Why did James Joyce base his last and greatest work (FW) on the number-sequence? The answer is in the title above: Because the numbers tell the story of our ...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 1, 2000 10:28 pm
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A dying-and-resurrected god or sacrificial king, such as Dionysos, is a consort of the goddess or queen. They are the male and female archetypes, derived from ...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 3, 2000 6:31 pm
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"Polycarp pool, the pool of Innalvia, Saras the saft as, of meadewy marge, atween Deltas Piscium and Sagittariastrion..." p.600 How does this refer...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 4, 2000 5:12 pm
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What is the connection between Dionysos and the medieval stories of King Arthur? Here is an apparent connection: According to one scenario, it was around 600...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 7, 2000 7:15 pm
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The story told by the numbers is that after the fall from unity (1) into division (2) the first polar pair of opposites is female-male (3-4). Birth (female) is...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 10, 2000 5:12 pm
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A major part of ancient mythology was the character of the goddess as a virgin. E.g. Artemis (Diana). How did that archetypal motif play itself out in...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 11, 2000 6:50 pm
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Just as the swinging arc of stage Three, Cancer, runs (back-and-forth) between the two poles of Geminii, so Anna Livia Plurabelle (3) as the river flows...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 26, 2000 7:37 pm
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To explain more fully the above reference to Tarot trump cards III and XIV, each of them represents the combined Geminii (2) and Cancer (3). Paul Albertsen ...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 26, 2000 8:08 pm
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By washing H.C.E.'s soiled clothes, the two washerwomen keep re-cycling Leo (4) the rising-and-falling god. Clothes can represent the essential Structure of...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 30, 2000 12:34 am
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Jonah --- Leo (4) among the minor prophets --- is swallowed by a "great fish", which as a water-monster we might identify with the sign Scorpio. He is carried ...
Paul Albertsen
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Oct 31, 2000 9:35 pm
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An Exercise in Number and Geometry Draw seven equilateral triangles, one atop the other. The midpoint of the first triangle is at the upper point of the...
Paul Albertsen
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Nov 16, 2000 1:45 am
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Hello Paul, This is most interesting; can you tie it back to any specific excerpt from Finnegan's Wake please, so I can appreciate its relevance to Joyce's...
Brendan Moriarty
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Nov 16, 2000 7:40 pm
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Brendan Moriarty, Welcome as a new member to the forum. I don't know that the "Seven Story Mountain" is explicitly contained in FW. But its constituent parts...
Paul Albertsen
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Nov 18, 2000 8:54 pm
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God's people are said to be "in captivity" until they are brought home again. What is the "captivity" but immersion in the Cancer-Capricorn Round, the...
Paul Albertsen
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Nov 20, 2000 8:14 pm
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At the beginning of chapter XV of FW (p.474) we are dealing with "Pure Yawn", with "nothing" (Aries 0). But from that nothing, emanates something (1) a "wail" ...
Paul Albertsen
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Nov 22, 2000 7:01 pm
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The themes dealt with so complexly in FW (in the style of abstract art, the art of inner-structure) can sometimes be seen in simpler, more familiar form in ...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 4, 2000 9:29 pm
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Gabriel and Michael Fury in "The Dead" represent the strong and weak sides of lame Leo, even as do the pontificating Kurtz and his foolish admirer dressed in ...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 6, 2000 7:51 pm
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Instead of Michael Furey in the role of Leo's weak-side (as I suggested earlier) contrasting with Gabriel as the strong-side, it might be more accurate to see...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 7, 2000 7:46 pm
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There is at least one mistake in "The Seven Story Mountain" (Message # 82) which might confuse anyone trying to draw the figure: In paragraph 12, instead of,...
Paul Albertsen
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Dec 12, 2000 8:18 pm
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For those who want to follow-up on this, here is a very brief outline of the chapter-by-chapter zodiac in FW. Chapter One has already been covered in messages...
Paul Albertsen
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Jan 8, 2001 8:34 pm
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The egg in FW is first Humpty Dumpty, the egg of unity (1) which falls and is broken into division (2) and multiplicity (3) then is partially restored to ...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 5, 2001 8:04 pm
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The main female figure in FW, Anna Livia Plurabelle (an expression of stage Three, Cancer, the stage of Plurality) is consistently associated with water and ...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 12, 2001 6:13 pm
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The Grail King, Anfortas, suffered a grievous wound while fighting in the service of Orgeluse (the beautiful witch). As a result of that he is, "not able to...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 12, 2001 8:03 pm
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I. Aries (0) XII. Pisces (12) II. Taurus (1) XIII. false Aries (13) III. Geminii-Cancer XIV. Geminii-Cancer (2-3)...
Paul Albertsen
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Feb 12, 2001 8:29 pm
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We have been discussing the inner-structure of FW, and its connections with the Bible and with Tragedy and Romance. So it might be relevant to explore other ...
Paul Albertsen
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Mar 18, 2001 10:48 pm
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We have seen (message #2) that the prankquean episode (pp.21-23) restates the initial quartet of numbers, and recapitulates the Genesis story from Adam to...
Paul Albertsen
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Mar 23, 2001 10:28 pm
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"Moby Dick" is a Tragedy. What does that ancient word mean? It means a story about the ritual killing of the sacred king. The dying-and-resurrected god. The...
Before shipping out, Ishmael attends a whaleman's chapel and hears a dramatic sermon on Jonah (the biblical prophet who was swallowed by a "whale"). That story...
What is the underlying message of the story of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster he created? [Written in the early nineteenth century by Mary Woolstonecraft ...
I believe this idea has been posted before. But it is still true, and I have added a postscript. Just before the traveling players arrive at Elsinore Castle,...
