FINNEGANS WAKE
James Joyce
Book I
chapter 6
So?
Who do you no tonigh, lazy
and gentleman?
The echo is where in the back of the wodes;
callhim forth!
(Shaun Mac Irewick, briefdragger,
for the concern of Messrs
Jhon Jhamieson and Song, rated one hundrick and thin per
storehundred on this nightly quisquiquock of the twelve apos-
trophes, set by Jockit Mic Ereweak. He misunderstruck
and aim
for am ollo of
number three of them and left his free natural ri-
postes to four of them in their own fine artful disorder.)
1. What secondtonone myther rector and
maximost bridges-
maker was the first to rise taller through his beanstale
than the
bluegum buaboababbaun
or the giganteous Wellingtonia Sequoia;
went nudiboots with trouters
into a liffeyette when she was
barely in her tricklies; was well known to claud a conciliation
cap onto the esker of his hooth; sports a chainganger's
albert
solemenly over his hullender's
epulence; thought he weighed a
new ton when there felled his first lapapple; gave the
heinous-
ness of choice to everyknight betwixt yesterdicks and
twomaries;
had sevenal successivecoloured serebanmaids on the same big
white drawringroam
horthrug; is a
Willbeforce to this hour at
house as he was in heather; pumped the catholick
wartrey and
shocked the prodestung boyne; killed his own hungery self in
anger as a young man; found fodder for
five when allmarken
rose goflooded; with Hirish
tutores Cornish made easy; voucher
- of rotables, toll of
the road; bred manyheaded stepsons
for one
leapyourown taughter; is too funny for a fish and has too much
outside for an insect; like a heptagon crystal emprisoms trues and
fauss for us; is infinite swell in unfitting induments; once was he
shovelled and once was he arsoned
and once was he inundered
and she hung him out billbailey; has a quadrant in
his tile to tell
Toler cad a'clog it is;
offers chances to
Long on but
stands up
to Legge before; found coal at the end of his harrow
and moss-
roses behind the seams; made a fort out of his postern
and wrote
F.E.R.T. on his buckler; is
escapemaster-in-chief from all sorts
of houdingplaces; if he outharrods against barkers, to the
shool-
bred he acts whiteley; was evacuated at the mere
appearance of
three germhuns and twice besieged by a sweep; from zoomor-
phology to omnianimalism he is brooched by the spin of a coin;
towers, an eddistoon amid the lampless, casting swannbeams
on
the deep; threatens thunder upon malefactors and sends whispers
up fraufrau's
froufrous; when Dook Hookbackcrook upsits
his
ass booseworthies jeer and junket but they boos him
oos and baas
his aas when he lukes like Hunkett Plunkett; by sosannsos
and
search a party on a lady of this city; business, reading news-
paper, smoking cigar, arranging tumblers on table,
eating meals,
pleasure, etcetera, etcetera, pleasure, eating meals, arranging tum-
blers on table, smoking cigar, reading newspaper, business;
minerals, wash and
brush up, local views, juju
toffee, comic and
birthdays cards;
those were the days and he was their hero; pink
sunset shower, red clay cloud, sorrow of Sahara, oxhide on
Iren;
arraigned and attainted,
listed and lited, pleaded and proved;
catches his check at
banck of Indgangd and endurses his doom at
chapel exit; brain of the franks, hand of the christian, tongue of
the north; commands to dinner and calls the
bluff; has a block at
Morgen's and a hatache all the
afternunch; plays gehamerat when
he's ernst but misses mausey when he's lustyg; walked as far as
the Head where he sat in state as the Rump; shows
Early
Eng-
lish tracemarks and a marigold window with
manigilt lights, a
myrioscope, two remarkable piscines and three wellworthseeing
ambries; arches all portcullised
and his nave dates
from dots; is
- a horologe
unstoppable and the Benn of all bells;
fuit, isst and
herit and though he's mildewstaned he's
mouldystoned; is a quer-
cuss in the forest but plane member for Megalopolis;
mountun-
mighty, faunonfleetfoot; plank in our platform, blank in our
scouturn; hidal, in carucates he is enumerated,
hold
as an earl,
he counts; shipshaped phrase of buglooking words
with a form
like the easing moments of a graminivorous; to
our dooms
brought he law, our manoirs he made his
vill of; was an
over-
grind to the underground and acqueduced for fierythroats; sends
boys in socks acoughawhooping when he lets farth his
carbon-
oxside and silk stockings show her shapings when he looses
hose
on hers; stocks dry puder for the Ill people and pinkun's pellets
for all the Pale; gave his to Miserius, her pinch
to
Anna Livia, that superfine pigtail to Cerisia
Cerosia and quid
rides to Titius, Caius and Sempronius; made the man who
had
no notion of
shopkeepers
feel he'd rather play the duke than play
the gentleman; shot two
queans and shook three
caskles when
he won his game of dwarfs; fumes inwards like
a strombolist till
he smokes at both ends; manmote, befier of him, womankind,
pietad!; shows one white drift
of snow among the gorsegrowth
of his crown and a chaperon of repentance on that
which shed
gore; pause and quies,
triple bill; went by metro for
the polis and
then hoved by; to the finders, hail! woa, you that seek!;
whom
fillth had plenished, dearth
devoured; hock is leading,
cocoa comes
next, emery tries for the flag; can dance the O'Bruin's
polerpasse
at Noolahn to his own orchistruss accompaniment; took place
before the internatural convention of catholic midwives
and
found stead before the congress for the study of endonational
calamities; makes a delictuous
entrée and
finishes
off the course
between sweets and savouries; flouts for forecasts,
flairs for finds
and the fun of the fray on the fairground; cleared out three
hun-
dred sixty five idles to set up one
all khalassal for henwives hoping
to have males; the flawhoolagh, the grasping one, the
kindler of
paschal fire; forbids
us our trespassers as we forgate him; the
phoenix be his pyre, the cineres his sire!; piles big
pelium on
little ossas like the pilluls of hirculeads;
has an eatupus complex
- and a
drinkthedregs
kink; wurstmeats for chumps and
cowcar-
lows for scullions; when he plies for our favour is very trolly
ours; two psychic espousals
and three desertions; may be matter
of fact now but was futter of magd then;
Cattermole Hill, ex-
mountain of flesh was reared up by stress and sank
under strain;
tank it up, dank
it up, tells the tailor to his tout; entoutcas for a
man, but bit a thimble for a maid;
blimp,
blump; a dud letter, a sing
a song a sylble; a byword, a sentence with surcease; while stands
his canyouseehim frails shall fall; was hatched at Cellbridge
but
ejoculated abrood; as it gan in the
biguinnengs so
wound up in
a battle of Boss; Roderick, Roderick,
Roderick, O, you've gone
the way of the Danes; variously catalogued, regularly regrouped;
a bushboys holoday, a
quacker's mating, a wenches' sandbath;
the same homoheatherous
checkinlossegg as when sollyeye airly
blew ye; real detonation but false report; spa mad but inn
sane;
half emillian via bogus
census but a no street hausmann when
allphannd; is the
handiest of all andies and a most
alleghant spot
to dump your hump; hands his secession to the new
patricius but
plumps plebmatically for the bloody old centuries; eats
with
doors open and ruts with gates closed; some dub him Rotshield
and more limn him Rockyfellow; shows he's
fly to both demis-
fairs but thries to cover up his
tracers; seven dovecotes
cooclaim
to have been pigeonheim to this homer,
Smerrnion, Rhoebok,
Kolonsreagh, Seapoint,
Quayhowth, Ashtown,
Ratheny; inde-
pendent of the lordship of chamberlain, acknowledging
the rule
of Rome; we saw thy farm at Useful Prine,
Domhnall, Domhnall;
reeks like Illbelpaese and looks like
Iceland's ear;
lodged at quot
places, lived through tot reigns; takes a szumbath
for his weekend
and a wassarnap for his
refreskment; after a good bout at stool-
ball enjoys Giroflee Giroflaa; what Nevermore missed
and
Colombo found; believes in everyman his own
goaldkeeper and
in Africa for the fullblacks; the arc of his drive was forty
full
and his stumps were pulled at eighty; boasts him to the
thick-in-
thews the oldest creater
in Aryania and looks down on the
Suiss
family Collesons whom he calls les
nouvelles
roches; though his
heart, soul and spirit turn to pharaoph times, his
love, faith and
- hope
stick to
futuerism; light leglifters cense him
souriantes from
afore while boor browbenders
curse him grommelants to his
hindmost; between youlasses and
yeladst glimse of Even; the
Lug his peak has, the Luk his pile; drinks
tharr and
wodhar for
his asama and eats the unparishable
sow to
styve off reglar rack;
the beggars cloak them reclined about his paddystool,
the whores
winken him as they walk their side; on Christienmas
at Advent
Lodge, New Yealand, after a lenty illness the roeverand Mr
Easterling of pentecostitis,
no followers by bequest, fanfare all
private; Gone Where Glory Waits Him (Ball, bulletist)
but Not
Here Yet (Maxwell, clark); comminxed
under articles but phoe-
nished a borgiess; from the vat on the bier through the
burre in
the dark to the buttle of the bawn; is
A1 an the highest but Roh
re his root; filled fanned of hackleberries whenas
all was tuck
and toss up for him as a yangster to fall fou
of hockinbechers
wherein he had gauged
the use of raisin;
ads aliments,
das doles,
raps rustics, tams turmoil; sas seed enough for a semination
but
sues skivvies
on the sly; learned to speak
from hand to mouth
till he could talk earish with his eyes shut; hacked his way through
hickheckhocks but hanged hishelp
from there hereafters; rialtos,
annesleyg, binn and balls to say nothing
atolk of
New Comyn;
the gleam of the glow of the shine of the sun through the
dearth of the dirth on the blush of the brick of the viled ville of
Barnehulme has dust turned to brown; these dyed to tartan him,
rueroot, dulse, bracken, teasel,
fuller's ash, sundew and cress;
long gunn but not for
cotton; stood his sharp assault of famine
but grew girther, girther and girther; he has
twenty
four or so
cousins germinating in the United States of America
and a
namesake with an initial
difference in the once kingdom of
Poland; his first's a young rose and his second's French-
Egyptian and his whole means a slump at
Christie's;
forth of his
pierced part came the woman of his dreams, blood thicker then
water last trade overseas; buyshop of
Glintylook, eorl
of Hoed;
you and I are in him surrented by
brwn
bldns; Elin's flee
polt pelhaps but Hwang Chang
evelytime; he one was
your of
highbigpipey boys but fancy
him as smoking fags
his at time of
- life; Mount of Mish,
Mell of Moy; had two
cardinal ventures and
three capitol sinks; has a peep in his pocketbook and a packet-
boat in his keep;
B.V.H.,
B.L.G., P.P.M.,
T.D.S.,
V.B.D.,
T.C.H.,
L.O.N.; is Breakfates, Lunger, Diener and
Souper; as
the streets were paved with cold he felt his topperairy;
taught
himself skating and learned how to fall; distinctly
dirty but rather
a dear; hoveth chieftains evrywehr, with morder; Ostman
Effendi, Serge Paddishaw; baases two
mmany, outpriams al'
his parisites; first of the fenians,
roi des fainéants; his Tiara of
scones was held unfillable
till one Liam Fail felled
him in West-
munster; was struck out of his sittem when he rowed saulely to
demask us and to our appauling predicament brought
as plagues
from Buddapest; put a
matchhead on an aspenstalk
and set the
living a fire; speared the rod and spoiled
the lightning; married
with cakes and repunked with pleasure; till he was
buried how-
happy was he and he made the welkins ring
with Up Micawber!;
god at the top of the staircase, carrion on the mat of straw;
the false hood of a spindler
web chokes the cavemouth of his
unsightliness but the nestlings that liven
his leafscreen sing him
a lover of arbuties; we
strike hands over his bloodied warsheet
but we are pledged entirely to his green mantle; our friend
vikelegal, our
swaran foi; under the
four stones
by
his streams
who vanished the wassailbowl at the
joy of
shells; Mora and
Lora had a hill of a high time looking down on his confusion till
firm look in readiness,
forward spear and the
windfoot of curach
strewed the lakemist of
Lego over the last of his
fields; we
darkened for you, faulterer, in the
year of mourning but we'll
fidhil to the
dimtwinklers when the
streamy morvenlight calls up
the sunbeam; his striped pantaloons, his rather strange walk;
hereditatis columna
erecta, hagion chiton eraphon; nods
a nap for
the nonce but crows
cheerio when they get ecunemical; is a
simul-
taneous equator of elimbinated integras when three upon
one is
by inspection improper; has the most conical hodpiece of con-
fusianist heronim and that chuchuffuous chinchin of
his is like
a footsey kungoloo around Taishantyland; he's as
globeful as a
gasometer of lithium
and luridity and he was thrice ten anular
- years before he wallowed
round Raggiant Circos; the cabalstone
at the coping of his cavin
is a canine constant but only an
amiri-
can could apparoxemete the
apeupresiosity of his atlast's
alonge-
ment; sticklered rights and lefts at Baddersdown in
his hunt for
the boar trwth but made
his end with the modareds that came
at him in Camlenstrete; a hunnibal in exhaustive
conflict, an otho
to return; burning body to aiger air on melting mountain
in
wooing wave; we go into him sleepy children, we come
out of
him strucklers for life; he divested to save from the Mrs Drown-
ings their rival queens while Grimshaw, Bragshaw and Renshaw
made off with his storen clothes; taxed
and rated, licensed
and
ranted; his threefaced stonehead was found on a
whitehorse hill
and the print of his
costellous feet is seen in the
goat's grass-
circle; pull the blind, toll the deaf and call dumb, lame and halty;
Miraculone, Monstrucceleen; led the upplaws at the Creation and
hissed a snake
charmer off her stays; hounded become haunter,
hunter become fox; harrier, marrier, terrier,
tav; Olaph the Ox-
man, Thorker the Tourable; you feel he is Vespasian
yet you
think of him as Aurelius; whugamore,
tradertory, socianist, com-
moniser; made a summer assault on our shores and begiddy got
his sands full; first he shot down Raglan Road and then
he tore
up Marlborough Place; Cromlechheight and
Crommalhill were
his farfamed feetrests when our lurch as lout
let
free into the
Lubar heloved; mareschalled his wardmotes and delimited
the
main; netted before nibbling, can scarce
turn a scale but, grossed
after meals, weighs a town in himself; Banba prayed for
his con-
version, Beurla missed that grand old voice; a Colossus among
cabbages, the Melarancitrone of fruits; larger than life, doughtier
than death; Gran Turco, orege
forment;
lachsembulger, leperlean;
the sparkle of his genial fancy, the depth of his calm sagacity, the
clearness of his spotless honour, the flow of his boundless bene-
volence; our family furbear, our tribal tarnpike;
