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Hart’s schematic ? model of the Wake in Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake bears
particular resemblances to this "vicociclometer." Describing a double chiasmatic movement
between the four books of the Wake he argues that:
Around a central section, Book II, Joyce builds two opposing cycles consisting of Books I and
III. In these two Books there is established a pattern of correspondences of the major events
of each, those in Book III occurring in reverse order and having inverse characteristics.
Whereas Book I begins with a rather obvious birth (28-9) and ends with a symbolic death
(215-6), Book III begins with a death (403) and ends with a birth (590); "roads" and the
meeting with the King (I.2) reappear in III.4, the trial of I.3-4 in III.3, the Letter of I.5 in III.1,
and the fables of I.6 earlier in III.1. In his correspondence Joyce implicitly referred to this
pattern.
Such a Viconian "duplex" (FW 292.24) is also suggested in the above diagram (located
approximately mid-way through book II) as describing a transversal along the co-ordinates
A?, ?L, P(?), between a Trinitarian eschatology and an "Hystorical" (FW 567.31) cyclic rebirth,
in the triangulated form of the vesica piscis–"between shift and shift ere the death he
has lived through and the life he is to die into" (FW 293.003-05), becoming: "Uteralterance or
/ the Interplay of / Bones in the / Womb" (FW 293.L1).
In De monade, Giordano Bruno describes a similar figure of two intersecting circles–the
Diadis figura. The plane of intersection, the monas, according to Bruno: "contains its
opposite" (Immo bonum atque malum prima est ab origine fusum).34 Leibniz, elaborating
the conception of monadology, similarly argued that "in the labyrinth of the continuous the
smallest element is not the point but the fold," just as in Joyce’s diagram the plane of
continuity describes itself through a fold, A?–?L. Among other things, this diagram suggests
a mechanism operating on the basis of a type of "paradox lust" whose structural topology
(schematic or tropic) is not self-identical but a chiasmatic regeneration–an acrostic
convergence of "anaglyptics" (419.10), where: "A is for Anna like L is for Liv. Aha hahah,
Ante Ann you’re apt to ape aunty annalive! Dawn gives rise. Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall.
La, la, laugh leaves alass! Aiaiaiai, Antiann, we’re last to the lost, Loulou! Tis perfect" (FW
293.18-23).
In “Symptom in the Machine: Lacan, Joyce, Sollers”, Luis Armand discusses the VESICA
PISCIS incorporated in Finnegans Wake, directing to Roland McHugh’s work “The Sigla of
Finnegans Wake”:
As Roland McHugh, in The Sigla of Finnegans Wake, reminds us, the construction of an
equilateral triangle is the first proposition in Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. It is also the
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