From FinnegansWiki
- the humpty hill himself → the humpty hillhead himself → humptyhillhead of humself
- Humpty Dumpty: character in a popular Mother Goose nursery rhyme → Humpty Dumpty
- Humpty Dumpty → according to his wife Constance, Oscar Wilde "fell like Humpty Dumpty"
- humped, humpbacked → HCE is a hunchback
- hillhead: Joyce's conception of Finn Mac Cool as a sleeping giant interred in the Irish landscape, with his head beneath Howth (Danish: hoved, "head") and his feet sticking up in Phoenix Park