quary was he
invincibled and cur was he
burked; partitioned
Irskaholm, united
Irishmen; he took a svig at his own
methyr
but she tested a bit
gorky and as for the salmon he was coming up in him all life
long; comm, eilerdich
hecklebury and sawyer thee, warden;
- silent as the bee in honey, stark as the breath on hauwck,
Cos-
tello, Kinsella, Mahony, Moran, though you rope Amrique
your
home ruler is Dan; figure
right, he is hoisted by the
scurve of
his shaggy neck, figure left, he is rationed in isobaric patties
among the crew; one asks was he poisoned, one thinks how much
did he leave; ex-gardener (Riesengebirger),
fitted up with
planturous existencies would make
Roseoogreedy (mite's) little
hose; taut sheets and scuppers awash but the
oil silk mack Lieb-
sterpet micks his aquascutum; the enjoyment he took in kay
women, the employment he gave to gee men; sponsor to a
squad
of piercers, ally to a
host of rawlies; against lightning, explosion,
fire, earthquake, flood, whirlwind, burglary,
third
party, rot, loss
of cash, loss of credit, impact of vehicles; can rant as
grave as
oxtail soup and chat as gay as a porto flippant; is
unhesitent in
his unionism and yet a pigotted nationalist;
Sylviacola is shy of
him, Matrosenhosens nose the joke; shows the sinews of peace in
his chest-o-wars; fiefeofhome, ninehundred and thirtunine
years
of copyhold; is aldays
open for polemypolity's
sake when he's not
suntimes closed
for the love of Janus;
sucks life's eleaxir from
the pettipickles of
the Jewess and ruoulls in
sulks if any popeling
runs down the Huguenots;
Boomaport,
Walleslee, Ubermeerschall
Blowcher and Supercharger,
Monsieur
Ducrow,
Mister Mudson,
master gardiner; to one he's just paunch and judex, to another
full of beans and brehons; hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm;
passed for baabaa
blacksheep till he grew white woo woo woolly;
was drummatoysed by
Mac Milligan's daughter and put
to music
by one shoebard; all
fitzpatricks in his emirate remember him, the
boys of wetford hail him babu;
indanified himself with boro tribute
and was schenkt publicly to
brigstoll; was given the
light in drey
orchafts and entumuled in threeplexes; his likeness
is in Terrecuite
and he giveth rest to
the rainbowed; lebriety, frothearnity and
quality; his reverse makes a
virtue of
necessity while his
obverse
mars a mother by invention; beskilk his gunwale and he's the
second imperial, untie points,
unhook tenters and he's lath
and
plaster; calls upon Allthing
when he fails to appeal to Eachovos;
basidens,
ardree,
kongsemma, rexregulorum; stood into
Dee mouth,
- then backed broadside
on Baulacleeva; either eldorado or
ultimate
thole; a kraal of fou feud fires, a
crawl of
five pubs; laid out
lash-
ings of laveries to
hunt
down his family ancestors and then pled
double trouble or quick quits to hush the buckers up; threw
peb-
blets for luck over one sodden shoulder and dragooned
peoplades
armed to their teeth; pept as Gaudio
Gambrinus, grim as Potter
the Grave; ace of arts, deuce of damimonds, trouble of clubs, fear
of spates; cumbrum, cumbrum, twiniceynurseys
fore a drum but
tre to uno
tips
the scale; reeled the titleroll opposite a brace of
girdles in Silver on
the Screen but was sequenced from the set
as Crookback by the even more titulars, Rick, Dave and
Barry;
he can get on as early as the twentysecond of Mars but
occasion-
ally he doesn't come off before Virgintiquinque Germinal; his In-
dian name is Hapapoosiesobjibway and his number in arithmo-
sophy is the stars of the
plough; took weapon in the
province of
the pike and let fling his line on
Eelwick; moves in vicous cicles
yet remews the same; the drain rats bless his offals while the park
birds curse his floodlights; Portobello,
Equadocta,
Therecocta,
; he pours into the softclad
shellborn the
hard
cash
earned in Watling Street; his birth proved
accidental shows his
death its grave mistake; brought us giant ivy from the land of
younkers and bewitthered Apostolopolos with the gale of his gall;
while satisfied that soft youthful bright matchless
girls should
bosom into fine silkclad joyous blooming young women is not
so pleased that heavy swearsome strongsmelling irregularshaped
men should blottout active handsome wellformed
frankeyed boys;
herald hairyfair, alloaf the wheat; husband your aunt and endow
your nepos; hearken
but hush it, screen him and see; time is,
an archbishopric, time was, a tradesmen's
entrance; beckburn
brooked with wath, scale scarred by scow; his rainfall is a
couple
of kneehighs while his meanst grass temperature marked three in
the shade; is the meltingpoint of snow and the bubblingplace of
alcohol; has a tussle with the trulls and then
does himself justice;
hinted at in the eschatological chapters of
Humphrey's Justesse
of the Jaypees and hunted for by Theban recensors who sniff
there's something behind the Bug of the Deaf; the king was in
- his cornerwall melking mark so murry, the queen was steep
in
armbour feeling fain and furry,
the mayds was midst the haw-
thorns shoeing up their hose, out pimps the back guards
(pomp!)
and pump gun they goes; to all his foretellers he reared
a stone
and for all his comethers he planted a tree; forty acres, sixty miles,
white stripe, red stripe, washes his fleet in
annacrwatter; whou
missed a porter so whot shall he do for he wanted to
sit for
Pimploco but they've caught him to stand for Sue?; Dutchlord,
Dutchlord, overawes us; Headmound,
king and martyr, dunstung
in the Yeast, Pitre-le-Pore-in
Petrin,
Barth-the-Grete-by-the-
Exchange; he hestens towards dames troth and wedding
hand
like the prince of Orange and Nassau while he has
trinity left
behind him like Bowlbeggar Bill-the-Bustonly; brow of a
hazel-
wood, pool in the dark; changes blowicks into bullocks and a
well of Artesia into a bird of
Arabia; the handwriting on his
facewall, the cryptoconchoidsiphonostomata in
his exprussians;
his birthspot lies beyond the herospont and his burialplot in the
pleasant little field; is the yldist kiosk on the pleninsula and the
unguest hostel in
Saint Scholarland; walked many hundreds and
many score miles of streets and lit thousands in one
nightlights
in hectares of windows; his great wide cloak lies on
fifteen acres
and his little white horse decks by dozens our doors; O
sorrow
the sail and woe the rudder that were set for Mairie Quai!; his
suns the huns, his dartars the tartars,
are plenty here today; who
repulsed from his burst the bombolts of
Ostenton and falchioned
each flash downsaduck in the deep; apersonal problem, a loca-
tive enigma; upright one, vehicule of arcanisation in the field,
lying chap, floodsupplier of celiculation through
ebblanes; a part
of the whole as a port for a whale; Dear Hewitt
Castello, Equerry,
were daylighted with our outing and are looking
backwards to
unearly summers, from Rhoda Dundrums; is above the seedfruit
level and outside the leguminiferous zone; when
older links lock
older hearts then he'll resemble she; can be built with glue and
clippings, scrawled or voided
on a buttress; the night express
sings his story, the song of sparrownotes on his stave
of wires;
he crawls with lice, he
swarms with saggarts;
is as quiet as a
- mursque
but can be
as noisy as a sonogog; was
Dilmun when his
date was palmy and Mudlin when his
nut was
cracked; suck up
the sease, lep laud at ease, one lip on his lap and
one cushlin his
crease; his porter has a mighty grasp and his baxters the boon of
broadwhite; as far as wind dries and rain eats and
sun turns
and water bounds he is exalted
and depressed, assembled and
asundered; go away, we are deluded, come back, we are dis-
ghosted; bored the Ostrov, leapt the
Inferus, swam the
Mabbul
and flure the
Moyle; like fat, like fatlike tallow, of greasefulness,
yea of dripping
greasefulness; did not say to the old, old, did not
say to the scorbutic, scorbutic; he has founded a
house, Uru,
a house he has founded to which he has assigned its fate; bears
a raaven geulant on a fjeld
duiv; ruz the
halo off his varlet when
he appeared to his shecook as Haycock, Emmet,
Boaro, Toaro,
Osterich, Mangy and Skunk;
pressed the beer of aled age out of
the nettles of rashness;
put a roof on the lodge for Hymn and a
coq in his pot pro
homo; was dapifer then
pancircensor
then
hortifex magnus; the topes that tippled on
him, the types that
toppled off him; still
starts our hares yet gates
our goat; pocket-
book packetboat, gapman gunrun; the
light of other days, dire
dreary darkness; our awful dad,
Timour of Tortur; puzzling,
startling, shocking, nay, perturbing; went puffing from king's
brugh to new customs,
doffing the gibbous
off him to every
breach of all size; with Pa's new heft and Papa's new helve he's
Papapa's old cutlass Papapapa left us; when
youngheaded old-
shouldered and middlishneck aged about; caller herring every-
daily, turgid tarpon
overnight; see Loryon the
comaleon that
changed endocrine history by loeven his loaf with
forty bannucks;
she drove him dafe till he driv her blind up; the pigeons
doves be
perchin all over him one day on Baslesbridge and the
ravens duv
be pitchin their dark nets after him the next night
behind Koenig-
stein's Arbour; tronf of the
rep, comf of the
priv, prosp of the
pub; his headwood it's ideal if his feet are bally clay;
he crashed
in the hollow of the park,
trees down, as he soared in
the vaguum
of the phoenix, stones up; looks like a moultain boultter and
sounds like a rude word; the mountain view, some lumin pale
- round a lamp of
succar in boinyn water; three shots a puddy at
up blup saddle; made up to Miss MacCormack
Ni
Lacarthy who
made off with Darly Dermod, swank and swarthy; once
diamond
cut garnet now dammat cuts
groany; you might find him
at the
Florence but watch our for him in Wynn's Hotel; theer's his
bow and wheer's his leaker and heer lays his bequiet
hearse,
deep; Swed Albiony, likeliest villain of the
place; Hennery
Can-
terel — Cockran, eggotisters, limitated;
we take our tays and
frees our fleas round sadurn's mounted foot; built the Lund's
kirk and destroyed the church's land; who guesse his title grabs
his deeds; fletch and
prities, fash and chaps; artful Juke of
Wilysly;
Hugglebelly's Funniral; Kukkuk Kallikak; heard
in camera and
excruciated; boon
when with benches billeted, bann if buckshot-
backshattered; heavengendered, chaosfoedted, earthborn; his
father presumptively ploughed it deep on overtime
and his
mother as all evince must have travailled her
fair
share; a -
prinse on the Megacene, hetman unwhorsed by Searingsand;
honorary captain of the extemporised fire brigade,
reported to
be friendly with the police; the door is still open; the old stock
collar is coming back; not forgetting the time you laughed at
Elder Charterhouse's duckwhite pants and the way
you said the
whole township can see his hairy legs;
by stealth of a
her
aulburntress abaft
his nape she hung; when his kettle became a
hearthsculdus our thorstyites set their
lymphyamphyre; his year-
letter concocted by
masterhands of assays,
his hallmark imposed
by the standard of wrought plate; a pair of pectorals and a triple-
screen to get a wind up; lights his pipe
with a rosin tree and hires
a towhorse to haul his shoes; cures slavey's scurvy, breaks
barons boils; called to sell
polosh and was found later
in a bed-
room; has his seat of justice, his house of mercy, his corn o'copious
and his stacks a'rye; prospector, he had a rooksacht,
retrospector,
he holds the holpenstake; won the freedom of new yoke for the
minds of jugoslaves; acts active, peddles in passivism
and is a
gorgon of selfridgeousness;
pours a laughsworth of his illforma-
tion over a larmsworth of salt; half heard the single maiden
speech La Belle spun to her Grand Mount and wholed a
lifetime
- by his ain fireside,
wondering was it hebrew set to himmeltones
or the quicksilversong of qwaternions; his troubles may be over
but his doubles have still to come; the lobster pot
that crabbed
our keel, the garden pet that spoiled our squeezed
peas;
he stands
in a lovely park, sea is not far, importunate
towns of X, Y and
Z are easily over reached; is an excrescence to civilised humanity
and but a wart on Europe; wanamade singsigns to
soundsense
an yit he wanna git all his flesch
nuemaid motts truly
prural and
plusible; has excisively large rings and is uncustomarily perfumed;
lusteth ath he listeth the cleah
whithpeh of a themise;
is a prince
of the fingallian in a hiberniad of
hoolies; has a hodge to wherry
him and a frenchy to curry
him and a brabanson for his beeter and
a fritz at his
switch; was waylaid of a parker and
beschotten by a
buckeley; kicks lintils when he's cuppy and casts Jacob's
arroroots,
dime after dime, to poor
waifstrays
on the perish; reads the charms
of H. C. Endersen all the
weaks of his evenin and the crimes of
Ivaun the Taurrible every strongday morn; soaps you soft
to your
face and slaps himself when he's badend; owns the bulgiest bung-
barrel that ever was tiptapped in the privace of the
Mullingar
Inn; was
born with a
nuasilver tongue in his mouth and went
round the coast of Iron with his lift hand to the
scene; raised but
two fingers and yet smelt it would day;
for whom it is easier to
found a see in
Ebblannah than for I or you to find a dubbeltye
in Dampsterdamp; to live with whom is a lifemayor
and to know
whom a liberal education; was
dipped in Hoily Olives
and chrys-
med in Scent Otooles; hears cricket on the
earth but annoys the
life out of predikants; still turns the
durc's ear of
Darius to the
now thoroughly infurioted one of God; made Man
with juts
that jerk and minted money mong
maney; likes a six acup pud-
ding when he's come whome sweetwhome; has come through all
the eras of livsadventure
from moonshine and shampaying
down
to clouts and pottled porter; woollem the
farsed,
hahnreich the
althe, charge the sackend, writchad the thord;
if a mandrake
shricked to convultures at last surviving his birth the
weibduck
will wail bitternly over the rotter's resurrection; loses weight in
the moon night but gird girder by the
sundawn; with one
touch
- of nature set a veiled
world agrin and went within a sheet of
tissuepaper of the option of three gaols; who could see at one
blick a saumon taken
with a lance, hunters pursuing a doe, a
swallowship in full sail, a whyterobe lifting a host;
faced flappery
like old King Cnut and turned his back like Cincinnatus;
is a
farfar and
morefar and a hoar father Nakedbucker in
villas old as
new; squats aquart and cracks aquaint when it's
flaggin in town
and on haven; blows whiskery around his summit but stehts
stout upon his ; stutters
fore he falls and goes mad entirely
when he's waked; is Timb to the pearly mom and
Tomb to
the
mourning night; and an he had the best
bunbaked bricks in bould
Babylon for his pitching plays
he'd be lost for the want of his
wan wubblin wall?
Answer: Finn MacCool!
