Sunny side up

• sunny side up: (colloquial) said of an egg which is fried on one side only, so that the yellow yolk is visible → in the morning (come to mournhim) the woman tending the fire (a vesta) will make eggs for breakfast (iggs for the brekkers), sunny side up → also following the words Humpty shell, Humpty Dumpty reappears, as the dreamer contemplates the eggs he (she?) will have for breakfast

• Sunny Side Up: a song from the 1929 movie of the same name, which includes the line, "Be like two fried eggs, Keep your sunny side up"

• Sunny Side Up: (1) a movie released in 1926; (2) a movie released in 1929
  • Internet Movie Database

It is interesting how the deepest, most complex, most erudite cultural and historical references mix liberally (in the dream stream) with one-dimensional allusions such as Humpty Dumpty (who, prior to Lewis Carroll, was merely a four-line poem evidently referring to a cannon in the English Civil War) and Mutt and Jeff (a few pages further on). Humpty Dumpty comes back in the dream again and again, as someone who fell and was destroyed; the dreamer is obsessively stuck on this four-line nonsense poem, like a bit of a song you can't get out of your head.