Coincidance - Principia Discordia

76 COINCIDANCE
poor Mark with reports on his wife's infidelities in chapter four of book two,
and these seagulls utter "three quarks" which later found their way into
quantum mechanics.
Leopold Bloom in Ulysses also seems to have a lion in his name (Leo) and
Joyce was born in a house called Leoville, which had two lions on the gatepost.
Although Joyce could not have foreseen it, a recent biographical novel
about Brian Boru is called LION OF IRELAND.
Neither Bloom nor Earwicker own dogs, but they each own a cat.
Henry James, who started writing relativistic novels even before Joyce
(and even before Einstein!) seems to be mentioned in FW a few times—but
everybody with a "James" in his name was considered worthy of mention by
Joyce. ("I don't know if he was in love with me or my name," James Stephens
remarked once.) "Enwreak us wrecks" on FW page 546 seems to combine
Henry James, Henry II, and Oedipu Rex. Henry II or in the Latin of his own
day Enricus Rex authorized the first British invation of Ireland on 23 August
1170, which makes another interesting coincidence: foreign dominion of
Ireland (by the Danes) ended on 23 April 1014 with Brian Boru's victory at
Clontarf and foreign dominion of Ireland (by the British) began again on 23
August 1170.
Henry II was the husband of Eleanor of Acquitaine, whose contributions
to European paganism and occultism are a major theme in Pound's Cantos.
Pound was a friend of both Henry James and James Joyce.
Because of Pound's help in getting Ulysses published, Joyce decided there
was profound occult meaning in the fact that Pound's father was named
Homer.
It is only a coincidence, of course, that there is a celebrated film about the
troubled marriage of Henry II and Eleanor, and that this movie is called Tht
Lion in Winter.
It is also only a coincidence, of course, of course, that their most famous
son was Richard the Lion-Hearted.