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...together also means good, cool. 2) from "Three Blind Mice." 3) see note nine. 4) Alice (in Wonderland) shrinking and shrunk. 5) from the asylum? 6) walrus's face is long. 7) The eggman is H. C. Earwicker in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. He is the cosmic father of man and is symbolic of the oosphere. The oosphere contained the universe at the beginning before it was broken. His initials stand for "Here Comes Everybody". The eggman is everybody. 8) Everybody is an eggman because we're all progenitors...
mastersinger's verbalmusic still works its magick in the broadest way immarginable, from the clearheaded images to the twoddle of a fuddled brain. In the beginning was the whirred, whorled prose of James Joyce; now a group of unknowns have transformed Finnegans Wake into a movie. Surprisingly, many of the book's Eire-borne visions work as screedwriter becomes screenwriter and his prose gains the breadth of life. A tavernkeeper, H. C. Earwicker (Martin J. Kelley) sleeps drunkenly dreaming of his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, his daughter and his two sons Shem and Shaun. In the back ground...
...symbol-minded Joyce, the fabric of the story is not as it seams; with his unique portmanteauhold on language, he gives every line a sinister dexterity and gleanings of meanings. Finnegan, for example, is a Franco-English pun: fin-again-literally, resurrection. In a word, it sums up Joyce's epic of eternal recurrence in which Finnegan-Earwicker goes through mankind's plunge and rise as he "falls" asleep only in the end to "wake" to life. H. C. Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere...
...filming of Finnegans Wake required a Joycean energy from Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, an American whose previous movie experience has been confined to short ; subjects. Almost inevitably, her brave effort suffers by comparison with Joseph Strick's recent version of Ulysses (TIME, March 31). Part of the problem is in the size of the task undertaken. For all its mythic dimensions, the huge superstructure of Ulysses is based largely on a single classic theme. But Finnegan cosmically takes on all history-Critic Frank O'Connor shrewdly accused Joyce the agnostic of egoistically revising...
Died. James P. Finnegan, 66, one-time (1944-51) collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and a central figure in the Truman Administration scandals, the first of some 30 tax officials to resign during the 1951 congressional probe that uncovered illegal payoffs in many IRS offices, was convicted in 1952 of taking money from two firms with cases before the Government, serving 18 months of a two-year term for misconduct in office; of a heart ailment; in Webster Groves...