part0016

James Joyce died on 13 January 1941 and was buried in the section of Flutern cemetery that borders the lion house in the adjoining Tiergarten [zoo]. Nora said later that he loved to listen to the lions roar when alive and she hoped he could still hear them.

Schrödinger's Cat is dead and alive at the same time, just like Tim Finnegan.

Brother Lion in the ballad of the Signifying Monkey receives what are the ultimate insults and threats in Macho society: "He says he fucked your mammy and your auntie, too / And if you ain't careful, he's gonna fuck you."

In FW , the ambiguous Marcus Lyons combines the evangelist Mark, the lion in Ezekial's vision, the element of fire. King Mark who is cuckolded by Tristan, and Mark Twain who wrote of Finn, again. Four seagulls torment poor Mark with reports on his wife's infidelities in chapter four of book two, and these seagulls utter "three quarks" which later found their way into quantum mechanics.

Leopold Bloom in Ulysses also seems to have a lion in his name (Leo) and Joyce was born in a house called Leoville, which had two lions on the gatepost.

Although Joyce could not have foreseen it, a recent biographical novel about Brian Boru is called LION OF IRELAND.

Neither Bloom nor Earwicker own dogs, but they each own a cat.

Henry James, who started writing relativistic novels even before Joyce (and even before Einstein!) seems to be mentioned in FW a few times—but everybody with a "James" in his name was considered worthy of mention by Joyce. ("I don't know if he was in love with me or my name," James Stephens remarked once.) "Enwreak us wrecks" on FW page 546 seems to combine Henry James, Henry II, and Oedipus Rex. Henry II or in the Latin of his own day Enricus Rex authorized the first British invasion of Ireland on 23 August 1170, which makes another interesting coincidence: foreign dominion of Ireland (by the Danes) ended on 23 April 1014 with Brian Boru's victory at Clontarf and foreign dominion of Ireland (by the British) began again on 23 August 1170.

Henry II was the husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose contributions to European paganism and occultism are a major theme in Pound's Cantos. Pound was a friend of both Henry James and James Joyce.

Because of Pound's help in getting Ulysses published, Joyce decided there was profound occult meaning in the fact that Pound's father was named Homer.

It is only a coincidence, of course, that there is a celebrated film about the troubled marriage of Henry II and Eleanor, and that this movie is called The Lion in Winter.