- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Citations
- Awakening
- 1 So soft this morning, Ours
- 2 His Reignbolt's Shot
- 3 Respectable
- 4 Nayman of Noland
- 5 Crossmess parzel
- 6 Life's Robulous Rebus
- 7 Three score and ten toptypsical readings
- 8 The Hubbub Caused in Edenborough
- 9 The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to Warrant our Certitude
- 10 Everybody Heard their Plaint
- 11 Tell Me More
- 12 Loud, Heap Miseries upon us
- 13 The tasks Above are as the Flasks below
- 14 From Liff Away
- 15 The Four of Us and Sure, Thank God, There are No More of Us
- 16 A Picture Primitive
- 17 Lightbreakfastbringer
- 18 Arise, Sir Ghoscus!
- 19 Male and Female Unmask We Hem
- 20 The Keys to. Given!
- 21 Aisy Now, You Decent Man
- Index of Passages
- Index of Names
Three score and ten toptypsical readings
Three score and ten toptypsical readings
- Chapter:
- (p.63) 7 Three score and ten toptypsical readings
- Source:
- Joyce's Kaleidoscope
- Author(s):
Philip Kitcher
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Three score and ten, according to one of Joyce's sources for the Wake, is the span allotted for a human life. If each word of the book is supposed to carry “three score and ten toptypsical readings”, then surely the multiplicity affects the number of possible readings of a life. For the dreamer, the difficulty is to find an identity that will allow for that answer. But how exactly will the question be settled? One of the great themes of the Wake is one's opacity to oneself, the problem of working out what one's deeds or identity. That problem involves some of the same sources of confusion that figure in the attempts to decide how to resolve the conflicts of the voices within oneself.
Keywords: consciousness, life's purpose, Christ, dream, identity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Citations
- Awakening
- 1 So soft this morning, Ours
- 2 His Reignbolt's Shot
- 3 Respectable
- 4 Nayman of Noland
- 5 Crossmess parzel
- 6 Life's Robulous Rebus
- 7 Three score and ten toptypsical readings
- 8 The Hubbub Caused in Edenborough
- 9 The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to Warrant our Certitude
- 10 Everybody Heard their Plaint
- 11 Tell Me More
- 12 Loud, Heap Miseries upon us
- 13 The tasks Above are as the Flasks below
- 14 From Liff Away
- 15 The Four of Us and Sure, Thank God, There are No More of Us
- 16 A Picture Primitive
- 17 Lightbreakfastbringer
- 18 Arise, Sir Ghoscus!
- 19 Male and Female Unmask We Hem
- 20 The Keys to. Given!
- 21 Aisy Now, You Decent Man
- Index of Passages
- Index of Names
