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partisans James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 1.1)

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partisan – supporter, adherent + Partisane or pertuisane, a strong pike with a straight iron head and two edges

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Baddelaries James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 1.1)

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Badelaire – a type of sword with one back and one edge large and curving towards the tip like the scimitar of the Turks (Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais) + Baudelaire – French poet.

Evil of the Aries: transformation italo-English

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Ualu Ualu Ualu! James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 1.1)

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ulalu – a wailing cry, a lamentation (from Irish: uileliúgh)

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: Bird sounds

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gaggin James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 1.1)

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gag – to strangle, choke + In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad were eight deities worshipped in Khmun (Greek: Hermopolis) during what is called the Old Kingdom, the third through sixth dynasties, dated between 2686 to 2134 BC. The eight deities were arranged in four female-male pairs, the females were associated with snakes and the males were associated with frogs: Naunet and Nu, Amaunet and Amun, Kauket and Kuk, Hauhet and Huh. Apart from their gender, there was little to distinguish the female goddess from the male god in a pair; indeed, the names of the females are merely the female forms of the male name and vice versa. Essentially, each pair represents the female and male aspect of one of four concepts, namely the primordial waters (Naunet and Nu), air or invisibility (Amunet and Amun), darkness (Kauket and Kuk), and eternity or infinite space (Hauhet and Huh). Together the four concepts represent the primal, fundamental state of the beginning, they are what always was. In the myth, however, their interaction ultimately proved to be unbalanced, resulting in the arising of a new entity. When the entity opened, it revealed Ra, the fiery sun, inside. After a long interval of rest, Ra, together with the other deities, created all other things.

Gag: In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. The gag may involve a physical impossibility or an unexpected occurrence.[1] The humor is caused by alternative interpretations of the goings-on.[2] Visual gags are used in magic, plays, and acting on television / movies.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: gaggin: making chokey chokey sounds.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: German “gegen” = “against”

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gag - to strangle, choke + In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad were eight deities worshipped in Khmun (Greek: Hermopolis) during what is called the Old Kingdom, the third through sixth dynasties, dated between 2686 to 2134 BC. The eight deities were arranged in four female-male pairs, the females were associated with snakes and the males were associated with frogs: Naunet and Nu, Amaunet and Amun, Kauket and Kuk, Hauhet and Huh. Apart from their gender, there was little to distinguish the female goddess from the male god in a pair; indeed, the names of the females are merely the female forms of the male name and vice versa. Essentially, each pair represents the female and male aspect of one of four concepts, namely the primordial waters (Naunet and Nu), air or invisibility (Amunet and Amun), darkness (Kauket and Kuk), and eternity or infinite space (Hauhet and Huh). Together the four concepts represent the primal, fundamental state of the beginning, they are what always was. In the myth, however, their interaction ultimately proved to be unbalanced, resulting in the arising of a new entity. When the entity opened, it revealed Ra, the fiery sun, inside. After a long interval of rest, Ra, together with the other deities, created all other things.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: gaggin: making chokey chokey sounds.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: German "gegen" = "against"

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oystrygods James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 1.1)

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Ostrogoth – an East Goth; a name given to the division of the Teutonic race of the Goths which towards the end of the 5th c. conquered Italy, and in 493, under Theodoric, established a kingdom which continued till 555.

Oy : Offaly (Contae Uíbh Fhailí in gaelico) è una delle trentadue contee d'Irlanda. Dalla sua creazione fino all'indipendenza irlandese.

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: It might also mean vaginas surrounded by penises (as in penetration).

PROPOSED SUGGESTION: Oyster gods, i.e. underwater creatures. Also Ostrogoths, but that’s a connotation. Underwater stuff.

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gen James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 1.1)

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gen (gegen) (ger) – against + will against won’t.

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In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried Amy Hempel – In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried

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Amy Hempel is one of America’s greatest story writers. Often said to be of the Minimalist school of writers, her work is spare and direct. Like many of the writers associated with Gordon Lish (Hempel was a student of Lish’s), she writes “sentences not stories.” This story was featured in her Collected Stories. Buy it here.

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That Evening Sun William Faulkner – That Evening Sun

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“That Evening Sun” appeared in William Faulkner’s collection of stories These Thirteen (1931). The collection also included Faulkner’s most anthologized story “A Rose for Emily.” The story is narrated by Quentin Compson, who appears in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929).

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Famous Once Ryan Ridge (Ft. Cleverbot) – Famous Once

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AUTHOR’S NOTE:

Padgett Powell’s Interrogative Mood (HarperCollins 2009) is a novel in questions. By posing Powell’s original questions to a trio of internet chatbots: Cleverbot, Brother Jerome, & Sensation Bot respectively, I created a book of answers, a pithy poetic reply to Mr. Powell’s project called 22nd Century Man (from which Famous Once is excerpted). Cleverbot helped out with the annotations.

Purchase here: http://sixthfinch.com/store.html

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Even Greenland Barry Hannah – Even Greenland

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“Even Greenland” is from Barry Hannah’s 1985 collection Captain Maximus, originally published on Knopf and edited by Gordon Lish. Hannah is a master of the short story. His work is critically lauded but goes largely unread by the general public. To read more of Hannah’s work buy his selected fiction Long, Last, Happy from his hometown bookstore, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi.