"Ere we are!"

(597.24-599.24)  A beam of light (a "shaft of shivery in the act") appears at the beginning of today's reading, ready to light the new day for HCE, the "sleeper awakening."  The day finds humanity refreshed ("Humid nature is feeling itself freely at ease with the all fresco.") and newly enlightened ("You have eaden fruit.").  As "day, slow day" arrives, the narrator bids yesterday farewell and welcomes the morning.

"There is something supernoctural about whatever you called him it," the narrator says, and we learn that the HCE of today may not necessarily be the HCE of yesterday:  "This-utter followis that odder fellow.  Himkim kimkim."  (As my secondary sources explain, Shaun, in one sense, is this new HCE that is rising as the young generation replaces the old at the end of the cycle.)  The hours of the era of "Grossguy and Littlelady," or HCE and ALP, are passing away.  

The new generation will follow the "pfath they pfunded," and at the end of today's reading the narrator explains in clearer (for the Wake), if overly formal, language that this is how things go in the cycle of humanity, and although "solid and fluid" (the permanent forms of the archetypal family) have "to a great extent persisted," we have passed through Vico's stages.  

At least one of the narrator's listeners is unimpressed, though.  "Gam on, Gearge!" the bumpkin says.  "Nomomorphemy for me!"  He thinks the narrator is just suffering from some indigestion (perhaps intellectual constipation), and reminds us all that "[t]here's a tavarn in the tarn" (taking us back, appropriately, to HCE's pub).