Offwall
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- 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).