Entailed at such short notice

• at once entailed → entailed → entailed at such short notice
  • A first-draft version of Finnegans wake

• end-ailed → "end" meaning both "finish" and "backside, behind" → erse solid in the next line

• entail: an inheritance which may not be disposed of by the legatee

• entail: to involve as a consequence

• tailored: see the annotation to retaled (two lines above) for the relevance of this to FW

• enteilla: (Finnish) to bode

• entrails (cf. "offwall")

• at short notice: an expression often used on playbills advertising a forthcoming performance

• at short notice → FW 049.19-21: "Under the name of Orani he may have been the utility man of the troupe capable of sustaining long parts at short notice"

Commentary

The Fall sets in motion the whole phenomenal world, including time and space. "Such short notice" suggests a short amount of time, but since the fall has only just happened only a short amount of time has existed.