Riverrun

• riverain: (adj) pertaining to a river or a riverbank; situated or dwelling on or near a river

• riverain: (n) a district situated beside a river

• riverine: riverain (adj)

• riverranno: (Italian) they will return; they will come back [1]

• riveran: (Italian Dialect) they will arrive

• ri- → ricorso (Italian) = return → Vico’s ricorso storico (“historical return”)

• err: to make a mistake; to sin; to wander from the right way; to go astray

• Erinnerung: (German) remembrance; memory (i.e. a thing remembered)
  • Vico, The New Science ¶ 1: “... you will find that this tableau aids your imagination in retaining my work in your memory”
  • Vico, The New Science ¶ 819: “... memory is the same thing as imagination ... the theological poets called Memory the mother of the Muses”
  • Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Chapter 5): Freud identifies memories as a principal source of the manifest content of dreams

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment, lines 1-4: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree:/ Where Alph, the sacred river, ran/ Through caverns measureless to man/ Down to a sunless sea." → with a possible hint that this word is the Alpha of FW and symbolizes ALP

• reverend: (informal) a member of the clergy

• Reverend: (adj) 1. (initial capital letter) used as a title of respect applied or prefixed to the name of a member of the clergy or a religious order, cf. ALP's letter (FW 615 ff): "Dear. And we go on to Dirtdump. Reverend."; 2. worthy to be revered; entitled to reverence; 3. pertaining to or characteristic of the clergy
  • Reverend Jonathan Swift ?

• rêverons: (French) let us dream

• reverrons: (French) let us return

• révérence: (French) curtsey

• riverain: (French) inhabitant

• rêveries: (French) day-dreams; reveries; ravings; delusions

• reverie: an undirected train of thoughts or fancies in meditation; mental abstraction; a fanciful notion; piece of music expressing mental abstraction

• river rune

• Rivalin: Tristram's father → L/R split

• Genesis 2:10: "A river ran out of Eden"

• Ragnarok: (Old Norse) fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world

• River Jordan: a river in the Holy Land → Giordano Bruno, whose name means literally "Brown Jordan" → the River Liffey (FW 194.22 turfbrown mummy) → the Liffey as Dublin's sewer → jordan = a chamber-pot. Giordano wrote mnemonic works ( see Erinnerung above ).

• watercourse → the Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes the Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course"

• water faucet: is there a washhand basin with a tap in the corner of HCE's bedroom? → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of HCE's bedroom

• ALP

• river Rhine → cf. the connections between FW and Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, which starts with the theft of the gold in Das Rheingold, and ends with the gold being Given! (FW 628.15) back to the Rhinemaidens at the conclusion of Götterdämmerung

• elveløp: (Norwegian) the course of the river, translates directly as riverrun (river - elv; run - løp (noun or imperative))

• rūn (Old English) mystery, secret; advice, counsel; writing; a rune

Commentary

• Where are we at all? and whenabouts in the name of space? - FW 558.33

The first four paragraphs can be seen as a sort of prelude to FW; they offer possible answers to the questions where, when, what & how?

• Where are we? (1) In Dublin (2) In the master bedroom of the Mullingar House Hotel in Chapelizod, where the elderly landlord is just falling asleep at 11:32 pm

• When are we? Back at the beginning of a new Viconian cycle, when salient events in history have not yet occurred

• What is FW about? (1) The fall of man, and his subsequent rise again (2) the whole of human history and indeed the entire history of the World, of which the life of a single family or a single individual is a microcosm

• How does this story unfold? By conflict between opposites, which are actually striving for reconciliation and union through their Brunonian conflict

The following four paragraphs seem to comprise a single Viconian cycle of four ages, so that the true beginning of the story occurs in the paragrpah beginning Hurrah ....