Nor avoice from afire

• nor a voice redffire → nor avoice from afire
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• a voice from a fire → the voice of god in the burning bush seen by Moses (Exodus 3:2-6)
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• a voice from afar → cf. bellowsed
  • FW 407.14-15: "voise from afar ... Tu es Petrus"

• a fire → the fireplace in HCE's bedroom, linking this, the third of seven clauses in this paragraph, with Adam's (i.e. the Robert Adam mantel), the third of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 3rd of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom

• voice from a fire → Issy's voice transmitted down the chimney flue from her bedroom, which is directly above HCE's, as she and her alter ego converse together

• Nor avoice from afire → Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• afire: on fire

• fire: Joyce's letter to Harriet Shaw Weaver of 15 November 1926: "The flame of Christianity kindled by S. Patrick on Holy Saturday in defiance of royal orders": → St Brigid's flame → is there an allusion here to the zodiacal sign of Virgo?
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
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