Gemini.Finnegans.Wake.29
And the prankquean nipped a play one and lit up again and redcocks flew flackering from the hillcombs. And she made her wittr before the wicked saying: Mark the Twy, why do I am alook alike two poss of porterpease? And: Shut! says the widked, handwording her madesty. So her madesty a ‘forethought set down a jiminy and took up a jiminy and all the lilipath ways to Woeman’s Land she rain, rain, rain.
This paragraph describes the second act in the fable of the Jarl and the prankquean. It’s a direct repetition and escalation of her first raid, reinforcing the story’s cyclical nature.
The Second Raid
The prankquean returns and the commotion begins all over again: she lit up again and redcocks flew flackering from the hillcombs. Once more, her presence sets the world on fire.
She approaches the Jarl’s door and repeats her challenge, but this time it’s doubled. She asks the Jarl (Mark the Twy, or “Mark the Two”):
…why do I am alook alike two poss of porterpease?
The riddle now involves two pots of peas. The challenge has escalated.
The Swap
The Jarl’s response is exactly the same: he rejects her, and the door is slammed Shut!.
The prankquean’s reaction, however, is a mirror image of her first raid. This time, with premeditation (a 'forethought), she executes a swap:
…set down a jiminy and took up a jiminy…
She drops off the first twin, the newly educated and rebellious Tristopher (Shem), and kidnaps the second twin, the conformist Hilary (Shaun). She then runs off with him down the lilipath ways to Woeman's Land for his own period of transformation.
This act of swapping the twins is crucial. It establishes that the story is a repeating cycle. The prankquean, as the disruptive and creative female force, ensures that both brothers—the artist and the man of action—are subjected to her influence. Neither side is allowed to remain static; both must be educated and transformed by her power.
28/08/2025, P.22.09, to be continued.