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| − | + | * off the wall: zany, irreverent | |
| − | The great [[fall]] of the offwall | + | * The great [[fall]] of the offwall: Mother Goose ''nr'', ''Humpty Dumpty'': "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. | ||
| + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160221&q1=Humpty Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
| + | * See later: [[Humptyhillhead]]. | ||
| − | + | * The Wall Street Crash. | |
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| − | + | * 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 into 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 (to achive cosmic unity). | |
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| − | 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 ( | ||
Revision as of 09:09, 13 June 2006
- awful
- off the wall: zany, irreverent
- The great fall of the offwall: Mother Goose nr, Humpty Dumpty: "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.
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- See later: Humptyhillhead.
- The Wall Street Crash.
- 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 into 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 (to achive cosmic unity).
