Coincidance - Principia Discordia

102 COINCIDANCE
that the day-time Ego is only present-by-absence in the dream world. On
the level, "chilled hamlet" suggests Byron's Childe Harold and the rumors of
incest and homosexuality that surround the poet; "hamlet" alone brings in
Oedipal themes. On the level, Childe Harold is the archetype of the
Wanderer, Hamlet is the puer eternis with overtones of the trickster-god
(Hamlet feigns madness and speaks in riddles), the "cross" again invokes
death/resurrection, and, since the historical Hamlet was governor of Dublin
during the Danish occupation of Ireland, "racial memory" or Sheldrake's
morphic resonance are again present. Since Eblana was the first Latin name
for Dublin (on a map by Ptolomy c. 100 AD), Ebblinn also contains the living
presence of the absent dead. On the level, the "ham" in Hamlet connects
with the three sons of Noah (Shem, Japhet and Ham) who recur periodically;
ham also associates with Bacon, who coincidentally is thought to be the real
author of Hamlet by some; Bacon in Old High German is Bach and the initials
E.C.H. are backward and Bachward also, in the manner of Bach's more
intricate melodies.
Of course, the very name of the Crimean War combines crime and war
and this reflects the whole dark, Shadow side ( ) of humanity. Buckley is
from a Gaelic root meaning "youth," so the story, like Hamlet, has Oedipal
overtones. Defecation and war are connected by anal sadism on the level,
according to Freud; they are also connected by territorial imperatives on the
level, according to ethologists who tell us mammals defecate to claim
territory and war is a continuation of mammalian territorial dispute. On the
E level, the story of the General reflects Earwicker's personal shame about
an incident in Phoenix Park (foenix culprit) in which three British soldiers
saw him taking a crap in the bushes. (Dublin didn't have many public toilets
in those days.) On the level, the story indicates quantum indeterminacy,
just as a "particle" is only "spin up" or "spin down" when we measure it and in
every state or no state when we aren't measuring it, the General is only
"human" with his pants down and is an "Enemy" with his pants up.
A more lyrical passage illustrates the same principles amusingly:
In the name of Annah, the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of
Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run,
unhemmed as it is uneven.
The reader may find it enlightening to disentangle the four levels of
and , as an exercise. It is worth noting that we have two
patriarchal prayers combined, with a matriarchal underlay. "In the name or
Allah, the Allmerciful" is the Islamic sunset prayer; I assume anybody can
find the Lord's Prayer of Christianity easily enough. On a deeper level of the
psyche, the Great Mother still reigns: Annah is "mother" in Turkish; the