FINNEGANS WAKE
James Joyce
Book II
Chapter 2
| As we there are where are we are we there | UNDE ET UBI. | |
| from tomtittot to teetootomtotalitarian. Tea | ||
| tea too oo. | ||
| With his broad | Whom will comes over. Who to caps ever. | SIC. |
| and hairy face, | And howelse do we hook our hike to find that | |
| to Ireland a | pint of porter place? Am shot, says the big- | |
| disgrace. | guard.1 | |
| Whence. Quick lunch by our left, wheel, | IMAGINABLE | |
| Menly about | to where. Long Livius Lane, mid Mezzofanti | ITINERARY |
| peebles. | Mall, diagonising Lavatery Square, up Tycho | THROUGH |
| Brache Crescent,2 shouldering Berkeley Alley, | THE | |
| Don't retch meat | querfixing Gainsborough Carfax, under Guido | PARTICULAR |
| fat salt lard | d'Arezzo's Gadeway, by New Livius Lane till | UNIVERSAL. |
| sinks down (and | where we whiled while we whithered. Old | |
| out). | Vico Roundpoint. But fahr, be fear! And | |
| natural, simple, slavish, filial. The marriage of | ||
| Montan wetting his moll we know, like any | ||
| enthewsyass cuckling a hoyden 3 in her rougey | ||
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| gipsylike chinkaminx pulshandjupeyjade and | ||
| her petsybluse indecked o' voylets.1 When | ||
| who was wist was ware. En elv, et fjaell. And | ||
| the whirr of the whins humming us howe. | ||
| His hume. Hencetaking tides we haply return, | ||
| trumpeted by prawns and ensigned with sea- | ||
| kale, to befinding ourself when old is said in | ||
| one and maker mates with made (O my!), | ||
| having conned the cones and meditated the | ||
| mured and pondered the pensils and ogled the | ||
| olymp and delighted in her dianaphous and | ||
| cacchinated behind his culosses, before a | ||
| Swiney Tod, ye | mosoleum. Length Withought Breath, of him, | |
| Daimon Barbar! | a chump of the evums, upshoot of picnic or | |
| stupor out of sopor, Cave of Kids or Hyma- | ||
| nian Glattstoneburg, denary, danery, donnery, | ||
| Dig him in the | domm, who, entiringly as he continues highly- | |
| rubsh! | fictional, tumulous under his chthonic exterior | |
| Ungodly old Ard- | but plain Mr Tumulty in muftilife,2 in his an- | |
| rey, Cronwall | tisipiences as in his recognisances, is, (Dominic | |
| beeswaxing the | Directus) a manyfeast munificent more mob | |
| convulsion box. | than man. | |
| Ainsoph,3 this upright one, with that | CONSTITU- | |
| noughty besighed him zeroine. To see in his | TION OF THE | |
| horrorscup he is mehrkurios than saltz of | CONSTITU- | |
| sulphur. Terror of the noonstruck by day, | TIONABLE AS | |
| cryptogam of each nightly bridable. But, to | CONSTITU- | |
| speak broken heaventalk, is he? Who is he? | TIONAL. | |
| Whose is he? Why is he? Howmuch is he? | ||
| Which is he? When is he? Where is he?4 How | ||
| is he? And what the decans is there about him | ||
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| anyway, the decemt man? Easy, calm your | ||
| haste! Approach to lead our passage! | ||
| This bridge is upper. | PROBA- | |
| Cross. | POSSIBLE | |
| Thus come to castle. | PROLEGO- | |
| Knock.1 | MENA TO | |
| A password, thanks. | IDEAREAL | |
| Yes, pearse. | HISTORY. | |
| Well, all be dumbed! | ||
| O really? 2 | ||
| Swing the banjo, | Hoo cavedin earthwight | |
| bantams, bounce- | At furscht kracht of thunder. 3 | |
| the-baller's | When shoo, his flutterby, | |
| blown to fook. | Was netted and named.4 | |
| Thsight near | Erdnacrusha, requiestress, wake em! | |
| left me eyes when | And let luck's puresplutterall lucy at | |
| I seen her put | ease! 5 | |
| thounce otay | To house as wise fool ages builded. | |
| ithpot. | Sow byg eat. 6 | |
| Staplering to tether to, steppingstone to | GNOSIS OF | |
| Quartandwds. | mount by, as the Boote's at Pickardstown. | PRECREATE |
| And that skimmelk steed still in the ground- | DETERMINA- | |
| loftfan. As over all. Or be these wingsets leaned | TION. | |
| to the outwalls, beastskin trophies of booth | AGNOSIS OF | |
| of Baws the balsamboards? 7 Burials be bally- | POSTCREATE | |
| houraised! So let Bacchus e'en call! Inn inn! | DETER- | |
| Tickets for the | Inn inn! Where. The babbers ply the pen. | MINISM. |
| Tailwaggers | The bibbers drang the den. The papplicom, | |
| Terrierpuppy | the pubblicam he's turning tin for ten. From | |
| Raffle. | ||
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| seldomers that most frequent him. That same | ||
| erst crafty hakemouth which under the assumed | ||
| name of Ignotus Loquor, of foggy old, | ||
| harangued bellyhooting fishdrunks on their | ||
| favorite stamping ground, from a father theo- | ||
| balder brake.1 And Egyptus, the incenstrobed, | ||
| Mars speaking. | as Cyrus heard of him? And Major A. Shaw | |
| after he got the miner smellpex? And old | ||
| Whiteman self, the blighty blotchy, beyond | ||
| the bays, hope of ostrogothic and ottomanic | ||
| faith converters, despair of Pandemia's post- | ||
| wartem plastic surgeons? But is was all so | ||
| long ago. Hispano - Cathayan - Euxine, Castil - | ||
| lian - Emeratic - Hebridian, Espanol - Cymric - | ||
| Smith, no home. | Helleniky? Rolf the Ganger, Rough the Gang- | |
| ster, not a feature alike and the face the same.2 | ||
| Pastimes are past times. Now let bygones | ||
| be bei Gunne's. Saaleddies er it in this warken | ||
| werden, mine boerne, and it vild need older- | ||
| wise 3 since primal made alter in garden of | ||
| Idem. The tasks above are as the flasks below, | ||
| saith the emerald canticle of Hermes and all's | ||
| Non quod sed | loth and pleasestir, are we told, on excellent | |
| quiat | inkbottle authority, solarsystemised, seriol- | |
| cosmically, in a more and more almightily | ||
| expanding universe under one, there is rhyme- | ||
| less reason to believe, original sun. Securely | ||
| judges orb terrestrial. 4 Haud certo ergo. But | ||
| Hearasay in | O felicitous culpability, sweet bad cess to you | |
| paradox lust. | for an archetypt! | |
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| Honour commercio's energy yet aid the | ARCHAIC | |
| linkless proud, the plurable with everybody | ZELOTYPIA | |
| and ech with pal, this ernst of Allsap's ale | AND THE | |
| halliday of roaring month with its two lunar | ODIUM TEL- | |
| eclipses and its three saturnine settings! Horn | EOLOGICUM. | |
| of Heatthen, highbrowed! Brook of Life, back- | ||
| frish! Amnios amnium, fluminiculum flami- | ||
| nulinorum! We seek the Blessed One, the | ||
| Harbourer - cum - Enheritance. Even Canaan | ||
| the Hateful. Ever a-going, ever a-coming. | ||
| Between a stare and a sough. Fossilisation, all | ||
| branches.1 Wherefore Petra sware unto Ulma: | ||
| Bags. | By the mortals' frost! And Ulma sware unto | |
| Balls. | Petra: On my veiny life! | |
| In these places sojournemus, where Eblinn | THE LOCALI- | |
| water, leased of carr and fen, leaving amont her | SATION OF | |
| shoals and salmen browses, whom inshore | LEGEND | |
| breezes woo with freshets, windeth to her | LEADING TO | |
| broads. A phantom city, phaked of philim | THE LEGALI- | |
| pholk, bowed and sould for a four of hundreds | SATION OF | |
| of manhood in their three and threescore | LATIFUND- | |
| Move up, | fylkers for a price partitional of twenty six and | ISM. |
| Mackinerny! | six. By this riverside, on our sunnybank,2 how | |
| Make room for | buona the vista, by Santa Rosa! A field of May, | |
| Muckinurney! | the very vale of Spring. Orchards here are | |
| lodged; sainted lawrels evremberried. You | ||
| have a hoig view ashwald, a glen of marrons | ||
| and of thorns. Gleannaulinn, Ardeevin: purty | ||
| glint of plaising height. This Norman court at | ||
| boundary of the ville, yon creepered tower of | ||
| a church of Ereland, meet for true saints in | ||
| worshipful assemblage,3 with our king's house | ||
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| of stone, belgroved of mulbrey, the still that | ||
| was mill and Kloster that was Yeomansland, | ||
| the ghastcold tombshape of the quick fore- | ||
| gone on, the loftleaved elm Lefanunian above- | ||
| mansioned, each, every, all is for the retro- | ||
| spectioner. Skole! Agus skole igen! 1 Sweet- | ||
| some auburn, cometh up as a selfreizing flower, | ||
| that fragolance of the fraisey beds: the phoenix, | ||
| his pyre, is still flaming away with trueprat- | ||
| tight spirit: the wren his nest is niedelig as the | ||
| turrises of the sabines are televisible. Here are | ||
| the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler | ||
| and the brandnewburgher: 2 but Izolde, her | ||
| chaplet gardens, an litlee plads af liefest pose, | ||
| In snowdrop, | arride the winnerful wonders off, the winner- | |
| trou-de-dentelle, | ful wonnerful wanders off, 3 with hedges of | |
| flesh and helio- | ivy and hollywood and bower of mistletoe, | |
| trope. | are, tho if it theem tho and yeth if you | |
| pleathes, 4 for the blithehaired daughter of | ||
| Angoisse. All out of two barreny old perishers, | ||
| Tytonyhands and Vlossyhair, a kilolitre in | ||
| metromyriams. Presepeprosapia, the parent | ||
| bole. Wone tabard, wine tap and warm tavern 5 | ||
| and, by ribbon development, from contact | ||
| bridge to lease lapse, only two millium two | ||
| humbered and eighty thausig nine humbered | ||
| Here's our dozen | and sixty radiolumin lines to the wustworts of | |
| cousins from the | a Finntown's generous poet's office. Distorted | |
| starves on tripes. | mirage, aloofliest of the plain, wherein the | |
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| boxomeness of the bedelias 1 makes hobby- | ||
| hodge happy in his hole. 2 The store and | ||
| charter, Treetown Castle under Lynne. Riva- | ||
| pool? Hod a brieck on it! But its piers eerie, | ||
| its span spooky, its toll but a till, its parapets | ||
| all peripateting. D'Oblong's by his by. Which | ||
| we all pass. Tons. In our snoo. Znore. While | ||
| we hickerwards the thicker. Schein. Schore. | ||
| Which assoars us from the murk of the mythe- | ||
| lated in the barrabelowther, bedevere butlered | ||
| table round, past Morningtop's necessity and | ||
| Harington's invention, to the clarience of the | ||
| childlight in the studiorium upsturts. Here | ||
| we'll dwell on homiest powers, love at the | ||
| latch with novices nig and nag. The chorus: | ||
| the principals. For the rifocillation of their | ||
| inclination to the manifestation of irritation: | ||
| doldorboys and doll.3 After sound, light and | ||
| heat, memory, will and understanding. | ||
| Bet you fippence, | Here (the memories framed from walls are | PREAUSTERIC |
| anythesious, | minding) till wranglers for wringwrowdy | MAN AND HIS |
| there's no pug- |
wready are,
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| gatory, are yous | teenth baronet, meet, altrettanth bancorot, | PAN- |
| game? | chaff) and ere commence commencement cata- | HYSTERIC |
| launic when Aetius check chokewill Attil's | WOMAN. | |
| gambit, (that buxon bruzeup, give it a burl!) | ||
| lead us seek, O june of eves the jenniest, | ||
| thou who fleeest flicklesome the fond fervid | ||
| frondeur to thickly thyself attach with thine | ||
| efteased ensuer, 4 ondrawer of our uncon- | ||
| scionable, flickerflapper fore our unter- | ||
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| drugged,1 lead us seek, lote us see, light us find, | ||
| let us missnot Maidadate, Mimosa Multimim- | ||
| etica, the maymeaminning of maimoomeining! | ||
| Elpis, thou fountain of the greeces, all shall speer | ||
| theeward,2 from kongen in his canteenhus to | ||
| knivers hind the knoll. Ausonius Audacior | ||
| and gael, gillie, gall.3 Singalingalying. Storiella | ||
| as she is syung. Whence followeup with end- | ||
| There was a | speaking nots for yestures, plutonically pur- | |
| sweet hopeful | suant on briefest glimpse from gladrags, pretty | |
| culled Cis. | Proserpronette whose slit satchel spilleth peas. | |
| Belisha beacon, beckon bright! Usherette, | URGES AND | |
| unmesh us! That grene ray of earong it waves | WIDERURGES | |
| us to yonder as the red, blue and yellow flogs | IN A PRIMI- | |
| time on the domisole,4 with a blewy blow and | TIVE SEPT. | |
| a windigo. Where flash becomes word and | ||
| silents selfloud. To brace congeners, trebly | ||
| bounden and asservaged twainly. Adamman,5 | ||
| Emhe, Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely | ||
| ogs Weib. Uwayoei! 6 So mag this sybilette be | ||
| our shibboleth that we may syllable her well! | ||
| Vetus may be occluded behind the mou in | ||
| The Big Bear | Veto but Nova will be nearing as their radient | |
| bit the Sailor's | among the Nereids. A one of charmers, ay, | |
| Only. Trouble, | Una Unica, charmers, who, under the branches | |
| trouble, trouble. | of the elms, in shoes as yet unshent by stoni- | |
| Forening Unge | ness, wend, went, will wend a way of honey | |
| Kristlike Kvinne. | myrrh and rambler roses mistmusk while still | |
| the maybe mantles the meiblume or ever her | ||
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| if have faded from the fleur,1 their arms | ||
| enlocked, (ringrang, the chimes of sex appeal- | ||
| Telltale me all | ing as conchitas with sentas stray,2 rung!), all | |
| of annaryllies. | thinking all of it, the It with an itch in it, the All | |
| every inch of it, the pleasure each will preen her | ||
| for, the business each was bred to breed by.3 | ||
| Soon jemmijohns will cudgel about some | EARLY | |
| a rhythmatick or other over Browne and | NOTIONS OF | |
| Nolan's divisional tables whereas she, of | ACQUIRED | |
| Will you carry | minions' novence charily being cupid, for | RIGHTS AND |
| my can and | mug's wumping, grooser's grubbiness, andt's | THE INFLU- |
| fight the fairies? | avarice and grossopper's grandegaffe, with her | ENCE OF |
| tootpettypout of jemenfichue will sit and knit | COLLECTIVE | |
| on solfa sofa.4 Stew of the evening, booksyful | TRADITION | |
| stew. And a bodikin a boss in the Thimble | UPON THE | |
| Theatre. But all is her-inbourne. Intend. From | INDIVIDUAL. | |
| Allma Mathers, | gramma's grammar she has it that if there is a | |
| Auctioneer. | third person, mascarine, phelinine or nuder, | |
| being spoken abad it moods prosodes from a | ||
| person speaking to her second which is the | ||
| direct object that has been spoken to, with and | ||
| at. Take the dative with his oblative5 for, even | ||
| if obsolete, it is always of interest, so spake | ||
| gramma on the impetus of her imperative, only | ||
| mind your genderous towards his reflexives | ||
| Old Gavelkind | such that I was to your grappa (Bott's trousend, | |
| the Gamper and | hore a man uff!) when him was me hedon6 | |
| he's as daff as | and mine, what the lewdy saying, his analec- | |
| you're erse. | tual pygmyhop.7 There is comfortism in the | |
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| knowledge that often hate on first hearing | ||
| comes of love by second sight. Have your | ||
| little sintalks in the dunk of subjunctions, dual | ||
| in duel and prude with pruriel, but even the | ||
| aoriest chaparound whatever plaudered perfect | ||
| anent prettydotes and haec genua omnia may | ||
| perhaps chance to be about to be in the case to | ||
| be becoming a pale peterwright in spite of all | ||
| your tense accusatives whilstly you're wall- | ||
| floored1 like your gerandiums for the better | ||
| half of a yearn or sob. It's a wild's kitten, my | ||
| dear, who can tell a wilkling from a warthog. | ||
| For you may be as practical as is predicable | ||
| but you must have the proper sort of accident | ||
| to meet that kind of a being with a difference.2 | ||
| Flame at his fumbles but freeze on his fist.3 | ||
| Every letter is a godsend, ardent Ares, brusque | ||
| Boreas and glib Ganymede like zealous Zeus, | ||
| the O'Meghisthest of all. To me or not to me. | ||
| Satis thy quest on. Werbungsap! Jeg suis, vos | ||
| Undante | wore a gentleman, thou arr, I am a quean. Is | |
| umoroso. | a game over? The game goes on. Cookcook! | |
| M. 50-50. | Search me. The beggar the maid the bigger | |
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the mauler. And the greater the patrarc the | |
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griefer the pinch. And that's what your doctor | |
| knows. O love it is the commonknounest thing | ||
| how it pashes the plutous and the paupe.4 | ||
| Pop! And egg she active or spoon she passive, | ||
| all them fine clauses in Lindley's and Murrey's | ||
| never braught the participle of a present to a | ||
| desponent hortatrixy, vindicatively I say it, | ||
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| from her postconditional future.1 Lumpsome | ||
| is who lumpsum pays. Quantity counts though | ||
| accents falter. Yoking apart and oblique ora- | ||
| I'll go for that | tions parsed to one side, a brat, alanna, can | |
small polly if |
choose from so many, be he a sollicitor's | |
| you'll suck to | appendix, a pipe clerk or free functionist | |
| your lebbens- | flyswatter, that perfect little cad, from the | |
| quatsch. | languors and weakness of limberlimbed lassi- | |
| hood till the head, back and heartaches of | ||
| waxedup womanage and heaps on heaps of | ||
| other things too. Note the Respectable Irish | ||
| Distressed Ladies and the Merry Mustard | ||
| Frothblowers of Humphreystown Associa- | ||
| tions. Atac first, queckqueck quicks after. | ||
| Beware how in that hist subtaile of schlangder 2 | ||
| lies liaison to tease oreilles! To vert embowed | ||
| set proper penchant. But learn from that ancient | ||
| tongue to be middle old modern to the minute. | ||
| A spitter that can be depended on. Though | ||
| Wonderlawn's lost us for ever. Alis, alas, she | ||
| broke the glass! Liddell lokker through the | ||
| leafery, ours is mistery of pain.3 You may spin | ||
| on youthlit's bike and multiplease your Mike | ||
| and Nike with your kickshoes on the algebrars | ||
| O'Mara Farrell. | but, volve the virgil page and view, the O of | |
| woman is long when burly those two muters | ||
| Verschwindibus. | sequent her so from Nebob4 see you never | |
| stray who'll nimm you nice and nehm the day. | ||
| One hath just been areading, hath not one, | CONCOMI- | |
| ya, ya, in their memoiries of Hireling's puny | TANCE OF | |
| Ulstria, | wars, end so, und all, ga, ga, of The O'Brien, | COURAGE, |
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| Monastir, | The O'Connor, The Mac Loughlin and The | COUNSEL |
| Leninstar and | Mac Namara with summed their appondage, | AND CON- |
| Connecticut. | da, da, of Sire Jeallyous Seizer, that gamely | STANCY. |
| Cliopatria, thy | torskmester,1 with his duo of druidesses in ready | ORDINATION |
| hosies history. | money rompers 2 and the tryonforit of Oxthie- | OF OMEN, |
| vious, Lapidous and Malthouse Anthemy. You | ONUS AND | |
| may fail to see the lie of that layout, Suetonia,3 | OBIT. DIS- | |
| but the reflections which recur to me are that | TRIBUTION | |
| so long as beauty life is body love 4 and so bright | OF DANGER, | |
| as Mutua of your mirror holds her candle to | DUTY AND | |
| your caudle, lone lefthand likeless, sombring | DESTINY. | |
| Autum of your Spring, reck you not one spirt | POLAR PRIN- | |
| of anyseed whether trigemelimen cuddle his | CIPLES. | |
| coddle or nope. She'll confess it by her figure | ||
| and she'll deny it to your face. If you're not | ||
| ruined by that one she won't do you any | ||
| whim. And then? What afters it? Gruff Gunne | ||
| may blow, Gam Gonna flow, the gossans eye | ||
| the jennings aye. From the butts of Heber and | ||
| The Eroico | Heremon, nolens volens, brood our pansies, | |
| Furioso makes | brune in brume. There's a split in the infinitive | |
| the valet like | from to have to have been to will be. As they | |
| smiling. | warred in their big innings ease now we never | |
| shall know. Eat early earthapples. Coax Cobra | ||
| to chatters. Hail, Heva, we hear! This is the | ||
| The hyperape the | glider that gladdened the girl 5 that list to the | |
| mink he groves the | wind that lifted the leaves that folded the | |
| mole you see nowfor | fruit that hung on the tree that grew in the | |
| crush sake, chawley! | garden Gough gave. Wide hiss, we're wizen- | |
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| ing. Hoots fromm, we're globing. Why hidest | ||
| thou hinder thy husband his name? Leda, Lada, | ||
| aflutter-afraida, so does your girdle grow! | ||
| Willed without witting, whorled without | ||
| aimed. Pappapassos, Mammamanet, warwhets- | ||
| wut and whowitswhy.1 But it's tails for | ||
| toughs and titties for totties and come | ||
| Pige pas. | buckets come bats till deeleet.2 | |
| Dark ages clasp the daisy roots, Stop, if you | PANOPTICAL | |
| are a sally of the allies, hot off Minnowaurs | PURVIEW OF | |
| and naval actiums, picked engagements and | POLITICAL | |
| banks of rowers. Please stop if you're a | PROGRESS | |
| B.C. minding missy, please do. But should | AND THE | |
| you prefer A.D. stepplease. And if you miss | FUTURE PRE- | |
| with a venture it serves you girly well glad. | SENTATION | |
| But, holy Janus, I was forgetting the Blitzen- | OF THE PAST | |
| kopfs! Here, Hengegst and Horsesauce, take | ||
| your heads 3 out of that taletub! And leave | ||
| your hinnyhennyhindyou! It's haunted. The | ||
| chamber. Of errings. Whoan, tug, trace, | ||
| Seidlitz powther | stirrup! It is distinctly understouttered that, | |
| for slogan | sense you threehandshighs put your twofoot- | |
| plumpers. | large timepates in that dead wash of Lough | |
| Murph and until such time pace one and the | ||
| same Messherrn the grinning statesmen, Brock | ||
| and Leon, have shunted the grumbling | ||
| coundedtouts, Starlin and Ser Artur Ghinis. | ||
| Foamous homely brew, bebattled by bottle, | ||
| Hoploits and | gageure de guegerre.4 Bull igien bear and | |
| atthems. | then bearagain bulligan. Gringrin gringrin. | |
| Staffs varsus herds and bucks vursus barks. | ||
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| Curragh | By old Grumbledum's walls. Bumps, bellows | |
| machree, me | and bawls.1 Opprimor's down, up up Opima! | |
| bosthoon fiend. | Rents and rates and tithes and taxes, wages, | |
| Femilies hug | saves and spends. Heil, heptarched span of | |
| bank! | peace!2 Live, league of lex, nex and the mores! | |
| Fas est dass and foe err you. Impovernment | ||
| of the booble by the bauble for the bubble. So | ||
| All we suffered | wrap up your worries in your woe (wumpum- | |
| under them Cow- | tum!) and shake down the shuffle for the | |
| dung Forks and | throw. For there's one mere ope 3 for down- | |
| how we enjoyed | fall ned. As Hanah Levy, shrewd shroplifter, | |
| over our pick of | and nievre anore skidoos with her spoileds.4 | |
| the basketfild. | To add gay touches. For hugh and guy and | |
| Old Kine's | goy and jew. To dimpled and pimpled and | |
| Meat Meal. | simpled and wimpled. A peak in a poke and a | |
| pig in a pew.5 She wins them by wons, a haul | ||
| Flieflie for the | hectoendecate, for mangay mumbo jumbjubes | |
| jillies and a | tak mutts and jeffs muchas bracelonettes | |
| bombambum | gracies barcelonas.6 O what a loovely free- | |
| for the | speech 'twas (tep)7 to gar howalively hinter- | |
| nappotondus. | grunting! Tip. Like lilt of larks to burdened | |
| crocodile,8 or skittering laubhing at that | ||
| wheeze of old windbag, Blusterboss, blow- | ||
| harding about all he didn't do. Hell o' your | ||
| troop! With is the winker for the muckwits | ||
| of willesly and nith is the nod for the umproar | ||
| napollyon and hitheris poorblond piebold | ||
| hoerse. Huirse. With its tricuspidal hauberk- | ||
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| helm coverchaf emblem on. For the man that | ||
| Murdoch. | broke the ranks on Monte Sinjon. The all- | |
| riddle of it? That that is allruddy with us, | ||
| ahead of schedule, which already is plan accom- | ||
| Pas d'action, | plished from and syne: Daft Dathy of the Five | |
| peu de sauce. | Positions (the death ray stop him!) is still, as | |
| reproaches Paulus, on the Madderhorn and, | ||
| entre chats and hobnobs,1 daring Dunderhead | ||
| to shiver his timbers and Hannibal mac Hamil- | ||
| tan the Hegerite2 (more livepower elbow him!) | ||
| ministerbuilding up, as repreaches Timothy, | ||
| in Saint Barmabrac's.3 Number Thirty two | ||
| West Eleventh streak looks on to that (may | ||
| all in the tocoming of the sempereternal speel | ||
| From the seven | spry with it!) datetree doloriferous which | |
| tents of Joseph | more and over leafeth earlier than every | |
| till the calends of | growth and, elfshot, headawag, with frayed | |
| Mary Marian, | nerves wondering till they feeled sore like any | |
| olivehunkered | woman that has been born at all events to the | |
| and thorny too. | purdah and for the howmanyeth and how- | |
| movingth time at what the demons in that | ||
| As Shakefork | jackhouse that jerry built for Massa and Missus | |
| might pitch it. | and hijo de puta, the sparksown fermament of | |
| the starryk fieldgosongingon where blows | ||
| a nemone at each blink of windstill4 they | ||
| were sliding along and sleeting aloof and | ||
| scouting around and shooting about. All- | ||
| whichwhile or whereaballoons for good | ||
| vaunty years Dagobert is in Clane's clean | ||
| hometown prepping up his prepueratory | ||
| and learning how to put a broad face bronzily | ||
| out through a broken breached meataerial | ||
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| Puzzly, puzzly, | from Bryan Awlining! Erin's hircohaired | |
| I smell a cat. | culoteer.1 | |
| And as, these things being so or ere those | FROM CENO- | |
| things having done, way back home in Pacata | GENETIC DI- | |
| Auburnia,2 (untillably holy gammel Eire) one | CHOTOMY | |
| Two makes a | world burrowing on another, (if you've got | THROUGH |
| wing at the ma- | me, neighbour, in any large lumps, geek?, and | DIAGONISTIC |
| croscope | got the strong of it) Standfest, our topiocal | CONCILI- |
| telluspeep. | sagon hero, or any otther macotther, signs is | ANCE TO |
| on the bellyguds bastille back, bucket up with | DYNASTIC | |
| fullness, ant silvering to her jubilee,3 birch- | CONTINU- | |
| leaves her jointure, our lavy in waving, visage | ITY. | |
| full of flesh and fat as a hen's i' forehead, | ||
| From the Buffalo | Airyanna and Blowyhart topsirturvy, that | |
| Times of bysone | royal pair in their palace of quicken boughs | |
| days. | hight The Goat and Compasses ('phone | |
| number 17:69, if you want to know4) his sea- | ||
| arm strongsround her, her velivole eyne aship- | ||
| wracked, have discusst their things of the | ||
| past, crime and fable with shame, home and | ||
| profit,5 why lui lied to lei and hun tried to kill | ||
| ham, scribbledehobbles, in whose veins runs | ||
| a mixture of, are heat bent and hard upon. | ||
| Spell me the chimes. They are tales all tolled.6 | ||
| Quick quake | Today is well thine but where's may tomorrow | |
| quokes the par- | be. But, bless his cowly head and press his | |
| rotbook of dates. | crankly hat, what a world's woe is each's | |
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| other's weariness waiting to beadroll his own | ||
| properer mistakes, the backslapping glad- | ||
| Some is out for | hander,1 free of his florid future and the other | |
| twoheaded dul- | singing likeness, dirging a past of bloody altars, | |
| carnons but more | gale with a blost to him, dove without gall. | |
| pulfers turnips. | And she, of the jilldaw's nest2 who tears up | |
| Omnitudes in a | lettereens she never apposed a pen upon.3 Yet | |
| knutshedell. | sung of love and the monster man. What's | |
| Hiccupper to hem or her to Hagaba? Ough, | ||
| ough, brieve kindli!4 | ||
| Dogs' vespers are anending. Vespertilia- | THE MON- | |
| bitur. Goteshoppard quits his gabhard cloke | GREL UNDER | |
| to sate with Becchus. Zumbock! Achevre! | THE DUNG- | |
| Yet wind will be ere fadervor5 and the hour of | MOUND. | |
| For all us kids | fruminy and bergoo bell if Nippon have pearls | SIGNIFI- |
| under his aegis. | or opals Eldorado, the daindy dish, the lecking | CANCE OF |
| out! Gipoo, good oil! For (hushmagandy!) | THE INFRA- | |
| long 'tis till gets bright that all cocks waken | LIMINAL IN- | |
| and birds Diana6 with dawnsong hail. Aught | TELLIGENCE. | |
| darks flou a duskness. Bats that? There peepee- | OFFRANDES. | |
| Saving the public | strilling. At Brannan's on the moor. At Tam | |
| his health. | Fanagan's weak yat his still's going strang. | |
| And still here is noctules and can tell things | ||
| acommon on by that fluffy feeling. Larges | ||
| Superlative abso- | loomy wheelhouse to bodgbox7 lumber up | |
| lute of Porter- | with hoodie hearsemen carrawain we keep | |
| stown. | is peace who follow his law, Sunday | |
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| King.1 His sevencoloured's soot (Ochone! | ||
| Ochonal!)2 and his imponence one heap lump- | ||
| Why so mucky | block (Mogoul!). And rivers burst out like | |
| spick bridges | weeming racesround joydrinks for the fewnral- | |
| span our Flumi- | ly,3 where every feaster's a foster's other, fian- | |
| nian road. | nians all.4 The wellingbreast, he willing giant, | |
| P.C. Helmut's in | the mountain mourning his duggedy dew. To | |
| the cottonwood, | obedient of civicity in urbanious at felicity | |
| listnin. | what'll yet meek Mike5 our diputy mimber when | |
| The throne is an | he's head on poll and Peter's burgess and Miss | |
| umbrella strande | Mishy Mushy is tiptupt by Toft Taft. Boblesse | |
| and a sceptre's a | gobleege. For as Anna was at the beginning | |
| stick. | lives yet and will return after great deap sleap | |
| Jady jewel, our | rerising and a white night high with a cows of | |
| daktar deer. | Drommhiem as shower as there's a wet en- | |
| Gautamed bud- | clouded in Westwicklow or a little black rose a | |
| ders deossiphys- | truant in a thorntree. We drames our dreams | |
| ing our Theas. | tell Bappy returns. And Sein annews. We will | |
| not say it shall not be, this passing of order and | ||
| order's coming, but in the herbest country and | ||
| in the country around Blath as in that city self | ||
| of legionds they look for its being ever yet. So | ||
| shuttle the pipers done.6 Eric aboy!7 And it's | ||
| time that all paid tribute to this massive mor- | ||
| By lineal in pon- | tiality, the pink of punk perfection as photo- | |
| dus overthepoise. | graphy in mud. Some may seek to dodge the | |
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| gobbet for its quantity of quality but who | ||
| wants to cheat the choker's got to learn to | ||
| chew the cud. Allwhichhole scrubs on scroll | ||
| Pitchcap and | circuminiuminluminatedhave encuoniams here | |
| triangle, noose | and improperies there.1 With a pansy for the | |
| and tinctunc. | pussy in the corner.2 | |
