NPPF Canto Two -- Ant & Grasshopper

[Paul Mackin]

A further (unpublished as far a I know) variation on the fable was "The
Grant and the Ass-hopper."  It more or less described a person with a
research grant (say, from Ford Foundation) who became dissatisfied with
the institution to which he was attached and moved to another taking the
grant with him.

Sometimes they were portable and sometimes not.

P.





On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:30, T wrote:
> Re: Lines 236-44, Ant and Grasshopper:
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> The fable of the "Ondt and the Gracehoper" from _Finnegans Wake_
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> 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."
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> 
> http://www.trentu.ca/jjoyce/fw-414.htm
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> "chthonic" is misspelled in the American Library edition.
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