Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 163
three who include the warring twins ( ) and their reconciliation ( ),
but especially delightful is Abraham Bradley King who is three in one, being
a real Lord Mayor of Dublin whose initials suggest the ABC team, and
vvhose name opens with the pregnant ab root. As Joyce comments, "It's as
semper as oxhousehumper." Since Latin semper=eternal, this means simple
as ABC or eternal as ABC or eternal as the Hebrew letters aleph-bethgjmmel,
which mean ox, house and camel. The camel becomes a "humper"
to remind us of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Humpty Dumpty.
But by now we should be ready to examine the family relationships
between Joyce's major system-functions:
The underlying principle of FW seems to be the non-local or the class
of all possible minds, cocnate with the Chinese no-mind (wu shin) or the
Tao. When non-local appears in space-time it takes the form of the
polarity of male or yang energy and female or yin energy. The first
sentence, to look at it again, shows these yin/yang polarities neatly:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, rings
us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Eve and Adam are human forms of the yin/yang balance; the river Anna
Liffey and Howth hill are geographic forms of the same polarity (the
Chinese consider rivers yin and mountains yang); there may even be
masculine energy in the rocky "swerve of shore" and female energy in the
smooth "bend of bay." This yin/yang runs through the book in countless forms:
ancients link with presents as the human chain extends
FW is already startlingly isomorphic with 1 Ching. But we have already
seen that the male or yang energy takes the opposite forms of and
while the female or yin energy takes the opposing forms of and (the
two Isoldes, the two Esthers, the two Alices—Alice Liddell and Isa Bowman,
who played Alice on the stage and also became a subject of great affection to
Dodgson/Carroll). This is isomorphic to the origin of J Ching, which is known
as King Wen's Arrangement and looks like this