Past Eve and Adam's

• Adam & Eve's Church, Dublin, beside river Liffey, on site of tavern of 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.