Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake by Finn Fordham

Author:Finn Fordham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

4.1. REVISING THE SPEECHES FOR THE THIRD TYPESCRIPT: ‘MIRRDO!’

As well as inserting these important new additions analysed above (the ‘abnihilisation’ stage direction and Butt and Taff in unison), Joyce had also heavily revised the rest of the passage, possibly prior to drafting the excerpts we have just been reading. It is difficult to know—Joyce is working on many fronts at this moment and at great speed. We will turn to them now as they appear integrated into the third typescript.63 Butt’s speech at this level looks like this:

Butt… till… up come stumblebum (ye olde cottemptable!), his urssian gemenal, in his scutt’s rudes unreformed and he went before him with the same old domstoole story and his upleave the fallener as is greatly to be petted (white-sides do his beard!) and I seen his brichashert offensive and his boortholomas vadnhammaggs vise a vise them scharlot runners and how they gave love to him and how he took the ward from us (odious the fly fly flurtation of his him and hers! Just mairmaid maddeling it was it he was!) and, my oreland for a rolvever, sord, by the splunthers of colt and bung goes the enemay the Percy rally got me, messger, (as true as theirs an Almagnian Gothabobus!) to blow the grand off his aceupper. Thistake, it’s meest! And after meath the dulwich. We insurrectioned and, be the procuratress of the hory synnotts, before he could tell pullyirragun to parrylewis, I shuttm, missus, like a wide sleever! Hump to dump! Tumbleheaver!

(351.35–352.15 and see 47480–98; JJA 55: 183 with 47480–55v, 6; JJA 55: 114–15)

Butt’s speech is expanded with added reasons for executing the Russian General, with more swearing, and with an observation about the point at which he does it. As well as his ‘brichasherts offensive’, Butt now sees the general’s ‘boortholomas vadnhammaggs’ joining ‘ham and eggs’ and Bortolo (a character we will encounter in Part III) to Bartholomew Van Homrigh, the Lord Mayor of Dublin and father of Esther the young lady who fell in love with her tutor Jonathan Swift. When she found out there was another woman in Swift’s life, she was furious and wrote to the other woman, Esther Johnson—another Esther. When Swift found this out he chose never to speak to Miss van Homrigh again. Joyce draws on Swift’s life story a great deal: ‘sosie sesthers’ on the first page refer to these two Esthers in his life, and we will meet them again in Part III. But why the target should be Esther’s father it is harder to see, except that, as mayor of Dublin, his position of authority brings him into the sights of Butt’s target. The two girls, as ‘scharlot runners’, ‘gave love to him’, while he, on the other hand, ‘took the ward from us’. As running harlots, they are like the ‘jinnies’ who run away from HCE in the Waterloo story in Chapter 1. Joyce takes the twee archaism ‘gave love’ from Comyn’s translation of the Youthful Exploits of Fionn, where

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