Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 101
geographic details of his everyday experience. The river Anna Liffey runs
"riverrun") past the Church of Adam and Eve on Merchant's Quay in
downtown Dublin; the Liffey empties into Dublin Bay ("bend of bay") which
in turn swerves southward past Vico Road between Dalkey and Kiliney
("vicus of recirculation"); on the north rim of the bay is the hill of Howth and
Howth Castle. The daily Ego has even inserted its initials: Howth Castle and
Environs: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker.
On the level of or the Freudian unconscious (Mr. Hyde) we find
infantile obsessions on urination and defecation: the river is a urine symbol,
"commodius" suggests commode or chamber-pot and recirculation includes
cul, French ass-hole. Voyeurism and/or exhibitionism are also implicit in
Adam and Eve, via the popular tag, "naked as Adam and Eve." Howth Castle
atop Howth Hill is, of course, a Freudian phallic symbol.
On the level of or the collective unconscious ("Akashic records") Adam
and Eve are male and female archetypes, the river and hill are Chinese
images of yin (generalized femaleness) and yang (generalized maleness), the
"vicus of recirculation" contains the turning wheel and/or Jungian mandala
that most mystics have visioned, and several of the dead and absent are alive
and present within the multiple language: the Roman emperor Commodus
and the Neapolitan philospher Vico, for instance.
On the level of or multiple realities (no-mind), we are in the Garden of
Eden with its four rivers while we are simultaneously in Dublin with its one
river ("riverrun ... Eve and Adam"); vicus (Latin road, later town)
coincidentally links the dreamer, Earwicker (it is part of the eymology of his
name) with the historic locale, because Dublin was originally Baile-atha-
Cliath, "the town of wicker bridges"; the cul in "recirculation" includes not
just a Freudian anal reference but introduces the themes of Finn Mac Cool
and felix cupla which hologrammically appear in every part of the book,
virtually in every paragraph.
That was a brief introduction to the hologrammic structure of the first
sentence of Finnegans Wake; the reader can see how, like a hologram, this
prose contains the whole in each part—as the universe does, according to
the recent theories of the physicist David Bohm. The reader may also begin
to fathom why Lao-Tse said, "The largest is within the smallest."
Let us try a simpler example, from Chapter 2:
cross Ebblinn's chilled hamlet
On the E level, dreaming Earwicker recalls, all night long, the songs the
customers in his pub like to sing; here he is half-remembering "Molly
Malone"—"In Dublin's fair city" / cross Ebblinn's chiDed hamlet . . . the
rhythm gives us the tune, while the reversed initials (E.c.h./HCE) remind us