"we are waiting"

(609.9-611.2)  Also witnessing the journey with us has been the four old men's ass, which will be roaming about the city.  All will occupy Wynn's Hotel, which will open shortly, when the sun has risen and given "to every seeable a hue and to every hearable a cry and to each spectacle his spot and to each happening her houram."  In the mean time, we are waiting for "Hymn."

Most of the remainder of today's reading consists of a dialogue between two figures, Muta and Juva (who link back to Mutt and Jute from near the Wake's beginning).  These two see smoke rising in the distance, smoke that both indicates the awakening at HCE's home and the arrival of another outsider, St. Patrick (here both "the Chrystanthemlander" and "the Eurasian Generalissimo").  Patrick stands in opposition to Bulkily (the Buckley to Patrick's Russian General), who is "fundementially theosophagusted over the whorse proceedings."  Also present is the resurrected king (who comes from "undernearth the memorialorum").  A contest between St. Patrick and Bulkily is about to begin, and the king is betting on both sides:  "He has help his crewn on the burkely buy but he has holf his crown on the Eurasian Generalissimo," Juva says.

As Tindall notes, Muta and Juva reach an understanding through their dialogue (as opposed to Mutt and Jute, who are unable to communicate with each other).  Muta suggests that the impending contest illustrates that

when we shall have acquired unification we shall pass on to diversity and when we shall have passed on to diversity we shall have acquired the instinct of combat and when we shall have acquired the instinct of combat we shall pass back to the spirit of appeasement.

Juva agrees, adding, "By the light of the bright reason which daysends to us from the high."  What Muta argues is that when we are unified, we'll find differences between ourselves, which will cause us to battle each other, but in battling, we will eventually reach peace.  This is the constant dialectic between both the brothers throughout the Wake and throughout history:  peace leads to war, which leads back to peace.  By means of emphasizing this idea, the peaceful end of this dialogue is jarred with a single-word paragraph:  "Shoot."

The reading ends with a description of another horse race.  As the racing happens, the narrator tells us that "Paddrock and bookley chat."  The substance of that debate will appear in tomorrow's passage.