| Bewise of Fanciulla's heart, the heart of | INCIPIT IN- | |
| Fanciulla! Even the recollection of willow | TERMISSIO. | |
| fronds is a spellbinder that lets to hear.3 The | ||
| rushes by the grey nuns' pond: ah eh oh let | ||
| Uncle Flabbius | me sigh too. Coalmansbell: behoves you | |
| Muximus to | handmake of the load. Jenny Wren: pick, peck. | |
| Niecia Flappia | Johnny Post: pack, puck.4 All the world's in | |
| Minnimiss. As | want and is writing a letters.5 A letters from a | |
| this is. And as | person to a place about a thing. And all the | |
| this this is. | world's on wish to be carrying a letters. A let- | |
| Dear Brotus, | ters to a king about a treasure from a cat.6 | |
| land me arrears. | When men want to write a letters. Ten men, | |
| ton men, pen men, pun men, wont to rise a | ||
| Rockaby, babel, | ladder. And den men, dun men, fen men, fun | |
| flatten a wall. | men, hen men, hun men went to raze a leader. | |
| How he broke the | Is then any lettersday from many peoples, | |
| good news to | Daganasanavitch? Empire, your outermost.7 | |
| Gent. | A posy cord. Plece. | |
| We have wounded our way on foe tris | MAJOR AND | |
| prince till that force in the gill is faint afarred | MINOR | |
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| and the face in the treebark feigns afear. This | MODES COA- | |
| is rainstones ringing. Strangely cult for this | LESCING | |
| ceasing of the yore. But Erigureen is ever. | PROLIFER- | |
| Pot price pon patrilinear plop, if the osseletion | ATE HOMO- | |
| of the onkring gives omen nome? Since alls | GENUINE | |
| war that end war let sports be leisure and | HOMOGEN- | |
| bring and buy fair. Ah ah athclete, blest your | EITY. | |
| bally bathfeet! Towntoquest, fortorest, the | ||
| hour that hies is hurley. A halt for hearsake.1 | ||
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| A scene at sight. Or dreamoneire. Which | ||
| they shall memorise. By her freewritten | ||
| Hopely for ear that annalykeses if scares for | ||
| eye that sumns. Is it in the now woodwordings | ||
| Bibelous hics- | of our sweet plantation where the branchings | |
| tory and Barbar- | then will singingsing tomorrows gone and | |
| assa harestary. | yesters outcome as Satadays aftermoon lex | |
| leap smiles on the twelvemonthsminding? | ||
| Such is. Dear (name of desired subject, A.N.), | ||
| well, and I go on to. Shlicksher. I and we | ||
| (tender condolences for happy funeral, one | ||
| if) so sorry to (mention person suppressed for | ||
| A shieling in cop- | the moment, F.M.). Well (enquiries after all- | |
| pingers and por- | healths) how are you (question maggy). A | |
| rish soup all days. | lovely (introduce to domestic circles) pershan | |
| of cates. Shrubsher. Those pothooks mostly | ||
| How matches | she hawks from Poppa Vere Foster but these | |
| metroosers? | curly mequeues are of Mippa's moulding. | |
| Shrubsheruthr. (Wave gently in the ere turn- | ||
| ing ptover.) Well, mabby (consolation of | ||
| shopes) to soon air. With best from cinder | ||
| Christinette if prints chumming, can be when | ||
| desires Soldi, for asamples, backfronted or, | ||
| if all, peethrolio or Get my Prize, using her | ||
| Le hélos tombaut | flower or perfume or, if veryveryvery chum- | |
| soul sur la jambe | ming, in otherwards, who she supposed adeal, | |
| de marche. | kissists my exits. Shlicksheruthr. From Auburn | |
| chenlemagne. Pious and pure fair one, all has | ||
| concomitated to this that she shall tread them | ||
| lifetrees leaves whose silence hitherto has | ||
| shone as sphere of silver fastalbarnstone, that | ||
| fount Bandusian shall play liquick music and | ||
| after odours sigh of musk. Blotsbloshblothe, | ||
| one dear that was. Sleep in the water, drug at | ||
| the fire, shake the dust off and dream your one | ||
| who would give her sidecurls to. Till later | ||
| Mai maintenante | Lammas is led in by baith our washwives, a | |
| elle est venuse. | weird of wonder tenebrous as that evil thorn- | |
| garth, a field of faery blithe as this flowing wild. | ||
| Two Dons Johns | Aujourd'hui comme aux temps le Pline et de | THE PART |
| Threes Totty | Columelle la jacinthe se plaît dans les Gaules, | PLAYED BY |
| Askins. | la pervenche en Illyrie, la marguerite sur les | BELLETRI- |
| ruines de Numance1 et pendant qu'autour d'elles | STICKS IN | |
| les villes ont changé de maîtres et de noms, que | THE BELLUM- | |
| plusieurs sont entrées dans le néant, que les | PAX-BELLUM. | |
| civilisations se sont choquées et brisées, leurs | MUTUOMOR- | |
| Also Spuke | paisibles générations ont traversé les ages et sont | PHOMUTA- |
| Zerothruster. | arrivées jusqu'à nous, fraîches et riantes comme | TION. |
| aux jours des batailles.2 | ||
| Margaritomancy! Hyacinthinous pervinci- | SORTES VIR- | |
| veness! Flowers. A cloud. But Bruto and | GINIANAE. | |
| Cassio are ware only of trifid tongues 3 the | ||
| A saxum shillum | whispered wilfulness, ('tis demonal!) and sha- | |
| for the sextum | dows shadows multiplicating (il folsoletto nel | |
| but nothums for | falsoletto col fazzolotto dal fuzzolezzo), 4 to- | |
| that parridge | tients quotients, they tackle their quarrel. Sicka- | |
| preast. | moor's so woful sally. Ancient's aerger. And | |
| eachway bothwise glory signs. What if she | ||
| love Sieger less though she leave Ruhm moan? | ||
| That's how our oxyggent has gotten ahold of | ||
| half their world. Moving about in the free of | ||
| the air and mixing with the ruck. Enten eller, | ||
| either or. | ||
| And? | INTERROGATION. | |
| Nay, rather! | EXCLAMATION. | |
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| With sobs for his job, with tears | ANTITHESIS OF AMBI- |
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| Tricks stunts. | for his toil, with horror for his squalor | |
| but with pep for his perdition,1 lo, the | THE MIND FACTORY, |
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| boor plieth as the laird hireth him. |
ITS GIVE AND TAKE. |
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| Boon on begyndelse. | AUSPICIUM. | |
| At maturing daily gloryaims! 2 | AUGURIA. | |
| A flink dab for a freck dive and a stern poise | DIVINITY | |
| for a swift pounce was frankily at the manual | NOT DEITY | |
| arith sure enough which was the bekase he | THE UNCER- | |
| knowed from his cradle, no bird better, why | TAINTY JUS- | |
| his fingures were giving him whatfor to fife | TIFIED BY | |
| Truckeys' cant | with. First, by observation, there came boko | OUR CERTI- |
| for dactyl and | and nigh him wigworms and nigh him tittlies | TUDE. |
| spondee. | and nigh him cheekadeekchimple and nigh | EXAMPLES. |
| him pickpocket with pickpocketpumb, pick- | ||
| pocketpoint, pickpocketprod, pickpocket- | ||
| promise and upwithem. Holy Joe in lay | ||
| Eden. 3 And anyhows always after them the | ||
| dimpler he weighed the fonder fell he of his | ||
| null four lovedroyd curdinals, his element cur- | ||
| Panoplous pere- | dinal numen and his enement curdinal marryng | |
| grine pifflicative | and his epulent curdinal weisswassh and his | |
| pomposity. | eminent curdinal Kay O'Kay. Always would | |
| he be reciting of them, hoojahs koojahs, up by | ||
| rota, in his Fanden's catachysm from fursed to | ||
| laced, quickmarch to decemvers, so as to pin the | ||
| tenners, thumbs down. And anon an aldays, | ||
| strues yerthere, would he wile arecreating em | ||
| om lumerous ways, caiuscounting in the | ||
| scale of pin puff pive piff, piff puff pive poo, | ||
| poo puff pive pree, pree puff pive pfoor, pfoor | ||
| puff pive pippive, poopive, 4 Niall Dhu, | ||
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| Foughty Unn, Enoch Thortig, endso one, like | ||
| to pitch of your cap, pac, on to tin tall spilli- | ||
| Non plus ulstra, | cans. 1 To sum, borus pew notus pew eurus | |
| Elba, nec, cashel- | pew zipher. Ace, deuce, tricks, quarts, quims. | |
| bum tuum. | Mumtiplay of course and carry to their whole | |
| number. While on the other hand, traduced | ||
| by their comedy nominator to the loaferst | ||
| terms for their aloquent parts, sexes, suppers, | ||
| oglers, novels and dice. 2 He could find (the | ||
| rakehelly!) by practice the valuse of thine-to- | ||
| mine articles with no reminder for an equality | ||
| of relations and, with the helpings from his | ||
| tables, improduce fullmin to trumblers, links | ||
| unto chains, weys in Nuffolk till tods of | ||
| Yorek, oozies ad libs and several townsends, | ||
| several hundreds, civil-to-civil imperious | ||
| gallants into gells (Irish), bringing alliving | ||
| stone allaughing down to grave clothnails and | ||
| Dondderwedder | a league of archers, fools and lurchers under | |
| Kyboshicksal | the rude rule of fumb. What signifieth whole | |
| that 3 but, be all the prowess of ten, 'tis as | ||
| strange to relate he, nonparile to rede, rite and | ||
| reckan, caught allmeals dullmarks for his | ||
| nucleuds and alegobrew. They wouldn't took | ||
| bearings no how anywheres. O them dodd- | ||
| hunters and allanights, aabs and baas for | ||
| agnomes, yees and zees for incognits, bate | ||
| him up jerrybly! Worse nor herman doror- | ||
| rhea. Give you the fantods, seemed to him. | ||
| They ought to told you every last word first | ||
| stead of trying every which way to kinder | ||
| smear it out poison long. Show that the | ||
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| A stodge An- | median, hce che ech, interecting at royde | |
| gleshman has | angles the parilegs of a given obtuse one bis- | |
| been worked by | cuts both the arcs that are in curveachord | |
| eccentricity. | behind. Brickbaths. The family umbroglia. | |
| A Tullagrove pole 1 to the Height of County | ||
| Fearmanagh has a septain inclinaison 2 and the | ||
| graphplot for all the functions in Lower | ||
| County Monachan, whereat samething is rivi- | ||
| sible by nighttim, may be involted into the | ||
| zeroic couplet, palls pell inhis heventh glike | ||
| An oxygon is na- | noughty times
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| turally reclined | cooefficient, how minney combinaisies and per- | |
| to rest. | mutandies can be played on the international | |
| surd! pthwndxrclzp!, hids cubid rute being | ||
| extructed, taking anan illitterettes, ififif at a tom. | ||
| Answers, (for teasers only). 3 Ten, twent, thirt, | ||
| see, ex and three icky totchty ones. From | ||
| solation to solution. Imagine the twelve | ||
| deaferended dumbbawls of the whowl above- | ||
| beugled to be the contonuation through | ||
| regeneration of the urutteration of the word | ||
| in pregross. It follows that, if the two ante- | ||
| sedents be bissyclitties and the three come- | ||
| seekwenchers trundletrikes, then, Aysha Lali- | ||
| Ba be bi bo bum. | pat behidden on the footplate, Big Whiggler 4 | |
| restant upsittuponable, the NCR 5 presents to | ||
| us (tandem year at lasted length!) an otto- | ||
| mantic turquo-indaco of pictorial shine by | ||
| pictorial shimmer so long as, gad of the gidday, | ||
| pictorial summer, viridorefulvid, lits asheen, | ||
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| but (lenz alack lends a lot), if this habby cyclic | ||
| erdor be outraciously enviolated by a mierelin | ||
| roundtableturning, like knuts in maze, the zitas | ||
| runnind hare and dart 1 with the yeggs in | ||
| their muddle, like a seven of wingless arrows, | ||
| hodgepadge, thump, kick and hurry, all boy | ||
| more missis blong him he race quickfeller all | ||
| Finnfinnotus of | same hogglepiggle longer house blong him, 2 | |
| Cincinnati. | while the catched and dodged exarx seems | |
| himmulteemiously to beem (he wins her hend! | ||
| he falls to tail!) the ersed ladest mand 3 and | ||
| (uhu and uhud!) the losed farce on erro- | ||
| roots, 4 twalegged poneys and threehandled | ||
| dorkeys (madahoy, morahoy, lugahoy, jog- | ||
| Arthurgink's | ahoyaway) MPM brings us a rainborne pamto- | |
| hussies and | momiom, aqualavant to (cat my dogs, if I | |
| Everguin's men. | baint dingbushed like everything!) kaksitoista | |
| volts yksitoista volts kymmenen volts yhdek- | ||
| san volts kahdeksan volts seitseman volts kuusi | ||
| volts viisi volts nelja volts kolme volts kaksi | ||
| volts yksi! allahthallacamellated, caravan series | ||
| Nom de nombres! | to the finish of helve's fractures.5 In outher | |
| The balbearians. | wards, one from five, two to fives ones, one | |
| from fives two millamills with a mill and a | ||
| half a mill and twos twos fives fives of bully | ||
| clavers. For a surview over all the factionables | ||
| see Iris in the Evenine's World. 6 Binomeans | ||
| to be comprendered. Inexcessible as thy by | ||
| god ways. The aximones. And their prosta- | ||
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| lutes. For his neuralgiabrown. | |||
| Equal to = aosch. | |||
| P.t.l.o.a.t.o. | HEPTAGRAMMATON. | ||
| So, bagdad, after those initials falls and that | HYPOTHESES | ||
| primary taincture, as I know and you know | OF COM- | ||
| yourself, begath, and the arab in the ghetto | MONEST EX- | ||
| knows better, by nettus, nor anymeade or | PERIENCES | ||
| persan, comic cuts and series exerxeses always | BEFORE APO- | ||
| were to be capered in Casey's frost book of, | THEOSIS OF | ||
| page torn on dirty, to be hacked at Hickey's, | THE LUSTRAL | ||
| Vive Paco | hucksler, Wellington's Iron Bridge, and so, by | PRINCIPIUM. | |
| Hunter! | long last, as it would shuffle out, must he to | ||
| trump adieu atout atous to those cardinhands | |||
| The hoisted in | he a big deal missed, radmachrees and rosse- | ||
| red and the low- | cullinans and blagpikes in suitclover. Dear | ||
| ered in black. | hearts of my counting, would he revoke them, | ||
| forewheel to packnumbers, and, the time being | |||
| no help fort, plates to lick one and turn over. | |||
| Problem ye ferst, construct ann aquilittoral | INGENIOUS | ||
| dryankle Probe loom! With his primal hand- | LABOUR- | ||
| The boss's bess | stoe in his sole salivarium. Concoct an equo- | TENACITY | |
| bass is the browd | angular trillitter. 1 On the name of the tizzer | AS BETWEEN | |
| of Mullingar. | and off the tongs and off the mythametical | INGENUOUS | |
| tripods. Beatsoon. | AND LIBERTINE. | ||
| Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph, 2 | PROPE AND | ||
| suspecting the answer know. Oikkont, ken | PROCUL IN | ||
| you, ninny? asks Kev, 3 expecting the answer | THE CON- | ||
| guess. 4 Nor was the noer long disappointed | VERGENCE | ||
| for easiest of kisshams, he was made vicewise. | OF THEIR | ||
| The aliments of | Oc, tell it to oui, do, Sem! Well, 'tis oil thusly. | CONTRAPUL- | |
| jumeantry. | First mull a mugfull of mud, son. 5 Oglores, | SIVENESS. | |
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| the virtuoser prays, olorum What the D.V. | ||
| would I to that for? That's a goosey's gans- | ||
| wer you're for giving me, he is told, what the | ||
| Deva would you do that for? 1 Now, sknow | ||
| royol road to Puddlin, take your mut for a | ||
| first beginning, big to bog, back to bach. | ||
| Wolsherwomens | Anny liffle mud which cometh out of Mam | |
| at their weirdst. | will doob, I guess. A.I. Amnium instar. And | |
| to find a locus for an alp get a howlth on her | ||
| bayrings as a prisme O and for a second O | ||
| unbox your compasses. I cain but are you | ||
| able? Amicably nod. Gu it! So let's seth off | ||
| betwain us. Prompty? Mux your pistany at a | ||
| point of the coastmap to be called a but pro- | ||
| nounced olfa. There's the isle of Mun, ah! | ||
| O! Tis just. Bene! Now, whole in applepine | ||
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| what name? (and in truth, as a poor soul is | LIKEWISE | |
| between shift and shift ere the death he has | WHIS HIS. | |
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| nione sciupiones, soswhitchoverswetch had | ||
| he or he gazet, murphy come, murphy go, | ||
| murphy plant, murphy grow, a maryamyria- | ||
| meliamurphies, in the lazily eye of his lapis, | ||
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| Uteralterance or | Vieus Von DVbLIn, 'twas one of dozedeams | |
| the Interplay of | a darkies ding in dewood) the Turnpike under | |
| Bones in the | the Great Ulm (with Mearingstone in Fore | |
| Womb. | ground). 1 Given now ann linch you take enn | |
| all. Allow me! And, heaving alljawbreakical | ||
| expressions out of old Sare Isaac's 2 universal | ||
| The Vortex. | of specious aristmystic unsaid, A is for Anna | |
| Spring of Sprung | like L is for liv. Aha hahah, Ante Ann you're | |
| Verse. The Ver- | apt to ape aunty annalive! Dawn gives rise. | |
| tex. | Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall. La, la, laugh | |
| leaves alass! Aiaiaiai, Antiann, we're last to | ||
| the lost, Loulou! Tis perfect. Now (lens | ||
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| your dappled yeye here, mine's presbyoperian, | ||
| shill and wall) we see the copyngink strayed- | ||
| line AL (in Fig., the forest) from being con- | ||
| tinued, stops ait Lambday1: Modder ilond | ||
| there too. Allow me anchore! I bring down | ||
| noth and carry awe. Now, then, take this in! | ||
| One of the most murmurable loose carollaries | ||
| Sarga, or the | ever Ellis threw his cookingclass. With Olaf | |
| path of outgoing. | as centrum and Olaf's lambtail for his spokes- | |
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| As round as the calf of an egg! O, dear | ||
| me! O, dear me now! Another grand dis- | ||
| cobely! After Makefearsome's Ocean. You've | ||
| actuary entducked one! Quok! Why, you | ||
| haven't a passer! Fantastic! Early' clever, | ||
| surely doomed, to Swift's, alas, the galehus! | ||
| Docetism and | Match of a matchness, like your Bigdud dadder | |
| Didicism, Maya- | in the boudeville song, Gorotsky Gollovar's | |
| Thaya. Tamas- | Troubles, raucking his flavourite turvku in | |
| Rajas-Sattvas. | the smukking precincts of lydias,2 with Mary | |
| Owens and Dolly Monks seesidling to edge | ||
| his cropulence and Blake-Roche, Kingston | ||
| and Dockrell auriscenting him from afurz, our | ||
| papacocopotl, 3 Abraham Bradley King? (ting | ||
| ting! ting ting!) By his magmasine fall. Lumps, | ||
| lavas and all.4 Bene! But, thunder and turf, it's | ||
| not alover yet! One recalls Byzantium. The | ||
| mystery repeats itself todate as our callback | ||
| mother Gaudyanna, that was daughter to a | ||
| tanner, 5 used to sing, as I think, now and then | ||
| consinuously over her possetpot in her quer | ||
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| homolocous humminbass hesterdie and ist- | ||
| herdie forivor. 1 Vanissas Vanistatums! And | ||
| The Vegetable | for a night of thoughtsendyures and a day. As | |
| Cell and its Pri- | Great Shapesphere puns it. In effect, I re- | |
| vate Properties. | mumble, from the yules gone by, purr lil mur- | |
| rerof myhind, so she used indeed. When she | ||
| give me the Sundaclouths she hung up for | ||
| Tate and Comyng and snuffed out the ghost | ||
| in the candle at his old game of haunt the | ||
| sleepper. Faithful departed. When I'm dream- | ||
| ing back like that I begins to see we're only | ||
| all telescopes. Or the comeallyoum saunds. | ||
| Like when I dromed I was in Dairy and was | ||
| wuckened up with thump in thudderdown. | ||
| Rest in peace! But to return. 2 What a wonder- | ||
| ful memory you have too! Twonderful | ||
| morrowy! Straorbinaire! Bene! I bring town | ||
| eau and curry nothung up my sleeve. Now, | ||
| springing quickenly from the mudland Loosh | ||
| from Luccan with Allhim as her Elder tetra- | ||
| turn a somersault. All's fair on all fours, as | ||
| my instructor unstrict me. Watch! And you'll | ||
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| gyre O, gyrotundo! Hop lala! As umpty | ||
| herum as you seat! O, dear me, that was very | ||
| nesse! Very nace indeed! And makes us a | ||
| The haves and | daintical pair of accomplasses! You, allus for | |
| the havenots: a | the kunst and me for omething with a handel | |
| distinction. | to it. Beve! Now, as will pressantly be felt, | |
| there's tew tricklesome poinds where our | ||
| twain of doubling bicirculars, mating approxe- | ||
| metely in their suite poi and poi, dunloop | ||
| into eath the ocher. Lucihere! I fee where you | ||
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| mea. The doubleviewed seeds. Nun, lemmas | ||
| quatsch, vide pervoys akstiom, and I think as | ||
| I'm suqeez in the limon, stickme punctum, but | ||
| for semenal rations I'd likelong, by Araxes, | ||
| to mack a capital Pee for Pride down there | ||
| on the batom 1 where Hoddum and Heave, our | ||
| monsterbilker, balked his bawd of parodies. | ||
| Zweispaltung as | And let you go, Airmienious, and mick your | |
| Fundemaintalish | modest mock Pie out of Humbles up your | |
| of Wiederher- | end. Where your apexojesus will be a point | |
| stellung. | of order. With a geing groan grunt and a | |
| croak click cluck. 2 And my faceage kink and | ||
| kurkle trying to make keek peep. 3 Are you | ||
| right there, Michael, are you right? Do you | ||
| think you can hold on by sitting tight? Well, | ||
| of course, it's awful angelous. Still I don't feel | ||
| it's so dangelous. Ay, I'm right here, Nickel, | ||
| and I'll write. Singing the top line why it | ||
| suits me mikey fine. But, yaghags hogwarts | ||
| and arrahquinonthiance, it's the muddest thick | ||
| that was ever heard dump since Eggsmather | ||
| got smothered in the plap of the pfan. Now, | ||
| to compleat anglers, beloved bironthiarn and | ||
| hushtokan hishtakatsch, join alfa pea and | ||
| pull loose by dotties and, to be more | ||
| sparematically logoical, eelpie and paleale by | ||
| trunkles. Alow me align while I encloud | ||
| especious! The Nike done it. Like pah,4 I peh. | ||
| Innate little bondery. And as plane as a poke | ||
| stiff.5 Now, aqua in buccat. I'll make you to | ||
| see figuratleavely the whome of your eternal | ||
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| geomater. And if you flung her headdress on | ||
| her from under her highlows you'd wheeze | ||
| whyse Salmonson set his seel on a hexen- | ||
| Destiny, In- | gown.1 Hissss!, Arrah, go on! Fin for fun! | |
| fluence of Design | You've spat your shower like a son of Sibernia | |
| upon. | but let's have at it! Subtend to me now! Pisk! | |
| Outer serpumstances beiug ekewilled, we care- | ||
| fully, if she pleats, lift by her seam hem and | ||
| jabote at the spidsiest of her trickkikant (like | ||
| thousands done before since fillies calpered. | ||
| Ocone! Ocone!) the maidsapron of our A.L.P., | ||
| fearfully! till its nether nadir is vortically where | ||
| (allow me aright to two cute winkles) its naval's | ||
| Prometheus or | napex will have to beandbe. You must proach | |
| the Promise of | near mear for at is dark. Lob. And light | |
| Provision. | your mech. Jeldy! And this is what you'll say.2 | |
| Waaaaaa. Tch! Sluice! Pla! And their, redneck, | ||
| (for addn't we to gayatsee with Puhl the Pun- | ||
| kah's bell?) mygh and thy, the living spit of | ||
| dead waters, 3 fastness firm of Hurdlebury Fenn, | ||
| discinct and isoplural in its (your sow to | ||
| the duble) sixuous parts, flument, fluvey and | ||
| fluteous, midden wedge of the stream's your | ||
| muddy old triagonal delta, fiho miho, plain | ||
| for you now, appia lippia pluvaville, (hop the | ||
| hula, girls!) the no niggard spot of her safety | ||
| vulve, first of all usquiluteral threeingles, (and | ||
| why wouldn't she sit cressloggedlike the lass | ||
| that lured a tailor?) the constant of fluxion, | ||
| Mahamewetma, pride of the province 4 and | ||
| when that tidled boare rutches up from the | ||
| Afrantic, allaph quaran's his bett und bier! 5 | ||
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| Ambages and | Paa lickam laa lickam, apl lpa! This it is an her. | |
| Their Rôle. | You see her it. Which it whom you see it is | |
| her. And if you could goaneggbetter we'd soon | ||
| see some raffant scrumala riffa. Quicks herit | ||
| fossyending. Quef! So post that to your pape | ||
| and smarket! And you can haul up that languil | ||
| pennant, mate. I've read your tunc's . | ||
| For, let it be taken that her littlenist is of no | ||
| magnetude or again let it be granted that Doll | ||
| the laziest can be dissimulant with all respects | ||
| from Doll the fiercst, thence must any what- | ||
| youlike in the power of empthood be either | ||
| Ecclasiastical | greater THaN or less THaN the unitate we | |
| and Celestial | have in one or hence shall the vectorious ready- | |
| Hierarchies. The | eyes of evertwo circumflicksrent searclhers | |
| Ascending. The | never film in the elipsities of their gyribouts | |
| Descending. | those fickers which are returnally reprodictive | |
| of themselves. 1 Which is unpassible. Quarrel- | ||
| lary. The logos of somewome to that base any- | ||
| thing, when most characteristically mantissa | ||
| minus, comes to nullum in the endth: 2 orso, | ||
| here is nowet badder than the sin of Aha with | ||
| his cosin Lil, verswaysed on coverswised, and | ||
| all that's consecants and cotangincies till Per- | ||
| perp stops repippinghim since her redtangles | ||
| are all abscissan for limitsing this tendency of | ||
| our Frivulteeny Sexuagesima 3 to expense her- | ||
| The peripatetic | selfs as sphere as possible, paradismic peri- | |
| periphery. It's | mutter, in all directions on the bend of the | |
| Allothesis. | unbridalled, the infinisissimalls of her facets | |
| becoming manier and manier as the calicolum | ||
| of her umdescribables (one has thoughts of | ||
| that eternal Rome) shrinks from schurtiness | ||
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| to scherts. 1 Scholium, there are trist sigheds to | ||
| everysing but ichs on the freed brings euchs to | ||
| the feared. Qued? Mother of us all! O, dear | ||
| me, look at that now! I don't know is it your | ||
| spictre or my omination but I'm glad you | ||
| dimentioned it! My Lourde! My Lourde! If | ||
| that aint just the beatenest lay I ever see! And | ||
| a superpbosition! Quoint a quincidence! O.K. | ||
| Canine Venus | Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall | |
| sublimated to | sayed when he slepped ueber his grannya- | |
| Aulidic | mother. Kangaroose feathers: Who in the name | |
| Aphrodite. | of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt? | |
| But you're holy mooxed and gaping up the | ||
| wrong palce 2 as if you was seeheeing the gheist | ||
| that stays forenenst, you blessed simpletop | ||
| domefool! Where's your belested loiternan's | ||
| lamp? You must lap wandret down the bluish- | ||
| ing refluction below. Her trunk's not her brain- | ||
| box. Hear where the bolgylines, Yseen here the | ||
| puncture. So he done it. Luck! See her good. | ||
| Exclusivism: the | Well, well, well, well! O dee, O dee, that's | |
| Ors, Sors and | very lovely! We like Simperspreach Hammel- | |
| Fors, which? | tones to fellow Selvertunes O'Haggans. 3 When | |
| he rolls over his ars and shows the hise of his | ||
| heels. Vely lovely entilely! Like a yangsheep- | ||
| slang with the tsifengtse. So analytical plaus- | ||
| ible! And be the powers of Moll Kelly, neigh- | ||
| bour topsowyer, it will be a lozenge to me all | ||
| my lauffe. 4 More better twofeller we been speak | ||
| copperads. Ever thought about Guinness's? | ||
| And the regrettable Parson Rome's advice? | ||
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| Want to join the police. 1 You know, you were | ||
| always one of the bright ones, since a foot | ||
| made you an unmentionable, fakes! You know, | ||
| you're the divver's own smart gossoon, aequal | ||
| to yoursell and wanigel to anglyother, so you | ||
| are, hoax! You know, you'll be dampned, so | ||
| you will, one of these invernal days but you | ||
| will be, carrotty! 2 | ||
| Primanouriture | Wherapool, gayet that when he stop look | SICK US A |
| and Ultimo- | time he stop long ground who here hurry he | SOCK WITH |
| geniture. | would have ever the lothst word, with a sweet | SOME SEDI- |
| me ah err eye ear marie to reat from the jacob's 3 | MENT IN IT | |
| and a shypull for toothsake of his armjaws | FOR THE | |
| at the slidepage of de Vere Foster, would and | SAKE OF OUR | |
| could candykissing P. Kevin to fress up the | DARNING | |
| rinnerung and to ate by hart (leo I read, such a | WIVES. | |
| spanish, escribibis, all your mycoscoups) wont | ||
| to nibbleh ravenostonnoriously ihs mum to | ||
| me in bewonderment of his chipper chuthor | ||
| for, while that Other by the halp of his creac- | ||
| tive mind offered to deleberate the mass from | ||
| the booty of fight our Same with the holp | ||
| of the bounty of food sought to delubberate | ||
| the mess from his corructive mund, with his | ||
| muffetee cuffes ownconsciously grafficking | ||
| with his sinister cyclopes after trigamies and | ||
| spirals' wobbles pursuiting their rovinghamil- | ||
| ton selves and godolphing in fairlove to see | ||
| around the waste of noland's browne jesus 4 | ||
| (thur him no quartos!) till that on him poorin | ||
| No Sturm. No | sweat the juggaleer's veins (quench his quill!) | |
| Drang. | in his napier scrag stud out bursthright tam- | |
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| Illustration. | quam taughtropes. (Spry him! call a blood | |
| lekar! Where's Dr Brassenaarse?) Es war itwas | ||
| in his priesterrite. O He Must Suffer! From this | ||
| misbelieving feacemaker to his noncredible | ||
| fancyflame.1 Ask for bosthoon, late for Mass, | ||
| pray for blaablaablack sheep. (Sure you could | ||
| wright anny pippap passage, Eye bet, as foyne | ||
| as that moultylousy Erewhig, yerself, mick! | ||
| Nock the muddy nickers! 2 Christ's Church | ||
| varses Bellial!) Dear and he went on to scripple | ||
| Ascription of the | gentlemine born, milady bread, he would pen | |
| Active. | for her, he would pine for her, 3 how he would | |
| patpun fun for all 4 with his frolicky frowner | ||
| so and his glumsome grinner otherso. And how | ||
| are you, waggy? 5 My animal his sorrafool! | ||
| And trieste, ah trieste ate I my liver! Se non é | ||
| vero son trovatore. O jerry! He was soso, harriot | ||
| all! He was sadfellow, steifel! He was mister- | ||
| mysterion. Like a purate out of pensionee with | ||
| a gouvernament job. All moanday, tearsday, | ||
| wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till | ||
| the fear of the Law. Look at this twitches! | ||
| He was quisquis, floored on his plankraft of | ||
| shittim wood. Look at him! Sink deep or | ||
| Proscription of | touch not the Cartesian spring! Want more | |
| the Passive. | ashes, griper? How diesmal he was lying low | |
| on his rawside laying siege to goblin castle. | ||
| And, bezouts that, how hyenesmeal he was | ||
| laying him long on his laughside lying sack | ||
| to croakpartridge. (Be thou wars Rolaf's intes- | ||
