Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 245
In the first clause, we see the as the twelve months of the year (the hard
one is November: "funpowtherplother" refers to Guy Fawkes Day which is
November 5 and commemorates the Gun Powder Plot, in which Fawkes
tried to blow up Parliament)* and then the -ation chant gradually merges
the 0 with everything that is legal or theological or in some way threatening
to the ordinary citizen. "The State is concentric, but the individual is
eccentric," was Joyce's anarchistic view; the -ation chant appears almost
every time the appear and reverberates to the original ululation, which
identifies them with the owl-goddess Athenec, patron of juries (remember?)
but -ation also hints at copulation and fornication and masturbation and
other things the Irish super-ego does not want the dream to admit fully.
Of course, it is only another coincidence, but the DNA, so isomorphic to
Joyce's system functions in so many ways, also happens to have 12 bonds in
every complete turn of the double helix. (See diagram.) However, on page
107 we find
the Honorary Mirsu Earwicker, L.S.D.
We have already encountered that damned LSD in two places where the
seven rainbow colors are expanded to eight (to include the White Light) but
it is almost as awkward for rationalists as the Nagasaki/uranium conjunction.
For what it's worth, LSD to any Irish or English reader of Joyce's generation
meant "pounds, shillings and pence"—the duodecimal system of coinage
from Babylon onward that Joyce identifies with the Zodiac or function.
Strange that all this exfoliates from the initial reference to the duodismal
ululation or owlowlation of the neolithic Athene cult.
One other function that appears occasionally in FW is , usually
identified as a set of 28 girls from St. Bride's Academy. On the Freudian
level, these are, like the 7 rainbow girls, a distortion of the 2 giris in the
bushes of Phoenix Park; on the Jungian level, I suspect that they go back
to the Stone Age calendar mentioned in the essay on "Mammary Metaphysics,"
with a female figure marking every 28th day. In an Irish context,
St. Bride is the ancient Celtic moon goddess, Bride, adopted into the Roman
Catholic pantheon. The 28 girls, then, are the 28 days of a moon cycle or a
menstrual cycle or both. As an egg, of course is a human egg and thus
brings us back to Humpty Dumpty again . . .
The reader will gain a deeper understanding of the hologrammic prose of
* Guy Fawkes is pronounced Guy Fox and links to the Parnell and Wilde fox-hunt
themes. How a Guy Finks and Fawkes When He is Going Batth is one of the alternative
titles for FW in the text itself, but Joyce, an anarchist, probably knew the favorite English
anarchist joke, which was to urge people to vote for Guy Fawkes, "the only man to ever
enter Parliament with honest intentions."