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* '''Haroun Childeric Eggebert:''' [[HCE]]
  
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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:''' Frankish Merovingian kings
  
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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''
  
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"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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* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Childers 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://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160144&q1=Childers Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
  
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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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* '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton 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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"Childeric" is also in part a reference to Sir Richard Burton:  childe = young knight; knight = Sir ; Childeric = Sir Ric, or Sir Richard. On page 5 there is a reference to Sir Richard Burton's 16-volume translation of the "Arabian Nights," published under the title of "The Thousand Nights and a Night."
 

Revision as of 04:18, 25 June 2006

  • Haroun Childeric Eggebert: HCE
  • Childeric I, II and III: Frankish Merovingian kings
  • 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
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