Coincidance - Principia Discordia

24 COINCIDANCE
of that, Ereweaker with the Bloody Big Bristol. Bung. Stop. Bung. Stop.
Cumm Bumm. Stop. Come Baked to Auld Aireen." Here General
Cambronne mingles with Earwicker's territorial mark in Phoenix Park, the
possible etymology of Earwicker from Eire-weiker with its link to vicus and
Vico, and the strains of "Come Back to Erin," a meaningfl song to the exiled
Irish writer of all this. A Bristol, of course, is Cockney slang for a pistol,
which dream-fashion has been taken from the Cad in the park and
transferred to the victim; but a pistol is an obvious symbol to Freudians.
General Cambronne's defiant cry of "merde" at Waterloo fits neatly into all
this because, among other things. Phoenix Park has a Wellington Monument,
dedicated to the victor of that battle, and water-loo ties in with the riverurination
theme, loo being Cockney and Dublin slang for the toilet. {The
reason there is so much Cockney slang in Dublin is that so many Cockney
soldiers were stationed there for so many centuries.)
The anal General Cambronne theme gradually merges with the case of
an anonymous Russian General about whom Joyce heard from his father,
John Stanislaus Joyce. (In the unconscious one General = another General.)
It seems that John Joyce knew a certain Buckley, who served with the Royal
Fusiliers in the Crimean War, and was involved peripherally with the
Charge of the Light Brigade, that epiphany of military heroism and
stupidity. On another occasion in the same war, Buckley caught sight of a
Russian General in a field and was about to shoot him when the General
lowered his pants to take a crap. It made the man look so "human." Buckley
said, that he couldn't shoot. When the General finished and pulled his
trousers up, however, he became an Enemy Officer again and Buckley shot
the poor bastard dead.
In Joyce's version, Buckley shoots the Russian General for the crime of
"homosodalism," an ambiguous phrase to say the least of it. Various
Atkinses are involved, invoking Tommy Atkins and the three soldiers in
Phoenix Park and also Fred Atkins, the male prostitute in the Wilde case.
Also involved are Brown and Nolan, who were actually two officers at the
Charge of the Light Brigade; conveniently for Joyce, this brings us back to
Brown and Nolan's bookstore in Dublin and the dialectic of Bruno of Nola.
Buckley's gun fires twice: "Cabrone! Combrune!" We are back at Waterloo
with General Cambronne, but the brunette Cad in the park is back, too,
and with him echoes of the bruin or bear-god, and the brunette Brodar who
killed Brian Boru. Since Buckley is from the Galic root for youth and Joyce
emphasizes the General's old age, we are also back in the tangles of the
Oedipus complex again.
Joyce tells the story in a parody of the style of Synge's black comedy, The
Playboy of the Western World. That is coincidentally appropriate because the