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| tions, quoths the Bhagavat biskop Leech) Ann | ||
| opes tipoo soon ear! If you could me lendtill | ||
| my pascol's kondyl, sahib, and the price of a | ||
| plate of poultice. Punked. With best apolojigs | ||
| and merrymoney thanks to self for all the | ||
| Ensouling Fe- | clerricals and again begs guerdon for bistris- | |
| male Sustains | pissing on your bunificence. Well wiggy- | |
| Agonising Over- | wiggywagtail, and how are you, yaggy? With | |
| man. | a capital Tea for Thirst. From here Buvard to | |
| dear Picuchet. Blott. | ||
| Now, (peel your eyes, my gins, and brush | WHEN THE | |
| your saton hat, me elementator joyclid, son of | ANSWERER | |
| a Butt! She's mine, Jow low jure, 1 be Skibber- | IS A LEMAN. | |
| ing's eagles, sweet tart of Whiteknees Arch- | ||
| way) watch him, having caught at the bi- | ||
| furking calamum in his bolsillos, the onelike | ||
| underworp he had ever funnet without diffi- | ||
| cultads, the aboleshqvick, signing away in | ||
| Sesama to the | happinext complete, (Exquisite Game of in- | |
| Rescues. The | spiration! I always adored your hand. So could | |
| Key Signature. | I too and without the scrope of a pen. Ohr for | |
| oral, key for crib, olchedolche and a lunge ad | ||
| lib. Can you write us a last line? From Smith- | ||
| Jones-Orbison?) intrieatedly in years, jirry- | ||
| alimpaloop. And i Romain, hup u bn gd grl. 2 | ||
| Unds alws my thts. To fallthere at bare feet | ||
| hurryaswormarose. Two dies of one raffle- | ||
| ment. Eche bennyache. Outstamp and dis- | ||
| tribute him at the expanse of his society. To | ||
| be continued. Anon. | ||
| And ook, ook, ook, fanky! All the charic- | ALL SQUARE | |
| tures 3 in the drame! This is how San holy- | AND | |
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| polypools. And this, pardonsky! is the way | ACCORDING | |
| Romeopullupalleaps. 1 Pose the pen, man, | TO COCKER. | |
| way me does. Way ole missa vellatooth fust | ||
| show me how. Fourth power to her illpogue! | ||
| Force Centres of | Bould strokes for your life! Tip! This is Steal, | |
| the Fire Serpen- | this is Barke, this is Starn, this is Swhipt, this is | |
| tine: heart, | Wiles, this is Pshaw, this is Doubbllinnbbay- | |
| throat, navel, | yates. 2 This is brave Danny weeping his spache | |
| spleen, sacral, | for the popers. This is cool Connolly wiping | |
| fontanella, inter- | his hearth with brave Danny. And this, regard! | |
| temporal eye. | how Chawleses Skewered parparaparnelligoes | |
| Conception of the | between brave Danny boy and the Connolly. | |
| Compromise and | Upanishadem! Top. Spoken hath L'arty Ma- | |
| Finding of a | gory. Eregob ragh. Prouf! 3 | |
| Formula. | And Kev was wreathed with his pother. | TROTHBLOWERS. |
| But, (that Jacoby feeling again for fore- | FIG AND | |
| bitten fruit and, my Georgeous, Kevvy too he | THISTLE | |
| just loves his puppadums, I judge!) after all his | PLOT A PIG | |
| autocratic writings of paraboles of famellicurbs | AND WHISTLE. | |
| and meddlied muddlingisms, thee faroots hof | ||
| Ideal Present | cullchaw end ate citrawn woodint wun able | |
| Alone Produces | rep of the triperforator awlrite blast through | |
| Real Future. | his pergaman hit him where he lived and do for | |
| the blessted selfchuruls, what I think, smarter | ||
| like it done for a manny another unpious of | ||
| the hairydary quare quandary firstings till at | ||
| length, you one bladdy bragger, by mercy- | ||
| stroke he measured his earth anyway? could | ||
| not but recken in his adder's badder cadder | ||
| way our frankson who, to be plain, he fight | ||
| him all time twofeller longa kill dead finish | ||
| bloody face blong you, was misocain. Wince | ||
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| wan's won! Rip! 1 And his countinghands | ||
| rose. | ||
| Formalisa. Loves deathhow simple! | WITH EBONISER. | |
| Slutningsbane. 2 | IN PIX. | |
| Service super- | Thanks eversore much, Pointcarried! I can't | EUCHRE |
| seding self. | say if it's the weight you strike me to the | RISK, MERCI |
| quick or that red mass I was looking at but at | BUCKUP, AND | |
| the present momentum, potential as I am, I'm | MIND WHO | |
| seeing rayingbogeys rings round me. Honours | YOU'RE | |
| to you and may you be commended for our | PUCKING, | |
| exhibitiveness! I'd love to take you for a | FLEBBY. | |
| bugaboo ride and play funfer all if you'd only | ||
| sit and be the ballasted bottle in the porker | ||
| barrel. You will deserve a rolypoly as long | ||
| as from here to tomorrow. And to hell with | ||
| them driftbombs and bottom trailers! If my | ||
| maily was bag enough I'd send you a toxis. | ||
| By Saxon Chromaticus, you done that lovely | ||
| for me! Didn't he now, Nubilina? Tiny Mite, | ||
| she studiert whas? With her listeningin coif- | ||
| fure, her dream of Endsland's daylast and the | ||
| glorifires of being presainted maid to majesty. 3 | ||
| And less is the pity for she isn't the lollypops | ||
| she easily might be if she had for a sample | ||
| Virginia's air of achievement. That might | ||
| Catastrophe and | keep her from throwing delph. 4 As I was saying, | |
| Anabasis. | while retorting thanks, you make me a reborn | |
| The rotary pro- | of the cards. We're offals boys ambows. 5 | |
| cessus and its | For I've flicked up all the crambs as they | |
| reestablishment | crumbed from your table um, singing glory | |
| of reciprocities. | allaloserem, cog it out, here goes a sum. So | |
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| read we in must book. It tells. He prophets | ||
| most who bilks the best. | ||
| And that salubrated sickenagiaour of yaours | COME SI | |
| have teaspilled all my hazeydency. Forge away, | COMPITA | |
| Sunny Sim! Sheepshopp. Bleating Goad, it is | CUNCTITI- | |
| the least of things, Eyeinstye! Imagine it, my | TITILATIO? | |
| deep dartry dullard! It is hours giving, not | CONKERY | |
| more. I'm only out for celebridging over the | CUNK, | |
| guilt of the gap in your hiscitendency. You are | THIGH- | |
| a hundred thousand times welcome, old wort- | THIGHT- | |
| sampler, hellbeit you're just about as culpable | TICKELLY- | |
| The Twofold | as my woolfell merger would be. In effect I | THIGH, LIG- |
| Truth and the | could engage in an energument over you till | GERILAG, |
| Conjunctive Ap- | you were republicly royally toobally prussic | TITTERITOT, |
| petites of Oppo- | blue in the shirt after.1 Trionfante di bestia! And | LEG IN A TEE, |
| sitional Orexes. | if you're not your bloater's kipper may I never | LUG IN A |
| curse again on that pint I took of Jamesons. | LAW, TWO | |
| Old Keane now, you're rod, hook and sinker, | AT A TIE, | |
| old jubalee Keane! Biddy's hair. Biddy's hair, | THREE ON A | |
| mine lubber. Where is that Quin but he sknows | THRICKY | |
| it knot but what you that are my popular end- | TILL OHIO | |
| phthisis were born with a solver arm up your | OHIO | |
| Trishagion. | sleep. Thou in shanty! Thou in scanty shanty!! | IOIOMISS. |
| Thou in slanty scanty shanty!!! Bide in your | ||
| hush! Bide in your hush, do! The law does | ||
| not aloud you to shout. I plant my penstock | ||
| in your postern, chinarpot. Ave! And let it be | ||
| to all remembrance. Vale. Ovocation of maid- | ||
| ing waters. 2 For auld lang salvy steyne. I | ||
| defend you to champ my scullion's praises. | ||
| To book alone belongs the lobe. Foremaster's | ||
| meed 3 will mark tomorrow, when we are | ||
| making pilscrummage to whaboggeryin with | ||
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| staff, scarf and blessed wallet and our aureoles | ||
| round our neckkandcropfs where as and when | ||
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| Adaptation. | With this laudable purpose in loud ability let | |
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| many manducabimus. 2 We've had our day at triv | GUBERNANT | |
| and quad and writ our bit as intermidgets. Art, | URBIS | |
| literature, politics, economy, chemistry, human- | TERROREM. | |
| Cato. | ity, &c. Duty, the daughter of discipline, the | |
| Nero. | Great Fire at the South City Markets, Belief in | |
| Saul. Aristotle. | Giants and the Banshee, A Place for Every- | |
| Julius Caesar. | thing and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen | |
| Pericles. | Mightier than the Sword? A Successful Career | |
| Ovid. | in the Civil Service, 3 The Voice of Nature in | |
| Adam, Eve. | the Forest, 4 Your Favorite Hero or Heroine, | |
| Domitian. Edipus. | On the Benefits of Recreation, 5 If Standing | |
| Socrates. | Stones Could Speak, Devotion to the Feast of | |
| Ajax. | the Indulgence of Portiuncula, The Dublin | |
| Metropolitan Police Sports at Ballsbridge, De- | ||
| Homer. | scribe in Homely Anglian Monosyllables the | |
| Wreck of the Hesperus, 6 What Morals, if any, | ||
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| Alcibiades. | you Approve of our Existing Parliamentary | |
| Lucretius. | System? The Uses and Abuses of Insects, A | |
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| Horace. Isaac. | tages of the Penny Post, When is a Pun not a | |
| Tiresias. | Pun? Is the Co-Education of Animus and | |
| Marius. | Anima Wholly Desirable? 1 What Happened at | |
| Diogenes. | Clontarf? Since our Brother Johnathan Signed | |
| Procne, Philo- | the Pledge or the Meditations of Two Young | |
| mela. Abraham. | Spinsters, 2 Why we all Love our Little Lord | |
| Nestor. Cincin- | Mayor, Hengler's Circus Entertainment, On | |
| natus. Leonidas. | Thrift, 3 The Kettle-Griffith-Moynihan Scheme | |
| Jacob. | for a New Electricity Supply, Travelling in the | |
| Theocritus. | Olden Times, 4 American Lake Poetry, the | |
| Joseph. | Strangest Dream that was ever Halfdreamt. 5 | |
| Fabius. Samson. | Circumspection, Our Allies the Hills, Are | |
| Cain. | Parnellites Just towards Henry Tudor? Tell a | |
| Esop. | Friend in a Chatty Letter the Fable of the | |
| Prometheus. | Grasshopper and the Ant, 6 Santa Claus, The | |
| Lot. Pompeius Magnus, | Shame of Slumdom, The Roman Pontiffs | |
| Miltiades Strategos. | and the Orthodox Churches, 7 The Thirty | |
| Solon. | Hour Week, Compare the Fistic Styles of | |
| Castor, Pollux. | Jimmy Wilde and Jack Sharkey, How to | |
| Dionysius. | Understand the Deaf, Should Ladies learn | |
| Sappho. | Music or Mathematics? Glory be to Saint | |
| Moses. Job. | Patrick! What is to be found in a Dustheap, | |
| Catilina. | The Value of Circumstantial Evidence, | |
| Cadmus. Ezekiel. | Should Spelling? Outcasts in India, Collecting | |
| Solomon. Themistocles. | Pewter, Eu, 8 Proper and Regular Diet | |
| Vitellius. Darius. | Necessity For, 9 If You Do It Do It Now. | |
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..."As we there are where are we are we there
haltagain. By recourse, of course, recoursing from tomtittot to teetootomtotalitarian."... (So the phrase got lost either on the (missing) typescript and proofs for transition No.23, July 1935, or on the marked transition pages for the typesetter of Storiella.) (Robbert-Jan Henkes, 10 April 2001).unde (l) - where + et (l) - and + ubi (l) - when + unde et ubi (l) - whence and where.
tomtit - a common name of the Blue Titmouse (Parus cæruleus); transf. applied to a little man or boy + Tom Tit Tot - book by E. Clodd about primitive religions + tot - a very small or tiny child.
teetotum - a very little person; a four-sided disk spun in a game of chance + teetotal - absolute, complete, perfect, entire. (More emphatic than total) + totalitarian - an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government.
cap - to pass the comprehension of; to puzzle, bring to one's wit's end
hook - to attach oneself or be attached with or as with a hook; to catch hold of and draw as with a hook + hook and eye (Slang) - arm in arm.
hike - a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
pint - a measure of capacity for liquids, equal to half a quart or 18 of a gallon; a pint of ale or beer, or other liquor + pint of porter place - Earwicker's public house.
shot - a supply or amount of
drink (obs.) + "why do I am alook alike two poss of porterpease? And: Shut! says
the wicked, handwording her madesty."
Maurice Behan ('S) and
his version of Ain Soph
Romish - belonging, pertaining, or adhering to Rome in respect of religion; Roman Catholic + rawmaish (Anglo-Irish) - romance or fiction, foolish nonsense, brainless talk (from Irish: ráiméis) + raw meat.
girlish - of or pertaining to a girl or to girlhood + Gaedhealg (gelg) (gael) - Irish language + garlic.
teanga (t'one)
(gael) - tongue, language
Herod - king of Judæa (b.c. 74 - 4). He was described as "a madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis." He is also known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and other parts of the ancient world. He suffered from a gangrenous skin infection at the time of his death. Others report that the visible worms and putrefaction described in his final days are likely to have been scabies.
Cromwell + Mark of
Cornwall.
eczema - 'an acute, or chronic, non-contagious, simple inflammation of the skin, characterized by the presence of itching papules and vesicles which discharge a serous fluid, or dry up' (Syd. Soc. Lex.). There are many kinds of eczema; a form occurring in cattle (E. epizooticum), is known as 'the foot and mouth disease'.
go for
snuffler - a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus); one who speaks through the nose; one who uses cant
canary - canary-bird; an informer, a stool pigeon + blue canary - an emergency worker (especially a police officer or first responder) whose death alerts other personnel to a hazardous situation; Etymological Note: From the use of canaries in coal mines, whose death would alert miners to the presence of dangerous gases + Mobsters would kill someone and place a dead canary next to the body to signify that the victim was a "stool pigeon" or a rat + 'Twas off the Blue Canaries (song).
beaver - a shade of brown resembling that of the fur of a beaver; a beard; the female genitals or the pubic area in general
itinerary - a line or course of travel, a route; a book describing a route by land or sea, or tracing the course of the roads in a region or district, with measurements of distance, accounts of places and objects of interest, and other information for travellers.
particular - pertaining or relating to a single definite thing or person, or set of things or persons, as distinguished from others; special; not general
universal - Logic and Philos. That which is predicated or asserted of all the individuals or species of a class or genus, or of many things which are regarded as forming a class; an abstract or general concept regarded either as having an absolute, mental, or nominal existence + (particular and universal propositions are opposites in logic).
whence - from what place or origin or source + FDV: So let us follow them quick lunch. Down Livy Lane, along Mezzofanti Mall, then across Lavatery Square, up Tycho Brahe Terrace, along Isaac Newton Avenue through S. Catechista's gate till we find ourselves (hoult!) in Guild Circus with memorability mosoleum Length Without Breath of one who is more Mob than Man. (The germ of this chapter is the section published as the "Muddest Thick That Was Ever Heard Dump" and called by Joyce the "triangle.")
quick lunch
'quick march... by the
left' (army) + SDV:
menly = meanly + mainly - for the most part; in the main + MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE - London weekly, known as "M.A.P.," published 1898-1911 by Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, Irish politician and journalist.
peeble - obs. forms of pebble, piece + "peebles in the Play" is an ancient ballad which Percy didn't include in his Reliques because it was too obsolete. Peebles is a place in Scotland. A note in Buffalo Workbook #10 suggests it may have to do with Sligo.
Mezzofanti - the name of Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774-1849), an Italian cardinal who was master of more than fifty languages, used to denote a person of exceptional linguistic ability.
mall - a sheltered walk serving as a promenade; in some towns adopted as a proper name
diagonalize - to move in a diagonal + (AL forms the diagonal of the APLπ square [293.12]).
lavatory - a room equipped with toilet facilities + Lavater, Johann Kaspar (1741-1801) - Swiss poet and physiognomist.
Tycho Brahe - Danish
astronomer whose work in developing astronomical instruments and in measuring and fixing
the positions of stars paved the way for future discoveries.
crescent - a row of houses built in the form of the inner bow of a crescent moon or arc of a circle + (continue up to π).
mercery - a term for expensive fabrics (silk, linen, and fustian textiles) + MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL - At Eceles Street and Berkeley Road (Mulligan works there) + Mercury - Roman god of merchants, thieves, money, etc., etc., identified with Hermes and Thoth. As Shaun walks the Via Dolorosa backward in III,i ii, he is always illustrating some attribute of backward-walking Mercury-Hermes-Thoth, and, therefore, the naming of the god gives no notion of how he dominates the material. In Ulysses, Mulligan is Mercury, and so is, in part, one of the models for Shaun. (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake).
dripping - having liquid falling off in drops + Joyce's note: 'drippy nipples' ('y' replaces a cancelled 'ing') → Crawford: Back to the Long Grass 107: 'stubby little milch goats waddling along with dripping nipples'.
shoulder - Of inanimate things: To form a shoulder, project as a shoulder.
Berkeley George
retch - to throw up in vomiting + Solfa: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do.
down and out - completely
without resources or means of livelihood; absolutely 'done'
quer (ger) - across
Gainsborough Thomas
carfax - a place where four roads or streets meet (sometimes extended to more than four); the 'Four Arts': music, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy.
Guido d'Arezzo
gateway - a frame or arch in which a gate is hung; a structure built at or over a gate, for ornament or defence + gade (Danish) - street.
while - to pass or get through (a vacant time), esp. by some idle or trivial occupation
whither - to move with force or impetus, to rush
before + fahr (ger) - ride.
fear (Irish)
- man
slavish - of, belonging to, or characteristic of, a slave; befitting a slave; servile, abject
filial - of or pertaining to a son or daughter
montan - obs. form of mountain
wetting (Slang) - fucking
+ wedding.
moll - a prostitute; gen., a girl, woman; a girl-friend or sweetheart, esp. of a criminal
enthusiast - one who is full of 'enthusiasm' for a cause or principle, or who enters with enthusiasm into a pursuit
cuckle - dial. var of cockle (n.) + cuddling.
hoyden - a rude, or ill-bred girl (or woman); a boisterous noisy girl, a romp
floodlight - a light providing a beam of intense illumination
exponent - he who or that which sets forth as a representative or type, as a symbol or index
rougy - full of, sprinkled with, rouge; resembling rouge (a fine red powder prepared from safflower, and used as a cosmetic to give an artificial colour to the cheeks or lips) + (red).
Chink - a Chinaman (yellow)
minx - a pert girl, hussy (now often merely playful)
jupe - a woman's skirt; a woman's jacket, kirtle, or bodice + jade - a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green; a term of reprobation applied to a woman. Also used playfully, like hussy or minx.
blouse - a loosely-fitting bodice worn by women and girls, usually tucked inside the skirt at the waist + Bluse (ger) - blouse + blue.
index - to furnish (the parts of a diagram) with different symbols to facilitate identification in the accompanying description + indigo.
violets
ludo - a game, played with dice and counters on a special board + ludo (l) - I play + (strip poker).
fetching - alluring, fascinating, pleasing
clingaround corset
(Joyce's note)
fjell (Norwegian) = fjäll (
wist - attentive, intent
whirr - a continuous vibratory sound, such as that made by the rapid fluttering of a bird's or insect's wings, by a wheel turning swiftly, or by a body rushing through the air.
whin = whinstone - a name for various very hard dark-coloured rocks or stones, as greenstone, basalt, chert, or quartzose sandstone
hum - to make a low continuous murmuring sound or note, as a bee or other insect
howe - an exclamation to attract attention, etc.; tumulus, barrow, burial mound; how
tide - any definite time in the course of the day; a suitable, favourable, or proper time or occasion + time (Teems of times and happy returns, the seim anew, ordovico or viricordo motif)
haply - 'by hap'; by chance or accident; perhaps, perchance
trumpeted - sounded on a trumpet; fig. celebrated as with a trumpet, greatly extolled or boasted of; furnished with a trumpet (or something likened to one).
prawn - a small long-tailed decapod marine crustacean (Palæmon serratus), larger than a shrimp; a figure of a prawn as an ornament
ensign - to mark with a distinctive sign or badge
seakale - a cruciferous plant, Crambe maritima, found wild on the shores of western Europe, and often cultivated for its young shoots + Siegel (ger) - seal.
befind - to find, discover; In pass., 'To be found' = to be
mate - to marry, to join in marriage; to join suitably with + (incest).
con - to get to know; to study or learn, esp. by repetition
cone - a solid figure or body, of which the base is a circle, and the summit a point, and every point in the intervening surface is in a straight line between the vertex and the circumference of the base + Pyramids of Giza - the oldest of the wonders and the only one of the seven substantially in existence today.
meditate - to muse over or reflect upon; to consider, study, ponder. Now rare.
mure - to block up, or build up (a door, gate, etc.), by means of bricks and mortar, stones, etc. + mur (fr) - wall + Pharos of Alexandria - the most famous lighthouse of the ancient world, built for Ptolemy II of Egypt about 280 BC on the island of Pharos off Alexandria.
pensilis (l) - hanging down, pendent + Hanging Gardens of Babylon - a series of landscaped terraces ascribed to either Queen Sammu-ramat or King Nebuchadrezzar II.
ogle - to eye with amorous, admiring, or insinuating glances
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- a large, ornate figure of the god on his throne, made about 430 BC by Phidias
of Athens
Temple of Artemis
at Ephesus - a structure famous for its imposing size and for the
works of art that adorned it + Arthemis - in Greek religion, the goddess
of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and of chastity and childbirth; she was
identified by the Romans with Diana.
cachinnate - to laugh loudly or immoderately + (defecate).
Colossus of Rhodes - a huge bronze statue built at the harbour of Rhodes in commemoration of the
raising of the siege of Rhodes (305-304 BC) + cul (fr) - arse.
Mausoleum of
Halicarnassus - monumental tomb of the Anatolian king Mausolus built by his
widow Artemisia
Euclid: Elements:
'A line is length without breadth'
Sweeney - the
name of Sweeney Todd, a barber who murdered his customers and converted them
into pork pies, the central character of a play
by George Dibdin Pitt (1799-1855), and of later plays. The main piece of English Grand Guignol is
Sweeney Tod, the Demon Barber.
daimon - a direct transliteration of Gr. daamwn divinity, one's genius or demon + daimon (gr) - deity, spirit, demon.
barbar - barbarian (a rude, wild, uncivilized person)
chump - a short thick lump of wood chopped or sawn off from timber; a man as unintelligent as a chump of wood; a block, blockhead + SDV: to befinding ourselves, when old is sad and one, afore a mosoleum, Length without Breath, of Him, a chip off the evums who is more mob than Man.
aevum (l) - never-ending
time, eternity + heavens + Joyce's note: 'Eve f - by ape'.
upshoot = upshot (obs.) - the result, issue, or conclusion (of some course of action, etc.)
stupor - a state of mental stupefaction; apathy or torpor of mind (now only, torpor or prostration of mind due to sorrow, painful surprise, or the like)
sopor - a deep, lethargic, or unnatural sleep or state of sleep
Cave of Kids - allusion to
childhood of Zeus (the infant Zeus was hidden in a cave on Mount Ida in Crete,
and suckled by the she-goat Amaltheia)
Glastonbury - town ("parish"), Mendip district, county of Somerset, England. The Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary at Glastonbury was perhaps the oldest and certainly one of the richest in England. In 1191 the supposed grave of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, the legendary rulers of post-Roman Britain, was discovered in the cemetery at Glastonbury; and the bones found there were reinterred in the abbey church + glatt (ger) - smooth, polished + Burg (ger) - castle.
denary - relating to the number ten; decimal; the number ten; a group of ten, a decad + Denary, danary (nursery rhyme).
tumuluous - forming a tumulus; tumular
chthonic - dwelling in or beneath the surface of the earth
ungodly - colloq. Outrageous, dreadful. Of persons: Not fearing or reverencing God; irreligious, impious, wicked.
Ardri - a head king + árd-rí (Irish) - high king
Cornwall + Cromwell
(sealing up Catholic confession boxes).
beeswax - to rub or polish with bees-wax
confession box =
confessional-box
mufti - a jurist who interprets Muslim religious law; plain clothes worn by any one who has a right to wear a uniform; esp. in phr. in mufti.
Kellywick - a castle
of Arthur in Cornwall
House of Commons - the
body of people, not ennobled, and represented by the Lower House of Parliament + House of Commons (Slang) - privy.
cake walk
Ireland
terra firma
anticipate - to look forward to, look for (an uncertain event) as certain + antecipiens (l) - receiving beforehand.
recognizance - Law. A bond or obligation, entered into and recorded before a court or magistrate, by which a person engages himself to perform some act or observe some condition (as to appear when called on, to pay a debt, or to keep the peace).
Dominic = Dominican - of or pertaining to St. Dominic or to the order of friars (and nuns) founded by him.
directus (l) - straight
+ dominium directum (l) - direct ownership (for Vico, an attribute of new
barbarism corresponding to Roman quiritary ownership).
manifest - clearly revealed to the eye, mind, or judgement; obvious
munificent - Of persons: Splendidly generous in gifts, bountiful
mob - the common mass of people + Yeats: Dramatis Personae XIV: (of George Moore) 'I told him that he was more mob than man'.
Ainsoph (or En Soph) -
in Kabbahist doctrine, the god who is boundless, beyond thought or being. To make himself comprehensible, he created the universe
by means of the ten Sephiroth or intelligences.
(God in wine in Mass)
besigh - to sigh over + beside
heroine - the principal female character in a poem, story, or play + one beside zero - ten (Cabbalist symbol for God).
horoscope - Astrol. An observation of the sky and the configuration of the planets at a certain moment, as at the instant of a person's birth.
mercurious - Of persons: Born under the planet Mercury; having the qualities supposed to proceed from such a nativity, as eloquence, ingenuity, aptitude for commerce + mehr (ger) - more + kurios (ger) - strange, odd + kurios (gr) - lord.
Salz (ger) - salt + mercury
(TRISTAN), salt (SHAUN), sulphur (SHEM) → Blavatsky: Isis
Unveiled I.309: (of alchemists) 'man, in their eyes, is a trinity, which they
divide into Sol, water of mercury, and sulphur, which is the secret fire, or, to
speak plain, into body, soul, and spirit'.
Psalms 91:5-6: 'Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night... not for the
destruction that wasteth at noonday'.
cryptogram - anything written in cipher, or in such a form or order that a key is required in order to know how to understand and put together the letters
parable - any saying or narration in which something is expressed in terms of something else; an allegory, an apologue
heaventalk - allusion
to Homer (topographical names in Iliad and Odyssey are frequently
dual, e.g. the stream Xanthos "so called by gods, by men
Scamander.") (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake)
+ Joyce's note: 'Trist speaks broken Anglo-Ir'.
soto voce - privately,
very softly + ottovoce (it) - in a soft voice (literally 'under voice') + poce (Italian
decan - a chief or ruler of ten; dean; Astrol. The chief or ruler of ten parts, or ten degrees, of a zodiacal sign + the dickens! - an interjectional exclamation expressing astonishment, impatience, irritation, etc.; usually with interrogative words, as what, where, how, why, etc. + deka (gr) - ten + decans - thirty-six divisions of zodiac in Chaldean astrology.
decent + decem (l) - ten + (ten questions; ten Sephiroth of the Kabbalah).
passage - an indefinite portion of a discourse or writing, usually of small or moderate length, taken by itself + Maitland: Life and Legends of St. Martin of Tours 72: 'when the Festival of the Saint's "Passage" (or passing into eternity) fell on a Saturday'.
upper - to or in a loftier place or position; higher, further up + over + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Chapelizod, a village partly in Palmerstown parish, Uppercross barony, but chiefly in the parish of the same name, Castleknock barony'.
prolegomenon - a preliminary discourse prefixed to a literary work; esp. a learned preface or preamble
sidereal - of or
relating to the stars or constellations
Yusuf (Arabic) -
Joseph + Joseph Smith founded Mormons.
belie - to lie near + buryingplace.
tidemark - indicator
consisting of a line at the high-water or low-water limits of the tides
go to hell + Göta Elv (Swedish) - "Gota River", River in SW
Sweden + Gott (ger) -
god + helf (ger) - help.
pearse - obs. form of pierce + please
dumb - to render dumb, silent, or unheard + I'll be damned!
love
drawers + (backwards,
mirror-like) 'O love, look in the glass and see who Izod tips with a sword'
or 'O love, look in the glass and see how Izod tips what words are'.
banjo - a stringed musical instrument, played with the fingers, having a head and neck like a guitar, and a body like a tambourine
bantam - a small variety of the domestic fowl, most breeds of which have feathered legs; fig. in reference to small size or 'cockiness'
born to fuck
hoo - to make the sound 'hoo!' + FDV: Who became He became Hoo caved in earthwight. At first thought fursht doom krach of thunder. Then she shoo, a his flutterby, / Was netted and named. / Ardnacrusher Erdnacrushar, requiestress, wake them! And let light luck's puresplutterall shine on cut of cod loosey lucy at ease! / To house which as wise fool ages builded. / Sow byg eat.
caved - to lodge or lurk in a cave
wight - a living being in general; a creature (obs.)
Furcht (ger) - fear + first
Krach (ger) - detonation, a sudden sharp and loud noise + kracht (ger) - crashes + kracht (Dutch) - force, strength + (according to Vico crash of thunder drove men into caves).
