![]() Gibbon: “The act of Marcus Aurelius, in handing over the civilized world to the mercy of the young savage whom he believed to be his son, resulted in more misery than any other crime recorded in human annals.” (Note: according to McHugh, but not the “Selected Variants” of the Oxford FW, the word should be “commodious,” which would underscore Commodus’s odiousness. (Dramatic license: their deaths were years apart.) A Royal Divorce was a hugely popular play in the Dublin of Joyce’s time and later see notes to the report of its performance near the beginning of I.2.ģ.2: “us:” continues first-person plural narrator (“we,” “us” (628.12, 13)) of last pageģ.2: “commodius:” Gibbon (and others) date the beginning of Rome’s decline and fall (see “The fall” at. Also, spawning salmon are typically said to be “running” upriver, and in some places this is called a “run” named after the river in question, for instance the “Columbia River Run.” Also, as Guy Davenport notes in Every Force Evolves a Form, French riverain, “riverside,” is “a quotation from Napoleon’s will,” “asking that he be buried near the banks of the Seine, as he is, in the Invalides church.” Much of the last page of FW, leading to this first word, is based on the finale of A Royal Divorce: the dying Josephine, in France, telepathically addressing the simultaneously dying Napoleon, on St. ![]() ![]() As an Anglican dean, Jonathan Swift would have been addressed as "Reverend," or some version.) Also, “river run:” a pre- FW term meaning either the natural course of a river or of a voyage taken on it. (Some other candidates: French reverrons (we’ll see, or meet, again) French r ê vrons (we will dream) German erinnerung (memory: echoing “mememormee” (628.14)) “Reverend,” in some versions the beginning of the FW letter. river: French for “to join.” FW is a book of “Doublends Jined” (20.16).
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