Not P but The Wake - Page 186 in Mine - a Random Pencil

[Michael Bailey]

Arcoiris is Spanish for rainbow, right?

Am I supposed to know who Mergyt is?


Looking that up I found a 10 volume line-by-line reference for FW that I
never heard of before, with an explication for Mergyt that I (tbh) do not
get either —

Not helped by iPhone having chosen to be moderately incompatible with
Google Books

https://books.google.com/books?id=0qfbT2uArDIC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=mergyt&source=bl&ots=rcNbzVhm6d&sig=ACfU3U0ldawokL2s9VCIZK44s8YZANoDGQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid1cqDvdGEAxX6mIQIHakVAf44ChDoAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=mergyt&f=false

Cool beans!
Possibly an autodidact?
(From his publisher:
https://www.universal-publishers.com/m/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1599429632
This non-academic author presents his key to opening James Joyces
infamously difficult and endlessly playful novel *Finnegans Wake*. The key
was fashioned in Kabbalah, an ancient Jewish mystical tradition that as
interpreted by Joyce champions independent individualism as the path to the
highest spirituality. Kabbalah images a universe excreted by the ultimate
god, a universe that is necessarily finite and limited that came with its
own secondary god that is finite and limited, the god presented in Genesis
that issues blessing and curses designed to make mankind fearful and
dependent- the curse of Kabbalah. Joyce laid this curse in his dream-like
"Book of the Night" in the elastic way that the latent or hidden content of
a dream distorts the presentation of dream materials. Acting like a black
hole, this curse pressures the main character Harold Chimpden Earwicker to
"fall," to become fearful and dependent just like everyone else, that is
reduced to the mere initials HCE for "Here Comes Everybody." Joyce traces
this curse from the myths in Genesis to the primal horde, the first social
organization of humans, to the Oedipal Complex and to nation state warfare
such as the Battle of Waterloo. In a groundbreaking presentation, Anderson
deciphers word by word the first two chapters and part of the last chapter
to show how this key opens the lock. He shows, for example, how the joined
ending and beginning of Joyces wisdom book form the Hebrew word for curse
and the ending shows confrontation rather than repression of fear of death
as the key to life, to your own wake.)




Also found a nice JJ / FW blog

https://johngordonfinnegan.weebly.com



Before learning here
https://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/sandulescu-small-languages-fw.pdf
that “mergyt” is Lithuanian for “little girl”




On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 6:37 AM O G <octogonalyoyo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you fix it?
>
> (contemplative final drag)
> Yeah I can fix it.
>
> ...Petty constable Sistersen of the Kruis-Kroon-Kraal it was, the
> parochial watch....the begadag degabug, who had been detailed from pollute
> stories to save him, this the quemquem, that the quum, from the
> ligatureliablous effects of foul clay in little clots and mobmauling on
> looks, that...
>
> Then honestly I chose the wrong page to open to, because the whole sentence
> is one paragraph and a page, but I see a little further down here
>
> ...a protoprostitute (he would always have a (stp!) little
> pigeons somewhure with his arch girl, Arcoiris, smockname of Mergyt) just
> as he was butting in rand the coyner of bad times under a hateful between
> the rival doors of warm bethels of worship...
>
> What does "Arcoiris" mean here?
>
> It seems unlikely that I would randomly open to this, but there it is, the
> blind bard calling Mergyt a whore?  How did he see that?
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