THIRD CENSUS OF FINNEGANS WAKE xxxiii 
Hall." Finnegan and HCE are inextricably confused, and to one individual
is attributed the fall at the Magazine Wall and Wellington's destruction
by the three soldiers. HCE is accused of being a stranger, of hetero- and
homosexual offenses, sharp business practices, attempts to civilize the Irish.
The Ballad sentences him to jail, his wife, death, no rising. 
 
BOOK I, section iii (48—74) "Goat" 
 
 In section ii rumor raced round Dublin through what is (or seems to be)
space that is not cluttered or tricky. Now in iii rumor moves crooked through
mists of time—syntax foggy, weather precipitating, nothing so easily
lost as identity. Section iii rehabilitates and sentimentalizes HCE, perhaps
with special reference to the foggy thinking that accompanied the rehabilitation
of heroes by Celtic twilighters. Section iii ends on a note, precisely the
opposite of that at the end of u—our ancestor Everyman (q.v.) sleeps,
is not dead, will rise one day to answer God's call. Human nature is prone
to sentimentality as to scapegoating and counts itself lucky when able to
entertain sentimental regard for the scapegoat. An HCE even partially forgiven,
necessitates finding another scapegoat. Who caused HCE to fall? Who threw
those stones? Was the good man's enemy male or female? 
 
48.1—57.29 
 
 Those who presented Hosty's ballad were a theatrical troupe, later to act
in "The Mime." They disappear or come to bad ends, all but one who recreates
the encounter of HCE and cad for three truant schoolboys. Although "the unfacts
did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude," there
are many readings of HCE's role, and he is exhibited in wax and in the "notional
gullery." Public opinion continues to judge him. 
 
57.30—69.29 
 
 Individual judgments are taken from representative Dubliners. (They are
those who threw stones at HCE in I, u—see 62.20—25; they are
those on whom HCE's wife has revenge later on—see 210-212.) Their notions
of the case are dissimilar, but their general verdict is "human, erring,
condonable," meaning HCE was more sinned against than sinning, but all the
same—Guilty. 
 The first judgment is that of the three soldiers who say HCE was souped
by two girls (58.23—29); the last is that of two girls who say three
soldiers were behind it all (61.25—27). Male and female views are hereafter
offered turn and turn about, till woman has the last word 
(69.5—74.19).