Their contrarieties eliminated, in one stable somebody

• In sleep, opposites such as subject / object, self / other are eliminated. In Finnegans Wake everything takes place in "one stable somebody" (stable, physically unmoving) whose identity is uncertain ("somebody").

• Nicholas of Cusa's coincidence of opposites:
  • We arrive at the knowledge of reality (God), and hence of unity and the infinite, by means of intellect, which is supra-rational understanding, mystical intuition. This faculty, overcoming all differences and multiplicity, presents the reality as perfect unity, in which all differences are reconciled in the infinite, the "coincidence of opposites."

• chiaroscuro: the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place