2. Does your mutter know your mike?
Answer: When I turn meoptics, from suchurban prospects,
'tis my filial's bosom,
doth behold with pride, that pontificator,
and circumvallator, with his dam night garrulous, slipt by his
side. Ann alive, the lisp of her, 'twould grig mountains
whisper
her, and the bergs of Iceland melt in waves of fire, and
her spoon-
me-spondees, and her
dirckle-me-ondenees, make the Rageous
Ossean, kneel and quaff a lyre!
If Dann's dane, Ann's dirty, if
he's plane she's purty,
if he's fane, she's flirty,
with her auburnt
streams, and her coy cajoleries,
and her dabblin drolleries,
for to
rouse his rudderup, or to drench
his dreams. If hot Hammurabi,
or cowld Clesiastes, could espy her pranklings, they'd
burst
bounds agin, and renounce their ruings, and denounce
their do-
ings, for river and iver, and a night.
Amin!
3. Which title is the true-to-type
motto-in-lieu for that
Tick
for Teac thatchment painted
witt wheth one darkness,
where
asnake is under clover and birds aprowl are in the rookeries and
a magda went to
monkishouse and a
riverpaard was
spotted,
which is not Whichcroft Whorort not Ousterholm
Dreyschluss
not Haraldsby, grocer, not Vatandcan, vintner, not
Houseboat
and Hive not Knox-atta-Belle not
O'Faynix Coalprince not
Wohn Squarr Roomyeck not
Ebblawn Downes not Le Decer
- Le Mieux not
Benjamin's Lea not
Tholomew's Whaddingtun
gnot Antwarp gnat Musca
not Corry's not
Weir's not the
Arch
not The Smug not
The Dotch House not The
Uval nothing
Grand nothing Splendid (Grahot or Spletel)
nayther Erat Est
Erit noor Non michi sed
luciphro?
Answer: Thine obesity, O civilian, hits the felicitude
of our
orb!
4. What Irish capitol city (a dea o
dea!) of two syllables and
six letters, with a deltic origin and a
nuinous end, (ah dust oh
dust!) can boost of having a) the most extensive
public park in
the world, b) the most expensive brewing industry in the world,
c) the most expansive peopling thoroughfare
in the world, d) the
most phillohippuc theobibbous
paùpulation in the
word: and
harmonise your abecedeed responses?
Answer: a) Delfas. And when ye'll hear the gould hommers
of my heart, my floxy loss,
bingbanging again
the ribs of yer
resistance and the tenderbolts of my rivets working to your
destraction ye'll be sheverin wi' all yer dinful sobs when we'll go
riding acope-acurly, you with yer
orange garland and me with
my conny cordial,
down the greaseways of rollicking into the
waters of wetted life. b)
Dorhqk. And sure
where can you have
such good old chimes anywhere, and leave you,
as on the Mash
and how'tis I would be engaging you with my plovery soft ac-
cents and descanting upover the scene
beunder me of
your loose
vines in their hairafall with them two loving loofs braceleting the
slims of your ankles and your mouth's flower rose and
sinking
ofter the soapstone of silvry speech. c)
Nublid. Isha, why
wouldn't we be happy, avourneen, on the mills'
money he'll
soon be leaving you as soon as I've my own owned brooklined
Georgian
mansion's lawn to recruit upon by Doctor Cheek's
special orders and my copper's panful of soybeans
and Irish in
my east hand and a James's Gate in my west, after all the errears
and erroriboose of
combarative embottled history,
and your
goodself churning over the newleaved butter (more power to
you), the choicest and the cheapest from Atlanta to Oconee,
while I'll be drowsing in the gaarden. d) Dalway. I hooked my
- thoroughgoing
trotty the first down
Spanish Place, Mayo I make,
Tuam I take, Sligo's sleek
but Galway's grace. Holy eel and
Sainted Salmon, chucking chub
and ducking dace,
Rodiron's not
your aequal! says she,
leppin half the lane. abcd) A bell a bell on
Shalldoll Steepbell, ond be'll go massplon pristmoss
speople,
Shand praise gon ness our fayst moan neople, our prame Shan-
deepen, pay name muy feepence,
moy
nay non Aequallllllll!
5. Whad slags
of a loughladd would retten
smuttyflesks,
empt-
out old mans, melk vitious
geit, scareoff
jackinjills
fra tiddle
anding, smoothpick
waste papish
pastures, insides man
outsiders
angell, sprink dirted
water around village, newses, tobaggon and
sweeds, plain
general kept, louden on the kirkpeal,
foottreats
given to malafides, outshriek
hyelp hyelf nor his
hair efter
buggelawrs, might underhold
three barnets, putzpolish
crotty
bottes,
nightcoover all
fireglims,
serve's time till baass, grind-
stone his kniveses, fullest boarded, lewd man of the
method of
godliness, perchance
he nieows and
thans sits in the spoorwaggen,
X.W.C.A. on Z.W.C.U., Doorsteps, Limited, or Baywindaws
Bros swobber
preferred. Walther Clausetter's and Sons with the
H. E. Chimneys' Company to not skreve, will, on advices, be
bacon or stable hand,
must begripe
fullstandingly
irers'
langurge,
jublander or
northquain
bigger prefurred, all duties, kine rights,
family fewd, outings fived,
may get earnst, no get combitsch,
profusional drinklords
to please obstain, he is fatherlow
soun-
digged inmoodmined pershoon
but aleconnerman, nay, that must
he isn't?
Answer: Pore ole Joe!
6. What means the saloon slogan Summon In The House-
sweep Dinah?
Answer: Tok. Galory bit of the sales of Cloth nowand I have
to beeswax the bringing in all the
claub of the porks
to us how I
thawght I knew his stain on the
flower if me ask and can could
speak and he called by me midden name
Tik. I am your
honey
honeysugger phwhtphwht tha Bay and who
bruk the dandleass
and who seen the blackcullen jam for Tomorrha's big pickneck
I hope it'll pour prais the
Climate of all Ireland I
heard the
- grackles
and I skimming the crock on all
your sangwidges fip-
pence per leg per drake. Tuk. And who eight the last of the goose-
bellies that was mowlding from measlest years and who leff that
there and who put that here and who let the kilkenny stale the
chump. Tek. And whowasit youwasit propped the pot in the
yard and whatinthe nameofsen lukeareyou rubbinthe sideofthe
flureofthe lobbywith. Shite! will you have a plateful?
Tak.
7. Who are those component
partners of our societate, the
doorboy, the cleaner,
the sojer, the crook,
the squeezer, the loun-
ger, the curman, the
tourabout, the
mussroomsniffer,
the bleaka-
blue tramp, the funpowtherplother,
the christymansboxer, from
their prés salés and Donnybrook prater and Roebuck's campos
and the Ager Arountown and
Crumglen's grassy but
Kimmage's
champ and Ashtown fields and
Cabra fields and
Finglas
fields
and Santry fields and the feels of Raheny and their
fails and Bal-
doygle to them who are latecomers
all the year's round by anti-
cipation, are the porters of the passions
in virtue of retroratioci-
nation, and, contributting their conflingent controversies of
differentiation, unify their voxes in a vote of vaticination,
who
crunch the crusts of
comfort due to depredation,
drain the mead
for misery to incur intoxication,
condone every evil by practical
justification and condam any good to its own gratification,
who
are ruled, roped, duped
and driven by those numen daimons,
the feekeepers at their laws,
nightly consternation, fortnightly
fornication, monthly miserecordation and omniannual
recreation,
doyles when they deliberate but sullivans when they
are
swordsed,
Matey,
Teddy, Simon,
Jorn,
Pedher, Andy,
Barty,
Philly, Jamesy Mor and
Tom, Matt and
Jakes Mac Carty?
Answer: The Morphios!
8. And how war yore maggies?
Answer: They war loving, they love laughing, they laugh
weeping, they weep smelling, they smell smiling, they smile hat-
ing, they hate thinking, they think feeling, they feel tempting,
they tempt daring, they dare waiting, they wait taking, they take
thanking, they thank seeking, as born for lorn in
lore of love to
live and wive by
wile
and rile by rule of
ruse
'reathed rose and
- hose hol'd home, yeth cometh
elope year,
coach
and four, Sweet
Peck-at-my-Heart picks one man more.
9. Now, to be on anew and basking again in the panaroma
of
all flores of speech, if a human being duly fatigued by his dayety
in the sooty, having plenxty
off time on his gouty hands and va-
cants of space at his sleepish feet and as hapless behind the dreams
of accuracy as any camelot
prince of dinmurk, were at this auc-
tual futule preteriting
unstant, in the states of suspensive exani-
mation, accorded, throughout the eye of a
noodle, with an ear-
sighted view of old hopeinhaven
with all the ingredient and
egregiunt whights and ways to which in the curse of his
persis-
tence the course of his tory will had been having recourses, the
reverberration of
knotcracking awes, the reconjungation of
nodebinding ayes, the redissolusingness of mindmouldered ease
and the thereby hang of the Hoel of it, could
such a none, whiles
even led comesilencers
to comeliewithhers and till intempes-
tuous Nox should catch the gallicry and spot
lucan's dawn, by-
hold at ones what is main and why tis twain, how one
once
meet melts in tother
wants poignings, the sap
rising, the foles
falling, the nimb now
nihilant round the girlyhead so becoming,
the wrestless in the womb, all the
rivals to
allsea, shakeagain, O
disaster! shakealose, Ah how starring! but
Heng's got
a bit
of Horsa's nose and Jeff's got the signs of Ham round his
mouth and the beau that spun beautiful pales as it palls, what
roserude and oragious
grows gelb and greem,
blue
out the ind of
it! Violet's dyed! then what would that
fargazer
seem to seemself
to seem seeming of,
dimm it all?
Answer: A collideorscape!
10. What bitter's love but yurning,
what' sour lovemutch but
a bref burning till shee that drawes dothe smoake retourne?
Answer: I know, pepette, of course,
dear, but listen, precious!
Thanks, pette, those are lovely, pitounette,
delicious! But mind
the wind, sweet! What exquisite hands you have, you
angiol, if
you didn't gnaw your nails, isn't it a wonder you're not
achamed
of me, you pig, you perfect little pigaleen! I'll nudge
you in a
minute! I bet you use her best Perisian smear off her
vanity
table
- to make them look so
rosetop glowstop
nostop. I know her.
Slight me, would she? For every got I
care! Three creamings a
day, the first during her shower and wipe off with tissue.
Then
after cleanup and of course before retiring.
Beme shawl, when I
think of that espos of a
Clancarbry, the , of the socia-
tionist party with hiss blackleaded chest, hello,
Prendregast!
that you, Innkipper, and all his fourteen other fullback
maulers
or hurling stars or whatever the dagos they are, baiting
at my
Lord Ornery's, just becups
they won the egg and spoon there
so ovally provencial
at Balldole. My Eilish assent he seed makes
his admiracion. He is
seeking an opening and means to be first
with me as his belle alliance.
Andoo musnoo play zeloso! Soso
do todas. Such is Spanish.
Stoop alittle closer, fealse! Delight-
some simply! Like Jolio and
Romeune. I haven't fell so
turkish
for ages and ages! Mine's me of squisious, the
chocolate with
a soul. Extraordinary! Why, what are they all, the mucky
lot
of them only? Sht! I wouldn't pay three hairpins
for them. Peppt!
That's rights, hold it steady! Leg me pull. Pu!
Come big to
Iran.
Poo! What are you nudging for? No, I just thought you
were.
Listen, loviest! Of course it was too kind of you, miser,
to re-
member my sighs in shockings,
my often expressed wish when
you were wandering about my trousseaurs and before I
forget it
don't forget, in your extensions to my personality,
when knotting
my remembrancetie, shoeweek will be trotting back with
red
heels at the end of the moon but look what the fool bought
cabbage head and, as I shall answer to gracious
heaven, I'll
always in always remind of snappy new girters, me being always
the one for charms with my very best in proud and gloving
even if he was to be vermillion miles my youth to
live on,
the rubberend Mr
Polkingtone, the
quonian fleshmonger who
Mother Browne solicited me for unlawful converse with, with
her mug of October (a pots
on it!), creaking around on his old
shanksaxle like a
crosty old cornquake. Airman,
waterwag, terrier,
blazer! I'm fine, thanks ever! Ha! O mind
you poo tickly. Sall I
puhim in momou. Mummum. Funny spot to have a fingey! I'm
terribly sorry, I swear to you I am! May you never see me
in my
- birthday pelts seenso
tutu and that her blanches
mainges may rot
leprous off her whatever winking maggis I'll bet by
your cut
you go fleurting after with all the glass on her and the
jumps
in her stomewhere! Haha! I suspected she was! Sink her! May
they fire her for a barren ewe! So she says:
Tay for thee? Well, I
saith: Angst so mush: and desired she might not
take it amiss if I
esteemed her but an odd.
If I did ate toughturf I'm not a mishy-
missy. Of course I know, pettest, you're so learningful and
considerate in yourself, so friend of vegetables, you
long cold cat
you! Please by acquiester to meek my
acquointance! Codling,
snakelet,
iciclist! My diaper
has more life to it! Who drowned
you in drears, man, or are you pillale with ink? Did a weep
get
past the gates of your pride? My tread on the clover, sweetness?
Yes, the buttercups told me, hug me, damn it all,
and I'll kiss
you back to life, my peachest. I mean to make you
suffer,
meddlar, and I don't care this fig for contempt of courting.
That I chid you, sweet sir? You know I'm tender by my
eye.
Can't you read by dazzling ones through me true? Bite
my
laughters, drink my tears. Pore into me, volumes,
spell me stark
and spill me
swooning.
I just don't care what my thwarters
think. Transname me loveliness, now and
here me for all times!
I'd risk a policeman passing by, Magrath or even that beggar of
a boots at the Post. The flame? O, pardone! That was what?
Ah, did you speak, stuffstuff? More poestries from Chickspeer's
with gleechoreal music or a jaculation from the
garden of the
soul. Of I be leib in the immoralities? O, you mean the strangle
for love and the sowiveall of the prettiest? Yep, we open hap
coseries in the home. And once upon a week I
improve on myself
I'm so keen on that
New Free Woman with novel inside. I'm
always as tickled as can be over Man in a Surplus by the Lady
who Pays the Rates. But I'm as pie as is possible. Let's
root
out Brimstoker and give him the thrall of our lives. It's Dracula's
nightout. For creepsake don't make a flush! Draw
the shades,
curfe you, and I'll beat any
sonnamonk to love. Holy
bug, how
my highness would jump to make you flame your halve a
ban-
nan in two when I'd run my burning torchlight
through (to adore
- me there and then cease to be? Whatever for, blossoms?) Your
hairmejig if you had one. If I am laughing with you? No,
lovingest, I'm not so dying to take my rise
out of you, adored.
Not in the very least. True as God made my Mamaw hiplength
modesty coatmawther! It's only because the
rison is
I'm only any
girl, you lovely fellow of my dreams, and because old somebooby
is not a roundabout, my trysting of the tulipies,
like that puff
pape bucking Daveran assoiling us behinds. What a nerve!
