In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the sounddance and thereinofter you're in the unbewised again,
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Jump to navigationJump to search- "in the beginning was the word": John, i.1
- "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Genesis 1.2
- bug: (Danish) belly (in Mary's belly was the word to become flesh, Jesus)
- bug-inn: i.e. Earwicker's inn
- inning: a cricket term (cricket might be associated with insects again)
- muddle: after the word comes Babel
- in the middle is the sentence: created from the initial word
- the sound-dance: think about Joyce's dancing daughter; FW might be seen as a series of dancing movements
- thereinafter you're nothing wiser than before
- Unbewusst: ('German, : unconscious (Freudian but also Wagnerian term)