Gemini.Finnegans.Wake.30

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And Jarl von Hoother bleethered atter her with a loud finegale: Stop dumb stop come back with my earring stop. But the prankquean swaradid: Am like it. And there was a wild ould grannewwail that laurency night of starshootings somewhere in Erio. And the prankquean went for her forty years’ walk in Turnlemeem and she punched the curses of cromcruwell with the nail of a top into the jiminy and she had her four larksical monitrix to touch him his tears and she provorted him to the onecertain allsecure and he became a tristian.

This paragraph describes the aftermath of the second kidnapping, focusing on the Jarl’s weakened response and the transformative “re-education” of the second twin, Hilary.

The Jarl’s Weakened Cry

The Jarl’s reaction to this second abduction is much weaker than the first. He no longer sends a powerful “wireless” but merely bleethered (bleated like a sheep) after her. His telegraphed message is confused, demanding she come back with my earring stop, mixing up his heir with a piece of jewelry.

The prankquean’s reply is short, defiant, and self-satisfied: Am like it. She is in complete control.

The Reversal of the Twins

The core of the paragraph describes the education of the second twin, Hilary (who represents Shaun). It’s a mirror image of what happened to the first twin, Tristopher, but with a reversed outcome.

  • Tristopher (the sad twin) was educated by “four old masters” and became a luderman (a Lutheran), a rebellious freethinker.
  • Hilary (the happy twin) is now taken by four larksical monitrix (four female teachers). They don’t cleanse him; they punched the curses of cromcruwell into him—the bloody history of Cromwell and pagan idols. He is converted not to rebellion but to the onecertain allsecure, a rigid and secure dogma.

The final transformation is a complete reversal of his nature. Hilary, the cheerful one, is taught sorrow (his tears), and…

…he became a tristian.

He is turned into a Tristan, the archetypal sad hero.

The prankquean’s actions are now complete. She has taken the two opposing brothers and reversed their personalities. The sad one was made a rebel, and the happy one has been made sad. This great reversal is what fuels their eternal, dynamic conflict for the rest of the book.

29/08/2025, P.22.17, to be continued.