"Crashedafar Corumbas!"

(512.7-514.6)  The old man begins today's reading by correctly guessing that the "liffey" that was getting the life squeezed out of it at the end of yesterday's reading was ALP, "Annabella, Loveabella, Pullabella" and the "musked bell of this masked ball!"  HCE caught her eye there and converted her to his "herreraism."  Shaun spends much of today's reading agreeing with what the old man says, in a sense turning the tables for a moment.

Shaun says that the night occurred in 1132 AD ("Amnis Dominae . . . .  A laughin hunter and Purty Sue.").  He also confirms a roll call of incarnations of central figures from the Wake who were also in attendance at the ball/wedding:  Jorn (Shaun); Jambs (Shem, who, as McHugh notes, dances crazily in the manner that Joyce did when drunk); Lillabil Issabil (Isabel); the "quobus quartet," Normand, Desmond, Osmund, and Kenneth (the four old men); and the "twelve-podestalled table," (the twelve members of the jury).  The scene at the ball, Shaun says, was quite the sight:  "All our stakes they were astumbling round the ranky roars assumbling when Big Arthur flugged the field at Annie's courting."