Godred Croven - Norseman who subdued Dublin and the Isle of Man
known in Manx folklore as King Gorse.
thinwalled - having thin walls + The elective branch of the ancient Manx legislature is called the "House of Keys"; the other branch is the Council, and sitting together the 2 branches constitute the Tynwald Court + tyn (Cornish) = tyn (Welsh) - tight, straight.
shoo - an exclamation used to frighten or drive away poultry, birds, or other intruders
Jespersen:
Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 150 (VIII.5): ''Marrowskying'
or 'Hospital Greek' transfers the initial letters of words, as... flutterby for
'butterfly''.
net - to take (fish, birds, etc.) with a net or nets
apis (l) - a bee + A + Apis, sacred bull of Memphis, is connected with luna and triple ALP. Apis was begotten by a ray of generative light flowing from the moon, and may have been drowned when aged twenty-eight, in imitation of the lunar cycle (McHugh, Roland / The sigla of Finnegans wake).
amatus (l) - to love + apis amat aram (l) - the bee loves the altar.
luna (l) - the moon; More fully luna-moth: A large moth of North America + L
legit (l) - he reads + luna legit librum (l) - the moon reads a book.
pulla (l) - chick, foal,
young animal + Pulla petit pascua (l) - Hen seeks the pastures +
P
ounce
tay (Irish Pronunciation)
- tea + of tea.
in the pot
earthquake + ARDNACRUSHA - Village on Shannon River, County Clare, West of Limerick. Ir. "Height of the Cross." Site of the main power station of the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme (completed 1929) + McH: Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis = Lord, grant them eternal rest and let perpetual light shine upon them (Mass for the Dead)
requiesce - to rest, repose
perpetual
at ease
dinner to shut
so be it - Formerly used as a
rendering of amen + byg - obs. form of big +
byg! (Danish) - build! + byg (Danish) - barley.
blistered - affected with blisters, covered with vesicles + blessed
Mary Akenhead founded Irish
Sisters of Charity
beautified - made beautiful; adorned, embellished
Talbot, Matt - Dublin laborer who put himself under the obligation of perpetual prayer, covered himself with ropes and cant chains, hung with religious medals, entered churches by crawling on his tummy.
gnosis - a special knowledge of spiritual mysteries
determination - direction or tendency to a certain end
agnostic - one who holds that the existence of anything beyond and behind material phenomena is unknown and (so far as can be judged) unknowable, and especially that a First Cause and an unseen world are subjects of which we know nothing + agnosia (gr) - ignorance, lack of knowledge.
determinism - the doctrine that everything that happens is determined by a necessary chain of causation
staplering - a snout-ring (a ring or staple placed in the nose of a hog to deter him from rooting)
tether - to make fast or confine with a tether
steppingstone - a raised stone on which the foot can be placed to facilitate a climb or ascent
quartanus (l) - of or
belonging to the fourth; occuring on the fourth day
"Staplering to tether to, steppingstone to mount by;
Boötes - the ploughman
constellation
PICKARDSTOWN -
Townland and village, North County Dublin, 6 miles North of Dublin. The Boot Inn was and still is in the
village.
skim milk - milk with the
cream skimmed off or otherwise removed + skimmel (Danish) - whitegrey horse (i.e.
milk-white horse) + melk (Dutch)
- milk.
steed - a great horse (as distinguished from a palfrey), a spirited horse for state or war + stood still.
outwall - the outer wall of any building or enclosure
booth - a temporary dwelling covered with boughs of trees or other slight materials
bás (Irish)
- death
balsam - a tree yielding balsam; balmy, deliciously fragrant; an aromatic vegetable juice
begge (Danish) - both
+ [058.16-.17]
ballyhoo - to cajole by extravagant advertisement or praise (after the manner of a barker) + BALLYHOURA MOUNTAINS - In County Cork, on Cork-Limerick border.
Bacchus - the god of wine; hence, wine, intoxicating liquor + By the Magazine Wall, zinzin, zinzin (motif).
On the floor level of
Mullingar House is a bellpull operating a doorbell which, on the evidence of
245.25-6, 262.26-7, and 560.13-15, is a source for 'Zinzin' sound echoing
through a book. (John Gordon: Finnegans Wake: a plot summary).
FDV:
ply - to use, handle, or wield vigorously or diligently (an instrument, tool, weapon)
wagtail (Slang) - whore
+ (publican makes money on raffles).
raffle - a form of lottery, in which an article is assigned by drawing or casting of lots
bibber - one who drinks frequently, a tippler
drang (ger) - to rush at
den - a small confined room or abode; esp. one unfit for human habitation
publican - one who keeps a public house; a keeper of an ale-house or tavern
turn - to keep passing in a course of exchange or traffick; to cause (money or commodities) to circulate
tin - money, cash + tin (Irish Pronunciation) - ten.
ten - a set of ten things or persons + FDV: The publican papplicom, the publican pubblicam, he's taking tilling tin for ten.
customer - one who frequents any place of sale for the sake of purchasing + Joyce's note: 'seldomers - frequently / drunk than sober'.
frequent - to visit or make use of (a place) often
erst - first in time or serial order (obs.)
crafty - skilful in devising and carrying out underhand or evil schemes; cunning, artful + eine erste Kraft (ger) - a good, well-qualified employee.
hake - a gadoid fish, Merlucius vulgaris, resembling the cod
assumed - taken to or upon oneself, appropriated, usurped; pretended, 'put on'
ignotus (l) - unknown + loquor (l) - to speak + ignotus loquor (l) - unknown I speak + Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of Jesuit order.
Theobaldus (d. 1161)
- archbishop of Canterbury 1138-1161 + Father Theobald Mathew - Irish temperance
advocate.
Aegyptus (l) - (1)
Egypt; (2) legendary king of Egypt, brother of Danaus. Had fifty sons espoused
to fifty daughters of Danaus.
foggy - not clear to one's mind, etc., dim, indistinct + 58
harangue - to make an address or speech to an assembly
ballyhoo - to cajole by extravagant advertisement or praise (after the manner of a barker); to advertise or praise extravagantly
drunk as a fish - very
drunk
stamping ground
hunter + Huntley and Palmer - English brand of cookies.
robed - wearing robes of a specified kind, as long-, loose-robed, etc. Also fig.
Cyrus - founder of the Persian
empire
shaw - a thicket, a small wood, copse or grove
miner - one who excavates the ground, or makes subterranean passages + minor
smallpox - the pox or pustules on the skin which form the most characteristic feature of the acute contagious disease sometimes called variola; hence commonly, the disease itself.
white man
blighty - affected with blight; blighted + blight - an eruption on the human skin consisting of minute reddish pimples.
blotchy - marred by discolored spots or blotches
beyond seas - out of the
country; abroad
Ostrogothic - rel. to East Goths
Ottomanic - rel. to former Turkish dynasty founded by Othman or Osman I., the branch of the Turks to which he belonged, or the Turkish empire ruled by his descendants.
converter - one who converts (another) to any faith, opinion, or party
pandemia = pandemic - a pandemic disease + Pandemia - epithet of Aphrodite + pandêmia (gr) - the whole people.
postmortem - after death + post-war.
plastic surgeon
it
Hispano- - Spanish
Cathayan - Chinese
BLACK SEA - Aka Euxine,
ancient Pontus Euxinus, the sea between Europe and Asia.
Castilian - of or pertaining to Castile; a native of Castile; the language of that province, hence, standard Spanish, as distinct from any provincial dialect
Hebridean - of or pertaining to the Hebrides, a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland
Espanol (sp) - Spanish
Cymric - of or pertaining to the Welsh people and language
Hellenic - of or pertaining to the Hellenes or Greeks, ancient or modern
Rolf the Ganger
booming - the emitting of a deep, resonant sound
cassowary
= thunder
fletch - to fit (an arrow) with a feather; to feather + fletcher - arrow-maker + flashes of lightning.
Mediterranean - a water area nearly or entirely surrounded by dry land; spec. the Mediterranean Sea.
Spice Islands (Slang) - privy
punt - a flat-bottomed shallow boat, broad and square at both ends + punt (Dutch) - point, full stop + PUNT (PUONI) - Ancient country, somewhere on East coast of Afrika; the Egyptians sent expeditions there to bring back incense, also gold.
pastime - that which serves to pass the time agreeably; recreation, entertainment (obs.)
past time
bygone - pl. Things that are past; esp. past offences + let bygones be bygones (phrase).
bei (it) - governor
gunne - obs. pa. tense of gin (v.);
obs. form of gun + Michael Gunn - manager of Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
Saaledes er det i denne vakre verden, mine børn (Danish)
- It is like that in this beautiful world, my children.
vild (Danish) -
wild + FDV:
cima (it) - top, peak + d'oro (it) - golden.
primal - chief, original, primitive + primus (l) - first.
alter - something (esp. another person) regarded as existing outside the self + alter (l) - the second of two.
idem - the same word, name, title, author, etc., as mentioned before: used to avoid repetition + idem (l) - the same + garden of Eden - abode of Adam and Eve at their creation, Paradise.
flask - a bottle, usually of glass, of spheroidal or bulbous shape, with a long narrow neck
saith - archaic past of say
emerald - Printing. The name of the size of type larger than nonpareil and smaller than minion; emerald-green; a precious stone of bright green colour; Hermes Trismegistus' works are sometimes called the Emerald Tables.
canticle - a song, properly a little song; a hymn
Hermes - in Greek mythology, a deity, the son of Zeus and Maia, represented as the messenger of the gods, the god of science, commerce, eloquence, and many of the arts of life; Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes thrice-greatest), the name given by the Neo-platonists and the devotees of mysticism and alchemy to the Egyptian god Thoth, regarded as more or less identified with the Grecian Hermes, and as the author of all mysterious doctrines, and especially of the secrets of alchemy.
non quod sed quia
(l) - not because but wherefore (quod and quia are virtual
synonyms) (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
loth - alternative form of loath + love and pleasure + FDV: The tasks above are as the flasks below, saith the Emerald Canticle of Hermes. And all is lath & plaster solarsystematized by that original sun.
inkbottle - vessel or receptacle for holding writing or printing ink
solar system - the sun
together with all the planets and other bodies connected with it
seriocomically - partly serious and partly comic
almightily - in an almighty manner
rhymeless - without rime, unrimed + rimeless (Archaic) - countless + without rhyme or reason (phrase).
original sin - (Theol.): the
innate depravity, corruption, or evil tendency of man's nature, in all individuals of the
human race, held to be inherited from Adam in consequence of the Fall.
securely - without danger; without risk of error + securus iudicat orbis terrarum (l) - free from care the circle of the lands judges; i.e., untroubled, the world judges (St. Augustine).
orb - to form or gather into an orb, disk, or globe; to surround or encircle
terrestrial - the terrestrial world, the earth (rare); a terrestrial being; esp. a human being
haud certo ergo
(l) - nothing certain, therefore; not at all certainly, therefore
gay Lothario - a libertine,
gay deceiver, rake (allusive use of the name of one of the characters in Rowe's Fair
Penitent) + Joyce's note: 'Arius = Luther'.
s[ine]
nob[ilitas] (l) - without nobility (fanciful etymology for
"snob") (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
extraord.
clothes heretics (Joyce's note) → Maitland: Life and Legends of St. Martin of Tours 52: 'Priscillian was dead, and
the Emperor... had dispatched soldiers... to slay the Priscillian heretics...
nothing short of indiscriminate slaughter... all pale persons, and all who wore
extraordinary attire, might be known for heretics'.
hearsay - that which one hears or has heard some one say; information received by word of mouth, usually with implication that it is not trustworthy + heresy in Paradise Lost (John Milton's "Paradise Lost" contains several heresies).
felicitous - characterized by felicity; Of persons: Happy or pleasantly apt in expression, manner, or style.
culpability - a state of guilt + O felix culpa! (Exsultet).
bad cess to
archetype - the original pattern or model from which copies are made; a prototype + architect + FDV: O felicitous culpability, bad cess to you for an archetypt!
commercio (l) - by
trade + commercio (it) - commerce.
archaic - marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; old-fashioned, primitive, antiquated
zelotypia - jealousy
odium theologicum -
(mod.L.) the hatred which proverbially characterizes theological dissensions
aid - to give help, support, or assistance to; to help, assist
proud - a proud person; pride (rare) + proud (Czech ) - stream, current, electric current + luckless bride.
ernst (ger) - serious
ALLSOP AND SONS - Ale
Stores, 30 Bachelor's Walk, around the turn of the century. Allsop's was a
British ale.
William Reginald
Halliday: Greek and Roman Folk Lore + holiday.
Hlyd-monath (Old English) - Loud month (March)
eclipse - Astron. An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it; as of the moon, by passing through the earth's shadow.
saturnine - pertaining to the planet Saturn (rare.); sluggish, cold, and gloomy in temperament
setting - the sinking of a heavenly body towards and below the horizon + *IJ* & *VYC*.
highbrowed - having a lofty forehead; intellectually superior
brook - a small stream,
rivulet + book of life - in
biblical language the record of the names of those who shall inherit eternal
life +
Revelation 20:12: 'the book of life'.
backfisch - a girl in late adolescence, a teenager + Backfish (ger) - teenager + frisch (ger) - fresh.
amnis (l) - river + amnis amnium (l) - river of rivers.
flumen (l) - river + fluminiculum flaminulorum (l) - streamlet of priestlings.
flamen (l) - wind; priest
Maitland: Life and Legends of St. Martin of Tours 75: 'One day a sick man came
to Marmoutier, to ask Saint Martin to cure him... "I want the Blessed One," said
the sick man'.
harbourer - one who harbours, shelters, or entertains; an entertainer, a host
cum (l) - with
inheritance - that which is inherited; a heritage
Canaan - the ancient proper name of Western Palestine, promised to the Children of Israel; hence fig. (esp. in hymns and devotional use) land of promise, land of heavenly rest across the Jordan of death, heaven; The ancestor of the Cannanites was Canaan, son of Ham, who was cursed by Noah and condemned to be the servant of Shem and Japheth (Gen 9:25-27).
hateful - full of hate, cherishing hatred, malignant; exciting hate; odious, obnoxious, repulsive; as n. A hateful thing. nonce-use + Genesis 9:25: 'Cursed be Canaan' (Noah's words after Ham had seen him naked).
sough - a rushing or murmuring sound as of wind, water, or the like, esp. one of a gentle or soothing nature; a deep sigh or breath + between sun and sun - from sunrise to sunset.
fossilization - the action or process of fossilizing; the conversion of vegetable and animal remains into fossils; the process of becoming, or state of having become, antiquated.
start naked
stiffboned + (birth and death) + (sex).
soddy - one who occupies or who has occupied a sod-house + sod - the surface of the ground, esp. when turfy or grass-covered; the sward + very sorry.
dood (Dutch) - dead
+ Jespersen: Language, its Nature,
Development and Origin 179
(X.6): 'saying dood... for 'good''.
petra (l) - stone
ulmus (l) - elm + Ulme (ger) - elm.
veiny - full of, having the nature of, veins or continuous passages
bag - pl. The stomach, entrails
balls - the testicles; fig. nonsense
latifundia - large estates; large plantations in Latin America
FDV:
sojourn - a temporary stay at a place; a place of temporary stay + subdiurnemus (l) - let us sojourn, let us stay.
Eblana - Ptolemy's name
for Dublin
lease - to grant the possession or use of (lands, etc.) by a lease
carr - a marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow
fen - low land covered wholly or partially with shallow water, or subject to frequent inundations
en amont (fr) - upstream +
living among.
shoal - a place where the water is of little depth; a shallow; a large number of fish, porpoises, seals, whales, etc. swimming together.
salmon + Salmenbräu - a brand of Swiss beer.
browse - young shoots and twigs of shrubs, trees, etc. + sea breeze - the cool wind that blows from the sea.
inshore - moving or directed in towards the shore
freshet - a small stream of fresh water (obs.); a stream or rush of fresh water flowing into the sea
broad - In East Anglia, an extensive piece of fresh water formed by the broadening out of a river.
phantom - a mental illusion; an image which appears in a dream, or which is formed or cherished in the mind + Gerald Griffin: The Phantom City (song).
fake - to feign or simulate
nephilim (Hebrew)
- giants (Genesis 6:4, Numbers 13:33) + film folk.
sould = sold + be bought
and sold - often fig., chiefly in sense: To be betrayed for a bribe.
manhood - men collectively; the adult male members of a population, nation, or the like + Earwickers of Sidlesham in the Hundred of Manhood [030.07-.08]
mac (Irish)
- son
muc (Irish)
- pig + 'Move up, Mick, make room for Dick' (Dublin graffito after Collins'
death, 1922, referring to Michael Collins, who accepted Treaty ratifying
Partition, and to Richard Mulcahy, his succesor) [012.24] [099.19] [593.14]
fylki (Old Norse) -
district + figures + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Chapelizod...
comprising an area of 63 acres. Population 1,280, inhabiting 255 houses'.
partitional - of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a partition + partition - term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the tenants.
twenty-six shillings
and six pence + Ireland has twenty-six southern and six northern counties
(Partition).
riverside - the side or bank of a river; the ground adjacent to, or stretching along, a river + REFERENCE
sunny - exposed to, illumined or warmed by, the rays of the sun
Marble Arch, London + I
Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls (song), cited in 'Clay', Dubliners.
Poolbeg lighthouse,
Dublin
buona vista
santa - a female saint
Rosa, St, of Lima - patron of the
impossible
lodge - Of a thing: To have its seat, 'reside', be placed. Now rare.
sainted - such as belongs to or befits a saint; sacred, holy
St Lawrence family - owners of Howth Castle and its environs. The founder of the family was Amory or
Armoricus Tristram, an Anglo-Norman invader who came from Brittany to Ireland, fought a battle on August 10 (feast
of St Lawrence, the Spaniard), and took St Lawrence for his family name.
eastward + FDV:
glen - a mountain-valley, usually narrow and forming the course of a stream
marron = maroon - a large kind of sweet chestnut native to Southern Europe + Gleann na Marbhain (gloun numorun) (gael) - "Valley of the Dead", West of Phoenix Park; anglic. Glenmaroon.
Gleann Aluinn (gloun
alin) (gael) - "Lovely Valley", West of Phoenix Park (home before
his death of Tim Healy); anglic. Glenaulin.
Ard Aoibhinn (ard
ivin) (gael) - "Pleasant Height", West of Phoenix Park.
purty - Irish and U.S. local pronunc. of pretty
glint - a gleam; a passing look, a glance; a momentary view, glimpse
plaising (Irish
Pronunciation) - pleasing
light
Norman - belonging or pertaining to, characteristic of, the Normans
court - In a town: A confined yard or more or less quadrangular space opening off a street, and built around with houses; a large building or set of buildings standing in a court-yard; a large house or castle.
boundary - that which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself
ville - a town or village
yon - that over there; that
creepered - having (Virginia) creeper growing on the walls + Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: The House by the Churchyard, prologue: (describes Chapelizod) 'Then there was the village church, with its tower dark and rustling from base to summit, with thick piled, bowering ivy'.
Ireland + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'There is a Church of Ireland Church, with an ivied tower, a Convent at Mount Sackville, a Roman Catholic Church, a National School, and Civic Guard Station, and a Postal Telegraph Office'.
worshipful - imbued with the spirit of worship or veneration
assemblage - a meeting or gathering; the state of being gathered or collected
porphyr- - A formative element, in senses 'purple' + A major cause of HCE's unease is in fact his Protestanism: his wife is Catholic, and the children have been raised in the church. One of Issy's footnotes in II/2, prompted by a reference to the local C. of E. church, is a sneering comment on her father as 'Porphyrious Olbion, redcoatliar' (John Gordon: Finnegans Wake: a plot summary).
Albion - Great Britain. Phr. perfidious Albion, a rhetorical expression for 'England', with reference to her alleged treacherous policy towards foreigners.
redcoat - a soldier of the British army + (notebook 1924): '*V*'s red coat' → Crawford: Thinking Black 119: 'Rob is dressed in his Sunday best for the occasion, to wit, an utterly abominable soldier's uniform, probably now entering its teens. Fat and fifty, our friend is obviously bursting for relief, for the rag-shop red coat is giving him a claret-coloured face'.
wholly - completely, entirely, to the full extent
Roman - a member or adherent of the Roman Catholic Church; a Roman Catholic + rosemary - a shrub that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces fragrant mint used in cooking and perfumes + 'tell that to the horse marines' (phrase that indicates disbelief).
beloved + Thom's
Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Spendlove, R., Belgrove'.
mulberry - mulberry tree + groves of mulberry (trees).
still - a distillery + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Phœnix Park Distillery' → REFERENCE
mill - a building specially designed and fitted with machinery for the grinding of corn into flour.
kloster - a convent, a monastery (in Germany, Flanders, etc.) + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Mount Sackville Convent'.
yeoman - a man holding a small landed estate; a freeholder under the rank of a gentleman; hence vaguely, a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp. one who cultivates his own land + no man's land.
ghast = ghastly - Said hyperbolically of persons or things objectionable on various grounds: Shocking, 'frightful'.
township (a term often used in Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin)
the quick
village elm -
Le Fanu describes "the village elm" on p 3 of The House by the Churchyard:
"But I can't expect you, my reader—polite and patient as you manifestly are—to
potter about with me, all the summer day, through this melancholy and mangled
old town, with a canopy of factory soot between your head and the pleasant sky.
One glance, however, before you go, you will vouchsafe at the village tree—that
stalworth elm. It has not grown an inch these hundred years. It does not look a
day older than it did fifty years ago, I can tell you. There he stands the same;
and yet a stranger in the place of his birth, in a new order of things, joyless,
busy, transformed Chapelizod, listening, as it seems to me, always to the
unchanged song and prattle of the river, with his reveries and affections far
away among by-gone times and a buried race. Thou hast a story, too, to tell,
thou slighted and solitary sage, if only the winds would steal it musically
forth, like the secret of Mildas from the moaning reeds."
foregone - that has gone before or gone by + Vorangegangene (ger) - the dead (literally 'foregone on').
mansioned - furnished with mansions + mentioned
retrospection - the action or fact of looking back upon, or surveying, past time + FDV: This Norman court at boundary of the ville, yon ivied tower of a church of Ereland with our king's house of stone, belgroved of mulbrey, all is for the retrospectioner.
skole = school + skole (Danish) - school + skaal! (Danish) - (toast) + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'a National School'.
agus (ogus) (gael) -
and
igen (Danish) - again
+ (formerly, there was a schoolhouse in the Castleknock area whose stone
façade bore two engraved S's).
muss - A term of endearment
+ Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 142
(VIII.1): 'habit that mothers and nurses have of repeating... "Now we must wash
the little face"'.
sweetsome - sweet, pleasant
auburn - of a golden-brown or ruddy-brown colour; absol. quasi-n + AUBURN - Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "The Deserted Village" ("Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain"), is about Auburn, an idealized village set in England but based on memories from the poet's Irish childhood + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Spendlove, C., Auburn'.
selfraising - Applied to a kind of flour which causes dough or paste to rise without the addition of baking-powder, etc. + Job 14:2: 'He cometh forth like a flower' + (erection).
fragrance - sweetness of smell; sweet or pleasing scent + fragola (it) - strawberry.
STRAWBERRY BEDS - The
area, actually known for its strawberries, along the North bank of the Liffey
between Chapehizod and Woodlands. The Wren's Nest is at the West end. + fraise
(fr) - strawberry +
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Corcoran, W., grocer,
Strawberry-beds... Kavanagh, Miss Teresa, Strawberry-beds... Scully, Mrs.,
Strawberry beds'.
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin,
Chapelizod section: 'Phœnix Park Distillery... Phœnix-villas'
→ The Phoenix Park Distillery adopted as its
emblem, the 50ft Corinthian pillar surmounted with a figure of a Phoenix in her
burning nest, erected in the Park in 1747 and still there today + Phoenix
Tavern, Chapelizod.
flame away
tripartite - divided into or composed of three parts or kinds; threefold, triple + FDV: Sweet as auburn cometh up as a flower that fragolance of the fraisey beds: the phoenix, his pyre, is still flaming away with true Pratt spirit: the wren, his nest, is niedelig, as the turrises of the Sabines are televisible.
wren - one or other species of small dentirostral passerine birds belonging to the genus Troglodites + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Ennis, Miss Mary, vintner, Wren's nest' (pub).
niedlich (ger) - pretty
terraces + turris (l) - tower.
Sabine gull
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Rogers, Mrs. The
Cottage'.
bungalow - Orig., a one-storied house (or temporary building, e.g. a summer-house), lightly built, usually with a thatched roof. In modern use, any one-storied house + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Talon, J., The Bungalow'.
burgher - an inhabitant of a burgh, borough, or corporate town; a citizen + Brandenburger.
vernacular - Of a language or dialect: That is naturally spoken by the people of a particular country or district; native, indigenous.
SUMMERHILL - Street, and the adjoining
district, North-East Dublin, which continues Parnell Street to Ballybough Road at the Royal Canal.
jerry hat
catsup = ketchup - a liquor extracted from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc., used as a sauce
mutton broth
chaplet - a wreath for the head, usually a garland of flowers or leaves, also of gold, precious stones, etc. + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Isolde-gardens' (a street with four addresses).
an (Irish)
- the
plad = plaid + en lille plads (Danish) - a little place.
lief - beloved, dear, agreeable
arride - to smile at, laugh at (obs.) to please, gratify (arch.)
snowdrop - an early-flowering bulbous plant (Galanthus nivalis), having a white pendent flower; transf. Applied to a girl + (her colours).
trou de dentelle (fr) - hole of
lace
wonner - a dweller, an inhabitant + Wonne (ger) - delight.
handkerchiefs
halfpenny
holy wood - a name of the West
Indian Guaiacum sanctum + The Holly and
the Ivy (song).
bower - a place closed in or overarched with branches of trees, shrubs, or other plants; a shady recess, leafy covert, arbour + PICTURE
mistletoe - a parasitic plant of Europe, Viscum album, growing on various trees
tho - abbrev. form of though + {lisp, similar to that of Puddock in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's "The House by the Churchyard" (ch. 3: 'in 'thpite of hith lithp'')}
if you please - if it
please you, if you like, if it is your will or pleasure: a courteous qualification to a
request, the acceptance of an offer, etc.
googla = water to drink /
pluplu = water wash
blithe - carefree and happy + FDV: There is the cottage and the bungalow for the cobbeler and the brandnewburgher but Isolde, her gardens are for the fairhaired daughter of Aengus.
anguis (l) - snake + Aonghus (engus) (gael) - Single-choice; god of love + angoisse (fr) - distress, anxiety + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'It is said to derive its name from La belle Izod, daughter of King Aengus'.
all out
perisher - that which perishes or destroys; esp. an extreme (of any course of action); a 'plunger'; also applied to persons as a term of contempt, and more generally, with an overtone of pity + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Chapelizod, a village partly in Palmerstown parish, Uppercross barony, but chiefly in the parish of the same name, Castleknock barony'.
Tithonos (gr) - the
beautiful human lover of Eos, the Greek goddess of dawn (described by Homer as
'with beautiful hair'), was granted immortality, but as he had forgotten to ask
for eternal youth, he grew old until she took pity on him and turned him into a
grasshopper + tytoń (Polish)
- tobacco + (nicotine-stained hands).
flossy - resembling floss or floss-silk + Homeric epithet for Eos: "with goldy locks, fair-haired" + włosy (Polish) = vlasy (Czech ) - hair + (*E* and *A*).
kilolitre - in the Metric system, a measure of capacity containing 1000 litres
metron (gr) - a measure +
myrias (gr) - ten thousand + metromyrias (gr) - measure of 10.000 + Miriam -
Moses' sister + matrimonials.
prese = press; praise; prize + praesaepe (l) - stable, manger; hut, dwelling, tavern + prosapia (l) - stock, race, family + praesaepe prosapiae (l) - the family's tavern.
bole - the stem or trunk of a tree
wone - accustomed, used, wont (to do something); a place of habitation or abode, dwelling-place + FDV: All out of two barreny old perishers and one inn, one tap and one tavern and only two million two hundred and eightythousand nine hundred and sixty lines to the wuestworts of a general poet's office.
tabard - a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald
tap - a cylindrical stick, long peg, or stopper, for closing and opening a hole bored in a vessel + CARLISLE TAVERN and THE TAP - Adjacent public houses under the same management; flourished from the 1910's through the 1930's [Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'O'Shaughnessy, J., vintner, "The Tap"'].
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'O'Shaughnessy, J.,
vintner, "The Carlisle Tavern"'.
szewc (Polish)
- shoemaker + sewed him the blouse and breeches.
bloughs - bluffs
brach - a kind of hound which hunts by scent; fig. A term of abuse + brache (it) - breeches.
chory (Polish, Czech) - sick, ill
pshut - an utterance enjoining caution or expressing impatience
ribbon development
lease - a contract between parties, by which the one conveys lands or tenements to the other for life, for years, or at will, usually in consideration of rent or other periodical compensation.
lapse - Law. The termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it within the limited time, or through failure of some contingency.
millium
= military; milium +
million
Thausig (Swiss-German Basel dialect)
- thousand + 190,080 (inches in three miles) x 12 = 5,280 (feet in one mile) x
432 = 2,280,960 (twelfths of an inch in three miles).
radioluminescence - luminescence caused by ionizing radiation + radius luminis (l) - a ray of light + REFERENCE
westward - towards the west; in a westerly direction + Wuste (ger) - desert + Wust (ger) - chaos; heap + Wort (ger) - word.
general postoffice -
an office which receives letters for the 'general post' (formerly, the post or
mail that was sent from the General Post Office in London, originally on certain
days, latterly once a day, to all the post offices in the kingdom) +
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Chapelizod... three
miles W[est]. from the General Post Office, Dublin'.
starve - pestilence, mortality; also a pestilent being (applied to the devil) + Stars and Stripes + Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 29n: 'there are twenty-four Dublins in the United States'.
tripe - the first or second stomach of a ruminant, esp. of the ox, prepared as food.
distorted - twisted out of shape, drawn awry + AUBURN - Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "The Deserted Village" ("Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain").
mirage - an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
aloofly - characterized by aloofness, 'distant', unsympathetic (rare.); so as to keep, or as if keeping, aloof
wherein - in which (place, material thing, writing, etc.); where
buxomness - graciousness, kindly disposition (obs.); obedience, submissiveness (obs.); modern. Comely plumpness + boxom = buxom + Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas (l) - Citizens' Obedience is City's Happiness .
bedelia - automobile manufactured by the Bourbeau et Devaux Co. of Paris from 1910 to 1925.
This low and light car carried two passengers and used Single-cylinder or 10hp V-twin engines.
bedellium (l) - aromatic
gum of the balsam
hobbyhorse - in the morris-dance, and on the stage (in burlesques, pantomimes, etc.), a figure of a horse, made of wickerwork, or other light material, furnished with a deep housing, and fastened about the waist of one of the performers, who executed various antics in imitation of the movements of a skittish or spirited horse; a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horsehead on one end of a stick.
hole - a small dingy lodging or abode; a small or mean habitation
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Chapelizod section: 'Halpin, Thomas,
vintner... Hands, G., Martin's-row' (entries follow one another).
glen - a mountain-valley, usually narrow and forming the course of a stream + The Glens of Antrim are a series of 9 coastal valleys running down to the North Channel of Lough Larne.
odd job
godfather - a male sponsor at Confirmation
Star and Garter - common
pub name
lynne - obs. form of linn (a torrent running over rocks; a cascade, waterfall); line + Newcastle-under-Lyme, England + three castles on Dublin coat of arms.
hod - to bob up and down in riding, to jog; early ME. f. had; n. An open receptacle for carrying mortar, and sometimes bricks or stones, to supply builders at work.
Brucke (ger) - bridge + not a bit of it! + "Liverpoor? Sot a bit of it! His braynes coolt parritch, his pelt nassy, his heart's adrone, his bluidstreams acrawl, his puff but a piff, his extremeties extremely so: Fengless, Pawmbroke, Chilblaimend and Baldowl. Humph is in his doge." [074.13-.16]
pier - one of the supports of the spans of a bridge, whether arched or otherwise formed
eerie - fear-inspiring; gloomy, strange, weird + Dies Irae (song) + Persse O'Reilly.
span - an arch of a bridge; a section between two piers
spooky - of, pertaining to, or characteristic of spirits or the supernatural; frightening, eerie
toll - a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
till - a strongbox for holding cash
parapet - a low wall or barrier, placed along the sides of a bridge, pier, quay, etc., to prevent people from falling over
peripatetic - walking about or from place to place in connexion with some occupation or calling; itinerant
snooze - a sleep; a nap, a doze + u snu (Serbian) - in a dream + zoo + "Words weigh no no more to him than raindrips to Rethfernhim. Which we all like. Rain. When we sleep. Drops. But wait until our sleeping. Drain. Sdops." [074.16-.19]
hitherwards - towards this place, in this direction, hither; on this side (of) + {in sleep, we hike through thicket, and than soar from the murk of the barrel below, past breakfast room and toilet, to the clearence of the childlight in the room for study upstairs}
thicker - one who 'thicks' or fulls cloth; a fuller; Also as second element in comb., as cap-thicker, say-thicker + thicket - a dense growth of bushes.
schein - obs. Sc. f. sheen (a.) + Schein (ger) - light, shining.
Schore (ger) - prop,
support
soar - to cause to soar; to
attain or reach (a height) by upward flight + assails.
methylate - to impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol + methylated spirits - spirits mixed with methyl alcohol to render them unfit for drinking and suitable for other uses (e.g. lighting lamps) + mythos (gr) - word, speech; thing said + methysos (gr) - drunk.
barrel + bar below there
+ Babel Tower.
Bedevere - knight of the Round Table,
King Arthur's butler
butler - to be served by a butler; a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table
Table Round
necessity - a situation of hardship or difficulty; a pressing need or want.
Harington, Sir John (1561-1612) - English courtier, author of
Metamorphosis of
Ajax (describes water closet) + harington (Dutch)
- herring-tub, herring-barrel.
upstairs + Sturz (ger) - fall, overthrow.
homy - resembling or suggestive of home; home-like; having the feeling of home + Thomas Moore: Love and the Novice (song): 'Here we dwell, in holiest bowers' [air: Cean Dubh Delish].
novice - Eccl. One who has entered a religious house, and is under probation or trial, before taking the required vows, a candidate for admission into a religious order; an inexperienced person, a beginner, tyro.
nig - a niggardly or mean person; to be mean or niggardly + nig-nog - a foolish person; hence, a raw and unskilled recruit.
nag - a small riding horse or pony; transf. as a term of abuse (obs.); to assail or annoy (a person) with persistent fault-finding or provocation
principal - a leading performer in a drama or entertainment
refocillation - refreshment, reanimation, reinvigoration + rifocillare (it) - cheer up, revive + Motif: -ation (*O*; 4 times).
inclination - the condition of being mentally inclined or disposed to something
Dolder - a residental
section and hotel, on the Zurichberg
rive - to tear voraciously
dubh dilis (duv
dilish) (gael) - dark dearest + ceann dubh dílis (Irish) - dark-head
dearest [.13]
austerity - severe self-discipline or self-restraint; moral strictness, rigorous abstinence, asceticism + prehistoric
hysteric = hysterical + panhysterikos (gr) - all-womb-suffering, all belonging to the womb.
fippence - five pence
anathesis (gr) -
setting up in public, dedicating; adjourment;
imposition + any thesis + any day + antithesis + Athanasius (269-373 A.D.) - Christian leader agains Arian
heresy (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
mind - to have a mind to (an action, plan, etc.); to contemplate, intend, aim at; to bend one's attention to + (family portraits & two boxers [or chess players] face to face, i.e. "Bet you fippence," against "PREAUSTERIC MAN").
wrangler - one who wrangles or quarrels, an angry or noisy disputer or arguer; Cambridge Colloquial: a student placed in the first class in the mathematical tripos (final honours examination for a B.A. degree in mathematics).
FDV:
the
lette F.
at gaze
baronet - a titled order, the lowest that is hereditary, ranking next below a baron, having precedence of all orders of knighthood, except that of the Garter
altrettanto (it) - just as much
bancarotta (it) - bankruptcy
chaff - cut hay and straw used for feeding cattle + Butt & Taff.
commencement - the action or process of commencing; beginning + FDV: and ere commences the castellaunic commencement lead us seek,
Catalauni - At the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (AD 451), a mixed force of Romans and Visigoths defeated Attila and stopped the advance of the Huns in Europe.
Aetius Flavius
check - a call at chess by which notice is given to the opponent that a move has been made which exposes his King
gambit - a method of opening the game, in which by the sacrifice of a pawn or piece the player seeks to obtain some advantage over his opponent. For instance, Catalan gambit.
buxom - full of health, vigour, and good temper
bishop - one of the pieces in the game of chess, having its upper part carved into the shape of a mitre; formerly called archer, and in still earlier times alfin or aufyn.
give it a burl
Sweet Genevieve (song)
+ Saint Genevieve's military advice saved Paris from Attila + FDV:
jinny = ginny (obs.) - cunning, ensnaring, seductive
flicka (Swedish)
- girl + FDV:
fervid - glowing, intensely impassioned
Frondeur - a member of the Fronde (the name given to the party which rose in rebellion against Mazarin and the Court during the minority of Louis XIV; hence, a malcontent party; also, violent political opposition); transf. A malcontent, an 'irreconcilable' + frondeur (fr) - scoffer.
attach - to join in sympathy or affection to a person, place, etc.
eft - again, moreover, likewise + eftest (obs) - most ready, most covenient (probably a blunder in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing IV.2.38: 'Yea, marry, that's the eftest way') + oft teased.
ensuer - one who ensues, a follower + eschewer - one who avoids and deliberately stays away + FDV: to but wouldst attach thee thick to thy thick eschewer,
ondraw - to draw on (to bring about, lead to, involve as a consequence)
unconscionable - Of persons: Having no conscience, not controlled by conscience; Of actions, etc.: Showing no regard for conscience; not in accordance with what is right or reasonable + unconscious.
flicker - a rapid, rhythmic variation in the degree or quality of illumination which is perceptible to the eye + flapper - a girl in her late teens, orig. one with her hair down in a pigtail; a young woman, esp. with an implication of flightiness or lack of decorum.
unterdruckt (ger) -
suppressed
rose point
Inis Muighe Samh
(inish mwisou) (gael) - "Island of the Sorrel Plain": island in
Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, unaccountably anglic. Inishmacsaint.
Matthew 7:7: 'seek, and ye shall find'
+ (4-stage Viconian cycle).
mimosa - a genus of leguminous shrubs, natives of tropical and sub-tropical regions; a yellow colour resembling that of the mimosa
mimetic - addicted to or having an aptitude for mimicry or imitation; Of animals or plants: Characterized by 'mimicry' in external appearance to some essentially different animal or plant, or to some inorganic object + multimimetica (l) - imitative of many.
Minne (ger) - love +
meann, minne (Irish)
- stuttering + Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies, song: The Young May Moon.
Meinung (ger) - opinion
+ C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards: The Meaning of Meaning (about semantics)
+ FDV:
Elpis - Greek "hope", falsely believed to
be the Christian wife of
Boethius + elpistic -
the
distinctive epithet of a sect of Greek
philosophers + ALP.
grace + Greeks.
speer - to peer; to make inquiries concerning, to ask questions regarding + Speer (ger) - spear + sperare (l) - to hope.
thee (Dutch)
- tea
mannequin - a woman (or occas. a man) employed in the showrooms of dress-makers, costumiers, etc., to wear and show off garments. Also, a model of a human figure for the display of clothes, etc. + Manneken-Pis - statue in Brussels of a child urinating.
pose - an attitude or posture of the body, or of a part of the body, esp. one deliberately assumed, or in which a figure is placed for effect, or for artistic purposes + pass
kongen (Danish) -
the king + 'The
king was in his counting-house' (nursery rhyme).
canteen - a kind of sutler's shop in a camp, barracks, or garrison town, where provisions and liquors are sold to soldiers and non-commissioned officers + hus - obs. form of house + hus (Danish) - house.
hind = behind
knoll - a small hill or eminence of more or less rounded form; a hillock, a mound; a large bell, a church-bell (obs.)
Ausonian - of or pertaining to Ausonia or to the Ausonians, the primitive inhabitants of middle and lower Italy; hence, Italian
audacity - boldness combined with disregard of consequences, venturesomeness; open disregard of the restraints of decorum or morality, effrontery, impudence + audacior (l) - more daring, bolder.
Gaedheal (gel)
(gael) - Irishman, Scotsman +
*VYC*
gillie - a giddy young woman + giolla (gile) (gael) = gillie (Anglo-Irish) - lad, servant.
gall - assurance, impudence + gall (goul) (gael) - foreigner.
Maitland: Life and Legends of St. Martin of Tours 48: (to Satan) '"wouldst thou
but cease to tempt men... I... would dare promise thee His mercy" "Oh, holy
presumption!" cries an old writer... "In default of authority for what he dares
to promise, he is fain to express what he desires"'.
esprit - In Fr. primarily 'spirit, mind' + d'esprit (fr) - of spirit + sinfully desperate.
Ringelringelreihen (Swiss German) -
Ring-a-ring o'roses (
' Storiella as she is
syung' was Joyce's title for individually published II.2: 'storiella' is
the diminutive of Italian 'storia', history or story. It refers to English
as She is Spoke, an abridgement of P. Carolino's 'New Guide of the
Conversation in Portuguese and English' (a Portuguese-English phrasebook by a
man who knew almost no English).
whence - from which place, from or out of which
follow up - to go after or
pursue closely; to keep steadily in the track or pursuit of
unspeaking - not speaking, unable to speak + lit. entsprechend (ger) - corresponding, appropriate + (notebook 1931): 'mit entsprechenden Gebärde' (German: with appropriate gestures).
plutonic - belonging to or resembling Pluto, Plutonian + platonically - in a Platonic manner + "Everyone knows that they have Pluto 'somewhere' in their chart. We certainly do not dispute this 'fact of life'. However, we are concerned with those have it in its most extreme and most violent form. We are only interested in those who have it linked to the innermost point, the Moon. For we demand the link of power which connects the outermost to the innermost, Pluto to the Moon. This can be in many forms but the most intense is to be found in those who have Pluto conjunct the Moon, or those who have the Moon in the sign of Scorpio. For it is then at its most extreme power and presence in the Transcedent Id. Those are the persons we know to be marked by this vicious and chaotic energy." (Michael Bertiaux: The Voudon Gnostic Workbook)
pursuant - going in pursuit; following after, pursuing
hopeful - a 'hopeful' boy or girl: often ironical; causing or inspiring hope; giving promise of success or future good, 'promising': said of a person or thing on which one's hope is set, or concerning which hope is entertained; sometimes ironically, of a young person who is likely to disappoint hopes.
cull - to fondle in the arms, hug; to choose from a number or quantity, to select + called
cis (kish) (gael) -
wickerwork + sis (*I*) [.08]
gladrags (Slang) - fancy clothes
proser - a writer of prose; one who talks or writes in a dull, commonplace, or tiresome way + Proserpine or Persephone - daughter of Zeus and Demeter, raped by Pluto, who seized her as she was gathering flowers and carried her off to the infernal regions; became Queen of the Underworld + (notebook 1931): 'proserpine' → Waite: The Occult Sciences 52: 'Princes and Grand Dignitaries... Proserpine, Arch-she-fiend, sovereign princess of the perverse spirits'.
slit - cut with a sharp instrument, divided by slitting + (vulva) + FDV: Singalingalying. Storiella as she is syoung syung. Whence plutonically pursuant of a glimpse of gladrags follweup with endspeaking nots for yestures Pretty Prosepronette whose slit satchet spilleth spilleths peas:
satchel - a small bag; esp. a bag for carrying schoolbooks, with or without a strap to hang over the shoulders + (notebook 1931): 'pocket drops peas' → The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Supplemental Nights, vol. VII, 130n: The Tale of the Warlock and the Young Cook of Baghdad: 'In "Das blaue Licht," a Mecklenburg tale given by Grimm, the King's daughter who is borne through the air to the soldier's room is told by her father to fill her pocket with peas and make a hole therein; but the sole result was that the pigeons had a rare feast'.
spilleth piss + "The
texts laid emphasis on substances usually considered worthless, obnoxious even,
as the material from which the Elixir of Life was extracted and refined. The
supreme secret of Alchemy was revealed to very few, and those few were not
always initiates of fraternities such as those of the Qabalists, the Freemasons,
and the Knights Templar who undoubtedly possessed it but later abused it. It is,
for instance, recognizably present in the earliest African phases of the
Mysteries where it perpetuated the most ancient Typhonian Tradition... The
Goddess, embodied in the Suvasini, emanates the magically charged
substances that are chemically indistinguishable from bodily secretions of the
healthy human female. Their systematic ingestion by the adhikaris is said
to bi-sexualise the organism and to "banish fear of all kinds"... I should be
understood that the substances used in the rites of the Anuttara Amnaya
have been previously purified by being surcharged with cosmic energy. A mere
spark of this energy is equal to more than the totality of man's power. Urine is
but one of the substances, gomaya [Lit. 'the product of the sow'] is
another. Gomaya, calcined and applied to the surface of the body, is
exemplified in the image of Shiva smeared with ashes. The consumption of these
excreta is represented in the symbolism of the Tantric Tradition, which
explains why the pig, a zootype of Typhon, was considered unclean by later
cults... In ancient Egypt this animal was sacred to the full moon, the black pig
in particular was associated with the god Set." (Kenneth Grant: Beyond the
Mauve Zone)
sept - a division of a nation or tribe; a clan: orig. in reference to Ireland + (first step) + Joseph Collins: The Doctor Looks at Literature: 'Recognition of the existence of the two primitive urges, the instincts of self-preservation and of the preservation of the race, is the first step towards appreciation of their reasonable limitations and the extent to which they may be brought into harmony with the requirements of a well-balanced life'.
Belisha, Leslie Hore -
British homesecretary who introduced a pedestrian crossing-sign (very phallic in
appearence) called "Belisha Beacon." + Belisha beacon
beckon - to make a mute signal or significant gesture with the head, hand, finger, etc. + Issy is benign watcher on high (in her room on third floor of Mullingar House, which faces northeast onto the yard and beyond that the park, the city, and the bay), by turns star of the sea, beacon and (327.22-23) faithful lookout (John Gordon: Finnegans Wake: a plot summary).
usherette - a female usher in a cinema or theatre + it is the moon ('Usherette'), not the sun, whose rising we witness... (Hart, Clive / Structure and motif in Finnegans wake).
unmesh - to undo the meshes of, to free from meshes + "„I’ll show you my faint light,” she said matter-of-factly. She walked to the center of the narrow gully in front of the cave and squatted. From where I was I could not see what she was doing so I had to get out of the cave myself. I stood ten or twelve feet away from her. She put her hands under her skirt, while she was still squatting. Suddenly, she stood up. Her hands were loosely clasped into fists; she raised them over her head and snapped her fingers open. I heard a quick, bursting sound and I saw sparks flying from her fingers. She again clasped her hands and then snapped them open and another volley of much larger sparks flew out of them. She squatted once more and reached under her skirt. She seemed to be pulling something from her pubis. She repeated the snapping movement of her fingers as she threw her hands over her head, and I saw a spray of long, luminous fibers flying away from her fingers. I had to tilt my head up to see them against the already dark sky. They appeared to be long, fine filaments of a reddish light. After a while they faded and disappeared. She squatted once again, and when she let her fingers open a most astonishing display of lights emanated from them. The sky was filled with thick rays of light. It was a spellbinding sight. I became engrossed in it; my eyes were fixed. I was not paying attention to la Gorda. I was looking at the lights. I heard a sudden outcry that forced me to look at her, just in time to see her grab one of the lines she was creating and spin to the very top of the canyon. She hovered there for an instant like a dark, huge shadow against the sky, and then descended to the bottom of the gully in spurts or small leaps or as if she were coming down a stairway on her belly. I suddenly saw her standing over me. I had not realized that I had fallen on my seat. I stood up. She was soaked in perspiration and was panting, trying to catch her breath. She could not speak for a long time. She began to jog in place. I did not dare to touch her." (Carlos Castaneda: The Second Ring of Power)
grene - green (obs.) + grian (grien) (gael) - sun.
re (re) (gael) - moon
orange (anagram) + James Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian: Temora I: (begins) 'The blue waves of Erin roll in light'.
yonder - something beyond; the far and trackless distance + 'The green isle of Erin, It beckons me yonder' (song) + wander.
flags
domicile - a place of residence or ordinary habitation; a dwelling-place, abode; a house or home + do-mi-sol - CEG, common chord.
anama (onema)
(gael) - souls + Jespersen: Language, its Nature,
Development and Origin 154
(VIII.8): 'the baby lies and babbles his 'mamama' or 'amama' or 'papapa' or
'apapa' or 'bababa' or 'ababab''.
anama ba (onema ba)
(gael) - souls of crows
blowy - characterized by blowing
blue
windigo - In the folklore of the northern Algonquian Indians: a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh + indigo
John 1:14: 'the Word
was made flesh'
lit. Selbslaut
(ger) - vowel
brace - a pair, a couple
congener - a member of the same kind or class with another, or nearly allied to another in character
trebly - in a threefold degree or manner, triply + *VYC* and *IJ*
bounden - bound, in literal senses: Made fast by tie, band, or bar; tied, fastened.
Adhamhnan (ounan)
(gael) - dim. of Adhamh ("Adam"); anglic. Adamnan, 7th c.
saint, author of Life of Colmcille + James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal II: 'Ferda, son of Damman' + Adamman - an artificial
language based on English [from Adam (denoting primitive roots) and man
(denoting entire human race)].
Emhe, properly Eabha
(eve) (gael) - Eva, Eve
fathering - the action of the vb. father + father-in-law + Adamnán's law provided heavy penalties for killing women.
skewer - to fasten (meat, etc.) with a skewer (a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted); to run through, transfix, with a sword or other weapon
old one
slosh - to lap up or swallow greedily + slash - to cut with sweeping strokes.
many's the time
pottle - a measure of capacity for liquids equal to two quarts or half a gallon; a pottle of wine or other liquor + The Mermaid (song): 'I care more for my pottles and my kets' + kettles and pots.
association + Ossian - Finn's son (Pronunciation 'Usheen').
sometimes
Yggely ogs Weib -
according to Mrs Christiani, Odin and his wife + Ygg (Norwegian) - Odin.
og - a shilling + og (og) (gael) - young + agus (ogus) (gael) - and.
Weib (ger) - wife + Webster Edgerly invented Adamman (under the pseudonym Edmund Shaftesbury: The Adam-man Tongue, the Universal Language of the Human Race, 1903).
euai! (gr) - a cry of joy +
euoi! (gr) - exclamation used in the cult of Dionysus + (five vowels and two
semivowels).
tarara - a word imitating, and hence denoting, the sound of a trumpet or bugle + ARARAT - Isolated mountain in East extremity of Turkey near Iranian border. Legendary landing place of Noah's Ark + Tara - ancient Irish royal capital.
slipper - of a shifty, unreliable character; deceitful, insincere + look sharp - Originally (with sharp as adv.): 'to look sharply after something', 'to keep strict watch'. In later use (which is merely colloquial) the sense is commonly 'to bestir oneself briskly','to lose no time'.
soppy - soaked or saturated with water or rain + copycat - someone who copies the words or behavior of another.
doss - a bed; esp. a bed in a common lodging-house + dog in the manger
mag - to chatter + mag (ger) = mag (Dutch) - may.
shibboleth - a word or sound which a person is unable to pronounce correctly; a word used as a test for detecting foreigners, or persons from another district, by their pronunciation + (notebook 1931): 'Was that your shiboleth then? she was my sibylette then'.
syllable - to utter or express in (or as in) syllables or articulate speech, to pronounce syllable by syllable, to utter articulately or distinctly, to articulate. Also fig.
vetus (l) - old + Venus (l) - goddess of beauty and sexual love.
occlude - to shut or stop up so as to prevent anything from passing in, out, or through; to obstruct (a passage)
mou = mouth + mou (fr. slang) - human body, human flesh + Moon.
URSA MAJOR - the most prominent constellation of the North hemisphere has been
known as the Bear
"Sailor's Only"
- Pole Star
Y.W.C.A. - The Young Women's Christian Association, founded 1855 in
England, adopted its present name in 1877 and has branches all over the world. The Danish YWCA is
"Kristelig Forening for Unge Kvinder" + warning young Christ-like
Kevin.
veto (l) - I forbid +
Virgo.
nova (l) - new + nova - new
star (in astronomy).
Nereid - Myth. A daughter of Nereus; a sea-nymph + Nereus - old name of constellation Eridanus + A second satellite of Neptune, Nereid, was discovered in 1949.
FDV:
charmer - one who uses spells and enchantments, or who has magic powers; one who possesses great attractiveness or powers of fascination; usually applied to a woman + Joyce's note: 'charmeur' → Harris: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions I.93: 'His whole face lit up as he spoke and one saw nothing but his soulful eyes, heard nothing but his musical tenor voice; he was indeed what the French call a charmeur' + charmeur (French) enchanter.
una unica (l) - one
only, the only one, one-and-only + "Window of Issy's room faces north-east onto
the yard, and beyond that the park, the city, and the bay. Her view also takes
in the backyard privy and an elm, which brushes against her windowpane." (John
Gordon)
as yet
unshent - uninjured, unharmed, unspoiled, etc.
stoniness - the fact of having the character of stone, or being full of stones (or of hard substance like stone); fig. Hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness.
honey month - the first month
after marriage, the honeymoon
myrrh - a gum-resin produced by several species of Commiphora: used for perfumery and as an ingredient in incense; the aromatic plant, Myrrhis odorata, Sweet Cicely.
rambler - a rose which straggles or climbs freely + (notebook 1923): 'rambler roses'.
May bee
mantle - to form a mantle or covering; to spread or be extended over a surface
Maiblume (ger) -
mayflower + Mei (Dutch)
- May.
fleur - an ornamental flower + fleur (fr) - flower + floor.
woman with a kerch JJ with
MB must tell it to someone ('MB' not clear) [notebook 1924]
at the sacred name of
love every person should take off his trousers (notebook 1924)
enlock - to lock up, hold fast
sex appeal
conchite - a stone resembling a shell, a fossil shell + Conchita - temptress in Perre Louÿs's La Femme and le Pantin + 'et concepit de Spiritu Sancto' (Angelus) - 'and she conceived of the Holy Ghost'.
Senta - maiden heroine of
Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, who saved the hero captain from his curse +
'Pingpong, the bell for Sechseläuten, and concepit de Saint-Esprit'.
telltale - one who idly or maliciously discloses private or secret matters + [196.02-.03]
amaryllis - a genus of autumn-flowering bulbous plants, species of which are cultivated as garden or hot-house flowers + Amaryllis - a country-girl in Theocritus and Virgil.
it (Slang) - sex appeal (1927; Clara Bow)
it (Slang) - vulva
preen - Of a bird: To trim (the feathers or fur) with the beak; Of a person: To trim or dress oneself up, to smooth and adorn oneself.
breed - Of animal species: To produce brood or
young, to have offspring, to propagate their species; trans. Said of a female parent: to hatch (young birds) from the egg; to produce (offspring, children).
law of the jungle - the code
of survival in jungle life, now usu. with ref. to the superiority of brute force
or self-interest in the struggle for survival + jung (ger) - young + Junger
(ger) - disciple + young girl.
notion - an inclination, disposition, or desire, to do something specified; a fancy for something.
FDV:
demijohn - a large bottle with bulging body and narrow neck, holding from 3 to 10 gallons, and usually cased in wicker- or rush-work, with one or two handles of the same, for convenience of transport + geminus (l) - twin + Jim and John.
cudgel - to beat or thrash with a cudgel + cudgel ones brain - to think hard about something esp. to try and work out the answer to a difficult problem.
arithmetic - the science of numbers; the art of computation by figures
BROWNE AND NOLAN
- Printers, publishers, and booksellers; at 24-25 Nassau Street at the turn of the
century, now in Dawson Street, with works at Clonskeagh; owners of the Richview Press.
divisional - pertaining to, or serving for, division + (notebook 1931): 'division tables'.
whereas - Introducing a statement of fact in contrast or opposition to that expressed by the principal clause: While on the contrary; the fact on the other hand being that.
carry the can
minion - one specially favoured or beloved
novenus (l) - nine each,
nine
charily - carefully, cautiously; warily, circumspectly; with preserving or saving care
cupid - "Desire": In Roman Mythology, the god of love, son of Mercury and Venus, identified with the Greek Eros.
mug - a rough or ugly person; a criminal; a policeman; a fool, simpleton + Mookse/Gripes (motif).
wump = whump - to make a dull thudding sound
grubbiness - grubby or grimy condition + grubby - dirty, grimy.
avarice - inordinate desire of acquiring and hoarding wealth; greediness of gain, cupidity
grasshopper
faire une grande gaffe (fr) - put
one's foot in it
tout petit peu (fr) - just a tiny
bit
je m'en fiche - 'I couldn't
care less, I don't care at all'
knit - to turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other + (notebook 1931): 'Knit while waiting a.p.'
solfa - the set of syllables 'do (or ut), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si', sung to the respective notes of the major scale
sofa - a long, stuffed seat with a back and ends or end, used for reclining; a form of lounge or couch
pullover - a knitted or woven garment for the upper part of the body, a jumper or jersey
stew - a heated room; a room with a fireplace + dew + Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ch. X: 'The Lobster Quadrille': 'Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!'
booksy - having literary or bookish pretensions; usu. in jocular or derisory use
bodikin - a diminutive body; a corpuscle, an atom
thimble - a bell-shaped sheath of metal (formerly of leather) worn on the end of the finger to push the needle in sewing + Thimble and Bodkin Army (Eng. Hist.) - a nickname of the Parliamentary Army of the Civil War + Thimble Theatre - American comic-strip (starring Popeye the Sailor).
Alma Mater - a title given by
the Romans to several goddesses, especially to Ceres and Cybele, and transferred in Eng.
to Universities and schools regarded as 'fostering
mothers' + Mathers, Liddell (later called MacGregor
Mathers) - magician of the Golden Dawn Society who put Tantric symbols on Yeats's
forehead to induce visions.
auctioneer - one who conducts sales by auction + Mather, Dublin auctioneer.
gramma - a name for several low pasture grasses abundant in the western and south-western United States + gramma (gr) - a writing, a drawing, a letter + grandmamma - a colloquial synonym of grandmother.
grammar - a treatise or book on grammar
masculine - Gram. The masculine gender; a word or form of the masculine gender.
feminine
neuter - Of gender: Neither masculine nor feminine.
abad - obs. forms of abode + about
mood - to reflect moodily + There are three moods in Latin grammar: Indicative, Subjunctive (or Conjunctive) and Imperative + must
prosode - a hymn sung in procession at a religious festival in ancient Greece + FDV: if there is a third person being spoken about it all proceeds from a first person speaking to a second person who is being spoken to.
dative case - a
grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given
ablative case - name
given to cases in various languages whose common characteristic is that they
mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ.
spake - obs., poet., or arch. f. pa. tense of speak + FDV: Take the dative with his oblative, said gramma, but mind you're genderous.
gramma (l) - a writing,
drawing, letter of the alphabet
impetus - moving force, impulse, stimulus
gender - Gram. Each of the three (or in some languages two) grammatical 'kinds'.
reflexive - a reflexive verb or pronoun; Gram. and Linguistics. Of pronouns, verbs, phrases, and their signification: Characterized by, or denoting, a reflex action on the subject of the clause or sentence.
gavelkind - From the 16th c., often used to denote the custom of dividing a deceased man's property equally among his sons, whether as an incident of the Kentish tenure or otherwise + Irish Gavelkind - custom by which land, on owner's death, went into common use.
daff - one deficient in sense or in proper spirit; a simpleton, a fool; a coward + Taff [.26]
Erse = Irish + deaf as your arse.
grappa - a brandy distilled from the skins, pips, and stalks of the grapes after they have been pressed for wine-making + grandpa.
bott - colloq. abbrev. of bottom + bod (bud) (gael) - penis + Potz tausend! (ger) - (expletive) + Butt/Taff [.L10]
hore - dirt, filth, defilement, foulness + hear
uff - An exclamation as of someone panting with exertion or difficulty + hor emal uff! (ger) - stop it!
hedone (gr) - enjoyment,
pleasure
frech (ger) - impudent +
'French Devil' - Jean Bart, 17th century privateer.
lappy - resembling a lap or lobe + ALP.
leap (Slang) - fuck +
on entering confessional: 'Bless me, father, for I have sinned'.
Lochlaun or Locklaun -
Irish name for Norway
lady + was die Leute sagen
(ger) - what the people say.
analect - the select part, the choice essence; the 'cream' or marrow + analecta (l) - slave who picked up food crumbs + intellectual.
pick-me-up
syntax - the arrangement of words (in their appropriate forms) by which their connexion and relation in a sentence are shown; the department of grammar which deals with the established usages of grammatical construction and the rules deduced therefrom + sin talk.
dunk - n. A liquid or creamy food into which other foods are dunked; v. To dip (food) into a liquid food, such as a beverage or sauce, prior to eating + dunkel (ger) - dark.
subjunction = grammatical conjunction - part of speech that connects two words, phrases or clauses together + subjunctive mood - verb mood typically used in subordinate clauses to express a wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet occurred. It is sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood, as it often follows a conjunction + subconscious.
dual - Gram. The inflected form expressing two or a pair
duel - to fight a duel; to engage in single combat
prude - a woman who maintains or affects excessive modesty or propriety in conduct or speech
prurio (l) - to itch, to
feel sexual desire + pluriel (fr) - plural.
aorist - one of the past tenses of the Greek verb, which takes its name from its denoting a simple past occurrence, with none of the limitations as to completion, continuance, etc., which belong to the other past tenses. It corresponds to the simple past tense in English, as 'he died.'
pluterperfect - more than perfect + pluperfect - Gram. Applied to that tense of the verb which expresses a time or action completed prior to some past point of time, specified or implied + plaudo (l) - to clap, to applaud + plauder (ger) - gossip.
anent - in respect or reference to, regarding, concerning
petticoats
haec genua omnia
(l) - all these
knees + haec genera omnia (l) - all these kinds of
things (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
playwright - a professional maker or author of plays; a dramatist + peter - the penis (slang.) + Wright, Peter - in the 1920s published a scandalous book about politicians, including Parnell, Gladstone. He accused the latter of saving fallen girls for fallen purposes. Gladstone's sons sued, asserting "no property in law can exist in a corpse" (576.5), and they forced Wright to sue for libel. He lost. Gladstone's diaries (see New York Times, March 15, 1975) show Gladstone did indeed lust for his whores in his heart and subdued the lust by whipping himself + preterite (Grammar) + patriot.
tense - fig. In a state of nervous or mental strain or tension; strained, 'on the stretch'; excited, or excitable; spec. in Phonetics, applied to (the articulation of) a speech-sound pronounced with enhanced tension in the muscles of the speech organs.
accusative - Grammar. In inflected languages the name of the case whose primary function was to express destination or the goal of motion; pertaining, tending, or addicted to accusation, accusatory (obs. rare.)
whilst - while
wallflower - a lady who keeps her seat at the side of a room during dancing, whether because she cannot find a partner or by her own choice
poodle - one of a breed of pet dogs
feint - to deceive (obs.); to make a feint or sham attack
let off
geranium - a plant of the genus Pelargonium, natives of S. Africa, of which many varieties are cultivated in Great Britain + gerundium (l) - gerund (Grammar).
year or so
kitten - a young cat (not full-grown); fig. Applied to a young girl, with implication of playfulness or skittishness.
warthog - a swine of the African genus Phacochrus
predicable - that may be predicated or affirmed; capable of being asserted + predicate (Grammar).
accident - Grammar. pl. The changes to which words are subject, in accordance with the relations in which they are used; the expression of the phenomena of gender, number, case, mood, tense, etc.; Obs. replaced by accidence.
follow suit
René Descartes
go to the pack
fumble - a piece of fumbling, a bungling attempt at something + fingers
A vulgar fraction is
said to be a proper fraction if the absolute value of the numerator is less than
the absolute value of the denominator (absolute value of the entire fraction is
less than 1); a vulgar fraction is said to be an improper fraction if the
absolute value of the numerator is greater than or equal to the absolute value
of the denominator.
malediction - the utterance of a curse; the condition of being under a ban or curse
menstruation + mens (l) - the mind, understanding.
godsend - some desirable thing received unexpectedly and as it were from the hand of God, esp. something of which the recipient is greatly in want; a welcome event, a happy chance.
ardent - burning, on fire, red-hot; fig. Glowing with passion, animated by keen desire, zealous, fervent.
Ares (gr) - god of war (identified with Roman Mars)
brusque - somewhat rough or rude in manner
Boreas - the north-wind; the god of the north-wind
glib - Of a speaker or writer, of the tongue, etc.: 'Well-oiled', ready and fluent in utterance.
Ganymede - a Trojan youth, whom Zeus made his cupbearer
zealous - full of or incited by zeal, characterized by zeal or passionate ardour
omega - the last letter (w) of the Greek alphabet + mightest + ho megistos (gr) - the very great (an epithet of Zeus).
