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* '''of the wall''' → '''of the offwall ''' | * '''of the wall''' → '''of the offwall ''' | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L&q1=father A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] |
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* '''Humpty Dumpty:''' eponymous character of the popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." → nursery rhymes are often told before bed, hence "[[retaled]] [[early in bed]]" → Humpty Dumpty has also been assumed to refer to [[King Richard III]] of England → see [[Humptyhillhead]] in the next line | * '''Humpty Dumpty:''' eponymous character of the popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." → nursery rhymes are often told before bed, hence "[[retaled]] [[early in bed]]" → Humpty Dumpty has also been assumed to refer to [[King Richard III]] of England → see [[Humptyhillhead]] in the next line | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0221&isize=L&q1=Humpty%20Dumpty Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
* '''The Wall Street Crash''' → [[Wallstrait]] | * '''The Wall Street Crash''' → [[Wallstrait]] | ||
Revision as of 02:04, 30 April 2009
- of the wall → of the offwall
- awful
- offal: internal organs, entrails
- Abfall: (German) refuse, rubbish
- affald: (Danish) rubbish, scraps
- afval: (Dutch) rubbish
- off the wall: zany, irreverent
- Humpty Dumpty: eponymous character of the popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall." → nursery rhymes are often told before bed, hence "retaled early in bed" → Humpty Dumpty has also been assumed to refer to King Richard III of England → see Humptyhillhead in the next line
- The Wall Street Crash → Wallstrait
Commentary
Humpty Dumpty: The egg (pre-birth), when sitting on the wall is in a kind of state of cosmic unity. The wall represents a boundary which by definition separates the world into duality (this side and that). Being at the position of the top of the wall therefore suggests a pre-dualistic existence (i.e. like Adam and Eve before their fall and the foetus before birth). Once the egg falls "offwall", it falls onto either this or that side – and nobody, not even all the king's horses and all the king's men, can figure out how to put it back together again (i.e. to achive cosmic unity).
