• RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
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    10 months ago

    ‘Church of the Immaculate Conception’ also known as Adam and Eve’s is a Roman Catholic church run by the Franciscans and it is located on Merchants Quay, Dublin.

     

    Opening sentence of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake:
    'riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

     

    “You Lucky One” song lyrics:

    You've been off the grid; cutting your teeth
    Supposedly composing your masterpiece
    If you give good copy then I'll cut you some slack
    But you better remember when it all comes back
    And you're lying on the corner of Merchant's Quay
    Telling the world how it's meant to be
    Well I'll pick you up and I'll take you on
    I promise you, you lucky one
    
    

     

    These lyrics also seem relevant of metaphors of Wake:

    Take me back to the start, before the lot
    Were you always aware of the gift you've got?
    Were you wandering lost outside of the norm?
    Am I getting the gist? Am I getting warm?