Sothis - star that the
Egyptians considered unusually significant. The star is not explicitly
identified, but there are enough clues for modern scholars to be almost
unanimous in identifying Sothis as Sirius; Plutarch states that The soul of Isis
is called Dog by the Greeks and Sothis was identified with Isis in many Egyptian
texts + satis (l) - enough + that is the question + satisfaction.
Werbung (ger) -
solicitation, wooing, advertising + verb. sap. (l) - a word is sufficient to the wise
(abbreviation of Latin: verbum sat sapienti est).
jeg (Danish) - I + je
suis (fr) - I am.
vos (l) - you (plural)
umoroso (it) - full of humours
+ andante amoroso (music tempo indication).
metronome - any device
that produces regular, metrical ticks (beats)
quean (Slang) - whore
+ I thought you were a gentleman. If you are, I'm a queen.
kukkuk (Danish) -
cuckoo + Cook (Anglo-Irish) - Hide-and-Seek (because 'Cook!' is sometimes the signal given
when the search begins).
search me
ouk elabon polin (gr) -
they did not capture a city + French student
joke: 'Ouk elabon Polin; Alagar. Kekelphe; Elpis ephe kaka' (dog
mauler - one who mauls; a hand, a fist (slang.) + ouk elabon polin (gr) - they did not capture a city.
Petrarch, Francesco (1304-74) - Italian poet, priest who founded the sonnet in remote Vaucluse. The Canzoniere
or Rime in Vita e Morte di Madonna Laura is one model, Ovid's Metamorphosis
is another for 203.8 ff. In Petrarch's poems, it is common to find metamorphoses into stream (Sorgue),
tree (laurel), stone (petra), note Canzone I, Sonnet CXVI.
Petrarch is, by his own implication, Apollo, god of poetry; Laura is Daphne, the god's prey,
the poet's laurel crown, Madonna to the Holy Ghost of poetic
afflatus + patrarchos (gr) - tutelary
god + patriarches (gr) - chief of a family.
pinch - a firm compression between the finger and thumb or any two opposing surfaces; a nip, a squeeze + Dante: Inferno V.121: 'The bitterest woe of woes Is to remember in our wretchedness Old happy times; and this thy Doctor knows'.
pash - to break or dash (a thing) in pieces or to atoms; to crush or smash by blows + have a pash for - to love + The Blarney Corn (song): 'O rum it is the comicalest thing How it tickles...'
ploutos (gr) - wealth,
riches + Plouton (gr) - god of the netherworld.
pauper (l) - poor; poor
man
long
and the short of (it, etc.) - sum total, substance, upshot + Lewis and Short - compilers of a standard Latin dictionary.
primer - an elementary school-book for teaching children to read
witchcraft - the practices of a witch or witches; fig. Power or influence like that of a magician, bewitching or fascinating attraction or charm.
pop - with (the action or sound of) a pop; instantaneously, abruptly, unexpectedly
egg - to incite, encourage; to provoke, tempt
spoon - to court or pay addresses to (a person), esp. in a sentimental manner + egg-and-spoon race - sporting event in which participants must carry an egg on a small spoon and race to the finish line without dropping the egg.
clause - a short sentence; a single passage or member of a discourse or writing; a distinct part or member of a sentence, esp. in Gramm. Analysis, one containing a subject and predicate + clothes.
Murray, Lindley (1745-1826)
- wrote Grammar of the English Language (1795), which long remained a standard text in England and America.
despondent - characterized by loss of heart or resolution; labouring under mental depression + deponent verb - a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive.
hortator - one who exhorts or encourages; an exhorter + hortatrix (l) - a female inciter, encourager + orthodoxy.
vindicative - serving to vindicate by defence or assertion + vindicate - to justify or uphold by evidence or argument.
gaggle - a flock (of geese); also derisively, a company (of women)
all out
Handsome is who
handsome does (proverb)
falter - to stumble in one's speech + Quantity counts though accents falter - Allusion to classical metrics: Greek and Latin verse scans as patterns of long and short syllables (quantity), not of stressed and unstressed syllables (accent) as in English (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
yoke - to put a yoke on (a pair of draught-animals, etc.); to join, couple; Grammar: two subjects with same predicate, strictly belonging to only one ("doth sometimes Counsel take, and sometimes Tea).
oblique - not going straight to the point; indirectly stated or expressed + oratio obliqua (l) - indirect discourse (Grammar).
oration - speech, language; now only in Gram. as rendering L. oratio recta and obliqua, 'direct' and 'oblique oration', or use of language.
parse - to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, by stating the part of speech, inflexion, and relation to the rest of the sentence; to resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its component parts of speech and describe them grammatically + Persse O'Reilly.
Polly - dim. of Poll as female name, and name for a parrot
Leben (ger) - life + Quatsch (ger) - nonsense
+ lebban (
brat - a child, so called in contempt + brat (Pan-Slavonic) - brother + (notebook 1931): 'a man can choose from so many'.
alanna - My child! Used as a form of address or as a term of endearment.
appendix - supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book + apprentice + Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
flyswatter - an instrument for swatting flies + swat - to hit with a smart slap or a violent blow
languor - a feeling of lack of interest or energy + (notebook 1931): 'from langueurs & weakness of girlhood to head & back aches of W-hood'.
limber - easily bent (without damage to shape or structure); flexible, pliant
lassiehood - girlhood + FDV: She glows. She gives a sign. Thei's time to hear her's, turn her up as turn her down A ____, brat can choose from so many from tween the langour and weakness of girlhood to the headbeck and heartaches of womanage. And what is more lots heaps & heaps of other things too, yoking apart, from Sis her mystery of pain.
till = to
heartache - pain or anguish of mind, esp. that arising from disappointed hope or affection
wax - Of a quality, activity, event, etc.: To come into being, spring up; Also with up; to become gradually, grow + lit. aufgewachen (ger) - grown up.
heaps &
heaps
lots
of other things
note - to observe or mark carefully, to notice closely
distressed - afflicted with pain or trouble, sorely troubled, in sore straits; Applied spec. to a person living in impoverished circumstances + Irish Distressed Ladies' Fund (for cases of nonpayment of rent).
frothblower - joc., a beer-drinker: adopted as the title of a certain charitable organization
quicquid (l) - whatever
+ queck - to quack.
quick - to give or restore vigour to; to stir up, inspire, etc. + attack first, questions after.
hist - a sibilant exclamation used to enjoin silence, or call on people to listen + Genesis 3:1: 'the serpent was more subtil' + hiss.
Schlange (ger) - a snake, serpent; penis + slander.
to be (dead) nuts on - to
be devoted to, fond of, or delighted with (a person or thing)
mate - obs. form of meat + white meat - foods prepared from milk, dairy produce; white women considered as sexual partners or conquests.
grit - firmness or solidity of character, indomitable spirit or pluck + Joyce's note: 'grits = teeth' + HCE (like Joyce) have lost his teeth.
lang (ger) = lang (Dutch)
- long + Wange (ger) = wang (Dutch) - cheek + Wurm (ger) - worm + lang (
old gooseberry - the deuce
(bad luck, plague, mischief); the devil.
liaison - an intimate relation or connexion; spec. An illicit intimacy between a man and a woman; Phonetics. The joining of a final consonant (which would in pause or before a consonant be silent) to a following word beginning with a vowel or 'mute' h.
oreille - a pillow + oreilles (fr) - ears + Persse O'Reilly.
vert - to turn in a particular direction; to turn or twist out of the normal position; green (Heraldry)
embowed - bent or curved into the form of a bow; convex, bow-like; bent (Heraldry)
proper (Heraldry) - in
natural colour
penchant - a (strong or habitual) inclination; a favourable bias, liking
Middle Egyptian +
(heraldry was Vico's middle language)
spitter - one who spits or ejects saliva; Also fig. + (according to Egyptian myth, Atem populated the world by spitting on fertile mud heap).
wonderland - an imaginary realm of wonder and faery + John Milton: Paradise Lost + Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
John O'Keefe: song 'Amo,
amas, I love a lass' (in his 1781 play, The Agreeable Surprise) +
Alice
little + Liddell, Henry George (1811-1898) - co-compiler of Greek-English Lexicon; father of Lewis Carroll's Alice.
looker + locker (Slang) - female pudenda + lokker (Dutch) - tempter, allurer.
leafery - leafage + Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass.
pain (fr) - bread (i.e.
Eucharist) + (notebook 1931): '
frivolity - disposition to trifle, frivolous behaviour, levity + The Letter: Dear, and it goes on to...
youthly - pertaining to or characteristic of youth + Euclid's.
bike - bicycle
Mike - a Roman Catholic + father Michael.
Nike - In Greek art: a winged statue representing Nike, the goddess of victory + Mick/Nick (motif).
kickseys (Slang) - shoes + FDV:
handlebars + Joyce's note: '
Publius
Vergilius Maro = Vergil - greatest Latin poet, author of Eclogues,
Georgics, Aeneid + O'Meadhra (o'myoure) (gael) - descendant of Meadhair ("mirth")
+ O'Fearghail (o'faryel) (gael) - descendant of Fearghal ("super-valor").
volve - to turn over the pages of (a book) + T. Moore's "Turn Back the Virgin Page."
Virgil or Publius Vergilius Maro
(B.C. 70 - 19) - Roman poet. Also a 7th century "fantastic grammarian" (Sortes Virgilianae
is telling fortunes by opening Virgil and reading the first passage hit on).
burly - heavy, strong, and muscular + Béarla (Irish) - English language
muter - Often Offensive: One who is incapable of
speech; Linguistics: a) A silent letter. b) A plosive, a stop.
sequent - that which follows in order; a result, a consequence + sequentur (l) - they follow + frequent.
from nemo let you never say neminis or nemine - mnemonic from a Latin textbook:
nemo ("no one") substitutes nullius hominis (Gen.) and nullo
homine (Abl.) for neminis and nemine although nemini (Dat.)
and neminem (Acc.) both regularly
occur (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. /
A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
verschwinden (ger) - to disappear + verschwindibus (ger) - hocus pocus.
menkind - the male sex, men-folk
description
stray - to escape from confinement or control, to wander away from a place, one's companions, etc.
nimm (ger) - to take
nehm- (ger) - to take + name
the day - of a woman, to fix her wedding day.
concomitance - occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another
FDV:
aread - to divine the meaning of (obscure words), interpret (a dream), solve (a riddle or enigma) (arch.) + SDV: One hath just been areading, hath not one, of Sire Jellyous Seizer with his duo of druidesses and the tryonforit of Oxthievious, Lapidis and Malthouse Anthony, but so bright as Mutua of your mirror holds her candle to your caudle reek you a spirit of anyseed whether trigemellmen cuddle his coddle or nope. As they warred in their big innings ease now we never shall know. Eat early earthapples. Coax Cobra to chatters. Hail, Heva, we hear. Wide hiss, we're wizening. Hoots fromm, we're globing. Why hidest thou hinter thy husband his name? Aida, Aida, aflattered, afraida, how does thy girdle grow. Willed without witting world without aimed. But it's tails for toughs and titties for totties and come buckets, come bats till deeleet.
ya = yah - an exclamation of disgust, aversion, or malicious defiance. Also used loosely as a vague or meaningless exclamation + ja (ger) - yes.
memoire - obs. form of memory + moira (gr) - fate
hireling - a hired servant; a mercenary (soldier) [now usually somewhat contemptuous] + Ireland's.
Punic Wars - the three wars
between the Romans and Carthaginians waged between 264 and 146 b.c.
Ulster - the name of the most northerly of the four provinces of Ireland
ga (Dutch)
- go (imperative)
The (Anglo-Irish) - chief of (given) clan
William O'Brien, Irish
patriot (1852 - 1928) + Five Bloods of Ireland - the O'Neils of Ulster; the
O'Connors of Connaught; the O'Briens of Thomond; the O'Lochlans of Meath; the
M'murroughs of Leinster.
Munster - the southwestern province of the Republic of Ireland, comprising the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford + monastir (Bulgarian) - cloister.
Leinster - the southeastern province of Ireland, comprising the counties of Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Offaly, Longford, Louth, Meath, Leix, Westmeath, Wexford, and Wicklow.
Connaught - one of the five ancient kingdoms or provinces of Ireland, lying in the western and northwestern areas of the island
Roderic O'Connor
counsel - opinion as to what ought to be done given as the result of consultation
summed - collected into one sum, forming a sum-total
appendage - that which is attached as if by being hung on; a subsidiary external adjunct, addition, or accompaniment, which does not form an essential part of that to which it is added, but is usually natural or appropriate to it; an addition in writing + (ass).
da (Serbian, Russian) - yes
Gaius Julius Caesar
- a Roman general, dictator, and statesman
gamely - sportive, merry
taskmaster - one whose office is to allot tasks and see to their performance; an overseer; a middleman + torsk (Danish) - cod + mester (Danish) - master.
'32 = teeth / 1 = moon / sixerords point
hole' (Joyce's note) [Armenian vecerord:
the sixth; Armenian vec: six] + (23 + 1 + 16 = 40) + (32, 1 +
10 = 3211).
Clio (l) -
"Fame": muse of
history + patria (l) - fatherland +
Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) - "Paternal Renown": famous queen
of Egypt; bore Julius Caesar a son, later became Mark Antony's
mistress.
duo - two people; a couple; esp. a pair of entertainers
Druidess - a female Druid; a Druidic prophetess + *IJ*
ready money
romper - a casual one-piece garment worn esp. by young women + Joyce's note: 'rompers (skirt)'.
One, Two, Three, Four,
Mary's at the Kitchen Door (nursery rhyme)
ordination - logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements
omen (l) - a presage:
Octavian went on to become Augustus, the first
emperor (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
onus - a burden, charge, responsibility, duty + onus (l) - a burden; Lepidus was a make-weight in the triumvirate (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake)
obit - departure from life, death, decease (obs.); a ceremony or office performed at the burial of a deceased person (obs.) + obit (l) - he opposes; he perishes: Antony's subsequent career (opposed Octavian, went to Egypt, was defeated and killed himself) (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
triumvirate - Rom. Hist. An association of three magistrates for joint administration + triumvir - Rom. Hist. One of three magistrates or public officers forming a committee charged with one of the departments of the administration; a member of the coalition of Pompey, Cæsar, and Crassus, 60 b.c. (first triumvirate), or of the administration of Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus, 43 b.c. (second triumvirate) + *VYC*.
Triumvirate of Octavianus,
Lepidus, and Marcus Antonius held joint power in the Roman world after the death
of Caesar and defeat of Brutus and Cassius at Philippi, until Antony's defeat by
Octavian at Actium (31 B.C.) + (notebook 1931): '
lapidous - full of stones + lapideus (l) - made of stone.
malthouse - a building in which malt is prepared and stored
anthemy - a flower-cluster of any kind + anthemoeis (gr) - flowery + anthemion (gr) - little flower.
layout - a scheme, plan, or arrangement; a number of persons associated in some way
Suetonius - Roman historian (1st and 2d centuries B.C.), wrote lives
of the 12 Caesars, from Julius to
Domitian + Suetonia (l) - female member of the gens named Suetonius ("Customary")
+ *I*.
compulsory +
upholstery - covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of
furniture.
recur - Of something known, an idea, thought, etc.: To come back or return to one's thoughts, mind or memory.
understudy - to study (a part or character) in order to be able to take the place of a principal actor or actress if necessary
understandings (Slang) - legs
sostituto (it) - substitute
compline - the last
religious service of the day + compliment.
gymnos (gr) - naked +
genuflect.
mutua (l) - borrowed,
lent; a loan; in
return + per mutua (l) - mutually, from one to
another + *J*.
hold a candle
to another
caudle - a warm drink consisting of wine or ale mixed with sugar, eggs, bread, and various spices, sometimes given to ill persons, esp. women in childbed
left hand
likeless - unlike + likeness
sombre - to make sombre; to become or grow sombre
reck - to take care, heed, or thought of some thing (or person), to think (much, etc.) of
sprit - a jet or slender spout of water or other liquid
aniseed - the seed of the anise, used as a carminative, and in the preparation of Oil of Anise, Spirit of Anise, Anise water, and Anisette
trigeminus (l) -
three born at birth, set of
triplets + gemellus (l) - born at the same time, twin-born.
coddle - a dish traditionally associated with Dublin, Ireland. It was reputedly a favourite dish of Dean Jonathan Swift and appears in several Dublin literary references including the works of James Joyce. It consists of layers of boiled pork sausage and streaky rashers (bacon) with sliced potatoes and onions cooked in the stock produced by boiling the rashers and sausages. The only flavoring is usually salt, pepper, and parsley. Cooking time is approximately 5 minutes boiling the meat to produce the stock followed by 1 hour once all the ingredients have been combined. A covered pot is used for the latter part. + PICTURE
whim - a capricious notion or fancy, a fantastic or freakish idea + harm
gruff - rough, surly, or sour in aspect or manner
gunne - obs. form of gun + O, Willie brew'd a peck o'maut (song): 'The cock may craw the day may daw' + Michael Gunn - manager of Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.
gam - the mouth; a herd or school of whales; a leg + gam (Anglo-Irish) = gom (Irish) - fool.
gonna - colloq. (esp. U.S.) or vulgar pronunciation of going to + gonna (it) - skirt.
gossan - an exposed, oxidized portion of a mineral vein, especially a rust-colored outcrop of iron ore + gossoon (Anglo-Irish) - young lad, boy (from Irish: garsún).
eye - to direct the eyes to, fix the eyes upon, look at or upon
aye - as an affirmative response to a question: Yes; even so.
butt - a hillock, mound + REFERENCE
eroico (it) - heroic + No man is a
hero to his valet (proverb) - Literal Origins: Because a valet (originally a personal
servant) deals with all the intimate details of his or her boss's life,
including their underwear, they do not hold any illusions regarding the
person's real personality + Giordano Bruno of Nola: De Gli Eroici Furori
[.20-.21]
furioso
- a furious person
nolens volens
pansy - the common name of Viola
tricolor, esp. of the cultivated varieties
brune - a dark-complexioned girl or woman, a brunette
brume - fog, mist, vapour
infinitive - Gram. The name of that form of a verb which expresses simply the notion of the verb without predicating it of any subject.
war - to make or carry on war; to fight
ease - the condition of
being comfortable or relieved; freedom from pain, worry, or agitation
innings - the time during which a person, party, principle, etc. is in possession or in power; a term of, or opportunity for, activity of any kind; a turn + Genesis 1:1, John 1:1: 'In the beginning'.
earthapple - In OE. ? A cucumber; ? The potato + lit. Erdapfel (ger) - potatoes + aardappel (Dutch) - potato (literally 'earth-apple').
chatter - incessant talk of a trivial kind
hyperapo - (gr) -
more-, above-, excessive
glider - one who, or that which glides → Snake + 'This is the man all tattered and torn, / That kissed the maiden all forlorn, / That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, / That tossed the dog, / That worried the cat, / That killed the rat, / That ate the malt, / That lay in the house that Jack built' (nursery rhyme).
GOUGH STATUE - The bronze
equestrian statue of Sir Hugh (later Lord) Gough (pron. "Goff") stood at the
corner of People's Gardens (which Gough didn't give). He was "conqueror of the
Punjab" at the battle of Gujenat, 1849 +
Genesis 3:3: 'the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden'
+ God.
mink - a small, semi-aquatic, stoat-like mammal
dead leaf
quicksilver - the metal mercury
applique - work applied to or laid on another material; spec. A trimming cut out in outline and laid on another surface.
plisser (fr) - pleat + almost appreciate.
sleeky - marked by sleek condition
charmeuse - a soft smooth silk fabric, having a satin-like surface + charmeuse (fr) - charmer (feminine).
wizen - Of plants: To dry up, shrivel, wither. Also transf. of persons, their features, etc. + wir wissen (ger) - we know + listening.
fromm (ger) - pious, religious + (notebook 1931): 'hoots fromm (who it's from)'.
globe - to form into a globe + wir glauben (ger) - we believe.
hinder - situated behind, at the back, or in the rear
Leda - bore by Zeus in the
form of a swan two eggs, from which came Pollux, Castor, Helen and Clytemnestra
aflutter - in a flutter, agitated
girdle - a belt worn round the waist to secure or confine the garments;
In various phrases and proverbial sayings: 'girdle of chastity' = chastity belt
+ 'Mary,
Mary, Quite Contrary, how does your garden grow?' (nursery rhyme).
will - desire to, wish to, have a mind to (do something)
witting - the fact of knowing or being aware of something; knowledge, cognizance
whorl - a form that coils or spirals; to arrange in whorls or convolutions
aim - to calculate one's course with a view to arriving (at a point); to direct one's course, to make it one's object to attain. Hence fig. + 'World without end' (Gloria Patri).
pappa (l) - a
father + passus (l) - a step, pace;
footstep (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
mamma manet (l) -
(1) a breast remains; (2) mamma (mother)
remains + Manet, Edouard (1832-83) -
French painter.
Wut (ger) - anger
The Goat (song):
'"What's that, ma'm?", says I'
tail - the reverse side of a coin, esp. in phr. "head(s or tail(s"; the lower and hinder part of the human body; the fundament, posteriors, buttocks; sexual member, penis or (oftener) pudendum; women regarded collectively (by men) as a means of sexual gratification.
tough - a person given to rough or violent behaviour
titty - a sister; a young woman or girl; a woman's breast including the nipple; Formerly, a dial. and nursery dim. of teat, the breast, esp. the mother's breast [Ulysses.18.536: 'titties' (breasts)].
totty - a tiny tot or little child + totties (Dublin Slang) - girls; prostitutes + (notebook 1931): '- for men & titties for totties'.
come
buckets full
pige pas (fr. slang) - I don't understand
combats till
daylight
panoptical - including everything visible in one view
purview - range of vision, physical or mental; range of experience or thought
dark ages
asp
daisy roots
sally - a rush of troops
from a besieged position upon an enemy + Sally in Our
Alley (song) + (notebook 1931): '
lily of the valley - a
beautiful spring flower, Convallaria majalis, having two largish leaves
and racemes of white, bell-shaped, fragrant flowers
hot on
Minotaur - a fabulous monster, the son of Pasiphaë, wife of Minos king of Crete, and a bull, represented as having the body of a man and the head of a bull. He was confined in the Cretan labyrinth and fed with human flesh. He was slain by Theseus, who thus freed Athens from her annual tribute of seven youths and seven maidens to be devoured by the monster + manoeuvres + mini-wars.
Actium (l) - promontory
in west Greece off which Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra in a naval
battle (31 B.C.) + (notebook 1931): '
picked - contrived, provoked, designedly brought about; as, a picked quarrel (obs.)
engagement - the state of being engaged in fight; a battle, conflict; also formerly, a single combat
rower - one who rows, an oarsman + (notebook 1931): 'banks of oars' → bank - a rank or tier of oars or oarsmen (in reference to ancient galleys).
minding - that reminds + mind - to be careful: look out, watch out + minding school - a dame-school of which the chief purpose is to keep the children out of mischief + absent-minded + musical notes: B, C, A, D [L02]
missy - an affectionate or playful appellation for a young girl: used chiefly by servants + FDV: Dark ages clasp the daisy roots Stop, if you [a sally of the allies], hot on naval actiums pitched engagements banks of oars & lightlicked estudis are a B.C. minding girl 216, ____, _____, _____, Please step, do please, ____, ____, ____, 1132 should you prefer A.D. stepplease, O do. And if you miss with a venture, serves you girly well glad. Take your little head out of the tub for me, for me. Tell Sell us all you think you just & we'll tittle [tole] you where to tittle a tattle. [Page femme hug treedivels till nigh unt'evey.] It is distinctly understood as for we were in at our begetting, for now and aye for shall be.
mess + misadventure.
venture - fortune, luck; chance. = adventure + venture girl - a girl or woman who goes to India in order to get a husband.
girly - characteristic of or befitting a girl, girlish + jolly well right + (notebook 1931): 'serves you glad'.
Janus - the name of an ancient Italian deity, regarded as the doorkeeper of heaven, as guardian of doors and gates, and as presiding over the entrance upon or beginning of things; represented with a face on the front and another on the back of his head; the doors of his temple in the Roman Forum were always open in time of war, and shut in time of peace.
blitzen (ger) - to lighten, to flash; lightning + Kopf (ger) - head.
SDV:
hengest - a male horse; usually a gelding (Old English) + Hengst (ger) - stallion + Hengest and Horsa - brothers and legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain who went there to fight for the British king Vortigern against the Picts between AD 446 and 454.
put head in tub & take it out
Lethe - Gr. Myth. A river in Hades, the water of which produced, in those who drank it, forgetfulness of the past. Hence, the 'waters of oblivion' or forgetfulness of the past + muse - the inspiring goddess of a particular poet + litmus.
wash off
tale of a tub - an
apocryphal tale; a 'cock and bull' story (obs.) + FDV:
hinny - the offspring of a she-ass by a stallion + Swift's Houyhnhnms.
haunted - frequented or much visited by spirits, imaginary beings, apparitions, spectres, etc.
Chamber of Horrors -
the name given to a room in Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition, containing effigies of
noted criminals and the like; hence transf. a place full of horrors.
erring - the action of the verb err; an instance of the same, a fault
treis (gr) = tres (l) -
three
stirrup - a contrivance suspended from the side of a saddle to serve as a support for the foot of the rider + tessara (gr) - four.
Seidlitz powder -
a mixture of tartaric acid, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium sodium tartrate, used as a mild
cathartic by dissolving in water and drinking + powther - obs. or dial. f. powder.
slogan - a war-cry or battle cry; spec. one of those formerly employed by Scottish Highlanders or Borderers, or by the native Irish, usually consisting of a personal surname or the name of a gathering-place.
plumper - an unusually large example of its type + plump - to drop or sink heavily and noisily; the sound of a heavy fall or collision.
distinctly - in a way clear to the mind or perception; clearly, unmistakably
since
twofoot - measuring two feet; two feet long, wide, or thick
pate - the head, the skull: more particularly applied to that part which is usually covered with hair + timepiece + templates + (horses put heads in tub).
lough - a lake, pool
Morpheus (gr) - god of
dreams
pace (l) - with (someone's)
leave, by leave of
Messe (ger) -
mass + Messer (ger) - knife + Herrn (ger) - gentleman.
statesman - one who takes a leading part in the affairs of a state or body politic; esp. one who is skilled in the management of public affairs
brock - a stinking or dirty fellow; one who is given to 'dirty tricks' + Brock - badger in the Reynard cycle + Joyce's father was secretary of United Liberal Club in Dublin during 1880 general election; the Liberal candidates, Maurice Brookes and Dr Robert Dyer Lyons, ousted Sir Arthur Guinness and James Stirling.
leon = lion (obs.) + Trotsky, Leon (1879-1942) - Russian revolutionary, exile, murdered in Mexico.
shunt - fig. To push aside or out of the way
grumbling - that grumbles, in various senses. Of persons: Querulous, discontented
candidates
Stalin, Joseph
Sir + ser (Welsh) -
stars.
Guinness - the proprietary name of a brand of stout manufactured by the firm of Guinness
famous
homely - of or belonging to the home or household, domestic (obs.)
brew - a beverage made by brewing
hoplites (gr) -
heavy-armed foot-soldier of ancient Greece
Athenai (gr) - Athens +
Up, guards, and at them!
Gageure originally comes from
fr. gager, meaning to put a bet on, to pledge, to put a stake on etc. From that,
gageure becomes a challenge, an action on which you (or someone else ) put(s) a stake
on. Also: something that will probably not succeed but is worth trying; Quote: c'est une gageure
= it's quite challenging + guerre
(fr) - war.
shock + seasachas (shasokhes) (gael) - truce, cessation.
Stimme (ger) -
voice + stimm- (ger) - to be right + stammer
Other Wall Street terms are heard in the
repetition of the "bull-bear" phrases which
denote a selling market and buying
market (Benstock, Bernard / Joyce-again's wake : an analysis of Finnegans wake).
staff - a stick or rod, esp. one with a hooked end, used for tending sheep; a shepherd's crook (obs.); a body of persons employed, under the direction of a manager or chief, in the work of an establishment or the execution of some undertaking.
versus - against, in contrast to
herd - a company of domestic animals of one kind, kept together under the charge of one or more persons; a large company of people, a multitude + Staffordshire versus Hertfordshire.
buck - a gay, dashing fellow; a dandy, fop; a dollar
bark - the sharp explosive cry uttered by dogs
+ Buckinghamshire versus Berkshire.
curragh
machree
bosthoon
- an awkward fellow; a tactless, senseless person + best + bosom + Boston.
fiend
- an enemy, foe (obs.); an evil spirit generally; a person of superhuman
wickedness
bump
bellow
bawl
Mackirdy & Willis:
The White Slave Market 192: (quoting a "missus" arguing with
an American Consul trying to convince her to stop her traffic in American women
to the East) 'the 'sky-pilots,' the 'pulpit-punchers,' and 'Bible-bangers' don't
own creation... If you stop my progress here in this hell-on-earth... I say,
I'll shake eternity to its foundation to get even with you'.
opprimor (l) - I am
oppressed + opprimor [correctly oppresor] (l) - a crusher,
oppresser.
opima (l) - honorable
spoils; rich, fertile (plural) + oppima (Estonian) - to study.
rent
tithe
wage - a payment to a person for
service rendered. Formerly used widely, e.g. for the salary or fee paid to persons of
official or professional status. Now (exc. in rhetorical language) restricted to mean: The
amount paid periodically, esp. by the day or week or month, for the labour or service of
an employee, worker, or servant.
save - an act of saving; a piece of
economy (dial. and vulgar.)
spend - the action of spending
money; the amount spent
heil - Used in the expression Heil
Hitler! by the Germans during the Nazi regime.
heptarch - a ruler of one of
seven divisions of a country; a seventh king + heptarched span of peace = seven-arched span of peace - the rainbow (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. /
A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake)
hang back
lex (l) - the law
nex (l) - murder,
slaughter,
mores - those acquired customs and
moral assumptions which give cohesion to a community or social group, the contravention or
rejection of which produces a reaction of shock and outrage + mores (l) - customs.
was ist das
wo (ger) - where + Hvor er du? (Danish) - where are you?
impover
- to make poor; to reduce to poverty +
improvement
Bible
bauble - a child's plaything or
toy; a thing or article of no value, a paltry piece of rubbish + 'Take away
these baubles' (Cromwell ordering dissolution of Rump Parliament).
bubble - a thin globular vesicle of
water or other liquid, filled with air or gas + Lincoln: Gettysburg Address:
'government of the people by the people for the people'.
wrap up
wampum - small beads made
from polished shells and formerly used as money by native Americans
cowdung - the dung or excrement of
cows + Cowdung Forks = Furculae Caudinae (l) - Caudine Forks, Forks of Caudium (a
town): mountain-pass where Roman army was trapped by the Samnites and forced to
pass under the yoke (321 B.C.), a national humiliation never forgotten by the
Romans.
basketful - as much as fills a
basket
kine - archaic pl. of
cow + Cannae (l) = Kannai (gr) - village in Apulia where Hannibal destroyed a Roman
army (216 B.C.); In addition to the physical loss of her army, Rome would suffer a symbolic
defeat of prestige. A gold ring was a token of membership in the upper classes of Roman society.
Hannibal had his men collected more than 200 gold rings from the corpses on the battlefield, and sent this collection to Carthage as proof of his victory. The collection was poured on the floor in front of the Carthaginian Senate, and
was judged to be "three and a half measures".
meat meal
shake down
shuffle
- movement of the feet along the ground without lifting them; a tricky exchange
or alternation (of arguments, expedients, etc.)
throw - a violent spasm or pang,
such as convulses the body, limbs, or face; Also, a spasm of feeling, a paroxysm, agony of
mind, anguish; the agony of death, the death-struggle, death-throe.
ope - obs. f.
hope
hoppity
Huhn (ger) - hen
hoosh - to force or turn or drive
(an animal, etc.) off (or out, etc.)
clucker
nuts - testicles
downfall - falling down,
descending
ned
- hooligan, thug, petty criminal; Also used as a general term of disapprobation
levy - the action of collecting an
assessment, duty, tax, etc. + Anna Liffey.
shrewd - Of persons, their
qualities, actions, etc.: Depraved, wicked; evil-disposed, malignant; Passing into a
weaker sense: Malicious, mischievous.
shoplifter - a person who
steals from a shop, a shop-thief
Nièvre river + never.
