A "Finnegans Wake" Lextionary: Let James Joyce Jazz Up Your Voca(l)bulary

By Bill Cole Cliett

"Finnegans Wake" is more than likely a intentionally tricky booklet, advanced, advanced, imprecise. the explanations for this are varied, yet a massive reason is Joyce's skill for growing his courageous new paintings from hundreds of thousands of daring new phrases. they're inventive collisions of present phrases, concocted collaborations of multilingual phrases, and mixtures of either which are the inception of a finished, catholic language all its personal, what's regularly known as Wakese. A "Finnegans Wake" Lextionary introduces readers to over 800 of those offbeat, extraordinary, bizarre, and approach out phrases, phrases good outdoors our dictionaries, that exist in a literary "langscape" all their very own. and because Joyce intended for his innovations to comprise a number of meanings evocative with elusive allusions, the defintions given listed here are simply the jump-off aspect for a lot extra enjoyable with "Finnegans Wake."

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Thirteen n. A Norwegian who breathes not easy with a whistling noise or a wheeze. Asthmatic-like respiring may end up from the serious chilly of a Norwegian iciness. (“swore like a Norewheezian tailliur at the stand ahead of the right kind functionary”) McHugh offers the Irish ta'illiu'r for “tailor. ” The context this is to the tale of the Captain and the Norwegian tailor that Joyce heard from his father and labored into the Wake in a number of, a number of methods. (See ashaped. ) noughttime FW 349. 6 n. None, 0, or nought time while it really is darkish or at evening. on this planet of the subconsciousness of sleep, time now not exists or, in goals, turns into a very versatile commodity the place various old humans and occasions can ensue jointly, successfully making time disappear or, because the Wake places it, “Yet isn't any physique current right here which used to be now not there sooner than. merely is order othered. Nought is nulled. ” occasions and folks from all locations and classes of the world’s heritage merge within the dream global of Finnegans Wake, among the purposes it's so tough to learn and assimilate. (“In the heliotropical noughttime following a fade of reworked Tuff and pending its viseversion, a metenergic reglow of beaming Batt”) noughty FW 261. 24, 284. eleven, & 597. 15 adj. no longer disobedient or having not anything or nought within the manner of undesirable or naughty habit. whereas the implication is person’s behavior isn't undesirable or naughty, it doesn't stick with that it's inevitably sturdy, both, extra at the borderline among solid and undesirable with a bit leaning towards the naughty part. (“Ainsoph, this upright one, with that noughty besiged him zeroine,” “may be involted into the zeroic couplet, palls pell inhis heventh glike noughty occasions ∞,” & “it is the alcovan and the rosegarden, boony noughty, all puraputhry”) McHugh reads “palls pell inhis heventh glike” as “God’s in his heaven, All’s correct . . . ,” and provides the Italian buona notte for “goodnight” as a reference for “boony noughty. ” novembrance FW 226. 32-33 n. 1. Recollection or remembrance of the month following October or November. For the English, man Fawkes’ (“Gaoy Fecks”) thwarted try and blow up Parliament on November five, 1605 is a sturdy “novembrance” and is healthier remembered with a favored rhyme: have in mind, take into account the 5th of November, The gunpowder, treason and plot, i do know of no cause Why gunpowder treason may still ever be forgot. There’s a “novembrance” of the plot on FW 87. four with “remember the grime of November” and on FW 205. 28 man Fawkes is mocked with “cammocking his man. ” (See funpowtherplother. ) 2. McHugh supplies: “Hamlet IV. five. 174: ‘rosemary, that’s for remembrance’ (purple flower, in bloom in November). ” This reference is clearly such a lot in response to the Wake’s “waters the fleurettes of novembrance,” however the reference to man Fawkes Day is my own remembrance choice. novicer FW 322. four n. A newbie or beginner commander or officer. (“his most sensible gallant shouldier so was once, lao yiu shao, he’s like extra glance a novicer at the nevay”) (See nevay.

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