Coincidance - Principia Discordia

12 COINCIDANCE
head on Shakespeare's Coat of Arms to the boar who killed Adonis to the
dead-and-resurrected god is perfectly clear in dream-logic, however
perplexing to the Rationalist. Joyce plays endlessly with these linguistic
coincidences; for instance when an American hog-caller denounces Earwicker
as "York's Porker" in Chapter Three, this refers to Shakespeare's Coat of
Arms with its boar's head, to Bacon (who lived at York House), to the
boar-god who became Adonis, etc. and eventually links into the whole
theme of Ham, Noah's flood, urination, Noah drinking and the drinking at
Finnegan's Wake. (The ballad is called Finnegan's Wake; Joyce's book is called
Finnegans Wake. The missing apostrophe creates another pun, which Joyce
explained to friends as a warning to the ruling classes: the oppressed rise,
eventually, in every historical cycle.)
But Joyce's symbol for the composit protagonist of FW was
remember? If is the unconscious Ego or Earwicker, appears to be the
Freudian unconscious, is the Jungian "collective" unconscious (or
Sheldrake's "morphogenetic field") and is, then, the non-local consciousness
which Buddhists call "Buddha mind" 'Taoists call "no-mind," and Occidental
psychology has not yet recognized, except in Timothy Leary's writings on
the non-local or quantum circuit of the nervous system. We will enlarge on
these brief descriptions as we proceed, but for now it is interesting, or
alarming, to note that Earwicker's "sin" in Phoenix Park is associated by
Joyce with the infamous Phoenix Park murders of 1882 (the year Joyce was
born, coincidentally).
These murders (of British officials) were committed by the Invincibles, an
Irish revolutionary group headed by one Joe Brady, but Charles Stewart
Parnell, leader of the Irish Home Rule Party, was implicated in them by
letters produced by the journalist, Richard Pigott. The first of these
incriminating letters began,
My dear E,
Let there be no more hecitancy.
Because of these letters, Parnell was eventually brought to trial, but was
acquitted when his counsel asked Pigott to spell the word "hesitancy." When
Pigott misspelled the word as "hecitancy," and it was pointed out that the
word was misspelled that way in the letters, Pigott fell into confusion and
incoherence, becoming totally unconvincing to the jury, and the letters have
ever since been considered forgeries. It is curious that, wherever Joyce
began in constructing the synchronicity labyrinth of FW, the misspelled
word "hecitancy" has the initials of his dreamer, HCE, and Pigott links in
with the pig-Ham-Hamlet-Bacon motif, while the salutation "My dear E,"
connects to Joyce's symbols for the four major levels of the psyche:
Even odder, Richard Pigott committed suicide after being reputidated by the