Nore river + another.
skidoo - to go away, leave, or
depart hurriedly
Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin (1922), 798: (advert) 'Pure Altar Wine Sweet,
Medium and Dry'.
goy (Slang) - gentile
+ goy (Hebrew)
- gentile; nation + for you and I and I and you.
dimpled - marked with or as with
dimples + dimple - a small hollow or dent, permanent or evanescent,
formed in the surface of some plump part of the human body, esp. in the cheeks in the act
of smiling, and regarded as a pleasing feature.
pimpled - having, or characterized
by, pimples + pimple - a small solid rounded
tumour of the skin, usually inflammatory, without, or rarely with, suppuration; a papule
or pustule.
simple - an ignorant or foolish
person
wimpled
- enveloped in or wearing a wimple; hence, veiled + "a drowned doll, to face
downwards for modest Sister Anne Mortimer" [211.23-24]
peek - a secret look +
pew -
long bench seat used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church
penny babies - type of
sweet
one by one
haul
- the act of 'drawing' or making a large profit or valuable acquisition of any
kind + holy
hekatoendeka (gr) -
one hundred and
eleven + hekta (gr) -
six + hendeka (gr) -
eleven + Hecate - Greek moon-goddess → The frog is totem of Hecate, the Witch
who transforms from the old crone or hag (hexe) into voluptuous
enchantress: the mother into the daughter. (Kenneth Grant: Outside the
Circles of Time).
mange (Danish) -
many
jujube - a lozenge, made of
gum-arabic, gelatin, etc., flavoured with, the fruit + mumbo jumbo - a grotesque
idol said to have been worshipped by certain tribes or associations of Negroes; obscure or
meaningless talk or writing.
Mutt and Jeff
muchas gracias (Spanish)
- many thanks
barcelona (Anglo-Irish)
- silk neckcloth
fie fie
tondeo (l) - to shear,
clip, crop,
shave + tondus [correctly tonsus] (l) - shaved,
clipped + (jinnies and Napoleon).
castoff - thrown off, rejected
from use, discarded: as clothes, a favourite, a lover, etc. + The Letter:
well Maggy...
vaguely
- without attention or concentration of mind or thought + very grateful. Many
thanks (The Letter: dear, thank you ever so much).
free speech
gar
sex + Morton Prince: The
Dissociation of a Personality 481: quotes letter from Christine in which
Sally commented: 'Nobody asked you, Sir, she said' (parody of nursery rhyme
'Where are you going, my pretty maid... My face is my fortune, sir, she said')
[280.22]
hinter
- one who or that which hints or gives a hint + hinter (ger) - behind +
Hintergrund (ger) - background + grunt - the short low gruff noise of the kind
made by hogs.
burdened - heavily loaded,
encumbered, oppressed
tad
- a young or small child, esp. a boy. Occas. used joc. of old men
an t-athair (un
tahir) (gael) - the father
skitter - to move or run rapidly,
to hurry about
laughing + Joyce's note: 'trees laugh at old wind's joke' + Laub (ger) - foliage + hing (ger) - hung.
wheeze - orig. Theatr. slang, A
joke or comic gag introduced into the performance of a piece by a clown or comedian, esp.
a comic phrase or saying introduced repeatedly; hence, (gen. slang or colloq.) a
catch phrase constantly repeated; more widely, a trick or dodge frequently used; also, a
piece of special information, a 'tip'.
windbag
bluster
blowhard
- a blustering person, a braggart; A "blowhard" is a braggart, while to "blow
hard" is to forcibly expel one's breath
troop
winker
muckwet
- wet as muck, thoroughly wet + muck - dirt, filth + muc (muk) (gael) -
pig + Marquis of Wellesley - Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Wellington's brother.
nith - envy, malice, hatred
nod
emperor Napoleon
poorblind = purblind -
partially blind; almost blind
piebald - of two different
colours, esp. white and black or other dark colour, usually
arranged in more or less irregular patches; usually of animals, esp. horses
horse + huir (Spanish)
- escape.
tricuspidal - having three
cusps or points, threepointed
hauberk - a piece of defensive
armour: originally intended for the defence of the neck and shoulders; but already in 12th
and 13th c. developed into a long coat of mail, or military tunic, usually of ring or
chain mail, which adapted itself readily to the motions of the body.
coverchief - a cloth used as a covering for the head, chiefly by women + coverchief - kerchief.
emblem - a figured object used with symbolic meaning, as the distinctive badge of a person, family, nation, etc.
break the bank - to
ruin financially, make bankrupt (a bank) + The Man That
Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (song).
MONT ST JEAN - the name
the English army gave to Waterloo, from the village which Napoleon thought the
key to Wellington's position
already
schedule - a timetable, a programme or plan of events, operations, etc. Freq. in phrs. according to, before, behind, on, etc., schedule (time).
Racine: Les Plaideurs I.1.15: 'point
d'argent, point de Suisse' (French): 'no money, no Swiss' (referring to Swiss
soldiers).
syne - directly or next after that; at the next moment, immediately afterwards
daft - silly, foolish, stupid + "O'Connlath is mitriarch in Kildare. Daft Dathy ..." The first appearance of this sentence, also transcribed by David Hayman in the First-Draft Version, is on the typescript of JJA52, p.28: "Connlath is mitriarch in Kildare." to which Joyce adds "Don", as Connlath's title. In the next and last stage of the phrase 'Don' was typed for no apparent reason as "O'", on JJA52, p.47. Bill Cadbury would call this not a Transmissional Departure but an Instruction Missing, because it is hard to imagine a typist making such a change, it must have been Joyce himself + REFERENCE
Dathi - the last pagan king of Ireland (5th
century), invaded Gaul and was killed by lightning in the Alps for (acc. to
Keating) having plundered the sanctuary of a holy hermit.
reproach - to upbraid, reprove, or rebuke (a person) + Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 161 (IX.1): (of Henry Sweet and Hermann Paul, linguists) 'Sweet. In 1882 he reproaches Paul'.
Near Cannae, The Carthaginian army under Hannibal decisively defeated a numerically superior Roman army under command of the consuls Lucius Aemilius
Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. An estimated 60,000–70,000 Romans were killed or captured at Cannae (including the consul Lucius Aemilius
Paullus and eighty Roman
senators) + Fourteen epistles in the New Testament are traditionally attributed to Paul the apostle
and his influence on Christian thinking arguably has been more significant than any other New Testament author.)
madder - a square wooden drinking vessel + MATTERHORN - Peak in the Pennine Alps on the Switzerland-Italian border + horn - a vessel formed from the horn of a cow or other beast, or in later times shaped after this, for holding liquid (as drink, oil, or ink), powder, etc.
entre (fr) - between, among
+ entre-chat - dance step.
chat - familiar and easy talk or conversation + LYNCH (deeply): Enter a ghost and hobgoblins (Ulysses, p.410)
hobnob - an informal chat
daring - Of persons or their attributes: Bold, adventurous; hardy, audacious.
dunderhead - a ponderously stupid person; a blockhead, a numskull + donder (Dutch) - thunder.
shiver my timbers - a
mock oath attributed in comic fiction to sailors
Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, (247 BC – ca. 183 B.C.) - ("grace of Baal", Baal being the patron god of Carthage, now Tunisia) was the son of Hamilcar Barca and his Iberian wife. Barca was not a family name, but it was carried by his sons. A Carthaginian military commander and tactician, later also working in other professions, who is popularly credited as one of the finest commanders in history.
..."Hannibal MacHamil
hegira - any exodus or departure + Mohammed's Hegira - flight from Mecca to Medina.
more power to one's
elbow - may you (he, etc.) succeed (in a laudable enterprise);
[phrase originally designed for a piper or fiddler].
Henrik Ibsen: "The Master
Builder" (defies God from tower)
repreach - to preach again
timothy - a brew or jorum of liquor + Timothy - St Paul's companion on many journeys. Two of Paul's epistles are addressed to him.
barmbrack (Anglo-Irish)
- currant and raisin speckled cake used at hallowe'en (from Irish bairghean
breac: speckled cake) + Saint Barnabas Terrace, Dublin.
beer + Paul/Peter (motif).
potter - a maker of pots, or of earthenware vessels + Archibald Clavering Gunter: Mr Potter of Texas + "Why do I am alook alike a poss of porterpease?"
street
tocoming - coming, advent
semper- - the L. adv. semper always, used in various nonce-combinations
speel - a splinter or strip of wood, iron, etc.; the act of clambering or climbing + spiel- (ger) - to play + speel (Dutch) - play.
spry - to bustle or stir; to smarten up
tent = tenth (obs.) - the tenth day of the month
calends - the first day of any month in the Roman calendar
hunker - to squat, with the haunches, knees, and ankles acutely bent, so as to bring the hams near the heels, and throw the whole weight upon the fore part of the feet + eleven hundred
thorny - pricking or piercing to the mind; full of points painful or wounding to the feelings; painful, distressing; difficult to handle, delicate, ticklish + thirty
doloriferous - causing or giving rise to pain, painful, grievous
elfshot - 'Disease, supposed to be produced by the immediate agency of evil spirits'.
Hedwig - girl in Ibsen's
The Wild Duck
frayed - afraid, frightened
sore - Of persons: Suffering pain (from wounds, disease, or other cause)
purdah - a curtain; esp. one serving to screen women from the sight of men or strangers
shakefork - a wooden fork with two tines or prongs used by threshers to shake and remove the straw from the grain + as Shakespeare might put it.
pitch - to utter, tell (slang.) + to pitch a fork (Slang) - to tell a story.
Jerry - a German + jerry build - to build unsubstantially and of bad materials + The House That Jack Built (nursery rhyme).
Massa - Representing master in the written form of Black speech.
missus - wife; Used by servants (usually without article) in speaking of their mistresses; spec. used by N. American Negroes and in India and S. Africa of a white employer, and loosely of any (esp. a white) woman.
hijo de puta (sp) - son of a whore
starry - Of the sky, night, etc.: Full of stars, spangled or lit up with stars + starik (Russian) - old man + rijk (Dutch) - rich; realm.
gasan (gosan)
(gael) - stalk;
boy + inghean (inyen) (gael) - daughter.
anemone - a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones
blink - a sudden or momentary gleam of light from the sun, a fire, etc.; a slight flash; a peep of light; a twinkling gleam, as of the stars
Anemotis (gr) -
"She that still the wind": Athena + Windstille (ger) - calm.
gleaming - that gleams, in senses of the verb
jelly - an article of food, consisting chiefly of gelatin, obtained from various animal tissues, as skin, tendons, bones, etc., by boiling and subsequent cooling, having a characteristic soft stiff homogeneous consistence, and usually semitransparent. Also, in later use, a preparation of the juice of fruit, or other vegetable substances, thickened into a similar consistence.
slide - to move smoothly along a surface + (the demons).
sleet - to precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow
aloof - away at some distance (from); remote in manner
scout - to reconnoitre, to examine with a view to obtaining information + to scout round - to surround with a watch.
shoot (a person)
about
vaunty - boastful, proud, vain
Dagobert II - king of Austrasia 676 – 679 + REFERENCE
clane - obs. form of clean
hometown - the town in which one's home is, or was originally; one's native town
prep - to prepare oneself (for an event); to practise, to train
preparatory = preparatory school - junior school in which pupils are prepared for a higher school or college + praepueritia (l) - before boyhood, before childhood.
put a good
face on (a matter) - to make (a matter) look well; to assume or maintain a bold
bearing (with regard to) + put a bold face on (phrase) - i.e. to give the appearance of confidence or
assurance.
breached - pierced or cleft with a breach; rent, torn; Also fig. + Brian O'Linn (song): 'Brian O'Linn had no breeches to wear... The skinny side out and the whooly side in' [275.01]
Brian O'Linn - Irish ballad hero, first to wear clothes, make them of
simple materials like sheepskin, shells, etc.
pussy + puzzo (it) - stink.
smell a rat - to
suspect something
hircus (l) - he-goat + hirco- (l) - goat-.
culotte (fr) - breeches, trousers (Brian
O'Linn made sheepskin trousers, inside out; Dagobert wore trousers back to
front).
pingin (pinin)
(gael) - penny +
penge (Danish) - money + a penny for your thoughts (phrase) + Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 150
(VIII.5): (of a children's secret language) ''Ziph' or 'Hypernese' (at
Winchester) substitutes wa for the first of two initial consonants and inserts p
or g, making 'breeches' into wareechepes and 'penny' into pegennepy'.
caenogenetic - rel. to Haeckel's term for the form of ontogenesis in which the true hereditary development of a germ is modified by features derived from its environment (opposed to palingenesis) + kainogenetikos (gr) - newly genitive, newly generative.
dichotomy - division of a whole into two parts
diagonistikos
(gr) - thoroughly fit for contest, completely disposed to
fight (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
dynastic
continuity
pacatum (l) -
"pacified": any country friendly to Rome + Pacata Auburnia (l) - Pacified Auburnia
+ Pacata Hibernia (l) - Pacified Ireland [(notebook 1924): '
gaddy - given to gadding or roving about + giddy.
Arabia - the country so named; fig. Spices
gemmel (Danish) - old + DRAFT SIX: While way back home in Pacata Hibernia, little land untilled, [[Holy] greeny iland, gammel Eire,] one word burrowing on another,
make (Dublin Slang) - halfpenny
wing (Dublin Slang) - penny
burrow - to sink or 'bury' (one's head, etc.) in; Of animals: To make a burrow or small excavation, esp. as a hiding or dwelling-place + 'one word borrows another' (notebook 1924) + one word borrowing from another (Anglo-Irish) - a quarrel.
makroskopos (gr) -
one that sees (things) large + microscope.
telescope + tellus (l) - the earth, the dry land, the planet Earth.
geek - a carnival 'wild man' whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
Standfast, Mr - a pilgrim found while praying for deliverance from Madame Bubble, a witch whose enchantments made the Enchanted Ground
(an area through which the King's Highway passes that has air that makes pilgrims want to stop to sleep. If one goes to sleep in this
place, one never wakes up.) enchanted; She is the adulterous woman mentioned in the Biblical
Book of Proverbs) in part II of
Pilgrim's Progress + standfest (ger) - steadfast.
topical - of or pertaining to a general heading, a topic or subject of discourse, composition, etc.; of or pertaining to a place or locality, local + (notebook 1924): 'topical hero'.
Mac Uther (mok ortur)
(gael) - son of Uther + Uther Pendragon - a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain
and the father of King Arthur.
sign's on it (Anglo-Irish)
- consequently, therefore, as a result + (notebook 1924): '
bellygod - one who makes a god of his belly, a glutton; a god presiding over the appetites + (hunchback).
bastille - a tower or bastion of a castle; a fortified tower; a small fortress + DRAFT SIX: Standfest, our topical hero, signs is on his big bastille back and his white patch, the towelturbaned, and Flower, a silvering for to her jubilee with eve's birch leaves for her jointure,
buck up - to cheer up,
be encouraged; to make an effort, to 'brace up' + On MS p. 288 for "his big" Joyce substituted
"bucked up with fullness, the
fullness - the quality or condition of being full
..."and
silver - to invest or suffuse with a silvery hue or lustre; to turn (the hair, beard, etc.) white or silvery + serving
jubilee - a season or occasion of joyful celebration or general rejoicing
bugbear - a sort of hobgoblin (presumably in the shape of a bear) supposed to devour naughty children; hence, generally, any imaginary being invoked by nurses to frighten children (obs.); an object of dread, esp. of needless dread; an imaginary terror. In weakened senses: an annoyance, bane, thorn in the flesh.
especially
when old, which they soon get to look
jointure - a sole estate limited to the wife, being 'a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements, to take effect upon the death of the husband for the life of the wife at least'.
lavy - a local (St. Kildan) name for the guillemot (the name of several species of sea birds of the genus Alca or Uria) + DRAFT SIX: our lady in waving, girt with a wraparound,
visage - an appearance or aspect + 'face full of flesh' (notebook 1924).
fat as a hen
in the forehead (Anglo-Irish phrase) - very thin, meagre + '
blowhard (Slang) - braggart
+ '
topsyturvy - with the top where the bottom should be, upside down + DRAFT SIX: visage full of flesh and fat as a hen's in forehead, Airyanna and Blowybart, topsir and turvy, that royal pair,
BUFFALO - City, West New
York State, US. But the allusion is not only to the Buffalo Times (founded 1885) but also to the bygone days in the American West before
the buffalo (bison) were destroyed.
PALACE OF THE QUICKEN
TREES - In the Irish tale of this name, Finn and his companions are imprisoned
in an enchanted palace by the treacherous Midac. The site is the barony of
Kenny, County Limerick. The quicken tree is the mountain-ash or rowan + (notebook
1924): '
hight (Archaic)
- called
Goat &
Compasses
velivolant - running and (as it were) flying with full sail + velivolus (l) - sail-flying, winged with sails (poetic of a ship).
eyen (Middle
English) - eyes
shipwrecked - having suffered shipwreck; destroyed or lost by shipwreck + DRAFT SIX: discusst the their things of the past, his sea arms armstrongs round her, her eyne ashipwracked, (though of course he's too big for her [with such a lot of fulness bunched up behind him]) the angerache of their love and the hungerbrood it bore 'em, crime and fable with shame, home and profit,
Cain and Abel
Shem, Ham and Japhet
Jones, Boy - Ulysses, 639:
"some anonymous letter from the usual boy Jones". Mr Thornton identifies him as a Trinity
College student who informed on Robert Emmet.
Herodotos (gr)
(484-425 B.C.) - earliest Greek historian, called "father of history"
by
Cicero
Ulysses.13.869:
'arks' (arse)
shaik - variant of sheikh
sheek = sheikh
lui (it) - he
lei (it) - her
hun (Danish) - she
ham (Danish) - him
scribbledehobble - James Joyce's nonce-formation on scribble, influenced by such a word as hobbledehoy, the etymology of which is obscure. Hence, the name given to one of Joyce's notebooks.
hard upon
tell me the time
traduce - to put into another form or mode of expression, esp. into another language
English
nusance = nuisance (obs.) - anything obnoxious or annoying to the community or individual by offensiveness of smell or appearance, by causing obstruction or damage, etc.
Dolphin's barn: district
of Dublin [211.21]
today is thine whose
tomorrow
quoke - obs. pa. tense of quake + qui, quae, quod (l) - who, what.
The Book of the Dead
curly
crankly - in a 'crank' manner; lustily, briskly, boldly, etc.
beadroll - a catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general + Joyce's note: 'Shem listens to hear his own mistakes'.
backslapping - slapping the back
gladhander - one who gives people the glad hand; one who acts cordially towards everybody + *V*.
DRAFT SIX:
dulcarnon - a dilemma, a nonplus; a person in a dilemma, one 'halting between two opinions' (the word is derived from the Arabic for 'two-horned'; also an epithet for Alexander the Great, in the Koran, sura "The Cave") + Joyce's notes: 'dulcarnon = 2 horned' + '47th prop of Euclid or Alexander's 2 horn heads'.
pulver (l) - dust, powder
+ pilfer - to make off with belongings of others + prefers.
turnip - the fleshy, globular or spheroidal root of a biennial cruciferous plant, Brassica Rapa; In slang phrases, sometimes with pun on turn-up.
palpitation - the beating of the heart; esp. a violent and rapid pulsation resulting from exercise, strong emotion, etc.
CASTLE HOWARD -
Turreted house on the heights above East bank of the Avonmore River, at the
Meeting of the Waters, County Wicklow + (notebook 1924): '
trousers
baptize - to immerse in water, or pour or sprinkle water upon, as a means of ceremonial purification, or in token of initiation into a religious society, especially into the Christian Church; to give a name to, name, denominate.
maiden name + hoyden -
ill-bred girl.
florid - highly ornate; of blooming appearance; strikingly beautiful or attractive + *C*.
singing - that makes or gives out a sound of a musical character + stinking - As an intensifier: 'offensively', in stinking drunk, rich + 'singing likeness' (notebook 1924) [JAJ, of JSJ? singing motif].
DRAFT SIX:
dirge - to utter a dirge; a song sung at the burial of, or in commemoration of, the dead, a song of mourning or lament.
of bloody
altars
gale - singing, a song; merriment, mirth + Gaedheal (gel) (gael) - Irishman, Scotsman.
gall - bitterness of spirit (supposed to have its seat in the gall); assurance, impudence (orig. U.S. slang.) + gall (goul) (gael) - foreigner + Dubhghall [dove... gall] (dugoul) (gael) - Black-foreigner, i.e., Dane + doves said to have no gall as Noah's burst its gall from grief [.F03]
jackdaw - common black-and-gray Eurasian bird noted for thievery + Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) + The Jackdaw's Nest (song) + (notebook 1924): 'Kathleen's mind a jackdaw's nest'.
old-fashioned
brother
raving mad - furious, angry
readymade - in a finished state, immediately ready for use; now spec. of articles which are offered for sale in this state, in contrast to others of the same kind which are made to order + Maid Marian - Robin Hood's sweetheart.
smash - to move rapidly with shattering effect; to dash or smite violently + When Johnny Comes Marching Home (song).
litirin (lit'irin)
(gael) - little letter + -een (
appose - to put or apply one thing to another
omnitude - the fact of being all, 'allness', universality; 'the all', the whole, the total sum
nutshell - the hard exterior covering within which the kernel of a nut is enclosed; With in: In a few words, in a brief or condensed statement + schedel (Dutch) - skull.
increscent - the moon in her increment, represented as a crescent with the horns towards the dexter side
Sung - the name of a dynasty which ruled in China from 960 to 1279 + Thomas Moore: song: She Sung of Love [air: The Munster Man].
Hecaba (l) = Hekabe (gr)
- wife of Priam (king of Troy at its fall): destined as Penelope's slave, she
changed to a dog through rage + William Shakespeare: Hamlet II.2.542:
'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba'.
ough - an exclamation expressing disgust; an imitation of certain sounds + Auch, auch, brav' Kindli (ger) - that too, good little child + William Shakespeare: Macbeth V.5.23: 'Out, out, brief candle!'
brieve - a writ or precept issued from Chancery in the Sovereign's name, directing trial to be made of certain points specified
parley - to speak, talk + parlez-vous? (fr) - do you speak?
Eskimo
Ida - Gertrude Stein's short
sketch, composed in 1937, published as a novel in 1940. Ida is a girl of dual personality who has a twin self,
Ida-Ida + Ida (gr) - mountain in Crete where Zeus was reared by a she-goat, Amaltheia.
mongrel - the offspring of two different breeds of dog. Chiefly, and now only, a dog of no definable breed, resulting from various crossings + every cock will crow upon his own dunghill (phrase) - everyone is confident and at ease on their home ground + (evening chorus of barking dogs).
infra - denoting 'below', 'beneath' in respect of status or condition
liminal - of or pertaining to the threshold or initial stage of a process; spec. in Psychol. Of or pertaining to a 'limen' or 'threshold' (the limit below which a given stimulus ceases to be perceptible).
intelligence - knowledge as to events, communicated by or obtained from another; information, news
offrand - the presenting of something to God (or to a deity or object of worship) as an act of worship or devotion
DRAFT SIX:
vespers - the sixth of the Canonical Hours of the breviary, said or celebrated towards evening
anend - to the end, right through; straight on, constantly + unending + (at an end).
vespertilian - bat-like + vespertilio (l) - a bat + vespertiliabitur (l) - he will be made into a bat (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake)
good shepherd + goat/sheep.
gabbard = gabbart - a sailing vessel for inland navigation; a sailing barge, lighter + gabhar (gour) (gael) - goat.
cloke = cloak
Zum Bock! (ger) - The
devil! (lit. to the goat)
chèvre (fr) - goat, she-goat
wind will
be
Fadervor (Danish) - Pater Noster
upholsterer
- a dealer in small wares or second-hand articles (of clothing, furniture,
etc.); Used spec. with reference to the making and selling of beds and bedding
cradle + Apostles' Creed
capritious = capricious - guided by whim or fancy rather than by judgement or settled purpose + capritius (l) - one having to do with goats, a goatish person.
apple-pie bed
aegis - a protection, or impregnable defence. Now freq. in senses 'auspices, control, etc.', esp. in phr. under the aegis (of) + aegis (l) = aigis (gr) - goatskin: the skin shield of Zeus, lent by him to Athena; later, with snake-fringe and Medusa's head, an emblem of power and terror.
frumen (l) - gruel or
porridge used in sacrifices
burgoo - oatmeal porridge
eaten by sailors
dandy - fine, splendid, first-rate + Sing a Song of Sixpence (nursery rhyme): 'dainty dish'.
leck - to 'make water' (vulgar.) + leck- (ger) - to lick; to leak + Burns: The Ranting Dog, the Daddy O't (song).
gippo (Slang) - greasy gravy
+ gypo (Dublin Slang) - semen + Give us good ale (song).
hushmoney - money paid to prevent disclosure or exposure, or to hush up a crime or discreditable transaction + Gandhi, Mohandas (1869-1948) - Hindu leader, assassinated.
Diana - an ancient Italian female divinity, the moon-goddess, patroness of virginity and hunting
Ulysses.13.707: 'she could almost feel him draw her face to his and
the first quick hot touch of his handsome lips'.
aught - to any extent, in any degree, in any respect, 'anything,' at all
flou (fr) - hazy + through.
duskness = dusk
what's
peepee - an act of urination + pipistrello (it) - bat.
Brennan on the Moor -
outlaw hero of Irish ballad, betrayed by a woman, hung
on the move - in process of
moving from one place to another + moor - to secure one's
ship (etc.) in a particular place; to anchor.
yat (Ulster Pronunciation)
- yet
strang = strong + to be going strong - to be vigorous, thriving, or prosperous + Johnnie Walker whiskey slogan: 'still going strong'.
noctule - the largest British species of bat (Vesperugo noctula); the great bat
fluffy - consisting of or resembling fluff; of soft, downy texture + fluffy (Slang) - tipsy.
large - to enlarge, increase, widen (obs.)
gloomy - dark, shaded, obscure
wheelhouse - a structure enclosing a large wheel, e.g. a water-wheel; spec. a house or superstructure containing the steering-wheel
liss
- tranquillity, peace, joy, delight; a circular enclosure having an
earthen wall; often used as a fort + Alice-in-Wonderland + lis (Pan-Slavonic)
- fox.
lumber - to heap or place together as lumber, without order or method
hoodie - the Hooded or Royston Crow, Corvus Cornix
horseman - one who rides on horseback, a rider
caravan
keep my peace follow - war
Sunday
suit
buzzard - an inferior kind of hawk, useless for falconry; fig. A worthless, stupid, or ignorant person + buzzer (bee).
suckle - to suck at the breast
milkmaid - a woman that milks or is employed in a dairy + milk and honey (Exodus 3:8, and elsewhere) + "when a child of Maam, Festy King," [085.22-.23]
embalm - to impregnate (a dead body) with spices, to preserve it from decay + emballer (fr) - to pack up + (notebook 1924): 'embalmed in honey'.
soot - blackness, darkness + suit
ochone - a Scottish and Irish exclamation of lamentation
O'Connell
ripping - that rips or tears; also fig., cutting; very fast or rapid (obs.); excellent, splendid
Lucretia (on Lucrece) - Roman lady, raped by Sextus Tarquimius; having exacted an oath of vengeance from her menfolk, she stabbed
herself + "Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus": Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux) abducted the Leucippides ("white horses")
Phoebe and Hilaeira, the daughters of Leucippus. When they
encountered their analogous twin brothers of Thebes, Idas and "lynx-eyed"
Lynceus, bound for revenge, Castor, the mortal brother, fell, and Polydeuces,
the immortal twin, survived, yet they were not separated. Polydeuces persuaded
Zeus to share his gift with Castor. Accordingly, the two spend alternate days as
gods on Olympus, worthy of burnt sacrifice, and as deceased mortals in Hades,
whose spirits must be propitiated by libations + William Shakespeare:
The Rape of Lucrece.
toga (l) - normal peacetime
dress of a Roman citizen + toggery (Slang) - clothes.
imponent - that imposes
+ impotence
lampblack
mucky - dirty, filthy, muddy; More widely: grimy, grubby, horrid + muckle (Dialect) - much.
spick - short for spick and span (particularly neat, trim, or smart; suggestive of something quite new or unaffected by wear)
Via Flaminia (l) -
the great northern highway of Roman Italy, built 220 B.C. by C.
Flaminius + flumineus (l) - of, in or belonging to a river + flumen (l) -
river.
MacCool
weemen - obs. pl. of woman + wee (Colloquial) - to urinate + mingere (l) - to urinate.
funerally - in a funeral manner; with funeral ceremonies + (notebook 1924): 'rivers break forth for joy, at funeral' → Irish legends of rivers bursting forth at the burial of heroes.
Thomas Moore: Irish
Melodies: song The Minstrel Boy: 'warrior-bard'
feaster - one who partakes of a feast; a guest
foster - a foster-parent, nurse + foster mother
Fenian
cottonwood - the name of several species of poplar (Populus) in U.S.
ruadh (rue) (gael)
= roe (Anglo-Irish)
- red + (7 colours of rainbow).
William of Orange
buidhe is Irish "yellow"
gorm is Irish "blue"
indigo and violet
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome
to (gr) - the
obedient - that obeys or is willing to obey + obedientia civium urbis felicitas (l) - the citizen's obedience is the city's happiness (motto of Dublin).
at (l) - moreover, but, yet
Mike - a Roman Catholic
sandglass - timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage + Stanislaus Joyce + (notebook 1924): 'Stained glass effect *V*'.
surely
buttermilk - the acidulous milk which remains after the butter has been churned out + (notebook 1924): 'butter won't melt in's breeches' → butter wouldn't melt in his mouth (phrase) - prim and proper, with a cool demeanor (the allusion is to people who maintain such a cool demeanor that they don't even have the warmth to melt butter).
FDV:
duck - a term of endearment + duck trousers.
deputy - a person elected to represent a constituency; a member of a representative legislative assembly
mimbar - the pulpit in a mosque + diputy mimber (Irish Pronunciation) - deputy member.
poll - head, nape of neck +
pole + Peter and Paul Fortress
- one of the most noted buildings in Petrograd.
burgess - an inhabitant of a borough; strictly, one possessing full municipal rights; a citizen + Petersburgh
mushy - soft, pulpy; fig. Tender, sentimental, insipid + mishe/tauf (motif).
tiptop - situated at the very top; very highest; almost always fig. of the highest quality or excellence
toft - Originally, a homestead, the site of a house and its out-buildings; a house site + Toft's - hobbyhorses and whirligig at the Mirus Bazaar.
taft - a widening-out of the end of a lead pipe into a broad thin flange + Taft, William Howard - 27th president of the U.S.
noblesse oblige - Phrase
suggesting that noble ancestry constrains (to honourable behaviour); privilege entails
responsibility.
jady - Of a horse: Like a jade; tricky, jadish + lady
daktar (Hindustani)
- doctor + daughter dear.
rerise - to rise again
white night
drømme (Danish) - dream
+ hjem (Danish) - home + druimin (Irish)
- a white-backed crow.
Buddha - (buddha: enlightened, awakened) The title given by the adherents of one of the great Asiatic religions, thence called Buddhism, to the founder of their faith, Sakyamuni, Gautama, or Siddartha, who flourished in Northern India in the 5th century b.c.
despising + theosophising.
thea (gr) - goddess + theos
(gr) - god + tea + butters despising our cheese [161.12].
encloud - to surround with or envelop in a cloud; to overshadow, darken + included.
Liffey flows from West
Wicklow
Rosaleen, Dark -
personification of Ireland, like Poor Old Woman, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, etc. Mangan's poem
begins, "My dark Rosaleen, do not sigh, do not weep..."
truant - absent without permission; idle, lazy, loitering
thorntree - a tree having or bearing thorns; in Great Britain, usually a hawthorn tree
drames (fr) - plays + drame (Irish Pronunciation) - dream.
bap (Hindustani)
- father + "Teems of times and happy returns, the seim anew, ordovico or
viricordo".
sein - to sign, seal + sein (ger) - being + Sein (Basque) - nickname from Basque: sein 'child' + sen (Czech, Polish) = san (Serbian) - dream.