He thinks that's what the vesprey's for. How vain's
that hope in
cleric's heart Who still pursues th'adult' rous art, Cocksure
that
rusty gown of his Will make fair Sue forget his phiz! Tame
Schwipps. Blessed Marguerite
bosses, I hope they
threw away
the mould or else we'll have Ballshossers and
Sourdamapplers
with their medical assassiations all over the
place. But hold hard
till I've got my latchkey vote and I'll teach him
when to wear
what woman callours. On account of the gloss of the
gleison
Hasaboobrawbees isabeaubel. And because, you pluckless
lanka-
loot, I hate the very thought of the thought of you and because,
dearling, of course, adorest, I was always
meant for an engin-
dear from the French college, to be musband,
nomme d'engien,
when we do and contract with encho
tencho solver when
you
are married to reading and writing which pleasebusiness
now
won't be long for he's so loopy
on me and I'm so leapy like
since the day he carried me from the boat, my saviored
of eroes,
to the beach and I left on his shoulder one fair hair to guide hand
and mind to its softness. Ever so sorry! I beg your
pardon, I was
listening to every treasuried word I said fell from
my dear mot's
tongue otherwise how could I see what you were thinking of
our granny? Only I wondered if I threw out my shaving
water.
Anyway, here's my arm, pulletneck. Gracefully yours. Move your
mouth towards minth, more, preciousest,
more on more! To
please me, treasure. Don't be a, I'm not going to! Sh!
nothing!
A cricri somewhere! Buybuy! I'm fly! Hear, pippy, under
the
limes. You know bigtree
are all against gravstone. They hisshis-
tenency. Garnd ond mand! So chip
chirp chirrup, cigolo, for the
lug of Migo! The little passdoor,
I go you
before,
so, and you're
- at my
apron stage.
Shy is him, dovey? Musforget there's an
audience. I have been lost, angel. Cuddle, ye divil ye! It's our
toot-a-toot.
Hearhere!
Sensation! Let them, their whole four
courtships! Let them, Bigbawl and his
boosers'
eleven makes
twelve territorials. The Old Sot's Hole that wants wide streets to
commission their noisense
in, at the Mitchells v. Nicholls. Aves
Selvae Acquae Valles! And my waiting twenty classbirds, sitting
on their stiles! Let me finger their eurhythmytic.
And you'll see
if I'm selfthought. They're all of them out to
please. Wait! In
the name of. And all the holly. And some the mistle and
it Saint
Yves. Hoost! Ahem!
There's Ada, Bett, Celia, Delia, Ena,
Fretta, Gilda, Hilda, Ita, Jess, Katty, Lou, (they make me cough
as sure as I read them) Mina, Nippa, Opsy, Poll,
Queeniee, Ruth,
Saucy, Trix, Una, Vela, Wanda, Xenia, Yva, Zulma, Phoebe,
Thelma. And Mee! The reformatory boys is goaling in for the
church so we've all comefeast like the
groupsuppers
and caught
lipsolution from Anty Pravidance under penancies for myrtle
sins. When their bride was married all my belles began
ti ting.
A ring a ring a rosaring! Then everyone will hear of it. Whoses
wishes is the farther to my
thoughts. But I'll plant them a poser
for their nomanclatter. When they're out with the
daynurse
doing Chaperon Mall.
Bright pigeons all over the whirrld will
fly with my mistletoe message round their
loveribboned necks
and a crumb of my cake for each chasta dieva. We keeps
all and
sundry papers. In th' amourlight,
O my darling! No, I swear to
you by Fibsburrow churchdome and
Sainte Andrée's Under-
shift, by all I hold secret from my world and in my underworld
of nighties and naughties and all the other wonderwearlds!
Close your, notmust look! Now open, pet, your lips,
pepette,
like I used my sweet parted lipsabuss with Dan Holohan of
facetious memory taught me after the flannel dance, with the
proof of love, up Smock Alley the first night he smelled pouder
and I coloured beneath my fan, pipetta mia, when you learned
me the linguo to melt. Whowham would have ears like
ours,
the blackhaired! Do you like that, silenzioso? Are you enjoying,
this same little me, my life, my love? Why do you like my
- whisping? Is it
not divinely deluscious? But in't it
bafforyou?
Misi misi! Tell me till my thrillme comes! I will not break the
seal. I am enjoying it still, I swear I am! Why do you
prefer its
in these dark nets, if why may ask, my
sweetykins? Sh sh!
Long-
ears is flying. No, sweetissest, why would that ennoy
me? But
don't! You want to be slap well slapped for that. Your delighted
lips, love, be careful! Mind my duvetyne dress above
all! It's
golded silvy, the newest sextones with
princess effect. For Rut-
land blue's got out of passion. So, so, my precious!
O, I can see
the cost, chare! Don't tell me! Why, the boy in
sheeps'
lane
knows that. If I sell whose, dears? Was I sold here' tears? You
mean those conversation lozenges? How
awful! The bold shame
of me! I wouldn't, chickens, not for all the juliettes
in the twinkly
way! I could snap them when I see them winking at me in
bed.
I didn't did so, my intended, or was going to or
thinking of.
Shshsh! Don't start like that, you wretch! I thought ye
knew all
and more, ye aucthor, to explique
to ones the significat of their
exsystems with your
nieu nivulon lead. It's only another queer
fish or other in Brinbrou's damned old
trouchorous
river again,
Gothewishegoths bless us and spare her! And gibos
rest from the
bosso! Excuse me for swearing, love, I swear to the sorrasims on
their trons of
Uian I didn't mean to by this
alpin armlet!
Did you
really never in all our cantalang lives speak clothse to a girl's
before? No! Not even to the charmermaid? How marfellows!
Of course I believe you, my own dear doting
liest, when
you
tell me. As I'd live to, O, I'd love to! Liss,
liss! I muss whiss!
Never that ever or I can remember dearstreaming faces, you may
go through me! Never in all my whole white life of
my match-
less and pair. Or ever for bitter be the frucht of this hour! With
my whiteness I thee woo and bind my silk breasths I thee bound!
Always, Amory, amor
andmore! Till always, thou lovest!
Shshshsh! So long as the lucksmith. Laughs!
11. If you met on the binge a poor
acheseyeld from Ailing,
when the tune of his tremble shook shimmy on
shin, while his
countrary raged in the weak of his wailing, like a rugilant
pugi-
lant Lyon O'Lynn; if he maundered in misliness, plaining his
- plight
or, played
fox and lice, pricking
and dropping hips teeth,
or wringing his handcuffs
for peace, the blind blighter, praying
Dieuf and Domb Nostrums
foh thomethinks to eath; if he
weapt while he leapt and guffalled
quith a quhimper,
made cold
blood a blue mundy and no bones without flech, taking kiss,
kake or kick with a suck, sigh or simper, a diffle to larn
and a
dibble to lech; if the
fain shinner pegged you to shave his im-
martial, wee skillmustered shoul with his ooh, hoodoodoo!
brok-
ing wind that to wiles, woemaid
sin he was partial, we don't
think, Jones, we'd care to this evening, would you?
Answer: No, blank ye! So you think
I have impulsivism? Did
they tell you I am one of the fortysixths? And I suppose you
heard I had a wag on my ears? And I suppose they told you
too
that my roll of life is not natural? But before proceeding to con-
clusively confute this
begging question it would be far fitter for
you, if you dare! to hasitate to consult with and consequentially
attempt at
my disposale of the same dime-cash problem elsewhere
naturalistically of course, from the blinkpoint of so eminent a
spatialist. From it you will here notice,
Schott,
upon my for the
first remarking you that the sophology of Bitchson
while driven
as under by a purely dime-dime urge is not without his cashcash
characktericksticks, borrowed for its nonce ends
from the fiery
goodmother Miss Fortune (who the
lost time we had the pleasure
we have had our little recherché brush with, what, Schott?) and
as I further could have told you as brisk as your D.B.C. beha-
viouristically pailleté with a coat of homoid icing which is in
reality only a done by chance ridiculisation of the whoo-whoo
and where's hairs theorics of Winestain. To put it all the more
plumbsily. The speechform
is a mere sorrogate. Whilst
the qua-
lity and tality (I shall explex what you ought to mean by this with
its proper when and where and why and how in the subsequent
sentence) are alternativomentally harrogate and arrogate,
as the
gates may be.
Talis is a word often abused by many passims (I am
working
out a quantum theory about it for it is really
most tantumising
state of affairs). A pessim may frequent you to say:
Have you been
- seeing much of Talis and Talis those times? optimately meaning:
Will you put up at hree
of irish? Or a ladyeater may perhaps have
casualised as you temptoed
her à la sourdine: Of your
plates? Is
Talis de Talis, the swordswallower, who is on
at the Craterium
the same Talis von Talis, the penscrusher, no funk you!
who runs
his duly mile? Or this is a perhaps cleaner example. At
a recent
postvortex piece
infustigation of a determinised case of chronic
spinosis an
extension lecturer on The Ague who out of
matter
of
form was trying his seesers,
Dr's
Het Ubeleeft, borrowed the
question: Why's which Suchman's talis qualis? to whom, as a
fatter of macht, Dr
Gedankje of Stoutgirth,
who was wiping his
whistle, toarsely retoarted: While
thou beast' one zoom of a
whorl! (Talis and Talis originally mean the same thing,
hit it's:
Qualis.)
Professor Loewy-Brueller (though as I shall
promptly prove
his whole account of the Sennacherib as distinct from the
Shal-
manesir sanitational reforms and of the Mr
Skekels and Dr
Hydes problem in the same connection differs
toto
coelo from the
fruit of my own investigations — though the reason I went to
Jericho must remain for certain reasons a political
secret —
especially as I shall shortly be wanted in Cavantry,
I congratulate
myself, for the same and other reasons — as being again hope-
lessly vitiated by what I have now resolved to call the dime and
cash diamond fallacy)
in his talked off confession which recently
met with such a leonine uproar on its escape after
its confinement
Why am I not born like a Gentileman and why am I now so speak-
able about my own eatables (Feigenbaumblatt and Father,
Juda-
pest, 5688, A.M.) whole-heartedly takes off
his gabbercoat and
wig, honest draughty fellow, in his public interest,
to make us
see how though, as he says: 'by Allswill' the inception
and the
descent and the endswell
of Man is temporarily wrapped in ob-
scenity, looking through at these accidents with the faroscope
of
television, (this nightlife instrument needs still some subtrac-
tional betterment in the readjustment of the more refrangible
angles to the squeals
of his hypothesis on the outer tin sides), I
can easily believe heartily in my own most spacious immensity
- as my ownhouse and microbemost
cosm when I am reassured by
ratio that the cube of my volumes is to
the surfaces of their sub-
jects as the sphericity of these globes (I am very pressing
for a
parliamentary motion this term which, under my
guidance, would
establish the deleteriousness of decorousness in the morbidis-
ation of the modern mandaboutwoman type) is to the fera-
city of Fairynelly's
vacuum. I need not anthrapologise for any
obintentional (I must here correct all that
school of neoitalian or
paleoparisien schola
of tinkers and spanglers
who say I'm wrong
parcequeue out of revolscian from
romanitis
I want to be) down-
trodding on my foes. Professor
Levi-Brullo,
F.D. of Sexe-
Weiman-Eitelnaky finds, from experiments made by
hinn with
his Nuremberg eggs in the one hands and the watches cunldron
apan the oven, though it is astensably a case of
Ket's rebollions
cooling the Popes back, because the number of squeer
faiths
in weekly circulation will not be appreciably augmented by the
notherslogging of
my cupolar
clods.
What the romantic in rags
pines after like all tomtompions haunting
crevices for a
deadbeat
escupement and what het
importunes our Mitleid
for in accornish
with the Mortadarthella
taradition is the poorest
commonon-
guardiant waste of time. His everpresent toes are always in
retaliessian out throuth his overpast boots. Hear him
squak!
Teek heet to that
looswallawer how he
bolo the bat!
Tyro a
toray! When Mullocky
won the couple of colds, when we were
stripping in number three, I would like the neat drop that would
malt in my mouth but I fail to see when (I am purposely refrain-
ing from expounding the obvious fallacy
as to the
specific
gravitates of the two deglutables implied nor to
the lapses
lequou asousiated with the royal gorge through students of
mixed hydrostatics and pneumodipsics will after some difficulties
grapple away with my meinungs).
Myrrdin
aloer! as old Mar-
sellas Cambriannus puts his. But, on Professor
Llewellys ap
Bryllars, F.D., Ph. Dr's showings, the plea, if he
pleads,
is all posh and robbage
on a melodeontic scale since his man's
when is no otherman's quandour (Mine,
dank you?) while,
for
aught I care for the contrary, the all is
where in love as war
and
- the plane where me arts
soar you'd aisy rouse a thunder from and
where I cling true'tis there I climb tree and where Innocent looks
best (pick!) there's holly in his
ives.
As my explanations here are probably above your understand-
ings, lattlebrattons, though as augmentatively uncomparisoned
as Cadwan, Cadwallon and Cadwalloner, I shall revert to
a more
expletive method which I frequently use when I have
to sermo
with muddlecrass pupils. Imagine for my
purpose that you are a
squad of urchins, snifflynosed,
goslingnecked,
clothyheaded,
tangled in your lacings,
tingled in your pants, etsitaraw
etcicero.
And you, Bruno Nowlan, take your tongue out of your
inkpot!
As none of you knows javanese I will give all my
easyfree trans-
lation of the old fabulist's parable. Allaboy
Minor, take your
head out of your satchel! Audi,
Joe Peters! Exaudi
facts!
The
Mookse and The Gripes.
Gentes and laitymen, fullstoppers and
semicolonials, hybreds
and lubberds!
Eins within a
space and a wearywide space it wast ere wohned
a Mookse. The onesomeness wast
alltolonely, archunsitslike,
broady oval, and a
Mookse he would a walking go (My
hood!
cries Antony Romeo), so one grandsumer evening, after a great
morning and his good supper of gammon and spittish, having
flabelled his eyes,
pilleoled his nostrils, vacticanated his ears and
palliumed his throats, he put on his impermeable, seized his im-
pugnable, harped on his crown and stepped out of
his immobile
De Rure Albo
(socolled becauld it was chalkfull of masterplasters
and had borgeously
letout
gardens strown with cascadas,
pinta-
costecas, horthoducts and currycombs) and
set off
from Luds-
town a spasso to see how badness was badness in the
weirdest of
all pensible ways.
As he set off with his father's sword, his
lancia spezzata, he
was
girded on, and with that between his legs and his tarkeels,
our
once in only
Bragspear,
he clanked, to my
clinking, from veetoes
to threetop,
every
inch of an immortal.
