Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Circe/456

thumb|600px|center|page=459 Annotations Gaudium magnum annuntio vobis. Habemus carnificem5(Latin) A great joy I announce to you. We have an executioner. This is a corruption of the opening lines of the traditional formula known as Habemus Papam which is uttered by the Senior Cardinal Deacon to announce the election of a new Pope: Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Papam! (I announce to you a great joy: We have a Pope!).Gifford (1988) 474.Thornton (1968) 376. Gifford cites Habemus pontificem (We have a Pontiff) as the correct form, which is closer to Joyce's Habemus carnificem. This form is supported by a contemporary account of the election of Pope Pius X in 1903.A Pilgrimage to See the Holy Father, Pope Pius X 1904 Underwood & Underwood New York and London 31–32 http://www.archive.org/stream/apilgrimagetosee00unknuoft#page/30/mode/2up Copula Felix5(Latin) Fertile Coupling.Gifford (1988) 474.Thornton (1968) 376. Thornton sees this as an allusion to felix culpa (happy fall) in the Exultet, from which Stephen quoted earlier in the day; see 050.04-05. References Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesPreceding Page | Page Index | Next Page