By a commodius vicus of recirculation
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- brings us by: 1. part of major "bring us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. (Joyce noticed commodius as print error) 2. german: inf. bei-bringen = to teach so. sth. or to figure sth.out
- by: (Old Norse) town.
- commedia: (Italian) comedy → Dante's Commedia (the "Divine Comedy")
- comme odieux: (French) as odious; like odious -
- commode: an armchair containing a concealed chamber pot under the seat → the 6th of 7 elements in a circuit of HCE's bedroom
- commode: a close-stool or cucking-stool; a toilet;
- Ulysses 063.14-15: "stubbing his [Bloom's] toes against the broken commode"
- commode: chamber-pot → jordan (British dialect) → Giordano Bruno
- commodious: conveniently spacious; adapted to wants. (The new Rose and O'Hanlon edition aka 'FW2' replaces 'commodius' with 'commodious'.) Joyce noticed the print error.
- Commodious Vicus → spacious village → Dublin
- Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus: originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161–192 A.D.) (Shem), the son of Marcus Aurelius (HCE), was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors". He had a twin brother, Antoninus (Shaun), who died when he was about four years old, and a sister Lucilla (Issy) who was implicated in plots to overthrow him
- FW 157.26-27: "were conclaved with Heliogobbleus and Commodus and Enobarbarus"
- Third Census of Finnegans Wake
- Wikipedia
- commodus: (Latin) pleasant.
- κωμη (kōmē): (Greek) village → vicus
- κωμωδια (kōmōdia): (Greek) comedy
- recirculation: Joyce begins FW in veritas at the End of Story: Finn, again! = Finnegan = Vico/vicus (both falling from a ladder and breaking their skulls). "End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousandsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." (628.13 to 3.3) [1]
- recirculation back: allusion to J.S.Bach's Ricercars from The Musical Offering Joyce was acquainted with fugue and adopted it (to some extent) for Sirens chapter of Ulysses
- vicis: (Latin) fortune; change of fortune or conditions; vicissitude; duty, function, place
- Vico Road: a shore road from Dalkey [2] to Killiney [3], along Dublin Bay [4]
- A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer
- Ulysses 024.25: "Vico Road, Dalkey"
- Google Maps
- vicus: (Latin) village; street; quarter (of a city); neighborhood
- Song of Solomon 3:2: "surgam et circuibo civitatem per vicos et plateas quaeram quem diligit anima mea quaesivi illum et non inveni - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."[5]
- vicus: → Giambattista Vico → Viconian Cycle → Vico's ricorso storico, or "historical return", which links one Viconian cycle with the next
- vicus of recirculation → ricorso, Giambattista Vico's concept of circular history
- vicus of recirculation → vicious cycle
- vicus of recirculation → hydrological cycle: the water of Dublin Bay is evaporated, becomes a cloud over Howth, which is blown inland; rain falls in the Dublin Mountains; the water is collected by the Liffey, which flows through the city, cleansing it (Giambattista means "John the Baptist") and carrying off its filth; the river discharges its contents into the Bay, and the cycle continues.