He had not walked over a pentiadpair
of parsecs from his
azylium when at the turning
of the Shinshone Lanteran near
- Saint
Bowery's-without-his-Walls he came (secunding to the one
one oneth of the propecies, Amnis Limina Permanent)
upon the
most unconsciously boggylooking stream he ever locked
his
eyes with. Out of the colliens it
took a rise
by daubing itself Ni-
non. It looked little and it smelt of brown and it
thought in nar-
rows and it talked showshallow. And as it rinn it dribbled like any
lively purliteasy: My, my, my! Me and me! Little down dream
don't I love thee!
And, I declare, what was there on the yonder bank of the
stream that would be a river, parched on a limb of the olum,
bolt
downright, but the Gripes? And no doubt he was fit to be
dried
for why had he not been having the juice of his
times?
His pips had been neatly all drowned
on him; his polps were
charging odours every
older minute; he was quickly for getting
the dresser's
desdaign on the flyleaf of his frons;
and he was
quietly for giving the bailiff's distrain
on to the bulkside of his
cul de Pompe. In all his specious heavings, as
be lived by Opti-
mus Maximus, the Mookse had never seen his
Dubville
brooder-
on-low so nigh to a pickle.
Adrian (that was the Mookse
now's assumptinome)
stuccstill
phiz-á-phiz to the Gripes in an accessit of aurignacian.
But All-
mookse must to Moodend much as
Allrouts, austereways or
wastersways, in roaming run through Room. Hic sor a stone,
singularly illud,
and on hoc stone
Seter satt huc
sate which it
filled quite poposterously and by acclammitation to its fullest
justotoryum and whereopum with his unfallable
encyclicling
upom his alloilable, diupetriark of the wouest, and the
athemyst-
sprinkled pederect he always walked with, Deusdedit, cheek by
jowel with his frisherman's blague,
Bellua
Triumphanes, his
everyway
addedto wallat's
collectium, for yea longer he lieved
yea broader he betaught of it, the fetter, the
summe and the haul
it cost, he looked the first and last micahlike laicness of
Quartus
the Fifth and Quintus the Sixth and Sixtus the Seventh giving
allnight sitting to Lio the
Faultyfindth.
— Good appetite
us, sir Mookse! How do you do it? cheeped
the Gripes in a wherry whiggy
maudelenian woice
and the jack-
- asses all
within
bawl laughed and brayed for his intentions for
they knew their sly toad lowry now. I am
rarumominum
blessed
to see you, my dear mouster. Will you not perhopes
tell me
everything if you are pleased, sanity? All about aulne and
lithial
and allsall allinall about awn and
liseias? Ney?
Think of it! O miserendissimest retempter!
A Gripes!
— Rats! bullowed the Mookse most
telesphorously, the con-
cionator, and the sissymusses and the
zozzymusses in their ro-
benhauses quailed to hear his
tardeynois at all for you cannot
wake a silken nouse out of a hoarse oar. Blast yourself
and your
anathomy infairioriboos!
No, hang you for an animal rurale! I
am superbly in my supremest
poncif! Abase you,
baldyqueens!
Gather behind me, satraps! Rots!
— I am till infinity obliged
with you, bowed the Gripes, his
whine having gone to his
palpruy head. I am still always having
a wish on all my extremities. By the
watch, what is
the time, pace?
Figure it! The pining peever! To a Mookse!
— Ask my index, mund my
achilles,
swell my obolum, wosh-
up my nase serene,
answered the Mookse, rapidly by turning
clement, urban, eugenious
and celestian in the formose
of good
grogory humours. Quote awhore? That is quite about what I
came on my missions with my intentions laudibiliter
to settle with
you, barbarousse. Let thor be
orlog. Let
Pauline be Irene. Let
you be Beeton. And let me be Los Angeles. Now measure your
length. Now estimate my capacity. Well, sour? Is this space of
our couple of hours too dimensional for you, temporiser?
Will
you give you up? Como? Fuert it?
Sancta
Patientia! You should have heard the voice that an-
swered him! Culla vosellina.
— I was just thinkling upon that, swees Mooksey, but,
for all
the rime on my raisins,
if I connow make my submission, I can-
nos give you up, the Gripes whimpered from nethermost of his
wanhope. Ishallassoboundbewilsothoutoosezit. My tumble, lou-
dy bullocker, is my own. My velicity is
too fit
in one stockend.
And my spetial inexshellsis the belowing things
ab ove. But I
will never be abler to tell Your Honoriousness (here he
near lost
- his
limb) though my corked
father was bott a pseudowaiter,
whose o'cloak you ware.
Incredible! Well, hear the inevitable.
— Your temple,
sus
in cribro! Semperexcommunicambiambi-
sumers. Tugurios-in-Newrobe or Tukurias-in-Ashies. Novar-
ome, my creature, blievend bleives. My
building space
in lyonine
city is always to let to leonlike Men, the Mookse in a most con-
sistorous allocution pompifically with immediate jurisdiction
constantinently concludded (what a crammer for the shape-
wrucked Gripes!). And I regret to proclaim that it is out of my
temporal to help you from being killed
by inchies, (what a
thrust!), as we first met each other newwhere so airly. (Poor
little sowsieved subsquashed Gripes! I begin to feel contemption
for him!). My side, thank decretals, is as safe as motherour's
houses, he continued, and I can seen from my holeydome
what
it is to be wholly sane.
Unionjok and be joined to yok!
Parysis,
tu sais, crucycrooks, belongs to him who parises himself. And
there I must leave you subject for the pressing. I can prove that
against you, weight a momentum,
mein goot enemy! or Cos-
pol's not our star. I bet you this dozen odd. This foluminous
dozen odd. Quas primas — but 'tis bitter to compote my know-
ledge's fructos of. Tomes.
Elevating, to give peint to his blick,
his jewelled pederect to
the allmysty cielung, he
luckystruck blueild out of a few should-
be santillants, a cloister
of starabouts over Maples, a lucciolys in
Teresa street and a stopsign before Sophy
Barratt's, he gaddered
togodder the
odds docence of his vellumes,
gresk, letton and
russicruxian, onto
the lapse of his prolegs,
into umfullth one-
scuppered, and sat about his widerproof. He proved
it well who-
onearth dry and drysick
times, and vremiament, tu cesses, to the
extinction of Niklaus altogether (Niklaus
Alopysius having been
the once Gripes's popwilled nimbum) by Neuclidius and
In-
exagoras and Mumfsen and
Thumpsem, by
Orasmus and by
Amenius, by Anacletus the Jew and by
Malachy the Augurer
and
by the Cappon's collection and after that, with Cheekee's gela-
tine and Alldaybrandy's formolon, he reproved
it ehrltogether
- when not in that order sundering
in some different order, alter
three thirty and a hundred times by the binomial
dioram and
the penic walls and the ind, the Inklespill legends
and the rure,
the rule of the hoop and the blessons of expedience
and the jus,
the jugicants of
Pontius Pilax and all the mummyscrips in Sick
Bokes' Juncroom and the Chapters for the Cunning of the Chap-
ters of the Conning Fox by Tail.
While that Mooksius with preprocession
and with propre-
cession, duplicitly and diplussedly, was promulgating
ipsofacts
and sadcontras this raskolly
Gripos he had
allbust seceded in
monophysicking his illsobordunates. But asawfulas he had
caught his base semenoyous sarchnaktiers to combuccinate
upon
the silipses of his aspillouts and the
acheporeoozers
of his haggy-
own pneumax to synerethetise
with the breadchestviousness of
his sweeatovular ducose sofarfully the
loggerthuds of his
sakel-
laries were fond at variance with the synodals of his
somepooliom
and his babskissed nepogreasymost got the
hoof
from his philio-
quus.
— Efter thousand
yaws, O Gripes con my sheepskins, yow
will be belined to the world, enscayed Mookse the
pius.
— Ofter thousand yores,
amsered Gripes the gregary, be the
goat of MacHammud's, yours may be still, O Mookse, more
botheared.
— Us shall be chosen as the
first of the last by the electress of
Vale Hollow, obselved the Mookse nobily, for
par the unicum
of Elelijiacks, Us am in Our stabulary and that is what Ruby and
Roby fall for, blissim.
The Pills, the Nasal Wash
(Yardly's),
the Army Man Cut, as
british as bondstrict and as
straightcut as when
that broken-
arched traveller from Nuzuland . . .
— Wee, cumfused
the Gripes limply, shall not even be the
last of the first, wee hope, when oust are visitated by
the Veiled
Horror. And, he added: Mee are relying entirely, see the forte-
thurd of Elissabed, on the weightiness of mear's breath. Puffut!
Unsightbared embouscher, relentless
foe to social and business
succes! (Hourihaleine) It might have been a happy evening but . . .
- And they viterberated each other,
canis et coluber with the
wildest ever wielded since Tarriestinus lashed Pissasphaltium.
— Unuchorn!
— Ungulant!
— Uvuloid!
— Uskybeak!
And bullfolly answered volleyball.
Nuvoletta in her
lightdress, spunn of sisteen
shimmers, was
looking down on them, leaning over the bannistars
and listening
all she childishly could. How she was brightened when Should-
rups in his glaubering
hochskied
his welkinstuck and how she
was overclused when Kneesknobs
on his zwivvel was
makeact-
ing such a paulse of himshelp! She was alone. All her nubied
companions were asleeping with the squirrels. Their
mivver,
Mrs Moonan, was off in the
Fuerst quarter scrubbing the back-
steps of Number 28. Fuvver, that Skand, he was up in
Norwood's
sokaparlour, eating oceans of Voking's Blemish. Nuvoletta lis-
tened as she reflected herself, though the heavenly one with his
constellatria and his emanations stood between, and
she tried all
she tried to make the Mookse look up at her (but he was fore too
adiaptotously farseeing) and to make the Gripes hear
how coy
she could be (though he was much too schystimatically auricular
about his ens to heed her) but it was all mild's
vapour moist. Not
even her feignt reflection,
Nuvoluccia, could they toke their
gnoses off for their minds with intrepifide fate and bungless
curiasity, were conclaved with Heliogobbleus and Commodus
and Enobarbarus and whatever the coordinal dickens
they did
as their damprauch of papyrs and buchstubs said. As if that was
their spiration! As if theirs could duiparate her queendim!
As if
she would be third perty to
search on search proceedings!
She
tried all the winsome wonsome ways her four winds had
taught
her. She tossed her sfumastelliacinous hair like la princesse de la
Petite Bretagne and she rounded her mignons arms like Mrs
Cornwallis-West and she smiled over herself like the
beauty of
the image of the pose of the daughter of the
queen of the Em-
perour of Irelande and she sighed after herself as were she born
- to bride with Tristis Tristior
Tristissimus. But,
sweet madonine,
she might fair as well have carried her daisy's
worth to Florida.
For the Mookse, a dogmad Accanite, were not
amoosed and the
Gripes, a dubliboused Catalick,
wis pinefully obliviscent.
— I see, she sighed. There are menner.
The siss of the whisp of the sigh of the softzing
at the stir of
the ver grose O arundo
of a long one in midias reeds: and shades
began to glidder along the banks, greepsing, greepsing, duusk
unto duusk, and it was as glooming as gloaming could be in the
waste of all peacable worlds. Metamnisia was
allsoonome coloro-
form brune;
citherior
spiane an eaulande, innemorous
and un-
numerose. The Mookse had a sound eyes right but he could not
all hear. The Gripes had light ears left yet he could but ill see.
He ceased. And he ceased, tung and
trit, and it was
neversoever
so dusk of both of them. But still Moo thought on the
deeps of
the undths he would profoundth come
the morrokse and
still
Gri feeled of the scripes he would escipe if by
grice he had luck
enoupes.
Oh, how it was duusk! From
Vallee
Maraia to Grasyaplaina,
dormimust echo!
Ah
dew! Ah dew! It was so duusk that the
tears of night began to fall, first by ones and twos, then by threes
and fours, at last by fives and sixes of sevens, for the tired ones
were wecking, as we weep now with them. O! O! O!
Par la
pluie!
Then there came down to the thither
bank a woman of no
appearance (I believe she was a Black with chills at her
feet) and
she gathered up his hoariness the Mookse
motamourfully where
he was spread and carried him away to her invisible dwelling,
thats hights, Aquila
Rapax, for he was the holy sacred solem and
poshup spit of her
boshop's apron. So you see the
Mookse he
had reason as I knew and you knew and he knew all along. And
there came down to the hither bank a woman
to all
important
(though they say that she was comely, spite the cold in
her heed)
and, for he was as like it as blow it to a hawker's hank, she
plucked down the Gripes, torn panicky autotone, in
angeu from
his limb and cariad away its
beotitubes with her to her unseen
- shieling, it is,
De
Rore Coeli. And so the poor Gripes got wrong;
for that is always how a Gripes is, always was and always will be.
And it was never so thoughtful of either of them.
And there were
left now an only elmtree and but a stone. Polled with
pietrous,
Sierre but saule. O! Yes! And Nuvoletta, a lass.
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life
and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in
one. She
cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over
the bannistars;
she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuée! Nuée! A lightdress fluttered.
She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream (for a
thousand of tears had gone
eon her and come on her and she was
stout and struck on
dancing and her muddied name was Missis-
liffi) there fell a tear, a singult tear, the
loveliest of all tears (I
mean for those crylove fables fans who are 'keen' on
the pretty-
pretty commonface sort of thing you meet by hopeharrods) for it
was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by,
lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why!
Weh,
O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
No applause, please! Bast! The
romescot nattleshaker
will go
round your circulation in diu dursus.
Allaboy, Major, I'll take your reactions in another place
after
themes. Nolan Browne, you may now leave the classroom. Joe
Peters, Fox.
As I have now successfully explained to you my own
natural-
born rations which are even in
excise of my vaultybrain
insure
me that I am a mouth's more deserving case by genius. I
feel in
symbathos for my ever devoted
friend and
halfaloafonwashed,
Gnaccus Gnoccovitch. Darling
gem! Darling smallfox!
Horose-
shoew! I could love that man like my own ambo for being
so
baileycliaver though he's a nawful curillass and I must slav to
methodiousness. I want him to go and live like a
theabild in
charge of the night
brigade on
Tristan da Cunha, isle of man-
overboard, where he'll make Number 106 and be near Inacces-
sible. (The meeting of mahoganies, be the
waves, rementious
me that this exposed sight though it pines for an umbrella of its
own and needs a shelter belt of the
true service
sort to keep its
- boles clean,
—
the weeping beeches, Picea
and Tillia, are in a
wild state about it — ought to be classified, as
Cricketbutt Will-
owm and his two nurserymen advisers suggested,
under genus
Inexhaustible when we refloat upon all the butternat,
sweet gum
and manna ash
redcedera
which is so purvulent there as if there
was howthorns in
Curraghchasa which ought to look as
plane
as a lodgepole to anybody until we are
introduced
to that pine-
tacotta of Verney Rubeus where the deodarty is pinctured for us
in a pure stand, which we do not doubt ha has a habitat of doing,
but without those selfsownseedlings which are a
species of proof
that the largest individual can occur at or in an olivetion
such as
East Conna Hillock where it mixes with foolth accacians and
common sallies and
is tender)
Vux Populus, as we say in hickory-
hockery and I wish we had some more glasses of
arbor vitae.
