Difference between revisions of "Nor avoice from afire"
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* '''nor a voice redffire''' → '''nor avoice from afire''' | * '''nor a voice redffire''' → '''nor avoice from afire''' | ||
− | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=article&did=JOYCECOLL.HAYMANFIRSTDRFT.I0010&id=JoyceColl.HaymanFirstDrft&isize=L A first-draft version of Finnegans wake] |
* '''a voice from a fire''' → the voice of god in the burning bush seen by Moses (Exodus 3:2-6) | * '''a voice from a fire''' → the voice of god in the burning bush seen by Moses (Exodus 3:2-6) | ||
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* '''''Nor a''voice from afire''' → Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife | * '''''Nor a''voice from afire''' → Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife | ||
− | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity= | + | ** [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&id=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans&entity=JoyceColl.GlasheenFinnegans.p0238&isize=L&q1=Nora Third Census of Finnegans Wake] |
* '''afire:''' on fire | * '''afire:''' on fire |
Revision as of 00:36, 30 April 2009
- nor a voice redffire → nor avoice from afire
- a voice from a fire → the voice of god in the burning bush seen by Moses (Exodus 3:2-6)
- a voice from afar → cf. bellowsed
- FW 407.14-15: "voise from afar ... Tu es Petrus"
- a fire → the fireplace in HCE's bedroom, linking this, the third of seven clauses in this paragraph, with Adam's (i.e. the Robert Adam mantel), the third of seven elements in the first paragraph → the 3rd of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom
- voice from a fire → Issy's voice transmitted down the chimney flue from her bedroom, which is directly above HCE's, as she and her alter ego converse together
- Nor avoice from afire → Nora Barnacle, Joyce's wife
- afire: on fire
- fire → "flame of Christianity kindled by St Patrick": Joyce in a letter of 15 November 1926 to Harriet Shaw Weaver → St Brigid's flame → is there an allusion here to the zodiacal sign of Virgo?