Book I

Chapter 1

3: An explication of the first page; the phrase “scraggy isthmus” as “Merry Christmas”; “tauftauf thuartpeatrick”

4: The three question marks Joyce added

4-5: Bygmester Finnegan….; “what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was”

5: “His scutschum fessed”

8: The Willingdone’s “tallowscoop” (Telescopes in Finnegans Wake)

11:“How bootifull and how truetowife of her” (and “all spoiled goods go into her nabsack”

12: Life’s “robulous rebus”

18: Feeling and falling into manifestation: the 12 Buddhist nidanas; “This ourth of years”

20: “kindlelight”

21-23: Overview of the Prankquean episode, The Prankquean’s Riddle, The Prankquean and Identity, Blake’s “Contraries” and the PQ, What happens at the end of the PQ episode?, The word “gruebleen”

23: “Landloughed….”: “The Grammar of Nonsense”

24: The Ombre Players

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Chapters 2-4

30-33: HCE’s encounter with the king; The moss and “hamlock” in this scene

34: “ongentilmensky immodus”

35-36: HCE’s encounter with the Cad

37: “gildthegap Gaper”

39: “nondepict third”

40 “a psumpship doodly show”

47: The end of the Ballad of Persse O’Reilly; “Shikespower”

48-74: An overview of I.3

49: “egourge”

55: I’ll Be in My Bunk

56: The zodiac

58: HCE reiterates Finnegan’s wake

59: “Chrissman’s portrout” 

62: HCE as scapegoat

63: The gate; “bash in Patch’s blank face”

74: “Humph is in his doge”

81-84: Proto-Shaun versus Proto-Shem and their “torgantruce” (a way out of the zero-sum game); The zero-sum fallen world and “Two Gallants” (Dubliners)

82: Distilling

88: The “crossexanimation” (clipperclipper and idealism)

91: Pegger Festy in Court (Happy Christmas); “sockdaloger”

93: “Artha kama dharma moksa”

97-100: “Scaldbrother” (HCE’s death and resurrection as shedding clothes)

100: HCE as “cluekey to a worldroom beyond the roomwhorld”

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Chapter 5

108: “brickdust”

109: Clothing in Finnegans Wake

121: “soundsense and sensesound”

122: ALP’s letter inspired the Book of Kells’ Tunc page; the Cross in Finnegans Wake

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Chapter 6

143-48: Issy’s speech

148-68: Shaun as professor and the zero-sum game of the fallen world

152-59: The Mookse and the Gripes, Part 1; Part 2; Part 3

165-66: The clothing of Marge and her sister

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Chapter 7

An overview of Shem the Penman

185-86: “dividual chaos”

187-195: Justice and Mercy

188: “disunited kingdom”

195: The final word of Chapter 7

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Chapter 8

Tell Me All: An overview of I.8; An extension of the overview: Gossip and Gifts

202: Young ALP

203: Young ALP and Michael (The Past Lives in You)

209: The gifts of Anna Livia Plurabelle; ALP “like Santa Claus”

212: The vinedress

213: “Every telling has a taling”; “On the Limits of Storytelling” “On the Limit(lessness) of Storytelling”

214: The “lethest zswound”