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* '''by:''' (''Old Norse'') town
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* '''brings us by:''' 1. part of major "bring us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.'' (Joyce noticed commodius as print error) 2. german:  inf. bei-bringen =  to teach so. sth. or to figure sth. out
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* '''by:''' (''Old Norse'') town.
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* '''commedia:''' (''Italian'') comedy → Dante's ''Commedia'' (the "Divine Comedy")
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* '''comme odieux:''' (''French'') as odious; like odious -
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* '''commode:''' an armchair containing a concealed chamber pot under the seat → the 6th of 7 elements in a circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom
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** '''commode:''' a close-stool or cucking-stool; a toilet;
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** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 063.14-15:''' "stubbing his [Bloom's] toes against the broken commode"
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** '''commode:''' chamber-pot → jordan → [[Giordano Bruno]]
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* '''commodious:''' conveniently spacious; adapted to wants. (The new Rose and O'Hanlon edition aka 'FW2' replaces 'commodius' with 'commodious'.) Joyce noticed the print error.
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* '''Commodious Vicus''' → spacious village → Dublin
  
 
* '''Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus:''' originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161–192 A.D.) ([[Shem]]), the son of Marcus Aurelius ([[HCE]]), was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors". He had a [[twins|twin]] brother, Antoninus ([[Shaun]]), who died when he was about four years old, and a sister Lucilla ([[Issy]]) who was implicated in plots to overthrow him
 
* '''Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus:''' originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161–192 A.D.) ([[Shem]]), the son of Marcus Aurelius ([[HCE]]), was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors". He had a [[twins|twin]] brother, Antoninus ([[Shaun]]), who died when he was about four years old, and a sister Lucilla ([[Issy]]) who was implicated in plots to overthrow him
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus Wikipedia]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus Wikipedia]
  
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* '''commodious:''' conveniently spacious; adapted to wants. (The new Rose and O'Hanlon edition aka 'FW2' replaces 'commodius' with 'commodious'.)
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* '''commodus:''' (''Latin'') pleasant.  
  
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* '''commodus:''' (''Latin'') pleasant
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* '''κωμη (kōmē):''' (''Greek'') village → [[vicus]]
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* '''commedia:''' (''Italian'') comedy → Dante's ''Commedia'' (the "Divine Comedy")
 
  
 
* '''κωμωδια (kōmōdia):''' (''Greek'') comedy
 
* '''κωμωδια (kōmōdia):''' (''Greek'') comedy
  
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* '''comme odieux:''' (''French'') as odious; like odious
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* '''recirculation:''' FW begins in veritas at the End of Story: ''Finn, again!'' = Finnegan = Vico/vicus (both falling from a ladder and breaking their skulls).  "End here. Us then. '''Finn, again!''' Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousandsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." (628.13 to 3.3) [http://yquotes.com/james-joyce/77154/]
  
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* '''commode:''' an armchair containing a concealed chamber pot under the seat → the 6th of 7 elements in a circuit of [[HCE|HCE's]] bedroom
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* '''recirculation back:''' allusion to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach J.S.Bach's] ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricercar Ricercars]'' from ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering The Musical Offering]'' Joyce was [http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/GJS10/GJS10_MichelleWiten.htm acquainted with fugue and adopted it] (to some extent) for ''Sirens'' chapter of ''[[Ulysses]]''
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** '''commode:''' a close-stool or cucking-stool; a toilet;
 
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** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 063.14-15:''' "stubbing his [Bloom's] toes against the broken commode"
 
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** '''chamber-pot''' → jordan → [[Giordano Bruno]]
 
  
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* '''Commodius Vicus''' → spacious village → Dublin
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* '''vicis:''' (''Latin'') fortune; change of fortune or conditions; vicissitude; duty, function, place
  
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* '''κωμη (kōmē):''' (''Greek'') village → [[vicus]]
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* '''Vico Road:''' a shore road from Dalkey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey] to Killiney [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killiney], along Dublin Bay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Bay]
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0579&isize=L&q1=Vico A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
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** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 024.25:''' "Vico Road, Dalkey"
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** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=53.271014,-6.104364&spn=0.024125,0.069265&t=p&z=14 Google Maps]
  
 
* '''vicus:''' (''Latin'') village; street; quarter (of a city); neighborhood
 
* '''vicus:''' (''Latin'') village; street; quarter (of a city); neighborhood
 
** '''Song of Solomon 3:2: '''"surgam et circuibo civitatem per '''vicos''' et plateas quaeram quem diligit anima mea quaesivi illum et non inveni - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon?match=la]
 
** '''Song of Solomon 3:2: '''"surgam et circuibo civitatem per '''vicos''' et plateas quaeram quem diligit anima mea quaesivi illum et non inveni - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."'''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28King_James%29/Song_of_Solomon?match=la]
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* '''commodious vicus''' → CV? → ''curriculum vitae'', the course of one's life
 
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* '''vicis:''' (''Latin'') fortune; change of fortune or conditions; vicissitude; duty, function, place
 
  
 
