Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE PART THREE
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A is the first letter of most European
alphabets and is thus associated with beginnings
or origins. The Hebrew A is pronounced aleph
and spelled ALP by Cabalists writing in English,
ALP being the English equivalent of the spelling
of aleph in Hebrew, which is, in full alephlamek-pe.
Cabalists have found many mystical
meanings in this A or ALP, but not nearly as
many as Joyce finds in FW.
ALP is Joyce's abbreviation for Anna Livia Plurabelle, the anima figure
who combines all women and ail rivers. In Joyce's notebooks ALP is
symbolized , which is pronounced delta in Greek a nice coincidence since
rivers have deltas and the Greeks traditionally regarded as a symbol of the
vagina. ALP or is thus a pure yin force in the Chinese sense, female and
Watery at once.
Anna Livia Plurabelle takes her name, in part, from the Dublin river,
Anna Liffey. Livia Svevo, wife of Joyce's friend Italo Svevo, was also told
that she was a partial model for ALP, and Joyce scholars have found the
Roman Empress (and poisoner) Livia also included in ALP. This last is
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