"So post that to your pape and smarket!"

(296.8-298.6)  Yesterday's reading ended with the "bad" son Dolph taking point P in the figure (pictured in this post), which being the place brought low by "Pride," also stands for Hell.  Today's reading begins with the "good" son Kevin taking point π, which is the highest point -- the "apexojesus" -- that also stands for Heaven.  From his position below, Dolph (aka Nick) calls up to his brother:  "Are you right there, Michael, are you right?  Do you think you can hold on by sitting tight?  Well, of course, it's awful angelous.  Still I don't feel it's so dangelous."  In response, Kevin (aka Mick) calls down to Dolph that he's alright:  "Ay, I'm right here, Nickel, and I'll write.  Singing the top line why it suits me mikey fine."  (Also notable here is Kevin's utterance of the word "hogwarts," which I recognize as Harry Potter's school, even though I've never read those books or seen the movies.  I wonder if J.K. Rowling got the name from the Wake?)

With the brothers' places above and below established, Dolph goes on to complete the figure, or "to compleat anglers."  He draws a dotted line from A to P and L to P, and a solid line from L to
π and from π to A.  With his work complete, Dolph says, "Innate little bondery.  And as plane as a poke stiff."  (McHugh notes that "pikestaff" is slang for "penis," which explains Isabel's footnote that reads, "The impudence of that in girl's things!")

Now that the figure is constructed, Dolph explains its significance and tells Kevin that he'll help him to "see figuratleavely the whome of your eternal geomater."  In other words, Dolph's using the figure to take the fig leaf away from the womb of their mother, which is the font of creation.  Dolph carefully lifts up the "maidsapron" of ALP until the part covering point P (the "nether nadir" that corresponds with her vagina) is brought up to point π (the "naval's napex" that corresponds with her navel).  With the skirt lifted, the two brothers peek underneath it.  Dolph tells Kevin to approach near him because it's dark underneath and has him light a match so they can see.  

What they do see is "the living spit of dead waters," which is "distinct and isoplural in its . . . sixuous parts, flument, fluvey and fluteous."  Dolph goes on to say that this is the "midden wedge of the stream's your muddy old triagonal delta, fiho miho, plain for you now, appia lippia pluvaville . . . the no niggard spot of her safety vulve."  It becomes pretty clear that the brothers are looking at ALP's vulva, the wet delta of her reproductive organs.  Speaking in winking terms, Dolph says, "You see her it" (with McHugh noting that "it" is slang for "cunt").  Proud of what he's revealed, Dolph concludes today's reading by saying, "Quicks herit fossyending," which, McHugh notes, in part stands for the Latin "quod erat faciendum," which translates to "which was to be done" and in abbreviated form is the "Q.E.F." that appears after problems in Euclidean geometry.

No doubt, we'll have more bawdy Joycean stuff tomorrow.