Hush! Caution! Echoland!
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Hush! Caution! Echoland! → HCE → the initials HCE recur throughout FW; here they appear in consecutive sentences (How charmingly exquisite!), immediately following a reference to Dublin (Dyoublong)
- Echoland → history doubling (Dyoublong?) or repeating itself → Viconian cycle
- England → HCE is a protestant
- a gloss for Silence, cunning, and exile: This is a reference to the three oaths Stephen Dedalus swears himself to in Portrait, Chapter 5: "I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning."
- Cf. p.228, "the bruce, the coriolano and the ignacio"
