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COINCIDANCE 19
We sinned all"); he is also making a Freudian slip and admitting he enjoyed
what happened ("happy sin"); and the cul-cool pun is still there. In the
children's games of Chapter Nine, primitive fertility rites are re-enacted—
this was Norman Douglas's interpretation of children's games, by the
way—and the chant "May he colp her, may he colp her, may he mixandmas
colp her" is eminently suitable for a pagan sex ritual. Unfortunately, that is
genetic memory only ( ) and on the Freudian level ( ) Irish Catholic
guilt has gotten in again: the chant contains the Catholic prayer "Mea culpa,
mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" (my sin, my sin, my most grievous sin). Cul
and cool are still there
When the multiple becomes "Old Fing Cole," he combines Fin Mac
Cool with Old King Cole, who called for his fiddlers three, as Earwicker's
exposure of his private assets summoned guilt in the form of the three
soldiers,
Returning to the Phoenix Park murders of 1882, although Charles
Stewart Parnell escaped conviction in that case when Pigott's letters were
discredited, Parnell fell (and fell hard) a few years later, when he was named
as co-respondent in a divorce suit by a Captain O'Shea. Parnell and Mrs.
'Kitty O'Shea had, in fact, been lovers for many years, without any
objections from the Captain, who had romantic interests of his own, and
most historians believe O'Shea decided to sue for divorce only when
persuaded by Parnell's political enemies in the English Establishment. Be
that as it may, part of the evidence against Parnell was documentation that
he and Mrs. O'Shea had shared a hotel room under the names "Mr. and
Mrs. Fox." Thus the fox-hunt, another paleolithic blood sacrifice, recurs
again and again in FW, always linked to puns on Parnell or O'Shea, and often
to the rhythm of the fox-hunting ballad, "John Peel" (which also contains a
pun on nudity if you think about it). The fox-hunt theme, however, is also
linked with Oscar Wilde, who was disgraced and destroyed when his
homosexuality was revealed only a few years after Parnell was destroyed
for adultery. Wilde links to the fox-hunt theme, of course, because he once
described that barbaric passtime as "the uneatable pursued by the unspeakable."
Joyce has about a hundred versions of this in FW, of which my favorite
is "The Turk, ungreekable in pursuit of armenable," which combines Wilde's
joke with the Turkish-Greek-Armenian wars of the 1920s, and reflects the
fact that most Europeans think Greeks are especially prone to homosexuality,
whereas Greeks claim the Turks are worse culprits.
The synchro-mesh here is that Parnell and Wilde were both Irish, both
were hugely popular until they were in the forties, both were disgraced and
destroyed for their sexual irregularities, both are linked to the fox—and,
curiously, both lived at one time or another on Stephen's Green in Dublin;