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

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Right on, that is fairly awesome, earlier I had glanced through my
gmail-vision your first line about the Arc-rainbow, thought that was
really cool, but now I see that about the autodidact you link/quoted.

A regular good man!  Good to know that we savants think alike.  Or that I
am not the only crazy that reads things like the Wake in such Kabbaterms,
for when I randomly opened Wake to page 168 this morning and saw Arcoiris
and Mergyt, my attention went directly to Arcturus, Osiris, and ancient
Egypt.  Arcs, arches, rainbows, gravity pulling one into the Underworld.
Kabbalah straight out of Egypt and Sumer.  Osiris the Dynamo.  Joyce the
Isis initiate.

As to Mergyt being a little Lithuanian girl, how is it possible, how does
it happen?  It is Love you see.


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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