Riverrun

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  • riverain: (adj) pertaining to a river or a riverbank; situated or dwelling on or near a river (McHugh)
  • riverain: (n) a district situated beside a river
  • riverine: riverain (adj)
  • It Dial riveran: they will arrive
  • ri-: ricorso; fin: again
  • -err-
  • G Erinnerung: remembrance; memory (i.e. a thing remembered)
  • 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 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 Swift?)
  • Fr rêverons: let us dream
  • Fr reverrons: let us return
  • Fr riverain: inhabitant
  • reverie? as this a book about the night, about dreams...
  • river rune
  • Rivalin: Tristram's father (L/R split)
  • Gen 2:10: "A river ran out of Eden."
  • ON Ragnarok: fate of the gods; twilight of the gods; end of the world
  • River Jordan ... Giordano Bruno ... "Brown Jordan" ... Liffey (074.05: "turfbrown waters") ... the Liffey as Dublin's sewer ... jordan = chamber-pot
  • watercourse (Latinism-Saxonism of "river-run" becomes Saxonism-Latinism of "water-course")
  • water faucet in the corner of HCE's bedroom? → the 1st of 7 elements in a circuit of the bedroom
  • ALP?