Why roat by the
roadside or awn
over alum pot? Alderman
Whitebeaver is dakyo. He ought to go away for a change of
ideas and he'd have a world of things to look back on. Do, sweet
Daniel! If I weren't a jones in myself I'd elect
myself to be his
dolphin in the wildsbillow because he is such a rubber
with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked
in
my bestback garden for the laetification of
siderodromites and
to the irony of the stars. You will say it is most unenglish
and
I shall hope to hear that you will not be wrong about it. But I
further, feeling a bit husky in my
truths.
Will you please come over and
let us mooremoore murgessly
to each's other down below our vices. I am
underheerd by old
billfaust.
Wilsh is full of
curks. The
coolskittle
is philip debli-
nite. Mr Wist is thereover
beyeind the
wantnot. Wilsh and
wist
are as thick of thins udder as
faust on the
deblinite. Sgunoshooto
estas preter la tapizo malgranda. Lilegas al si en sia chambro.
Kelkefoje funcktas, kelkefoje srumpas Shultroj. Houdian Kiel vi
fartas, mia nigra sinjoro? And from the poignt of fun where I
am crying to arrive you at they are on allfore
as foibleminded as
you can feel they are fablebodied.
My heeders will recoil with a great leisure
how at the out-
break before trespassing on the space question where
even
-
michelangelines have fooled to dread I proved to mindself as to
your sotisfiction how his abject all through (the quickquid
of Pro-
fessor Ciondolone's too frequently hypothecated Bettlermensch)
is nothing so much more than a mere cashdime however genteel
he may want ours, if we please (I am speaking to us in the second
person), for to this graded intellecktuals
dime
is cash and the
cash system (you must not be allowed to forget that this is all
contained, I mean the system, in the dogmarks of
origen on
spurios) means that I cannot now have or nothave a piece of
cheeps in your pocket at the same time and with the same
man-
ners as you can now nothalf or half the cheek apiece
I've in mind
unless Burrus and
Caseous have not or not have
seemaultaneous-
ly sysentangled themselves,
selldear to soldthere, once in the
dairy days of buy and buy.
Burrus, let us like to imagine, is a genuine prime, the real
choice, full of natural greace, the mildest of milkstoffs
yet un-
beaten as a risicide and, of course, obsoletely unadulterous
whereat Caseous is obversely
the revise of him and in fact not an
ideal choose by any meals, though the betterman of the
two is
meltingly addicted
to the more casual side of the
arrivaliste case
and, let me say it at once, as zealous over him as is passably he.
The seemsame home and histry seeks and
hidepence which we
used to be reading for our prepurgatory, hot, Schott? till Duddy
shut the shopper op and Mutti, poor Mutti! brought us our poor
suppy, (ah who!
eh how!) in Acetius and Oleosus and
Sellius
Volatilis and Petrus Papricus! Our Old Party quite
united round
the Slatbowel at Commons: Pfarrer Salamoss
himself and that
sprog of a Pedersill and his Sprig of Thyme and a
dozen of the
Murphybuds and a score and more of the hot young
Capels
and
Lettucia in her greensleeves
and you too and me three, twinsome
bibs but hansome ates,
like shakespill and eggs! But there's
many
a split pretext bowl and jowl; and (snob screwing that cork,
Schott!) to understand this as well as you can, feeling how back-
ward you are in your down-to-the-ground
benches, I have com-
pleted the following arrangement for the coarse use of
stools and
if I don't make away with you I'm beyond Caesar
outnullused.
- The older sisars (Tyrants, regicide is too good for you!) be-
come unbeurrable
from age, (the compositor of the
farce of
dustiny however makes a thunpledrum mistake by
letting off this
pienofarte effect as his furst act as that is where the juke
comes
in) having been sort-of-nineknived and chewly removed
(this
soldier - author - batman for all his
commontoryism is
just
another of those souftsiezed bubbles who never quite got the
sandhurst out of his eyes so
that the champaign he draws
for us
is as flop as a plankrieg) the twinfreer
types are billed to make
their reupprearance as the knew
kneck and knife
knickknots
on
the deserted champ de bouteilles. (A most cursery reading into the
Persic-Uraliens hostery shows us how
Fonnumagula
picked
up that propper numen
out of a colluction of prifixes
though
to the permienting cannasure
the Coucousien oafsprung
of this
sun of a kuk is as sattin
as there's a tub in Tobolosk) Ostiak
della Vogul Marina!
But that I dannoy the fact of wanton to
weste point I could paint you to that butter (cheese it!) if you
had some wash. Mordvealive! Oh me none onsens! Why
the
case is as inessive and impossive as
kezom hands! Their inter-
locative is conprovocative just as every hazzy hates to having a
hazbane in her noze. Caseous may bethink himself a
thought of
a caviller but Burrus has the reachly roundered head that goes
best with thofthinking defensive fideism. He has the lac
of wis-
dom under every dent in his
lofter while the other
follow's
onni vesy
milky indeedmymy.
Laughing over the linnuts and
weeping off the uniun. He hisn't the hey og he lisn't the lug,
poohoo. And each night
sim misses mand he
winks he had the
semagen. It was aptly
and corrigidly stated (and, it is
royally
needless for one ex ungue Leonem to say by whom) that his
seeingscraft was that clarety as were the wholeborough
of Poutres-
bourg to be averlaunched over him pitchbatch he could still make
out with his augstritch the
green moat in
Ireland's Eye. Let me
sell you the fulltroth of Burrus when he wore a younker.
Here
it is, and chorming too, in six
by sevens! A cleanly line, by the
gods! A king off duty and a jaw for ever! And what a cheery
ripe outlook, good
help me Deus v Deus! If I were to speak
- my ohole mouthful to
arinam
about it you should call me the
ormuzd aliment in your
midst of
faime. Eat ye up, heat ye up!
sings the somun in the salm. Butyrum et
mel comedet ut sciat
reprobare malum et eligere bonum. This, of course, also explains
why we were taught to play in the childhood: Der Haensli ist
ein Butterbrot, mein Butterbrot! Und Koebi iss dein
Schtinkenkot!
Ja! Ja! Ja!
This in fact, just to show you, is Caseous, the brutherscutch
or puir tyron: a hole or
two, the highstinks aforefelt and
anygo
prigging wurms. Cheesugh!
you complain. And Hi Hi High
must say you are not Hoa Hoa Hoally in the wrong!
Thus we cannot escape our likes and mislikes,
exiles or am-
busheers, beggar and neighbour and — this is where the
dime-
show advertisers advance
the temporal relief plea —
let us be
tolerant of antipathies.
Nex quovis burro num
fit mercaseus? I am
not hereby giving my final endorsement to the
learned ignorants
of the Cusanus philosophism in which old Nicholas
pegs it
down that the smarter the spin
of the top the sounder the span
of the buttom (what the worthy old auberginiste ought to have
meant was: the more stolidly immobile in space
appears to me
the bottom which is presented to use in time by the top
primo-
mobilisk &c.). And I shall be misunderstord if understood to
give an unconditional sinequam to the
heroicised
furibouts of
the Nolanus theory, or, at
any rate, of that substrate of apart
from hissheory where the Theophil swoors
that on principial he
was the pointing start of his odiose
by comparison
and that whiles
eggs will fall cheapened all over the walled the
Bure
will be dear
on the Brie.
Now, while I am not out now to be taken up as unintention-
ally recommending the Silkebjorg
tyrondynamon machine for
the more economical helixtrolysis of these amboadipates until
I can find space to look into it myself a little more closely first
I shall go on with my decisions after having shown to you in
good time how both products of our social stomach
(the excellent
Dr Burroman, I noticed by the way from his emended
food
theory, has been carefully digesting the very wholesome criticism
- I helped him to in my princeps
edition which is all so munch
to the cud) are
mutuearly
polarised the incompatabilily of any
delusional acting as ambivalent to the fixation of his pivotism.
Positing, as above, too males pooles, the one the
pictor of the
other and the omber the Skotia
of the one, and looking want-
ingly around our undistributed middle between
males
we feel
we must waistfully woent a female to focus and on
this stage
there pleasantly appears the cowrymaid M. whom we shall
often meet below who introduces herself upon us at some precise
hour which we shall again agree to call absolute
zero or the
babbling pumpt of platinism. And so like that former son
of a kish who went up and out to found his farmer's ashes
we
come down home gently on our own turnedabout asses
to meet
Margareen.
We now romp through a period of pure lyricism of shame-
bred music (technologically, let me say, the appetising
entry of
this subject on a fool chest of vialds is plumply pudding the carp
before
doevre hors) evidenced by such words in distress as I
cream for thee, Sweet Margareen, and the more
hopeful O Mar-
gareena! O Margareena! Still in the bowl is left a lump
of gold!
(Correspondents, by the way, will keep on asking
me what is the
correct garnish to serve drisheens with. Tansy
Sauce. Enough).
The pawnbreaking pathos
of the first of these shoddy pieces
reveals it as a Caseous effort. Burrus's bit is often used for a toast.
Criniculture can tell us very precisely indeed
how and why this
particular streak of yellow silver first appeared on
(not in) the
bowel, that is to see, the human head, bald, black,
bronze, brown,
brindled,
betteraved or
blanchemanged where it might be use-
fully compared with an earwig on a fullbottom. I am
offering
this to Signorina Cuticura
and I intend to take it up and bring it
under the nosetice of Herr
Harlene by way of diverting his
attentions. Of course the unskilled singer continues to pervert
our wiser ears by subordinating the space-element, that is to
sing, the aria, to the time-factor, which ought to be
killed, ill
tempor. I should advise any unborn singer who may still be
among my heeders to forget her temporal diaphragm at
home
- (the best thing that could happen to it!) and attack
the roulade
with a swift colpo di glottide to the lug (though Maace I will
insist was reclined from overdoing this, his recovery often being
slow) and then, O! on the third dead beat, O! to cluse her eyes
and aiopen her oath and see what spice I may send her.
How?
Cease thee, cantatrickee! I fain would be solo. Arouse thee, my
valour! And save for e'er my true Bdur!
I shall have a word to say in a few
yards about the acoustic
and orchidectural management of the
tonehall but,
as ours is a
vivarious where one plant's breaf is a lunger planner's byscent
and you may not care for argon, it will be very
convenient for
me for the emolument to pursue Burrus and Caseous for a rung
or two up their isocelating biangle. Every admirer has seen my
goulache of Marge
(she is so like the sister, you don't know, and
they both dress A L I K E !) which I titled The Very Picture of
a Needlesswoman which in the presence ornates our national
cruetstand. This genre
of portraiture of changes of mind in order
to be truly torse should evoke
the bush soul of females so I am
leaving it to the experienced victim to complete the general
suggestion by the mental addition of a wallopy bound or, should
the zulugical zealot prefer it, a congorool teal. The hatboxes
which composed Rhomba,
lady Trabezond (Marge in her ex-
celsis), also comprised the climactogram up which B and C may
fondly be imagined ascending and are suggestive of
gentlemen's
spring modes, these modes carrying us back to the superimposed
claylayers of eocene
and pleastoseen formation and the gradual
morphological changes in our body politic which
Professor
Ebahi-Ahuri of Philadespoinis (Ill) — whose
bluebutterbust I
have just given his coupe de grass to —
neatly names a boîte
à
surprises. The boxes, if I may break the subject gently, are worth
about fourpence pourbox but I am inventing a more patent
pro-
cess, foolproof and pryperfect
(I should like to ask that Shedlock
Homes person who is out for removing the
roofs
of our criminal
classics by what deductio ad domunum he hopes
de
tacto to detect
anything unless he happens of himself,
movibile
tectu,
to have a
slade off) after which they can be reduced to a
fragment of their
- true crust by even
the youngest of Margees if she will take plase
to be seated and smile if I please.
Now there can be no question about it either that I having
done as much, have quite got the size of that demilitery
young
female (we will continue to call her Marge) whose types may be
met with in any public garden, wearing a very "dressy"
affair,
known as an "ethel" of instep length and with a real fur, reduced
to 3/9, and
muffin cap to tone (they are "angelskin"
this fall),
ostentatiously hemming
apologetically over the shirtness of
some "sweet" garment, when she is not sitting on all the free
benches avidously reading about "it" but
ovidently on the look
out for "him" or so "thrilled"
about the best dressed dolly pram
and beautiful elbow competition or at the movies
swallowing
sobs and blowing bixed mixcuits over "childe" chaplain's
"latest"
or on the verge of the gutter with some bobbedhair brieffrocked
babyma's toddler (the
Smythe-Smythes now keep TWO domes-
tics and aspire to THREE male ones, a shover, a butlegger and
a sectary) held hostage at armslength, teaching His
Infant
Majesty how to make waters worse.
(I am closely watching Master Pules,
as I have regions to sus-
pect from my post that her "little man" is a secondary school-
teacher under the boards of education, a voted disciple of
Infan-
tulus who is being utilised thus publicly by the
seducente
infanta
to conceal her own more mascular personality by flaunting
frivolish finery
over men's inside clothes, for the femininny of
that totamulier will always lack the musculink of a
verumvirum.
My solotions for the proper parturience of matres and the edu-
cation of micturious mites
must stand over from the moment till
I tackle this tickler
hussy for occupying my uttentions.)
Margareena she's very fond of Burrus but, alick and alack!
she velly fond of chee.
(The important influence exercised on
everything by this eastasian import has not been till now fully
flavoured though we can comfortably taste it in this
case. I shall
come back for a little more say farther on.) A cleopatrician
in
her own right she at once complicates the position while Burrus
and Caseous are contending for her misstery by implicating her-
- self with an elusive
Antonius, a wop who would appear to hug
a personal interest in refined chees of all chades at
the same time
as he wags an antomine
art of being rude like the boor. This
Antonius-Burrus-Caseous grouptriad may be said to equate
the qualis equivalent with the older socalled talis
on talis one
just as quantly as in the hyperchemical
economantarchy
the tan-
tum ergons irruminate the quantum urge so that eggs is to whey
as whay is to zeed like your golfchild's abe boob caddy. And this
is why any simple philadolphus of a fool you like
to dress, an
athemisthued
lowtownian,
exlegged phatrisight,
may be awfully
green to one side of him and fruitfully blue on
the other which
will not screen him however from appealing to my gropesarch-
ing eyes, through the strongholes
of my acropoll, as a boosted
blasted bleating blatant bloaten blasphorus blesphorous idiot
who kennot tail a bomb from a painapple when he steals one
and wannot psing his psalmen with the cong in our gregational
pompoms with the
canting
crew.
No! Topsman to your Tarpeia! This thing, Mister Abby, is
nefand. (And, taking off
soutstuffs and alkalike matters, I hope
we can kill time to reach the salt because there's some
forceglass
neutric assets bittering in the soldpewter
for you to plump your
pottage in). The thundering
legion has stormed Olymp that
it end. Twelve tabular times till now have I edicted it.
