Pharce

• farce: a comedy of extravagant humour

• Pharos: lighthouse at Alexandria; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  • Boulogne lighthouse, founded by Caligula, kept by St Patrick’s father Calpurnius
  • cf. the allusion to the Danish beacon at Arklow in the previous paragraph: arclight
  • HCE's bright red nose, sticking up above the flagpatch quilt (559.13) as he lies abed, resembles a lighthouse beacon
  • Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• F phare: lighthouse

• phallos: Phall (004.15) → L/R split