"Impoverment of the booble by the bauble for the bubble."

(272.9-274.12)  Well, the heavy lifting I did Friday trying to make any sense out of the previous passage at the very least helped prepare me better for today's reading.  While Friday's excerpt, as I read it, looked backward from ancient history to the beginning of existence, today's reading seems to go in the opposite direction, from more recent history toward the future.  In addition, rather than focus purely on history, today's passage also incorporates elements of politics and sociology (this is Shem's "PANOPTICAL PURVIEW OF POLITICAL PROGRESS AND THE FUTURE PRESENTATION OF THE PAST"), perhaps indicating that we've moved on to a different subject of the children's studies.

The lecturer asks the reader to "[p]lease stop if you're a B.C. minding missy, please do."  But the reader is encouraged to go forward if interested in more recent history:  "But should you prefer A.D. stepplease."  While the reader was busy putting "your twofootlarge timepates in that dead wash of Lough Murph" (perhaps resting in a watery grave like the dead HCE), a political shift has occurred:  "the same Messherrn the grinning statesmen, Brock and Leon, have shunted the grumbling coundedouts, Starlin and Ser Artur Ghinis."  (As McHugh notes, Joyce's father was a political secretary during the 1880 general election in which Brooks and Lyons, the Liberal candidates, ousted Stirling and Sir Arthur Guinness from power.)  This has returned us to the natural order of war ("Bull igien bear and then bearagain bulligan."), with the war being more of the political, rather than physical, variety.  Indeed, it's a type of class war:  "Opprimor's [the oppressed] down, up up Opima [the rich]!  Rents and rates and tithes and taxes, wages, saves and spends."  In a distortion of Abraham Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people," we get "Impovernment of the booble by the bauble for the bubble."

But even though the leader has fallen, "there's one more ope for downfall ned."  As when HCE fell and left ALP to distribute her trinkets, we see "Hanah Levy" winning over the people by distributing her "spoileds" to everyone:  "For hugh and guy and goy and jew.  To dimpled and pimpled and simpled and wimpled."  As ALP does this work, we enter into another version of the Wellington Museum, where we see memorabilia associated with "the muckwits of willesly" (the Marquis of Wellesley, who McHugh notes was Wellington's brother) and "the umproar napollyon" (the emperor Napoleon), including the famous horse and hat we encountered in the first chapter of the Wake.

The passage ends with a consideration of the "allriddle," which the lecturer tells us is "allruddy with us, ahead of schedule."  A figure referred to as Daft Dathy of the Five Positions stands on the Matterhorn challenging Dunderhead (McHugh notes that Dathi was the last pagan king of Ireland and died when lightning struck him in the Alps), and Hannibal mac Hamiltan the Hegerite is "ministerbuilding up . . . in Saint Barmabrac's," seemingly constructing a new Tower of Babel.

This is the abrupt, mid-paragraph conclusion of today's reading.  Tomorrow, we finish this paragraph and read another.