Clash of Wills

• What cha(nce?) of wills and wits were not here & there abouts → What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods!
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• clash of wills

• clash of haves versus have-nots → wonts = wants

• clash of invaders versus natives

• clashes: anagram of cashels in line 8

• will: volition, free-will; clashes of wills gen wonts → conflict of individuals against social conventions (a Joycean theme)

• will: (slang) penis

• Will: William Shakespeare
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  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Wills: James Wills, Irish author of Lives of Illustious and Distinguished Irishmen (1847)
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• Wills: W. G. Wills, Irish author of the play A Royal Divorce about Napoleon's divorce from Josephine and marriage to Marie Louise
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  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake