Editing Finnegans Wake (section)

=== Part IV ===
{{quote box|width=23em|'''1''': The waking and resurrection of [HCE]; '''2''': the sunrise; '''3''': the conflict of night and day; '''4''': the attempt to ascertain the correct time; '''5''': the terminal point of the regressive time and the [Shaun] figure of Part III; '''6''': the victory of day over night; '''7''': the letter and monologue of [ALP]|source= –Roland McHugh's summary of the events of Part IV<ref>McHugh, ''The Sigla of ''Finnegans Wake''' p. 106'''</ref>}}
Part IV consists of only one chapter, which, like the book's opening chapter, is mostly composed of a series of seemingly unrelated [[Vignette (literature)|vignettes]]. After an opening call for dawn to break,<ref>"Calling all downs to dayne" and "Calling all daynes to dawn"; Joyce 1939, [https://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-593 .htm p. 593, lines 2 and 11], respectively {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> the remainder of the chapter consists of the vignettes "Saint Kevin", "Berkely and Patrick" and "The Revered Letter".<ref>Joyce gave some hint of the intention behind the three separate episodes in conversation with [[Frank Budgen]]: "In Part IV there is in fact a [[triptych]] – though the central window is scarcely illuminated. Namely the supposed windows of the village church gradually lit up by the dawn, the windows, i.e., representing on one side the meeting of [[Saint Patrick|St Patrick]] (Japanese) & the (Chinese) Archdruid Bulkely (this by the way is all about colour) & the legend of the progressive isolation of [[Kevin of Glendalough|St Kevin]], the third being [[Lorcán Ua Tuathail|St Lawrence O’Toole]], patron saint of Dublin; buried in Eu in Normandy." quoted in McHugh, ''Annotations to Finnegans Wake: Third Edition'', p.613</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/fwake/short17.html#five|title=Finnegans Wake chapter 17 review|access-date=19 November 2007|publisher=Robot Wisdom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031033827/http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/fwake/short17.html#five|archive-date=31 October 2007|url-status=usurped}}</ref> ALP is given the final word, as the book closes on a version of her Letter<ref>Joyce 1939, [https://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-615.htm pp. 615–619] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209060558/http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-615.htm |date=9 December 2008 }}; critics disagree on whether this is the definitive version of The Letter which has been discussed throughout, or merely another variation of it</ref> and her final long monologue, in which she tries to wake her sleeping husband, declaring "Rise up, man of the hooths, you have slept so long!",<ref>Joyce 1939, [https://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-619.htm p. 619] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209060618/http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-619.htm |date=9 December 2008 }}</ref> and remembers a walk they once took, and hopes for its re-occurrence. At the close of her monologue, ALP – as the river Liffey – disappears at dawn into the ocean. The book's last words are a fragment, but they can be turned into a complete sentence by attaching them to the words that start the book: <blockquote>A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.</blockquote>