Thursday, 21 November 2024 (250.17)

The last reading stopped at: “breath must leap no more” (250.17). 

One favourite passage was the following riddle: 

“A window, a hedge, a prong, a hand, an eye, a sign, a head and keep your other augur on her paypaypay” (249.16).

As Ursula Zeller pointed out, Fritz Senn has written a short piece about this passage: The riddle “is easily solved”, he writes, “when the words are recognised as the names of Hebrew, or Phoenician, letters” (5)

Fritz Senn’s essay can be downloaded here. 

Senn, Fritz. “Pat As Ah Be Seated”. A Wake Newslitter: Studies in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, n.s. 1, iii (June 1964): 5-7.

Digitized article courtesy of Ian Gunn, JoyceTools, 
https://www.riverrun.org.uk/joycetools.html (covered by Creative Commons).