"The abnihilisation of the etym"

(353.6-355.7)  Today concludes the Butt-Taff dialogue in nice Wakeian fashion.  Butt, responding to Taff's previous sort of awe-inspired doubt about whether Butt actually did shoot the Russian General, says, "Yastar!  In sabre tooth and sobre saviles!"  He explains that he once again saw the general about to defecate on the Irish soil.  He watched the general "beheaving up that sob of tunf for to slaimhis, for to wollpimsolff" (pulling up a piece of soil to both claim the land for his own and to wipe his backside), and, seeing this "instullt," he "gave one dobblenotch and I upps with my crozzier," shooting the general.

The final interruption to the Butt-Taff dialogue now appears.  This interruption likens the shooting of the Russian General (or the son (Butt-Shaun) overtaking the father (the general-HCE)) to the "abnihilisation of the etym" -- the nuclear explosion generated by the annihilation of the atom, or the consciousness-shattering act of erasing the Word.  The fallout of this action spreads across the continents, and Joyce prophetically (remember, the Wake was published in 1939) foresees "perceivable moletons skaping with mulicules" in London ("Pinkadindy," or Piccadilly) and Hawaii ("Hullulullu," or Honolulu) two sites of bombings during World War II.

Returning to the dialogue, Taff hears a noise upstairs and wonders what the commotion is ("Wharall thubulbs uptheaires!  Shattamovick?").  The stage notes have Butt becoming faint upon hearing this noise, and he replies, "Shurenoff!  Like Faun MacGhoul!"  Apparently, the spirit -- or the reincarnation -- of the Russian General is back to haunt Butt.  

At this point, Butt and Taff merge together.  They shake hands and make peace between themselves.  Speaking in unison, they recall the times when "old the wormd was a gadden" (or the times of Eden when all the world was a garden) when "samuraised twimbs" (Cain and Abel, or Shaun and Shem, or Butt and Taff) were born.  With the reincarnation of the Russian General, the world has returned to that state.  The general will "be buying buys and go gulling gells with his flossim and jessim of carm, silk and honey" while Butt and Taff are "playing lancifer lucifug and what's duff as a bettle."  They will do so until the time to overthrow the "father" comes again:  "So till butagain budly shoots thon rising germinal let bodley chow the fatt of his anger and badley bide the toil of his tubb."

The passage concludes with a final bit of stage notes, which indicate that "[t]he pump and pipe pingers are ideally reconstituted."  We've returned to the beginning of Vico's cycle, and the viewers of the Butt-Taff play are left to figure out where things stand.