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| − | * awful | + | * '''awful''' |
| − | * off the wall: zany, irreverent | + | * '''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 |
| − | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160221 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | |
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| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160221 | ||
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| − | * The Wall Street Crash | + | * '''The Wall Street Crash''' → [[Wallstrait]] |
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| + | ==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). | ||
Revision as of 11:56, 17 October 2006
- awful
- 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).
