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riverrun : liv amhrán: ( L/R split ) Liv ( Livy, Vico's "first loved" historian; Anna Livia Plurabelle; Lucia Joyce ) + Irish "sing".

riverrun, past Eve: "liv amhrán, pa! son of Stephen". Illiad: "Achilles sing, O Goddess! Peleus' son" ( Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληιάδεω Ἀχιλῆος )

Next epic opening: "Of the first was he to bare arms and a name" ( Aeneid )

Livy amhrán, past even atoms ( Livy was born after De Rerum Natura ) ( see clinamen )
( Joyce wrote the Wake past Rutherford, i.e. past even atoms http://duszenko.northern.edu/joyce/catalog/main.html )

Lucia amhrán, pa Steve and a dam ( Nora )

riverrun, past Pa ( Leopold Bloom ), Steve ( Stephen Dedalus ) and a dam ( Molly Bloom ) ( past Ulysses )

riverrun, (the river ran out of Eden, Genesis 2) past Eve and Adams (the franciscan church. St. Francis had a epiphany)

Reverend ( Jonathan Swift ), past eve and adams...


DRAMATIS PERSONAE

( Reverend ) LIV, amhrán ... ( EVE )

SIR TRISTRAM, violer ... ( ADAM )

,from swerve ... bay, bRINGs ... Environs.
,fr'over ... sea, HAD ... aquaface.

HAD pa's encore - heart ( cor ), neck ( scrag ) - birth - l'eta degli dei
HAD testicles ( rock ), knees - marriage - l'eta degli eroi
HAD anus ( after ), butt ( buttock ) - death - l'eta degli uomini
HAD brow , face - ricorso

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