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)

• 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) → “... memory is the same thing as imagination ... the theological poets called Memory the mother of the Muses” (Vico, The New Science ¶ 819)

• 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: cf. ALP's letter (FW 615 ff): "Dear. And we go on to Dirtdump. Reverend."
  • Reverend Jonathan Swift ?

• rêverons: (French) let us dream

• reverrons: (French) let us return

• 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

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

• water faucet 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))