Gemini.Finnegans.Wake.32

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And he clopped his rude hand to his eacy hitch and he ordurd and his thick spch spck for her to shut up shop, dappy. And the duppy shot the shutter clup (Perkodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurthrumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun!) And they all drank free. For one man in his armour was a fat match always for any girls under shurts. And that was the first peace of illiteratise porthery in all the flamend floody flatuous world. How kirssy the titler made a sweet unclose to the Narwhealian captol. Saw fore shalt thou sea. Betoun ye and be. The prankquean was to hold her dummyship and the jimminies was to keep the peacewave and van Hoother was to git the wind up. Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis.

This paragraph describes the climax of the confrontation between the Jarl and the prankquean, which ends not with a battle, but with a thunderous slam and the establishment of a new, uneasy peace.

The Confrontation and the Thunder

The furious Jarl, stuttering with rage (his thick spch spck), confronts the prankquean and orders her to shut up shop.

In response, the prankquean (the duppy, or ghost) slams the shutter of the door. This action is accompanied by the book’s second massive “thunderword”:

(Perkodhuskurunbarggruauyagokgorlayorgromgremmitghundhurthrumathunaradidillifaititillibumullunukkunun!)

Like the first thunderword that signaled the Fall, this 101-letter word is a cosmic sound made from words for “thunder” in many languages. It represents the final, powerful, door-slamming act that ends the conflict and rings in a new era.

The Truce

After this climactic noise, the tension breaks. The resolution is simple and quintessentially Dublin: And they all drank free. The conflict is over, and a truce is sealed with a round of drinks.

This new agreement is described as the first peace of illiteratise porthery—an unwritten, “illiterate” piece of folk poetry, not a formal, written treaty.

The Terms of the New Order

The paragraph concludes by laying out the terms of this new peace, which defines the roles for all the characters going forward:

  • The Prankquean: was to hold her dummyship (She must be quiet and stop her pranks).
  • The Twins (jimminies): was to keep the peacewave (They must keep the peace).
  • The Jarl (van Hoother): was to git the wind up (He must be put on edge, made nervous and alert).

This is the new status quo. The Jarl’s absolute, isolated authority has been broken. He must now live in a state of unease, while the female disruptor and the children are bound to maintain a tense peace. The final line celebrates this new, complex balance of power as a civic good: Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis (The wholeness of the citizen makes the whole city happy). The chaotic family has become a society.

31/08/2025, P23.15, to be continued.