Merus
Genius to Careous Caseous!
Moriture, te salutat!
My phemous
themis race is run, so let
Demoncracy take the highmost! (Abra-
ham Tripier. Those old diligences are quite out of
date. Read
next answer). I'll beat you so lon.
(Bigtempered. Why not take
direct action. See previous reply). My unchanging Word is sacred.
The word is my Wife, to exponse and expound, to vend and to
velnerate, and may the curlews
crown our nuptias! Till Breath
us depart! Wamen. Beware would you change with my years. Be
as young as your grandmother! The ring man in the rong
shop
but the rite words
by the
rote order! Ubi lingua nuncupassit, ibi
fas! Adversus hostem semper sac! She that will not feel my
ful-
moon let her peel to thee as the hoyden and the impudent!
That
mon that hoth no moses
in his sole nor is not awed by conquists
- of word's law, who never with humself was fed and
leaves
his soil to lave his
head, when his hope's in his highlows from
whisking his woe, if he came to my preach, a proud pursebroken
ranger, when the heavens were welling the spite of their
spout,
to beg for a bite in our bark
Noisdanger, would meself and Mac
Jeffet, four-in-hand, him out? — ay!
—
were he my own
breastbrother, my doubled withd love and my singlebiassed
hate,
were we bread by the same fire and
signed with the same
salt,
had we tapped from the same master and robbed the same till,
were we tucked in the one bed and bit by the one
flea, homo-
gallant and hemycapnoise, bum and dingo, jack by churl, though
it broke my heart to pray it, still I'd fear I'd hate to say!
12. Sacer esto?
Answer: Semus
sumus!
|
how do you do? -
common phrase used in inquiring as to a person's health + FDV:
So?
How
Who
do you no to now
nigh, lazy and gentleman?
wode = void; wood + woda (Polish)
- water + FDV:
The
answer
echo
is where in the balk
back of the wodes,
callhim forth
call himforth.
Brieftrager (ger)
- postman + briefdrager (Dutch) - letter carrier.
concern - a business organization; a business, a firm
John Jameson and Son +
REFERENCE
rate - to reckon, calculate, to
estimate the worth or value of
sto (Serbian) - hundred;
table + stor (Danish) - large, great + great hundred, long hundred
- 120 + one hundred and ten percent + a score of one hundred and ten is
perfect for final examinations in Italian universities, there being eleven
examiners (i.e. ten points each) → if he got one
hundred and ten on twelve questions at ten points each, this means he missed one.
quis - who (wants this) + quo = who
+ quock = quake + quis, quae, quod (l) - who, which (masc., fem., neut.)
+
quiz
Apostles - the twelve witnesses
whom Jesus Christ sent forth to preach his Gospel to the world + apostrophe - "
’ " + apos (gr) - quick + apostrophes (gr) - aversions +
REFERENCE
*C* (riddler),
*V* (solver) + FDV:
(Shaun MacIrevick, briefdragger,
of
for
the concern of Jhon Jhamiesen and Song, rated onehundred
onehundrick
and thin per storehundred on this nightly quizquiquok of the twelve apostrophes
set by Johnn
Jacky
Jocky
Jockit
MicEarweak.
misunderstood an M
for an L + misunderstood a name for a motto (in question #3) + FDV:
He misunderstruck the
an
aim of number three of them [and
placed his
left
correct replies to four of them in their incorrect
natural
order
disorder.])
(question #3 was
answered incorrectly)
riposte - an effective reply by
word or act + *V* did not reply to four questions (#4 by *X*, #6 by *K*, #10
by *I*, #12 by *C*).
(*X* answered question #4)
+ [*V* left his free natural ripostes to four (*X*) to sort them out].
myther = moider - to
labour very hard + mytheria (gr) - traditions +
FDV
rector - the permanent
head or master of a university, college, school, or religious institution + myth
erector.
Pontifex Maximus
(Lat. pontus, bridge) + most (Serbian)
- bridge + Maximos tries to bridge the
gap between Christianity and Paganism in Henrik Ibsen's 'Caesar and Galilean'
+ in Genesis of the Geneva Bible, Adam and Eve 'made themselves breeches'.
beanstalk - the stem
of the bean-plant: so called in the fairy-tale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' +
FDV:
to rise taller through his
tale
beanstale
bluegum -
Australian timber tree
baobab - a tree, also
called 'Monkey-bread,' with a stem of enormous thickness + (stuttering).
welingtonia - the
popular name in England of Sequoia (Wellingtonia) gigantea, a large coniferous
tree, native of California
nudi- - naked + [pedibus] nudis (l) - with bare [feet].
trouter - one that fishes for
trout + FDV:
went nudiboots into a
liffey
liffeyette
when she was barely in her streams
trickles
tricklies,
claudeo (l) - to limp,
be lame + cloud - to cover or darken with clouds; hence fig., to overshadow, throw into the shade
+ {have a cloud [Issy] around his head at Howth Head}.
conciliation - conversion
from a state of hostility or distrust; the promotion of good will by kind
and considerate measures + FDV:
was
well known to wear
clout
a conciliationcap on the esker of his hooth,
esker - a long winding
ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and
formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. Eskers are frequently
several miles long and, because of their peculiar uniform shape, are somewhat
like railroad embankments.
sport - to make public and
ostentatious display of, to show of, to wear with satisfaction
chaingang - a gang or
number of convicts chained together to prevent escape + chaingang (Slang) - jewellers, watch-chain makers.
albert - a watch chain worn across
the front of a vest
Hollander (Dutch)
- Dutchman +
sports
an
[a chainganger's] albert over his,
[hullender's] epulence,
opulence + epaulette -
a military ornament worn on the shoulder.
Newton
heinousness - extreme
wickedness, atrociousness
two Maries (*IJ*)
successive - characterized by
or involving succession, brought about or produced in succeeding stages
Serbian - of or
belonging to Serbia + serebryanyj (Russian) -
'silver' + srebrn (Serbian) - of silver + sere (Archaic)
- withered + {the rainbow girls}.
drawingroom - a private
chamber attached to a more public room; now, a room reserved for the reception of company,
and to which the ladies withdraw from the dining-room after dinner.
hearth rug - a rug laid before
a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor + FDV:
had several
successive
successiveful
coloured
coloured
serevanmaids on the same [big] white
parlour
drawringroam
hearthrug
horthrug,
Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
- British M.P., chiefly associated with the abolition of the slave trade +
Lord's Prayer: "Thy will be done".
heather - a low-growing
Eurasian shrub (Calluna vulgaris) growing in dense masses and having
small evergreen leaves and clusters of small, bell-shaped pinkish-purple flowers
+ Lord's Prayer: "on Earth as it is in Heaven".
VARTRY RIVER - Rising at the base of Mt Douce in
County
Wicklow, it flows South to Roundwood, where it is dammed to form the reservoir which, since 1868, has
been the main South Dublin water supply. From the reservoir the much-diminished
Vartry traverses the Devil's Glen and ends at the sea inlet of Broad Lough, near
the town of Wicklow.
protestant
+ prode (it) - brave + {pumped the catholic water [ALP/Issy] and shocked
protestant boys [3 soldiers]}
boyne - a flat shallow tub
or bowl + river Boyne + 'The Protestant
Boys' (an Orange song; "Boyne" appears in the song).
FDV:
killed
himself
his own hungery self
as a young man in anger,
fodder - food in general (obs.);
food for cattle
(Noah, wife and three
sons)
America
+ Marken (ger) -
stamps +
marken (Danish) - the field +
FDV: found food for
his
five when the market
allmarket
allmarker
was goflooded,
ge- (ger) - (prefix for
certain nouns, past participles)
tutor - one employed in the
supervision and instruction of a youth in a private household.
Cornish - the ancient language of
Cornwall, a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages; it became extinct in
the latter part of the 18th c.
voucher - one that sponsors or
guarantees, witness
rotabilis (l) - whirling,
rotary + rotabile (it) - (of vehicles) wheeled.
toll
- a charge for the right of passage along a road (at a turnpike or toll-gate)
+ the toll of
the road (phrase) - its cost in damage, injury and lives.
bred - p.p. of
breed
stepson - a son of one’s
spouse by a former marriage + FDV:
[bred manyheaded sons
stepsons
and [a] leapyourown daughter,
[& appeared to the shecook]],
heptagon - having seven angles
and seven sides
imprison - to confine, shut up
(in various connexions) + prisms.
false
+ fausse (fr) - false (feminine) + phosphorus.
indument
- clothing, garment + {was a hunchback
and had ill-fitting garments [Norwegian captain]}
shovel
- to throw as if with
shovel; to intrude; to excavate, dig up
arson
- the act of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to another man's house, ship,
forest, or similar property; or to one's own, when insured, with intent to
defraud the insurers + 4 elements: earth, fire, water, air.
Bill Bailey,
Won't You Please Come Home? (song) + {ALP hung him out to dry}
quadrant - a square; a square
thing or piece (also fig.)
tile - a thin slab of burnt clay
(used in building generally); a hat (Slang) + to have a tile loose (and similar
expressions derived from roofing tiles) - to be slightly crazy, or not quite right in the
head.
cad a chlog (kod
a khlug) (gael)
- what o’clock
offer chances - in
cricket, said of a batsman who plays the ball so that a fielder has oportunity
of catching it, so dismissing the batsman
longon (French Slang) - penis
+ long on - a cricket fielding position.
stand up (Slang) - to coit with (a girl; originally
of perpendicular conjunction) + stands up - in cricket, said of a wicketkeeper
who takes up his position immediately behind the wicket.
legge (it) - law + legge (Norwegian)
- to put, to lay + leg before wicket - in cricket, said of a batsman who
prevents ball from striking wicket with his leg.
harrow - a heavy frame of timber
(or iron) set with iron teeth or tines, which is dragged over ploughed land to break
clods, pulverize and stir the soil, root up weeds, or cover in the seed.
moss rose
- a garden variety of
the cabbage rose, Rosa centifolia
seam
- the junction made by sewing together the edges of two pieces or widths of
cloth, leather, etc.; a line, groove, furrow or the like formed by the abutting
edges of two parts of a thing (on a surface of rock, stone, etc.); Geol. A thin
layer or stratum separating two strata of greater magnitude + seas + scenes.
fort - a strong position, stronghold
postern - a back door, private
entrance
F.E.R.T. - "Fortitudo
ejus Rhodum tenuit" (His firmness guarded Rhodes). This is a tribute to Amadeus
the Great (b.1249), the founder of the dynasty of Savoy. In 1310 he helped
against the Saracens at the siege of Rhodes + Femina
erit ruina tua (l) - woman will be thy undoing.
buckler - a small round shield
in chief
- in the chief or
highest place or position
hiding places + Houdini -
master of escaping.
out-Herod
= to out-Herod Herod -
to outdo Herod (represented in the old Mystery Plays as a blustering tyrant) in violence;
to be more outrageous than the most outrageous; hence, to outdo in any excess of
evil or extravagance. (A casual Shaksperian expression, which has become current in the
19th c.).
barker - one who barks, a dog; a
noisy assailant; a pistol + {as fox he outsmarts the dogs}
SHOOLBRED'S - London
department store of James Shoolbred and Co, in Tottenham Count Road
whitely - quietly
+ rightly + WHITELEY'S DEPARTMENT STORE - The London department store of William Whitehey, Ltd,
in Queensway, Bayswater; founded 1863 in Westbourne Grove, it was the 1st of the great London stores
+ London department stores: Harrods, Barker, Shoolbred's, Whiteley's.
sweep
- a disreputable person; a scamp, blackguard +
Swede
zoomorph - something in the form
of an animal + zoomorphologia (gr) - the study of the shape of animals.
omni- - all, universally
+ omne animal (l) - 'every living creature'.
brooch
- to adorn as with a brooch + {old
Irish zoomorphic brooches with animal heads; Irish coins with pictures of
animals}
Edison, Tomas
- American
inventor (1847-1931) + Eddystone lighthouse.
lampless - darkened, unlighted
sunbeam - ray of light of the sun
+ Swann, Sir Joseph (1828-1914) - British inventor of an incandescent lamp.
deep - the deep part of the sea, or
of a lake or river; a deep (i.e. secret, mysterious, unfathomable, or vast) region of
thought, feeling, or being.
malefactor - one guilty of a
heinous offence against the law; a felon, a criminal
Frau
(ger) - woman
Frou Frou - title of Meilhac and Halévy's
opera
dook - duck
upset
battleworthy - fit for use
in battle + boose - alcoholic drink, chiefly beer; U.S. esp.
spirits + BOSWORTH
FIELD - Area in Leics, England, site of the last battle (1485) of the War of the Roses; Richard III
("Crookback") was defeated and killed by Earl of Richmond, hater Henry VII.
junket - to make merry with good
cheer, to feast
boos =
3d. sing of
boo - a shout of
disapproval, "boo"
baa - to cry baa, bleat
+
bás (Irish)
- death.
ass + Aas (ger) -
carrion.
luke = look
Plunkett, Luke -
Dubliner who played Richard III's death scene (riding into Bosworth Field on a
donkey) so comically that the audience demanded an encore. The corpse
rose, bowed,
died again.
Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of
the Theatre Royal, Dublin 16: 'A new Opera, written by a lady of this city...
entitled "The Cavern; or, the Outlaws." It is surmised that Lady Morgan was the
authoress'.
his
business - eat, letters, smokes, fights
(Joyce's note)
→ Fay: A Short Glossary of Theatrical Terms 9:
'Business. -- All movements and actions used by actors in
playing a scene; such as opening and reading letters, eating or preparing meals,
fights, smoking, etc.'
tumbler
- glass cup without a handle or foot, having a heavy flat bottom
minerals - mineral water
brush up
- to brighten up by brushing, to free from dust or cobwebs + 'Wash and brush
up': service advertised in English men's public toilets.
juju
- a fetish, charm or amulet of west african tribes; a marijuana cigarette
toffee
- a sweet-meat made from sugar or treacle, butter, and sometimes a little flour,
boiled together + {would wash, go out and hear the local news with coffee,
peruse the comics at a newsagents}
birthday,
Christmas, Easter, New Year cards
- cards printed with ornamental designs, etc. to be
sent (on the occasions indicated) as an expression of compliments or good wishes.
red clay
- a fine grained red or
reddish brown clay
sahara - a shade of brown or yellow
color
iron oxide
(red, brown or black)
+ oxhide - the skin
of an ox + iren = iron.
arraign
- to call upon one to answer for himself on a criminal charge; to indict before
a tribunal
attaint
- to convict, accuse, condemn; fig. To sully (lustre, purity, etc.)
list
- to include on a list; to recruit; to enclose, to shut in with rails or like
lit
- to blush deeply + lite (it) - lawsuit, litigation,
dispute, quarrel.
plead
- to allege or urge as a plea esp. in
defence, apology or excuse
cashes
check - a sharp stoppage of motion;
an interruption in a course, a sudden stoppage or pause; a written order to a banker by a person having money in the banker's hands, directing
him to pay, on presentation, to bearer or to a person named the sum of money stated
therein (called in Bank of England books 1717 a Drawn Note).
