Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 103
female river Anna Liffey appears "Annah ... living"; the special Anitna or
Great Goddess of Finnegans Wake, Anna Livia Plurabella, combining river and
vvoman emerges from "Annah ... living ... plurabilities."The first woman,
present in the first sentence ("riverrun ... ") is still present below the surface
although absent on the surface: we can dig her out of "Euerliving,""haloed be
her eve" and "uneven." The Maize Mother or Corn Mother, earliest form of
the goddess according to Frazer, is there hiding in "Allmaziful." Just as she
was there, intangible as a tune, in "cross Ebblinn's chilled hamlet," where she
is the ghost of Molly Malone; and just as, in the first sentence, she was not
only the river but the vicus which gave English wicce, a turning, a turning
dance and craft of wicca, the one faith which kept the worship of the
Goddess alive in the patriarchal aeon.
It should be clear that in Finnegans Wake, past, present, future, space, time
and Ego-reality are all dissolved into the multiple "realities" described by
mystics and quantum physicists; that Joyce, a man of timid courage, has
seized the keys of hell of death, by showing that the Ego dies and is reborn
more continually than we realize, and that absence or death are as unreal in
this context as the famous Schrodinger equations which demonstrated in
quantum theory that a cat may be dead and alive at the same time.
As Philip K. Dick wrote in VALIS:*
Apollonius of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistus, said "That which
is above is that which is below." By this he meant to tell us that our universe
is a hologram, but he lacked the term.
Joyce's equivalent is:
The tasks above are as the flasks below, saith the emerald canticle of
Hermes ... solarsystemised, seriolocosmically, in a more and more
almightily expanding universe under one, there is rhymeless reason to
believe, original sun.
The emerald canticle of Hermes brings us backward and Bachward to
Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker again, that day-time Ego. Above and
below, like absence and presence, are equivalent in this hologrammic field;
Bach again invokes Bacon and Ham and Hamlet and pork and P'ork
(Padraic), Ireland's patron saint and Saint Patrick's Cathedral where Swift,
the melancholy Dean was a melancholy Dane in Dublin brogue; seriolcosmitally"
refers not only to Joyce's serio-comic style but to The Serial Universe, in
which J.W. Dunne attempted to demonstrate mathematically that each
VALIS is Dick's equivalent of Joyce's
Living Information System.
or the Chinese no-mind; it means Vast Active