NPPF Canto Two -- Ant & Grasshopper

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Re: Lines 236-44, Ant and Grasshopper:


The fable of the "Ondt and the Gracehoper" from _Finnegans Wake_

pits Space against Time, and ends in (distinctly non-heroic)
couplets:

  Your genus its worldwide, your spacest sublime!
  But, Holy Saltmartin, why can't you beat time?

The fable also has an incest theme ("commence insects"), and a
suggestive passage on the Gracehoper's melancholy, in which
melancholy is chthonic and God is a bog:

"Not one pickopeck of muscow-money to bag a tittlebits of
beebread! Iomio! Iomio! Crick's corbicule, which a plight! O moy

Bog, he contrited with melanctholy."


http://www.trentu.ca/jjoyce/fw-414.htm



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"chthonic" is misspelled in the American Library edition.