Coo! The Holy Pigeon

“But Joyce was Campbell’s guide, just as he’s the guide to quantum mechanics in many senses.

Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize winner, got his three-quark model out of FW.

The three quarks are the three major characters in FW: the two twins who are opposite, and the third who was both twins combined and still a third independent character.

To understand thoughts like two twins who are the opposite of a third who combines both twins together, you’ve got to think in a Taoist way.

Like the joke: how many Zen masters does it take to change a light bulb?

Two: one to change it, and one to not change it.

Well that’s the logic of the Sham-Ham-Japheth relationship in FW, which is also the Bacon-Shakespeare-Raleigh relationship and the Tom-Dick-and-Harry and the many other types of trilogies in the human mind, including the Holy Trinity and Dogfather-Dogson-and-Co, which sounds like an English company name, but it’s actually Charlles Dodgson - Lewis Carroll - the two twins who are opposite, Charles Dodgson the logician and Lewis Carroll the fantasist are united in one body: a certain man, who was Dodgson part of the time and Carroll part of the time, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

He wrote treatises on the pure mathematical foundations of logic with one part of his mind and he wrote “Alice in Wonderland” with the other part.

So Dogfather-Dogson-and-Co is Dodgson divided up into three parts, like the holy trinity - the Father, the Son, and - Coo! - the Holy Pigeon.”