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riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
On the surface this is the River Liffey, flowing past the Church of Adam and Eve in Dublin into the bay near Howeth Castle.
It is also the second half of the last sentence of the book. Here Joyce metaphorically connects Dublin with Eden and introduces the leading two characters Anna Livia Plurabelle (or ALP or the embodiment of womanhood - "all ladies present" - and as we later find, an embodiment of the River Laffey. She passes character two - Howeth Castle and Environs (HCE, or Anna's husband, Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, the embodiment of man, "Here comes everybody") Man and woman have met in Eden and in Joyce's circular Vicoesque world; the new cycle has begun.
That is the first graph.
“One is by nature too weak to arrive at spiritual perception.”
― The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
― The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
“Now there are two fortresses in Lazica[”
― The Secret History/The Wars of Justinian
― The Secret History/The Wars of Justinian
“To oppose what the sage kings took to be fundamental cannot be regarded as the way of the noble man.”
― The Book of Master Mo
― The Book of Master Mo
“froncé les sourcils,”
― Maigret et le corps sans tête -nouvelle édition-
― Maigret et le corps sans tête -nouvelle édition-
“know that you will never take a soul by force:”
― The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715
― The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715
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