Malory: 'Some men say yet
that King Arthur is not dead... I will not say it shall not be so'.
Arthur + Layamon: 'ever
yet the Britons look for Arthur's coming'.
Herbst (ger) - autumn
blath (bla) (gael)
-
flower + Baile Atha Cliath (blaklie) (gael) - Dublin + Arthur's last
battle against Saxons took place 'in the country around Bath'.
legends + CAERLEON-ON-USK - Village, on Usk River, Wales. Famous in legend as the chief home of King Arthur and seat of his court. Established ca 50 AD as Isca Silurium, it became Castra Legionum, one of the 3 great legionary fortresses of Roman Brit, and was known as the "City of the Legions." It may be the site where 5 Kings of Cymry rowed Edgar on his barge to acknowledge his sovereignty (973 AD).
Layamon: Brut: 'ever yet
the Britons look for Arthur's coming'.
shuttle - to travel back and forth between two points + shut the pipers down.
piper - one who plays on a pipe (esp. a strolling musician)
tuigeann tú? (Irish)
- do you understand?
sant (it) - saint
eric - blood fine for murder of an Irishman
abu! (obu) (gael) -
to victory! + Éire abú (Irish)
- Ireland to victory! (slogan)
waddle -
to walk heavily and clumsily with a pronounced sway + Thomas Moore:
Red Bank
massive - imposing in scale or scope + (rhythm of song Phil the Fluter's Ball: 'Then all joined in wid the greatest joviality, Covering the buckle and the shuffle, and the cut, Jigs were danced, of the very finest quality, But the widda bet the company at "handeling the fut"') + {Well, this freely is what must have occurred to our missive [111.30-.31]}
pink - the 'flower', or finest example of excellence; the embodied perfection (of some good quality).
punk - devoid of worth or sense; poor in quality; nonsensical + {negative of a horse melted while drying [111.27-.28]}
lineal - genealogy, pedigree (obs.); arranged in a line
pondus - an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, perhaps equal to 3 cloves [an old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (a unit of weight: of 16 ounces in the avoirdupois system (= 453.592 g))] + pondus (l) - weight.
avoirdupois - the standard system of weights used, in Great Britain, for all goods except the precious metals, precious stones, and medicines.
gobbet - a lump or chunk of something, especially of raw meat + gibbet - instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which condemned persons are executed by hanging + to dodge the column - to evade one's responsibilities + (notebook 1923): 'Ruminants dodge gobbet R & L'.
choker - one who chokes (strangles) another person + Phil the Fluter's Ball (song): 'Ye've got to pay the piper when he toothers on the flute'.
chew the cud
scrub - to remove (dirt or stains) by hard
rubbing + (illuminated manuscripts).
pitchcap - a form of torture devised by British forces in 18th century Ireland which was widely used against suspected rebels during the period of the 1798 Rebellion, most famously on Anthony Perry, one of the leaders of the Wexford rebels. The process involved pouring hot pitch, or tar, into a conical shaped paper "cap", which was forced onto a bound suspect's head and then allowed to cool. The "pitchcap" was then torn off taking lumps of skin and flesh with it which usually left the victim disfigured for life + (notebook 1924): 'pitchcap triangle' → R.R. Madden: United Irishmen I.xi.337: 'The numbers tied up to the triangles and tortured with the scourge, or tormented with the pitch-caps... in the year 1798' (quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary under 'pitch-cap').
triangle - Mil. (Usually pl.) A tripod, orig. formed of three halberds stuck in the ground and joined at the top, to which soldiers were formerly bound to be flogged (e.g. during the Irish rebellion of 1798).
noose - a loop, formed with a running knot, which tightens as the string or rope is pulled, as in a snare, lasso, hangman's halter, etc.
tinctus (l) - a dipping
into, a dyeing; baptized + tunc (l) - then + tintregh (obs) - torture + tincture
+
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circum (l) -
around + minium (l) - red-lead, cinnabar; at a triumph the triumphator's face was painted
red with
minium + inluminatus (l) - lighted up,
illuminated +
circumminioilluminatus (l) - lit up all around with
minium (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. /
A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).
encomia (l) = enkomia
(gr) - praises,
eulogies + quoniam (l) - since now, seeing that.
impropery - reproach, upbraiding; (Lat. improperia: 'the reproaches'; Christ's address to the people on Good Friday; also, the taunts to which Christ was subjected).
gezumpher (Slang) - swindler
greeze - ''The historical scramble for the pancake, or the 'Pancake Greeze', as it is called by the boys, took place'' + is.
jarry - abounding in jarring or jars + jolly
felon - a vile or wicked person, a villain, wretch, monster + For He's a Jolly Good Fellow (song).
bloke - to turn pale + bless
pansy - a plant of the genus Viola and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. The name 'pansy' derives from French pensée: thought.
Puss in the
Corner - children's game in which four individuals occupying the four
corners of a room try to run from one corner to another while the fifth, the
'puss', on the alert in the centre, tries to rush in to claim a vacated space,
so leaving the dispossessed person in the middle as a new 'puss' + (for *I*, who
has to write a letter).
'I'm sitting on the stile,
Mary' (song)
dolour - physical
suffering, pain + bottom dollar - U.S., (one's) last dollar, usu. in
collocations with bet.
culus (l) - arse +
cul (fr) - arse +
curious.
chafe - to rub with the hand; esp. to rub (a person's limbs, etc.) in order to restore warmth or sensation.; fig. To heat or ruffle in temper; to vex, irritate + William Shakespeare: Hamlet V.2.10: 'There's a divinity that shapes our ends'.
incipit (l) - '[here] beginneth': Used by mediæval scribes in indicating the beginning of a new treatise, poem, division, etc.; hence, as n. The beginning or first words or lines of a treatise or poem + incipit intermissio (l) - the intermission begins + intermission - a temporary pause, cessation, or breach of continuity in an action, state, etc.
Beweise (ger) - proofs +
beware.
fanciulla (it) - young girl
+ FDV:
spellbinder - one that holds others spellbound, especially an enthralling speaker or a particularly interesting book
lässt zu hören (ger) - is
evident, expresses himself
stella (it) - star
essa stessa (it) - she herself
+ Vanessa.
droop - something which is limp or sagging, a condition or posture of drooping
POHLMAN AND SON - Around the turn of the
century, this firm's "Music and Pianoforte Warehouse" was at 40 Dawson Street.
Fabius Maximus (d. 203 B.C.) - dictator in Second Punic War. Called Cunctator ("Delayer") because
he relied on guerilla tactics against Hannibal to conserve Roman strength after
Trasimene and
Cannae + Flavius (l) - "Blond": name of a Roman
gens + Fabius
(l) - "Skilled": name of a Roman gens.
maximus (l) - the
greatest
Flavia (l) -
"Blonde": woman of the gens Flavia + flapper (Slang) - a
young woman + (notebook 1931): '
minimus (masc.)
(l) - opposite of Maximus + minima (fem.) (l) - very small,
smallest.
coalman - a man who has to do with coal + {Different characters differently hear plink-plunking water drops: ah eh oh; pick, peck; pack, puck}
behove - it is incumbent upon or necessary for (a person) to do (something); Used, owing to confusion between the accusative and nominative as a personal verb: To be under obligation (to do); = ought, have; to suit, to befit + Luke 1:38: 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord'.
jenny wren
twinge - fig. A sharp mental pain; a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow, or the like + Heavenly twins - Castor and Pollux.
feint - to make a feint or sham attack + faint
slept on
your letters
con - to cause to learn, to teach (obs. rare.)
keep up
(noun is name of a person,
place, or thing)
modesty - womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech, and conduct (in men or women); reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions + On Her Majesty's Service (letters).
Brutus, M. Junius (85-42
B.C.) - descendant of L. Junius Brutus, assassin of
Caesar + L. Junius Brutus (fl. 510 B.C.) - semi-legendary leader of revolt against the
kings of Rome; founder of the Republic.
arrear - in pl. Outstanding liabilities, amounts, or balances; moneys due, debts + William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar III.2.73: 'lend me your ears'.
penman - an author, a writer + 'Three men, two men, one man and his dog / Went to mow a meadow' (song).
hun - anyone or anything good of its kind
rockabye, baby - a
traditional phrase (esp. in a nursery rhyme) to induce an infant to fall asleep,
used as an accompaniment to the rocking of a cradle
flatten - to make flat in shape, to reduce to a plane surface + Humpty Dumpty (nursery rhyme): 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall'.
dun (dun) (gael) -
fort
fen (Cornish) - strong, eager, strenuous
break news
gent - gentleman; now only vulgar, exc. as applied derisively to men of the vulgar and pretentious class who are supposed to use the word, and as used in tradesmen's notices + Browning: How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.
outermost - situated farthest out from the inside or centre, most outward
strut - to behave proudly or vaingloriously; to flaunt, triumph, swagger
turquin - a dark-green pumpkin + Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (fl. 534-510 B.C.) - L. Tarquin the Proud: traditional last king of Rome; an Etrurscan, probably historical; his son raped Lucretia, precipitating revolt led by L. Junius Brutus that ended the kingship (also appears in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece).
wagging
cuckold + (notebook
1923): '
Adams and Clay (song)
+ adama (Hebrew)
- earth, clay.
Is takes his
hat
posy - a short motto, originally a line or verse of poetry, and usually in patterned language, inscribed on a knife, within a ring, as a heraldic motto, etc.; a bunch of flowers; Sometimes in the sense of poesy + postcard + pussycat.
cord - Aphetic f. accord
please
major and minor modes (music)
wound - fig. To injure, inflict pain or hurt upon, in a manner comparable to the infliction of a wound + wended
afare - to depart; pa. pple., departed, gone
feign
- to make a show of, put on an appearance of
afear - in fear
+ afar + anear.
coalesce - to unite or come
together, so as to form one
proliferate
- to grow by multiplication of elementary
parts
homogeneity
- composition from parts or elements of the same kind; uniformity of composition
or nature
rainstone
- a stone believed to possess certain qualities and used in primitive
rain-making rituals + rhinestone - an imitation diamond made from rock crystal
or glass or paste.
strangely
kalt (ger) - cold
season of the year
evergreen (summer) is
over
pot - a large sum of money
pon - aphetic form of upon
plop
- the sound made by a smooth object dropping into water without splashing, by
water falling in a small mass, or by bursting bubbles in boiling liquid; the act
of falling with this sound + pomp.
osselet - a little bone, an
ossicle + osseletio (l) - a destroying of the bones +
oscillation
omkring (Danish) - round, about, around
nome - obs. f. name
+ nomen est omen (l) - the name is omen; i.e., the name fits (e.g. a Paulus might
be small, a Calvus bald, etc.)
war to
end war - World War I + All's well
that ends well (proverb).
'bring and buy' sales
athlete
bally
hurley
hearsay
- information received by word of mouth, usually with implication that it is not
trustworthy
smooth
slate
bush
gelded
ewe - a female sheep
jilt
- to deceive after holding out hopes in love; to cast off (a lover) capriciously
laylock - obs. and dial. form of
lilac (a shrub, Syringa vulgaris, cultivated for its fragrant
blossoms, which are of a pale pinkish violet colour)
there's
chant - a (person's) name, address,
or designation; a cipher, initials, or mark of any kind, on a piece of plate, linen, or
other article; anything so marked is said to be chanted; a song, melody; singing.
cecily
maladie (fr) - disease +
melody.
pupil teacher
perfection
- the action, process, or fact of making perfect or bringing to completion
pass for
propper - one who props or
supports
choice
eat one's words
facio- - Used as combining form of
L. facies face + Q.E.F. (l) = Quod Erat Faciendum - 'which was to be done'.
conjugate
morrow - morning; the day next
after the present
amare (l) - to love
verbe de vie (fr) - word of life
ai (Chinese)
- to love
A Married Woman's Lament (song):
'you use me severe'
The Sorrow of Marriage (song):
'then rue'
intended - an intended husband or
wife
Jr - abbreviation of
junior
throne - to be enthroned; to sit on
or as on a throne + thrown.
inst. - abbrev. of
instant + is
lipstick
eikon (gr) = icon (l) -
image, likeness
pettigod
- a minor or inferior deity, a demigod + Pettigo - town, County Donegal + The former Entrance Examination at Cambridge University was nicknamed the
"Little Go" + slip, petticoat.
decree - Law. A judicial
decision + degree
Seiden (ger) - silks +
take sides.
plough (Slang) - fuck
lasso (it) - weary + Lasso,
Orlando (1530-94) - Belgian composer whose work abounds in puns and euphuistic
jokes.
flaunt - Of persons: To walk or
move about so as to display one's finery; to display oneself in unbecomingly splendid or
gaudy attire.
flimsy - slight, frail,
unsubstantial; a flimsy or thin kind of paper
grig - to irritate, annoy,
tantalise
flush
- Of the face, etc.: To become
suffused with warm colour; to become suddenly red or hot.
fuchsia - a red colour like that
of the fuchsia flower
octette - a company of eight
singers or players who perform together; gen. A group of eight persons or
things + octo et viginti (l) - twenty eight.
figurant
- a ballet-dancer; a supernumerary character on the stage who takes no prominent
part, and has little or nothing to say + figurant (French) -
representing.
nary
- neither; no; not a
'Sing a song of sixpence, A
pocket full of rye' (nursery rhyme)
prig (Slang) - thief
+ pigs begin to fly.
begin
twenty-nine husbands
pimp
pamper - to over-indulge (a person)
in his tastes and likings generally
impending
rules of the game
game
- having the spirit or will for or to do (something adventurous); plucky,
spirited
nourse = nurse
+ Old Norse.
Åse - Peer Gynt's mother,
in Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" + Asa - a name applied to the Æsir,
the major Norse gods, such as Odin and Thor [.F26]
adventuring - venturesome,
forward, audacious
trot
- an old woman; usually disparaging: an old beldame, a hag
knowed - widespread dial. pa. tense
of know
Olive - Popeye's girl +
olive oil +
*IJ*
carr - a rock; a pond or pool
+ vinegar.
jupe (fr) - skirt
reizen (ger) - to attract;
to irritate
*E* + salmon + Solomon +
salad dressing.
peeper - one who peeps or peers;
esp. one who looks or pries furtively + Pepper box or Pepper caster - a small
box or bottle, with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling ground pepper on food,
etc.
coster = costermonger - an
apple-seller, a fruiterer; esp. one that sold his fruit in the open street; as a
term of contempt or abuse +
salt - Of persons: Lecherous,
salacious + salt cellar - a vessel, usually small and made of glass or silver,
used on the table for holding salt.
met
mustard pot - a short
round container for storing or serving mustard; vulva (Slang)
between them
Mullinx, Mad -
Dublin beggar whom Swift put in a poem, "Mad Mullinx and Timothy" + Mad Mullah
or Mohammed bin Abdullah - Somali rebel, early 20th century.
plant - to post as a spy or
detective
bini (l) - two each
bisse
- a female deer, a hind; some odoriferous substance
tres (l) - three + trini
(l) - three each + Tristan.
sago
- a species of starch prepared from the 'pith' of the trunks of several palms;
the tree from which sago is obtained
rite
- a formal procedure or act in a religious or other solemn observance; a custom
or practice of a formal kind
kook- (Dutch)
- cooking-
bolt
Thor
- the proper name of the strongest and bravest of the Scandinavian deities, the
god of thunder, whose weapon was a hammer; his belt doubled his strength + door
Amen + Auden - name of
Odin.
dag
- a 'character', an extraordinary person, a 'tough' but amusing person
Stockholm
- the name of the capital city of Sweden
astride
- with the legs stretched wide apart, or so that one leg is on each side of some
object between, as when a person is on horseback + Princess Astrid of Sweden
married Prince Leopold of Belgium in 1926.
upon
druids'
cúil-deas (Irish)
- pretty-head (girl) + cool.
cucumber + cul (fr) - arse + cumbre (sp) - summit.
slap
- to strike or smack (a person or thing) smartly, esp. with the open hand or
with something having a flat surface
straight
- not crooked; free from curvature, bending, or angularity +
thighs
postillion
swinge
- to beat, flog, whip, thrash; to have free scope or course, to indulge one's
inclination
swank - swagger; pretence
clout
- a piece of cloth (esp. a small or worthless piece, a 'rag') + clothes + clouds
of incense.
horner
on the leeward
affraid
blanching - whitening, becoming
white + Isolde Blanchemains, wife of Tristan [.F24]
mench = mensh - colloq. abbrev. of
mention + Mensch (ger) - person (man or
woman)
isabella - greyish yellow, light
buff + (isabella-coloured horse).
ruelle
- a bedroom, where ladies of fashion in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, especially in France, held a morning reception of persons of
distinction; hence, a reception of this kind
rut - the annually recurring sexual
excitement of male deer
mandy
= maundy - the ceremony of washing the feet of a number of poor people,
performed by royal or other eminent persons, or ecclesiastics, on the Thursday
before Easter, and commonly followed by the distribution of clothing, food, or
money + Samuel Lover: Handy Andy + any man.
cheerio
- a parting exclamation of encouragement; 'goodbye'
angel + Anakreon (gr) (fl. 540 B.C.) - lyric poet, born at Teos, Asia Minor, lived at Athens + Anacreon in Heaven (song): 'I'll swinge the ringleaders'.
fother - a load, a cart-load; a
mass, a quantity, 'lot'
when you where just a twinkle
in your father' s eye
troth
- one's faith as pledged or plighted in a solemn agreement or undertaking; one's
plighted word
fortuitous
surplice
Priest buys Is clothes
oneiric (gr) - pertaining to dreams (from Greek oneiros: dream)
memorize - to commit to memory
hopely - of the nature of hope
analexis (gr) - a
picking up, gathering,
selecting + analektos (gr) - choice, select +
analyse - to break down into components or essential features.
somnia (l) - sleep +
sums.
wording - the action of putting or condition of being put into words
libellous - containing or constituting a libel, of the nature of a libel + Bible.
Frederick Barbarossa - German king and Holy Roman emperor (1152-90), who challenged papal authority
of Adrian IV and sought
to establish German predominance in western
Europe + barba rasa (l) - a shaved-off
beard + barbarus (l) - foreign, strange, non-Greek (and non-Roman).
hairesis (gr) - a
taking, acquisition; system of principles; religious party or sect + Vico:
New Science, 202: 'All barbarian histories have fabulous beginnings'.
plantation - garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth + (notebook 1923): 'Sweet plantation (MW's res) the branches there' → Schuré: Woman the Inspirer 21: (translation of Mathilde Wesendonck's poem 'In the Vinery') 'Crowned with leaves and branches slender... Well I know it! Sweet plantation... Silence reigns! the branches shiver... Falling from the green leaves there!'
branching - a collection of branches
yester - yesterday + Esther (Swift) + [460.29-.30]
twelvemonth's mind
- a commemoration of a deceased person by celebration of masses, etc. a year
after (or annually on the anniversary of) the day of his death or funeral + W.S.J. Joyce: The Neighbourhood of Dublin 323: (quotes an anonymous 19th century
poem about Sunday morning excursions outside Dublin) 'Or Leixlip smiling on the
stream below'.
A[mati] N[omen]
(l) - name of the
beloved
slickster - a swindler + shikseh (Yiddish) - young non-Jewish woman + she licks her (pencil) [.16] [.19] [.27]
condolence - outward expression of sympathy with the grief of others; esp. formal expression
shieling - a piece of pasture to which cattle may be driven for grazing + shilling
copper - copper money + Walter A. Copinger: 19th century lawyer and bibliographer of incunabula (wrote Incunabula Biblica (1892) [.L01]) [Motif: Archdeacon J.F.X.P. Coppinger].
porridge - pottage or soup made by stewing vegetables, herbs, or meat, often thickened with pot-barley or other farinaceous addition (obs.)
F[ecit]
M[onumentum] (l) - has erected [this] monument + The Letter: poor Father
Michael [279.F32]
enquiry - the action of asking or questioning; a question, an interrogation
health - a salutation or wish expressed for a person's welfare or prosperity; a toast drunk in a person's honour + The Letter: all at home's health.
mark + The Letter: well Maggy/Madge/Majesty [.13] [.20]
Persian - Of or pertaining to Persia (mod. Iran), or its inhabitants or language; Also, of or pertaining to a Persian cat.
cate - choice viands, dainties, delicacies + The Letter: lovely present/parcel of cakes [279.F33]
she rubs her [.10] [.19]
[.27]
pothook - a curved or hooked stroke made in writing; a crooked stroke or character, a scrawl; now usually applied to a hooked stroke, as an element of handwriting, made by children in learning to write + (notebook 1923): 'Isolde - ornaments her father's caligraphy Vere Foster' → Flood: Ireland, Its Saints and Scholars 106: 'Ferdinand Keller's remarks on the manner in which the excellence of the Irish school of caligraphy was obtained are also applicable in other arts'.
hawk - to carry about from place to place and offer for sale especially by calling out
poppa = papa (a word employed as the equivalent of father)
Foster, Vere (1819-1900)
- 19th century Anglo-Irish philantropist, famous for having devised a series of
handwriting copybooks (e.g. Elementary Drawing Copybooks and Public School
Writing Copybooks), used well into the 20th century. According to Ulysses (705),
he put out a "handwriting copybook" + vere
curly - of a curled form; wavy, undulating
mould - to create, produce, or form out of certain elements or material, or upon a certain pattern; also, to plan, design
she rubs her other [.10]
[.16] [.27]
in the air before turning
it over
The Letter: well
Maggy, hopes to soon hear
cinder - pl. Vaguely used for: Residue of combustion, ashes + sender + Cinderella and Prince Charming in pantomime Cinderella.
The Letter:
Christine + Morton Prince: The Dissociation of a Personality: study of a
case history, 'Christine Beauchamp', in Boston [301.05]; he calls her most
prominent secondary personality 'Sally'.
chum - to share chambers, to live together; to become intimate, be on friendly terms with + Prince Charming - a fairy-tale hero; the lover every girl dreams of; a perfect young man.
soldi (it) - money, small change, pennies +
Isold (anagram).
backfront - the rear boundary line or elevation of a building; the ground in an etching or engraving
heliotrope (anagram)
Parnell: 'When you sell,
get my price'
les héros tombant seul sur la
Champs de Mars (fr) - the heroes falling alone on the Champs de Mars (Paris) + jambe de marche (fr) - walking-leg.
otherwards - in another direction
adeal - properly two words a deal, a part + ideal
The letter is made to
end with a series of four kisses, symbolised as four Xs - four 'crosskisses'
(111.17) - which at 280.27 are modulated to the contemptuous dismissal 'K.M.A'.
The mutual nature of the perversion which results in this kiss is made clear
from the word
'Shlicksheruthr' (Hart, Clive / Structure and motif in Finnegans wake).
she licks her other [.10]
[.16] [.19]
auburn - of a golden-brown or ruddy-brown colour
Charlemagne
(742-814) - king of the Franks, Holy Roman emperor + chêne (fr) - oak.
pia e pura bella - Vico's Latin catch-phrase for holy wars: 'pious and pure
wars' → In FW the phrase is sometimes used for a girl's
name - say, Issy or Stella - and ought, I'm sure, to connect with Plurabelle. It must be remembered that a girl, Biddy O'Brien, caused the
war at Finnegan's wake. (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake)
concomitate - to go with, accompany
lifetree = 'tree of life'
lovers'
silences
hitherto - up to this time, until now
BANDUSIA - A fountain celebrated by Horace (Odes III, xiii), probably on his
Sabine farm. James Joyce translated this Ode while at Belvedere College: his earliest writing
which
survives + fons Bandusia (l) - Bandusia the fountain: a rockspring near Horace's birthplace
at Venusia + Joyce's note: '
blot - a spot or stain of ink, mud, or other discolouring matter
+ The Letter: teastain.
drug - to administer a drug to + droog (Dutch) - dry (adjective and imperative).
shake the dust from or off one's feet - lit. in the Gospel passages; hence
allusively, to take one's departure from an uncongenial place.
mais maintenant elle est venue (fr)
- but now she has come
Venus
latter Lammas (day) -
a day that will never come + at latter Lammas - humorously for 'never' + lammas
(Finnish) - sheep (singular) + Lammas - 1 August.
baith - northern form of both
washwoman = washerwoman + Wöschwib (Swiss German) - chatterbox.
tenebrous - full of darkness, dark; fig. Obscure, gloomy.
thorngarth - an enclosure protected by a thorn-hedge
faery - if or belonging to 'faerie', resembling fairyland, beautiful and unsubstantial, visionary, unreal
blithe - a blithe one; carefree and happy and lighthearted
belletristic - of or pertaining to belles-lettres (elegant or polite literature or literary studies. A vaguely-used term, formerly taken sometimes in the wide sense of 'the humanities,' literæ humaniores; sometimes in the exact sense in which we now use 'literature'; in the latter use it has come down to the present time, but it is now generally applied (when used at all) to the lighter branches of literature or the æsthetics of literary study).
bellum - a small boat or canoe used in ports along the shores of the Persian Gulf + bellum (l) - war + pax (l) - peace.
mutuo (l) - in return, by
turns,
reciprocally + morphes (gr) - shape,
form + mutuomorphomutatio (l+gr) - a reciprocal exchange of
shape (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for
Finnegans wake).
Don Juan - the name of a
legendary Spanish nobleman whose dissolute life was dramatized by Gabriel Tellez in his
Convivado de Piedra.
Tommy Atkins - Familiar
form of Thomas Atkins, as a name for the typical private soldier in the British
army +
totty (Dublin Slang) - girl; prostitute.
a Quinet quote: flowers
and history + REFERENCE
nasal - of, belonging or pertaining to, the nose
fossa - cavity (in
anatomy)
valse - to dance the valse or waltz + Vercingetorix - (d. 46 BC), chieftain of the Gallic tribe of the Arverni whose formidable rebellion against Roman rule was crushed by Julius Caesar. He was killed at Caesar's triumph + rex (l) - king.
triumphus (l) -
ceremonial procession by a victorious Roman general through the streets of Rome
with soldiers, the Senate, and chief captives, who were often then killed, as
Vercingetorix was at Caesar's Gallic
triumph + arcus triumphalis (l) - at a triumph the army entered through a gate which was
often later replaced by a commemorative arch.
Also sprach Zarathustra
(Thus Spoke Zarathustra) - Nietzsche's masterpiece in biblical narrative form;
in part III, The Convalescent: 'Everything goes, everything comes back;
eternally runs the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again;
eternally runs the year of being.'
Latin + geschwind (German) = gezwind (Dutch) - quickly.
English + Turkish.
Teague - a nickname for an Irishman (*V*)
bog - a piece of wet spongy ground, a morass + boy + bog (Pan-Slavonic) - god.
Thaddeus - apocryphal tradition has it that Jesus
had a brother, Judas Thaddeus + *C*.
polish off - to finish
off quickly or out of hand + poliż (Polish)
- lick (imperative singular).
nates - the buttocks, haunches + nett's Weib (ger) - nice girl, woman.
pulper - a machine for reducing fruit, straw, roots, paper-stock, etc. to pulp + blotting paper.
margarite = margaret
(obs.) - a daisy; esp. Bellis perennis: called also herb Margaret + (notebook
1931): '
hyacinth - bulbous plant with bell-shaped six-parted flowers, of various colours, usually drooping, arranged in a loose upright spike
pervenche - a shade of light blue, resembling the colour of the flowers of the periwinkle + pervinca (l) - periwinkle (flower).
M. Junius Brutus (85-42
B.C.), G. Cassius Longinus (d. 42 B.C.) - main conspirators against Caesar (according to Eutropius, around sixty or more men
participated in the assassination, on the Ides of March [March 15] of 44 BC).
Cassio (it) - Cassius + Cassio: lieutenant to
Othello in Shakespeare's Othello.
Virgil or Publius Vergilius Maro
(B.C. 70 - 19) - Roman poet. Also a 7th century "fantastic grammarian" (Sortes Virgilianae is telling fortunes by opening
Virgil and reading the first passage hit on).
ware - to give heed, take care, be on one's guard. Const. of, with
trifid - split or divided into three by deep clefts or notches, three-cleft; esp. in Bot. and Zool.
daredevil - recklessly daring
Ignatius Donnelly:
The Great Cryptogram
piercing - keenly or painfully affecting; deeply distressing
flashy - superficially bright; brilliant, but shallow; cheaply attractive
cowrie - the porcelain-like shell of a small gastropod, Cypræa moneta, found abundantly in the Indian Ocean, and used as money in some parts of Africa and Southern Asia.
hidalgo - In Spain: One of the lower nobility; a gentleman by birth.
XYZ + The Letter:
four crosskisses
wilfulness - disposition to assert one's own will against reason, persuasion, etc.; determination to take one's own way
Desdemona - Othello's
wife
Saxum - stone of a granulated structure + saxum (l) - a rock, large stone + Saxon Shilling - piece of antienlistment propaganda in Dublin, 1905 + six
sextum (l) - for the
sixth time; the sixth thing + sexton.
porridge + parish priest - the priest
in charge of a parish.
multiplicating - multiplying + (notebook 1924): '*X* shadows multiply'.
nel (it) - in the
falso (it) - false + letto (it) - bed.
col (it) - with the
fazzoletto (it) - handkerchief
+ 'Il fazzoletto' repeated by Othello in act III of Verdi's opera, Otello.
dal (it) - from, by, at the
lezzo (it) - stink
niggar - obs. form of nigger + niggard - one who grudgingly parts with or expends anything + nigger = Othello.
go (to) the length
of
saying
mig - urine; or the drainings from manure + Mick/Nick (motif).
nickel - a one-cent piece partly made of nickel (obs.)
toties quoties - as often
as something happens or occasion demands; repeatedly
tackle - to 'come to grips with', to enter into a discussion or argument with
sycamore + Othello, dramatis personae: Othello, a noble Moor in the service of the Venetian state; Cassio, his lieutenant; Iago, his ancient; Desdemona ('Willow Song'; sally: willow).
sally - one of several eucalypts or acacias that resemble willows + sorry + awful silly.
aeger (l) - sick, unwell,
diseased + aer (gr, l) - the air + Arger (ger) - anger +
ærger (Danish) - spite.
sieger - a besieger + Caesar + Sieger (ger) - victor.
Ruhm (ger) - fame, glory +
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I
loved Rome more."
oxygen
catch,
lay, take, etc., ahold of
ruck - a heap or stack of fuel or combustible material of any kind; nonsense, rubbish
Enten Eller (Either/Or)
- title of Kierkegaard's book (in Danish) followed by an English translation +
(Freud said that in dreams 'either/or' equals 'and').
nay - a denial, refusal, or prohibition + REFERENCE
antithesis - Rhet. An opposition or contrast of ideas, expressed by using as the corresponding members of two contiguous sentences or clauses, words which are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other.
give and take
squalor - the state or condition of being physically squalid, a combination of misery and dirt; fig. The quality of being morally squalid.
pep - brisk energy, liveliness + William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar III.2.26-28: 'There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honour for his valour, and death for his ambition'.
perdition - Theol. The condition of final spiritual ruin or damnation, the future condition of the wicked and finally impenitent or unredeemed.
wildwood - a forest of natural growth, or allowed to grow naturally
blue bell - a bulbous-rooted
plant, Scilla nutans, growing in moist woods and among grass, and flowering in
spring, with a nodding raceme of drooping narrow bell-like flowers.
stunt - a check in growth; also, a state of arrested growth or development; a creature which has been hindered from attaining full growth or development
Lo, the poor crieth
laird - a landed proprietor. In ancient times limited to those who held immediately from the king.
boon - a benefit enjoyed, blessing, advantage, a thing to be thankful for; a prayer (Archaic)
begyndelse (Danish) - beginning
auspicium (l) -
divination by observing the flight of birds, watching birds for augury
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