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*pun between ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Pheonix]'' and ''finish''
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* '''be phoenished''' → '''come to a setdown secular phoenish'''
*pun on PhoeniciansCarthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the second Punic war (ended 241 B.C.).  The Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they sowed salt into the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again.
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&entity=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft.p0058&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake]
*Phoenix Park in Dublin, also the mythical Phoenix (ties in with theme of life and sleep cycles and resurrection and waking).
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*'''Phoenix:''' the ''bennu'', a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with the theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
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** '''''Dubliners'', Ivy Day In The Committee Room:''' "Rise like Phoenix from the flames" (about [[Parnell]])
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0321&isize=L Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_%28mythology%29 Wikipedia]
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* '''Phoenix Park:''' Dublin's principal municipal park
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0492&isize=L A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Phoenix Tavern:''' 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0498&isize=L A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''Phoenicians:''' ancient Semitic-speaking people; Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (148-146 B.C.); the Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they spread salt over the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again → an eighteenth-century theory held that the Irish were of Carthaginian origin!
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** '''T. S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (Death By Water):''' Phlebas the Phoenician
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0491&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&isize=L A Finnegnas Wake Gazetteer]
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* '''phoinos (φοινος):''' (''Greek'') bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → [[Rot]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.12]]) and [[rory]] ([[Page_3|FW 003.13]])
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* '''phoinix (φοινιξ):''' (''Greek'') phoenix; purple-red, crimson
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* '''phoenish''' → furnace
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* '''finish'''
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[[Category:Mythological figures]]
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[[Category:phoenixpark]]

Latest revision as of 07:27, 26 June 2012

  • Phoenix: the bennu, a mythical Egyptian bird that rises from its own ashes → ties in with the theme of life and sleep cycles, and resurrection and waking
  • Phoenix Tavern: 18th Century public house on the site of the present Mullingar House (in which FW, for the most part, is set)
  • Phoenicians: ancient Semitic-speaking people; Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (148-146 B.C.); the Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they spread salt over the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again → an eighteenth-century theory held that the Irish were of Carthaginian origin!
  • phoinos (φοινος): (Greek) bloody; blood-red; blood-thirsty → red end of the rainbow → Rot (FW 003.12) and rory (FW 003.13)
  • phoinix (φοινιξ): (Greek) phoenix; purple-red, crimson
  • phoenish → furnace
  • finish