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Joyce's Finnegans Wake - The Curse of Kabbalah Volume 7 (Paperback)
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Joyce's Finnegans Wake - The Curse of Kabbalah Volume 7 (Paperback)
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This seventh in a series continues this non-academic author's
ground-breaking word-by-word analysis of James Joyce's Finnegans
Wake. This volume covers chapters 2.4, 3.1 and 3.2 with the intent
to explore them as art objects. In Chapter 2.4 spirit imperialists
attack love. Love, particularly the spontaneous kind, is an outpost
of freedom and more possibilities. That outpost is a threat to the
status quo regime of the imperialists and puts its central
committee on alert. The imperialist control effort focuses on the
two main sources of spontaneous love, the natural nurturing
tendency of human females and the giving spirit of Jesus. One pure
expression of this kind of control is the arranged marriage, an
institution that often serves political interests. In arranged
marriages, control trumps love. The arranged part of the marriage
is usually the female. The arranged marriage makes spontaneous love
illicit. This chapter presents love suffering from control in the
context of two arranged marriages: Joyce's version of Isolde to
King Mark in Tristan and Isolde "T&I"] and Jesus to the church
in the Gospels. The result in both cases is the same: love fused to
death and a relationship barren of new offspring. The spirit mates
in this chapter are King Mark from T&I and Evangelist Mark. The
Book of Mark as edited reduced the independent and loving Christ to
the "suffering servant," and Tristan died at the Cliff of Penmark,
just as the real Christ died at the pen of Mark. Editors, the hated
object of Joyce's early life as an author, fuse the stories.
Another common element in the themes is the threat of the new
replacing the old: Tristan replacing King Mark and the Son religion
replacing the Father religion. This threat is announced at the
opening of chapter 2.4. Part 3 brings us Shaun's chapters, chapters
that feature his spirit. He is exhibited as a spirit imperialist in
marching pants stained by an anal retentive childhood experience
outlined in earlier chapters. He is stuck in the past, to
influences from the past. Put another way and more to the point,
the past is stuck in him. In Joyce's images, he has remained
subject to the "son" or past family experiences in his soul and has
not arisen to the independent "sun" in the present. Their dream
character connects these Part 3 chapters to the altered mind state
that produced the Book of Revelations, the source of formal
elegance for these chapters. Shaun is cast in the mould of the
closed spirit of the Anti-Christ AC] and Shem in the mould of the
open spirit of Christ C]. Following the forehead allegiance
indicator used in Revelations, these two chapters end after
Shaun/Jaun puts a postage stamp on his forehead, he as the envelope
of a message from others. His message is fear of unrestricted life
possibilities because of its sufferings. His postage stamp is
yellow for fear, but he has no spirit of his own, no message of his
own to deliver. By contrast, Shem's spirit has risen within himself
from dependence to independence, like the phoenix bird of myth that
creates itself young from its own ashes. That mythical ascent ends
chapter 3.2.
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