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* '''well:''' the well or spring of clear water from which [[Phoenix Park]] takes its Irish name (''Páirc an Fhinn Uisge'', "The Park of the Clear Water") | * '''well:''' the well or spring of clear water from which [[Phoenix Park]] takes its Irish name (''Páirc an Fhinn Uisge'', "The Park of the Clear Water") | ||
| − | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0492&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&isize=L&q1=Phoenix%20Park A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer] |
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| + | * '''The West:''' in ancient Egyptian mythology the west was considered the realm of the dead. The sun sets in the west and in many countries the dead are buried facing west. | ||
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| + | * '''to go west:''' to die | ||
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| + | * '''well to the west''' → [[Howth]] is the easternmost point in Dublin, with [[Phoenix Park]] west of the city centre → Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscape, with his head beneath Howth (''Danish'' hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park Wikipedia] | ||
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| + | * '''quest:''' in Egyptian mythology, when Set murders Osiris, he dismembers his body and scatters the parts across the land; Osiris's wife and sister Isis goes in quest of them so that she can resurrect Osiris | ||
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| + | * '''quest''' → the quest of this body to find its own toes points to its lack of feeling – because it is either asleep or dead | ||
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| + | * '''in quest''' → '''inquest''', a judicial inquiry held to establish the cause and circumstances of someone's death | ||
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| + | * '''quest:''' an expedition in search of some definite object, especially used in medieval romances for religious expeditions in search of the Holy Grail | ||
Latest revision as of 15:44, 28 April 2012
- well: the image of a well-shaft → Eve and Adam's
- well: the well or spring of clear water from which Phoenix Park takes its Irish name (Páirc an Fhinn Uisge, "The Park of the Clear Water")
- The West: in ancient Egyptian mythology the west was considered the realm of the dead. The sun sets in the west and in many countries the dead are buried facing west.
- to go west: to die
- well to the west → Howth is the easternmost point in Dublin, with Phoenix Park west of the city centre → Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a mythological sleeping giant, interred in the Dublin landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
- quest: in Egyptian mythology, when Set murders Osiris, he dismembers his body and scatters the parts across the land; Osiris's wife and sister Isis goes in quest of them so that she can resurrect Osiris
- quest → the quest of this body to find its own toes points to its lack of feeling – because it is either asleep or dead
- in quest → inquest, a judicial inquiry held to establish the cause and circumstances of someone's death
- quest: an expedition in search of some definite object, especially used in medieval romances for religious expeditions in search of the Holy Grail
