The first time occurs with the tour of the history of the museyroom endding with the gnarlybird pecking. This summons a number of images, the most prominent being Christ on the cross. The overall image is that of the woman who comes to attend to, console and salvage after the damage and destruction wrought by worldly male processes. This theme is re-echoed throughout Finnegans Wake and is in many ways its main theme. This passage reflects that the crusader and the hen are ever complimentarily intertwined in the functions they perform of feel, fall, sift, rebuild.
Wake occurs soon after the gnarlybird passage.
The discussion of the allaphbed appears to chronicle the rise of the alphabet following the Fall and the naming of things. Here say figurines billycoose arming and mounting. This theme is that though the cycle of history recurs again and again, this recourso is natural, life still goes on and we can tell about it, write about it, make history, and that retelling is intimately involved in the process of recreating life anew. The movibles are scrawling in motions, marching, all of them ago, in pitpat and zingzang for every busy eerie whig's a bit of a torytale to tell. The narrator is emphasizing that there is a pen in the reader's hand and that it moves of its own accord, making scribbly motions for there is a story to be told.