In the buginning is the woid, in the muddle is the sounddance and thereinofter you're in the unbewised again,

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in the beginning was the word

in the beginning was the void

bug (dan.): belly (in Mary's belly was the word to become flesh, Jesus)

bug-inn, i.e. Earwicker's inn

inning: a cricket term (cricket might be associated with insects again)


in the middle is the sentence (created from the initial word)

the sound-dance (think about Joyce's dancing daughter; FW might be seen as a series of dancing movements)


thereinafter you're nothing wiser than before

Unbewusst (German, Freudian but also Wagnerian term): unconscious