* '''vicus:''' → '''[[Vico|Giambattista Vico]]''' → Viconian Cycle → Vico's ''ricorso storico'', or "historical return", which links one Viconian cycle with the next
 
* '''vicus:''' → '''[[Vico|Giambattista Vico]]''' → Viconian Cycle → Vico's ''ricorso storico'', or "historical return", which links one Viconian cycle with the next
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0386&isize=L&q1=Vico Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
 
** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0386&isize=L&q1=Vico Third Census of Finnegans Wake]
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**  '''vicus of recirculation''' → ricorso, [[Vico|Giambattista Vico's]] concept of circular history
 
  
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* '''Vico Road:''' a shore road from Dalkey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey] to Killiney [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killiney], along Dublin Bay [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Bay]
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* '''vicus of recirculation''' → ricorso, [[Vico|Giambattista Vico's]] concept of circular history
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** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer&entity=JoyceColl.MinkGazetteer.p0579&isize=L&q1=Vico A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer]
 
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** '''''[[Ulysses]]'' 024.25:''' "Vico Road, Dalkey"
 
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** [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104906204603482351224.00044dd3c29086b77cf0f&ll=53.271014,-6.104364&spn=0.024125,0.069265&t=p&z=14 Google Maps]
 
  
 
* '''vicus of recirculation''' → vicious cycle
 
* '''vicus of recirculation''' → vicious cycle
  
 
* '''vicus of recirculation''' → hydrological cycle: the water of Dublin Bay is evaporated, becomes a cloud over Howth, which is blown inland; rain falls in the Dublin Mountains; the water is collected by the Liffey, which flows through the city, cleansing it (''Giambattista'' means "John the Baptist") and carrying off its filth; the river discharges its contents into the Bay, and the cycle continues.
 
* '''vicus of recirculation''' → hydrological cycle: the water of Dublin Bay is evaporated, becomes a cloud over Howth, which is blown inland; rain falls in the Dublin Mountains; the water is collected by the Liffey, which flows through the city, cleansing it (''Giambattista'' means "John the Baptist") and carrying off its filth; the river discharges its contents into the Bay, and the cycle continues.
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* '''circulation:''' the circulatory or cardiovascular system, the system of organs which circulates blood around the body of most animals → blood vessels, consisting of arteries, capillaries and veins, are like rivers in the body
 
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* '''recirculation back:''' could there be an allusion to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach J.S.Bach's] ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricercar Ricercars]'' from ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering The Musical Offering]''? Joyce was [http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/GJS10/GJS10_MichelleWiten.htm acquainted with fugue and adopted it] (to some extent) for ''Sirens'' chapter of ''[[Ulysses]]''
 
  
 
[[category:Vico]]
 
[[category:Vico]]

Revision as of 12:36, 21 June 2015

  • brings us by: 1. part of major "bring us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. (Joyce noticed commodius as print error) 2. german: inf. bei-bringen = to teach so. sth. or to figure sth. out
  • by: (Old Norse) town.
  • commedia: (Italian) comedy → Dante's Commedia (the "Divine Comedy")
  • comme odieux: (French) as odious; like odious -
  • commode: an armchair containing a concealed chamber pot under the seat → the 6th of 7 elements in a circuit of HCE's bedroom
    • commode: a close-stool or cucking-stool; a toilet;
    • Ulysses 063.14-15: "stubbing his [Bloom's] toes against the broken commode"
    • commode: chamber-pot → jordan → Giordano Bruno
  • commodious: conveniently spacious; adapted to wants. (The new Rose and O'Hanlon edition aka 'FW2' replaces 'commodius' with 'commodious'.) Joyce noticed the print error.
  • Commodious Vicus → spacious village → Dublin
  • Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus: originally Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus (161–192 A.D.) (Shem), the son of Marcus Aurelius (HCE), was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 A.D. He is often considered to have been one of the worst Roman Emperors, and his reign brought to a close the era of the "five good emperors". He had a twin brother, Antoninus (Shaun), who died when he was about four years old, and a sister Lucilla (Issy) who was implicated in plots to overthrow him
  • commodus: (Latin) pleasant.
  • κωμη (kōmē): (Greek) village → vicus
  • κωμωδια (kōmōdia): (Greek) comedy
  • recirculation: FW begins in veritas at the End of Story: Finn, again! = Finnegan = Vico/vicus (both falling from a ladder and breaking their skulls). "End here. Us then. Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thousandsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." (628.13 to 3.3) [1]
  • vicis: (Latin) fortune; change of fortune or conditions; vicissitude; duty, function, place
  • vicus: (Latin) village; street; quarter (of a city); neighborhood
    • Song of Solomon 3:2: "surgam et circuibo civitatem per vicos et plateas quaeram quem diligit anima mea quaesivi illum et non inveni - I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."[5]
  • vicus of recirculation → vicious cycle
  • vicus of recirculation → hydrological cycle: the water of Dublin Bay is evaporated, becomes a cloud over Howth, which is blown inland; rain falls in the Dublin Mountains; the water is collected by the Liffey, which flows through the city, cleansing it (Giambattista means "John the Baptist") and carrying off its filth; the river discharges its contents into the Bay, and the cycle continues.
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