Past Eve and Adam's

• Adam and Eve’s tavern in Rosemary Lane, Dublin. In 1618, in the time of the Penal Laws, the Franciscans established a secret church in the lane in which Mass was secretly performed. Since the tavern had its shingle at the end of the lane, worshippers could enter the lane without arousing suspicion.

• Franciscan Church of St Francis of Assisi, popularly known as Adam & Eve's Church; it is situated beside the River Liffey, on or near the site of the tavern of the same name.

• Adam and Eve from the Old Testament, the beginning of history. According to Judaeo-Christian legend, Adam and Eve are the original parents of human civilization; HCE and ALP can be also thought of as the prototypical parents in FW.

• Eve & Adams: "Even atoms". Atoms are the primordial particles from which the universe and all life in it comes in Epicurean philosophy. Hence: riverrun past Eve and Adams: "they will arrive (italian) beyond even (i.e. straight) atoms". Cf. Wallstrait (003.17).

• Eve: from the Hebrew, Hawah, meaning "living one" → life → I Life: Liffey → Livia

• Ulysses 641.17: "and masshouse (Adam and Eve's tavern)" (one of the points of contact linking Irishman and Jew)

• Eden Quay, Dublin (downstream from Adam & Eve's Church and on the other side of the Liffey)

• The rivers Lethe ("Oblivion") and Eunoë ("Good Remembrance"), which flow around Adam and Eve's Earthly Paradise in Dante's Purgatorio; cf. riverrun, G: Erinnerung, memory

• Fr évier: sink, basin in the corner of HCE's bedroom? → the 2nd of 7 elements in a circuit of the bedroom
  • ewer: a large water-jug in the corner of HCE's bedroom? → the 2nd of 7 elements in a circuit of the bedroom

• Robert Adam fireplace in HCE's bedroom (559.02-03: "Adam's mantel") → the 3rd of 7 elements in a circuit of the bedroom