Welcome to this new FW forum. Actually the subject matter goes beyond FW to include other works based on the same principles of numerical derivation via the...
Paul Albertsen
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May 9, 2000 9:59 pm
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1. Unity 2. Division 3. Female 4. Male This simple structure is given three times in FW's first chapter. Unity is depicted as the Fall, from unity into...
paul albertsen
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May 13, 2000 5:42 pm
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The zodiac expands throughout FW, from its very compact presentation in the second paragraph of the first page --- as the six pair of opposite signs --- to its...
paul albertsen
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May 15, 2000 6:19 pm
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Aries (0). Jacob (Israel) as father stands in the role of God, creator. Taurus (1) is the stage of the Fall from Unity (1). Jacob's firstborn son is Reuben,...
paul albertsen
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May 16, 2000 9:05 pm
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A new file has been started, on "Parzifal", and on the zodiac as the source of its meaning, with some reference to "Finnegans Wake". <A ...
paul albertsen
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May 27, 2000 9:38 pm
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"Riverrun" is a word of Cancer (3) running-water. It is the sign of birth, hence of beginning. And the text begins on page Three, which contains Three complete...
paul albertsen
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Jun 9, 2000 7:59 pm
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The second paragraph presents the six pair of opposite zodiac signs. "Sir Tristram" is obviously Aries the Ram, and also refers to Jesus Christ as the Man of ...
paul albertsen
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Jun 15, 2000 5:07 pm
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When Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, to wander into an unknown land, he was in the role of Aries (0 and 13) the placeless pathfinder. [Cf. Moses leading ...
paul albertsen
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Jun 18, 2000 8:21 pm
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One of the most distinctive parts of the Torah sequence of numbers and signs (which first appearred in Genesis 49, Cf. "the gander maybe at 49", FW p.410) --- ...
paul albertsen
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Jun 19, 2000 9:28 pm
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As an understanding of the zodiac is necessary to read FW intelligibly, here is a resource of basic Astrology info: www.magee.demon.co.uk Paul Albertsen...
Paul Albertsen
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Jun 30, 2000 8:58 pm
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"A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far!" Anna Livia Plurabelle is going home, home from being the stream and the rain and the tides of time, home to her father...
paul albertsen
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Jul 1, 2000 9:20 pm
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Might it not be said that the roof of our Western Society has partly fallen-in? The roof is our system of ideas, especially archetypal ideas, i.e. Myths. Can ...
paul albertsen
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Jul 2, 2000 7:58 pm
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(cont'd) The first sign in the next chapter is Taurus (1) the stage where Place is all-important, the step of the fall from unity: "therefore remember from...
paul albertsen
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Jul 3, 2000 6:25 pm
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(cont'd) One of the names of trump card Fourteen is The Harvest. In chapter Fourteen we read: "the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth...
paul albertsen
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Jul 5, 2000 7:03 pm
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Hello, Just a note to thank you for such seminal material on Finnegans Wake. A while ago I wrote, as a bit of fun/. a Dublinese re.Joyce - hope you can...
leomahon@...
Jul 5, 2000 9:23 pm
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The Tarot sequence of zodiac signs, whose second half appearred in the book of "Revelation", occurs more fully in the fourth Gospel, apparently written by the ...
paul albertsen
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Jul 14, 2000 8:14 pm
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(cont'd) Chapter XII. Pisces (12). Jesus as the Sacrifice: "If a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies...it produces much fruit." Card XII, the Hanged...
paul albertsen
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Jul 15, 2000 7:18 pm
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The second paragraph of FW contains the six pair of opposite zodiac signs.* The final six cards of the Tarot trumps also follow that pattern. Was James Joyce ...
Paul Albertsen
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Jul 16, 2000 8:13 pm
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I said yesterday that I did not know what "Tyro a tora" means. (p.603) Maybe today I do. Let's look at it in the context of the full zodiac, the "chart...
Paul Albertsen
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Jul 17, 2000 9:07 pm
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The theme of Aries (13) the Savior with no place to stop, the wandering message-carrier, the Word, is furthered in a passage about Moses and Shaun the Post: ...
Paul Albertsen
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Jul 20, 2000 6:29 pm
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Number One among the judges --- after Othniel (0) --- is Ehud (1). His name is very similar to the Hebrew word for number One, and in fact one of the meanings ...
Paul Albertsen
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Aug 2, 2000 10:57 pm
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(continued) Now why are only selected judges given extensive stories, while those in-between are barely mentioned? We have already hinted at the answer:...
Paul Albertsen
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Aug 3, 2000 9:19 pm
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"The Holy One (of Israel)" is a phrase that occurs 31 times in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah is number One among the major prophets. Abraham (1) is described as a...
Paul Albertsen
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Aug 6, 2000 9:29 pm
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Acquarius (11) is classified as fixed air, the water-carrier, containing all the evaporated water of the hydro-cycle. Thus the new Unity, the new number One ...
Paul Albertsen
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Aug 11, 2000 10:17 pm
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"whatinthe nameofsen lukeareyou rubbinthe sideofthe flureofthe lobbywith" 142.6 Would it surprise us to learn that that quotation refers to several signs...
Paul Albertsen
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Aug 16, 2000 5:28 pm
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We have seen (in "Origin of the Zodiac", URL: www.geocities.com/zreunion) that stage Three, Cancer, has to do with the geometric figure of a third point ...
Paul Albertsen
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Sep 9, 2000 8:29 pm
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"Nomad may roam with Nabuch, but let naaman laugh at Jordan. For we have taken our sheet upon her stones, and we, we have hanged our hearts in her trees; and...
Paul Albertsen
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Sep 11, 2000 9:04 pm
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In the ancient cult and culture of the goddess, mother of all things, (Cancer 3) and her consort, the lame king (Leo 4) whose death in her service fertilizes...
Paul Albertsen
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Sep 13, 2000 6:59 pm
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Let us address the touchy subject of the relationship between Jesus Christ and the pagan dying and resurrected god. Some examples of the latter were Tammuz and...
Paul Albertsen
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Sep 18, 2000 6:37 pm
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In further connection with the lameness of the king, the strong (long) and weak (short) sides of Leo (4) are often depicted as two different men, one ...
