first cousin of Erskine Childers, who helped run guns to Howth in preparation for the 1916 Rising (FW 116.15); Childers ended his career as the chairman of the Royal Commission on Irish Financial Relations in 1892, and so may have been known to the child James Joyce as a powerful great fat man
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Childers Wikipedia]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0144&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
  
Childers finished his career as the chairman of the royal commission on Irish financial relations in 1892, and so may have been known to the child James Joyce as a powerful great fat man.
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* '''Sir Richard Francis Burton:''' British (of Irish extraction) explorer, best known today for his 16-volume translation of ''The Thousand Nights and a Night'' → childe = young knight → Sir → Childe-ric = Sir Ric, or Sir Richard → 004.32 [[Haroun]] → 005.28-29 [[one thousand and one]]
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[[Category: HCE]]

Latest revision as of 04:19, 11 April 2010

  • Haroun Childeric Eggebert: HCE
  • Haroun Childeric: Childe Harold, the world-weary hero of Lord Byron's narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
  • H. C. E. Childers: Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, a celebrated 19th Century British politician and statesman; towards the end of his ministerial career he was noted for his girth, and so acquired the nickname "Here Comes Everybody" (FW 032.18-19); he was a first cousin of Erskine Childers, who helped run guns to Howth in preparation for the 1916 Rising (FW 116.15); Childers ended his career as the chairman of the Royal Commission on Irish Financial Relations in 1892, and so may have been known to the child James Joyce as a powerful great fat man
  • Sir Richard Francis Burton: British (of Irish extraction) explorer, best known today for his 16-volume translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night → childe = young knight → Sir → Childe-ric = Sir Ric, or Sir Richard → 004.32 Haroun → 005.28-29 one thousand and one
  • child-rich