Kisstvanes

• kistvaen: a box-shaped or boat-shaped tomb from the Stone Age (from the Welsh cist, "chest", and maen, "stone") → this paragraph corresponds to Vico's third age, which is characterized by the institution of burial

• weather vanes

• vans → morning traffic in Paris and Dublin → wallhall

• kissed

• kiss the vanes: the city noises travel to the tops of the buildings where they kiss the weather vanes