![]() ![]() His head felt heavy, which made him shake. It's the fall of the hod carrier, Tim Finnegan, from his ladder in the comic ballad. ![]() The first one is the great Fall from the book's opening page. Lord has picked eleven pivotal moments in the book to illustrate. ![]() Lord uses these predellas as a link between the illustrations. The narrow strip at the bottom is a 'predella', something you find at the bottom of medieval altar pieces, like th is one by Carlo Crivelli. ![]() Here's the very first illustration - a general treatment of the nature of writing and Finnegans Wake as a 'nightmaze' and a 'jungle of woods.' Hum pty Dumpty appears here and in several other ill ustrations. 'We have 'N uctumbulumbumus', which suggests cumu lonimbus thunderclouds and, at the same time (through the Latin ambulabamus), the notion of us ambling in the night.' In his introduction, Lord talks about the many uses of the stars and clouds in the book: On t he back there is also the constellation of the Great B ear, whose pattern is echoed in the arrangement of the sigla. Hovering abo ve are Joyce's sigla - the symbols he used to indicate the c haracters. Sliding the book out of its case reveals a night scene, with a full moon and clouds above an endless ocean - where the Liffey pours its water at the end of Fin negans Wake. ![]()
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