This grand continuum, overlorded by fate and interlarded with accidence

• Finnegans Wake itself
• continuum: a continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other
  • the universa; the universe of FW
• overlord: rule tyrannically
• accidents
• accidence: the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
• accidentia (Latin) : casual event, chance, happenstance
  • in Vico, fate and chance are not opposed, but simply the same moving force seen from different perspectives
• interlard: insert something foreign into, intersperse
• lard: pig fat
• inflection: alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, &rarrl accidence
• inflectio (Latin): bending, curving
  • FW constantly bends words into new shapes and meanings