Difference between revisions of "The owl globe wheels in view"
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*'''rising moon:''' the Moon or ''owl globe'' rises above the horizon or ''wheels in view'' → it is night | *'''rising moon:''' the Moon or ''owl globe'' rises above the horizon or ''wheels in view'' → it is night | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:02, 15 July 2012
- the oul' globe wheels in view → HCE turns over in bed, revealing his face to the "audience" for the first time → FW 558.35 ff., in which HCE and ALP in bed are portrayed as actors on stage or in a movie
- oul’: (dialect) old
- whole
- Eulenspiegel: (German) owl-glass → the name of a trickster character in German folklore → Richard Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Spiele (The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel), in which Till is hanged for his crimes, but his spirit lives on
- old globe → HCE’s corpulent form? or his head?
- Globe: Shakespeare’s theatre, the Globe
- Glaube: (German) faith → the owl globe = the old faith, i.e. Catholicism in a Shakespearean context
- the oul' globe wheels anew → the Viconian cycle completes one turn and begins another → the previous four paragraphs constituted a Viconian cycle, as perhaps did the first four paragraphs of FW
- rising moon: the Moon or owl globe rises above the horizon or wheels in view → it is night