Bank of England + indgang (Danish) - entrance.
endorse - to sign one's name on
the back of (a bill, promissory note, or
cheque) + endure - to suffer without resistance, submit to, tolerate.
Lane-Poole: The Speeches
& Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xvii: 'Damiri has a saying, "Wisdom
hath alighted on three things, the brain of the Franks, the hands of the
Chinese, and the tongue of the Arabs"'.
call the bluff
- to
make person show his 'hand', to accept the challenge
block
- interruption of the function
of the organ; customer's mould at hatter's + block a hat (Slang) - knock
a man's hat down over his eyes.
MORGAN, JOSEPH, MRS -
Hat manufacturer, 9 Grafton Street, around the turn of the century + morgen (Danish, Dutch) = Morgen (German)
- morning.
headache
geheimrat - privy councilor (a
confidential adviser) + {plays the dirty rat when he’s in earnest}
ernst (ger) - serious
Maus (ger)
-
mouse +
mausey (Anglo-Irish) - having heavy buttocks, having large hips (from
Irish más: buttock).
lustig (ger) - merry, cheerful
rump - the hind-quarters, posteriors,
buttocks + Rump Parliament, 1648-53.
Early English -
architectural style typical of 13th century
trademarks + transom
- a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over
the door; horizontal bar of stone or wood in a window to divide the lights.
marigold window
- a circular window with radial tracery (a decorative intelacing of lines)
myrioscope - a variation of the
kaleidoscope
piscine - a stone basin near altar
of a church for liturgical ablutions
ambry
- a place for keeping things, pantry; a place for books, library, archives;
a cupboard or closed recess in a church used for books, vessels, etc.
portcullised - furnished with
or having a portcullis (a strong and heavy frame or grating, formed of
vertical and horizontal bars of wood or iron (the vertical ones being pointed at the lower
end), suspended by chains, and made to slide up and down in vertical grooves at the sides
of the gateway of a fortress or fortified town, so as to be capable of being quickly let
down as a defence against assault).
nave - the main part or body of a
church, extending from the inner door to the choir or chancel, and usually separated from
the aisle on each side by pillars.
from the year dot (also
from/since the year one) - from long ago
horolge - a timepiece, a dial,
hourglass or clock
Big Ben
- tower clock famous for its accuracy and for its 13-ton bell (London)
+ The Wren: 'The
king of all birds' (song).
fuit (l) - there was, he
[she, it] was
est (l) - there is, he [she,
it] is + isst (ger) -
eats + ist (ger) - is.
herit (l) - there will be,
he [she, it] will be
mildew - a morbid destructive
growth upon plants, consisting of minute fungi, and having usually the appearance of a
thin whitish coating.
mouldy
- overgrown or covered with mould; hence, decaying or decayed
+ mouldy (Dublin Slang) - drunk + stone
- to hurl stones, to kill with stones, to make numb or insensible
+ stoned (Slang) - drunk + {his gravestones are mouldy}
quercus
(l) - oak,
oak-tree
plane - a tree of the genus
platanus, platain
megalopolis
- a very large
city + Megalopolis - ancient capital of Arcadia.
faun - one of a class of rural
deities; at first represented like men with horns and the tail of a goat, afterwards with
goats' legs like the Satyrs, to whom they were assimilated in lustful character.
blank - an empty place or space
hide - unit of land, 60 to
120 acres
carucate - old English unit of
land (as much land as could be tilled with one plough in one year = 120 acres) + carruca (l) - four-wheeled coach.
hold (ger)
-
gracious, lovely + old.
shipshaped
- arranged properly, as things on board ship should be; trim, orderly
graminivorous - eating or
feeding on grass + (defecation).
dom (Serbian) - home,
house, heartstone (however, plural in Serbian would be 'domovi' and is rarely
used)
manoir - a manor house or country
residence
will + villa + vill -
feudal territorial unit corresponding to modern civil parish.
aqueduct + acque (Italian)
- waters + 4 elements: air, earth, water, fire.
whooping cough +
Ulysses.6.121: 'Gasworks. Whooping cough they say it cures'.
forth
+ fart.
carbon dioxide - a
constituent of coalgas
Hose (ger) - trousers
stock
- to lay up in store; esp. To keep (goods) in stock for sale
pudor (l) -
shame + Puder (ger) -
powder + There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a certain
occasion, when his troops were about crossing a river to attack the enemy, he
concluded an address, with these words: 'put your trust in God; but mind to keep
your powder dry'.
pink'un
- a nickname for a newspaper printed on pink paper + SPORTING TIMES - The weekly "chronicle of racing, literature, art, and the
drama," known as "The Pink'un," published in London 1865-1931
(published a hostile review of Ulysses) + Pinkham, Lydia - American
purveyor of a female tonic.
pellet - any globe, ball, or
spherical body, usually one of small size; a ball of some plastic or soft substance, esp.
of medicine or food, a pill + 'Pink pills for pale people' (advertisement).
The Pale - English-governed
part of medieval Ireland (16th century)
miseria (l) -
wretchedness + Miserius (l) - male embodiment of Misery (*S*).
pinch - a nip, a squeeze
superfine - very fine
pigtail - a tight braid of hair
+
"Superfine Pig-tails for Ladies!"
ceresia (l) - cherry
+ *I*
keros (gr) - beeswax,
sealing-wax + *J*
quid - pound sterling
+ Quid rides? [Mutato nomine de te / fabula narratur] - "What are you
laughing at? [The name changed / the story is told about you]" (Horace, Satire
I.i.69)
ride - an excursion or journey in
some vehicle or conveyance, now esp. a public one; an act of sexual intercourse
(slang).
Titus Andronicus - title, hero of Shakespeare's
play, in which Caius and Sempronius are also characters + *VYC*
notion - an idea or concept
+ a nation of shopkeepers - Napoleon's comment on the English.
shop keeper
- the proprietor of a retail store, an article that has remained
long in the shop unsold +
(notebook 1923): 'William
Shokkeeper
Shopskeeper'.
duke
- In some European countries: A sovereign prince, the ruler of a small state
called a duchy + (Wellington).
shot (Slang) - fucked
quean (Slang) - whore
+ two female figures on Dublin coat of arms + queens (chess) + *IJ* and *VYC*
caskets + castles
(chess) + three castles on Dublin coat of arms.
game of swans
- flock
of swans kept for pleasure + (chess).
Stromboli
- one of the Lipari Islands containing one of the three active volcanoes in
Italy
mote (Archaic)
- may + mammoth.
fier (fr) - proud + (be in
fear of him).
womankind - the females of the
human race; a female person
pietas (l) - sorrow
+ Pietà - representation of Mary mourning over dead Jesus.
drift - an accumulation of snow
driven together by the wind + (drop of sperm at tip of penis).
(heather on Howth)
(Christ's thorn crown)
chaperon - a round stuffed
covering for the head + (condom on penis).
shed blood
- to destroy
human life by violent means + gore - blood.
quies (l) - rest, repose
+ peace and quiet(ness) - freedom from disturbance or perturbation (esp. as a condition in which an individual person is).
Souvenir of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety
Theatre 37: 'Miss Cissy Graham's entertaining "Triple Bill"'.
polis - a Greek city state
hove
- to pass by, to go floating or soaring + go by - to pass without notice, to pass unheeded
+ hoved by
(Danish) - 'capital', literally
'chief city' (Danish hoved: head, and Danish
by: town) + (like sentence 'metro for the polis', city is dismantled).
filth + (condition of
being full)
plenish
- to fill up
dearth
- a condition in which food is scarce
and dear; often, in earlier use, a famine + death + earth.
hock - the wine called in German
'Hochheimer', produced at Hochheim on the Main; hence, commercially extended to other white
German wines + (Shaun = white wine).
(cocoa = Shem)
emery
= a hard grey-black mineral consisting
of corundum and either hematite or magnetite, used as an abrasive (especially as
a coating on paper = sandpaper) + {horserace: Emery [third combined character]
tries to win}
pole (Slang) - penis
+ passer (French Slang) - fuck + polar bear + Browne/Nolan (motif).
orchestra (Slang) - testicle
+ orchis (gr) - testicle
midwife
- a woman who assists other women in childbirth, a female accoucheur
fand sted (Danish) - 'took place'
+ stead
- a space or place assigned to or occupied by a person; a seat (obs.) +
found dead (was killed).
endo (gr) - inter
calamity
- a grievous disaster, an event or circumstance causing loss or misery
delict
- a violation of law or right; an offence, a delinquency
+ delictum (l) - crime, transgression +
delicious
entree
- the principal dish of a meal
finish off
- to bring to an end
savourie
= savoury - a savoury dish, served at the beginning or end of a dinner as a
stimulant to appetite or digestion + (between the women and the soldiers).
flout - a mocking speech or action;
a piece of mockery, jeer, scoff
forecast - a forecasting or
anticipation; a conjectural estimate or account, based on present indications, of the
course of events or state of things in the future, esp. with regard to the weather.
flair for
- liking, taste,
enthusiasm
fray
- a disturbance, esp. one caused by fighting; a noisy quarrel; a fight,
skirmish, conflict
fairground
- an enclosure where outdoor fairs, circuses or exhibitions are held
idle
- that which is useless, vain, or frivolous (obs.); an idle person, idler (obs.)
+ Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the
Prophet Mohammad xxi: (in the Kaaba) 'the three hundred and sixty idols, one
for each day of the year, which Mohammad afterwards destroyed in one day'.
Lane-Poole: The
Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xxiii: 'An Arab, who wished to
avenge the death of his father, went to consult the square block of white stone
called El-Khalasa' (i.e. the Kaaba; the name means salvation) + colossal.
henwives =
pl. of henwife - a woman who raises poultry; a bawd
+ Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the
Prophet Mohammad xxv: 'These men were called "Hanifs," or "incliners," and
their religion seems to have consisted chiefly in a negative position, - in
denying the superstition of the Arabs'.
Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xxiv:
(before Mohammad's birth) 'a prophet was expected, and women were anxiously
hoping for male children'.
flaitheamhlach (flahulokh)
(gael)
= flahoolagh (Anglo-Irish)
- princely; generous, hospitable
grasping - that grasps, eager for
gain, greedy + (Father, Son, Holy Spirit).
paschal
- a large white candle lighted in a church on the evening before easter
forbid
- to exclude, keep back, hinder, restrain; to render impossible or undesirable +
Lord's Prayer: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass
against us'.
cineris (l) - ashes
+ cinders.
pile - to form into a pile or heap;
to heap up
Pelion (gr) - high
mountain in Thessaly, a continuation of Ossa (also high mountain in Thessaly) + Pelion on Ossa (Odyssey XI) - Latin 'mountain on mountain' (the Titans
Otos and Ephialtes tried to pile Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa in order to
climb to heaven and attack the gods).
pilula (l) - little ball
+ pilule (fr) - pill
Hercules'
Pillars
- the rocks Calpé (now
Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta), on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, thought
by the ancients to be the supports of the western boundary of the world, and to
have been set up by Hercules +
hircus (l) - goat.
Oedipus complex
- in
psychoanalytic theory, a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the
opposite sex and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex.
drink to the dregs
- to drink to the thick and turbid sediment
kink - a mental twist
+ king.
wurst = worst
+ Wurst (ger) - sausage + County Westmeath.
County Carlow
chump - dupe, fool; munch, champ
scullion - a domestic servant of
the lowest rank in a household who performed the menial offices of the kitchen; hence, a
person of the lowest order, esp. as an abusive epithet.
ply
- to employ or occupy oneself busily or steadily; to work at something
trolly
- a railroad dump car, a small truck, an electric car + (he signs a letter)
'very truly yours'.
psychic - psychical, rel. to the
human soul or mind
espousal
- the formal 'plighting of troth' between a man and a woman; the celebration of
a marriage, nuptials, a wedding
desertion
- action of deserting or abandoning; wilful abandonment of the conjugal society,
without reasonable cause, on the part of a husband or wife +
*IJ* and *VYC*.
Futter
(ger) - fodder + futter (Slang) - to fuck
+ Futt (ger, vulg.) - vagina + Vater (ger) - father.
Magd
(ger) - girl
Cahermohill, County
Limerick + As Fritz Senn discovered, the actor Hill, described
as "that mountain of flesh," played Cattermole in the play
"The Private Secretary" (40.16) at the Gaiety Theatre in 1885
→
Souvenir of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety
Theatre 29: 'the inimitable "Private Secretary" captured the town, with Helmore
as the "Rev Robt. Spalding," and Hill, that "mountain of flesh" as "Cattermole"'
+ making
a mountain out of a molehill (phrase).
stress
- a force acting on or within a body or structure and tending to deform it
strain - force tending to pull
asunder or to drag from a position
tank up
- to fill oneself with drink, to drink heavily; to fill a tank of (a vehicle)
with a fuel
dank - to wet, damp, moisten
+ Dank (ger) - thanks.
tout - a spy, an informer;
someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way + (ship's
agent).
entoutcas - a combination of
parasol and umbrella + (condom).
thimble
- a bell-shaped sheath of metal (formerly of leather) worn on the end of the
finger to push the needle in sewing
(Colonel) Blimp
- a
character invented by David Low (1891-1963), cartoonist and caricaturist,
pictured as a rotund pompous ex-officer voicing a rooted hatred of new ideas.
dud - of little or no worth,
ineffective, fake, bad + dud (Serbian) - mulberry.
dead letter
- orig. A
writing, etc. taken in a bare literal sense without reference to its 'spirit', and hence
useless or ineffective; a letter which lies unclaimed for a certain time at a post-office,
or which cannot be delivered through defect of address or other cause.
Sybil - oracular
seeress of the Ancient Near East
byword
- a proverb, a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of
experience that is taken as true by many people; a nickname, byname, epithet of
scorn.
surcease
- cessation, stop; esp. (a) temporary cessation, suspension, or intermission +
Circe.
Lord Byron: Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage IV.cxlv: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls - the World' [.26]
frail
- a basket made of rushes; a woman; liable to break or be broken, easily
crushed or destroyed; morally weak, unable to resist temptation; Now sometimes
applied as a half-jocular euphemism, to a woman who lives unchastely or has
fallen from virtue + frails (Slang) - women.
hatch - to bring forth young birds
from the eggs by incubation
cellbridge - a protoplasmic
connection between cells, na intercelular bridge + CELBRIDGE - Village, on Liffey River 4 miles from Lucan. The private house
Marley Abbey was bought by Bartholomew Vanhomrigh, and Swift visited Esther V.
("Vanessa") there.
abrood
- on a hatch, on its brood of eggs +
abroad
gan = p. of
gin - begin
Genesis 1:1, John 1:1: 'In the beginning'
+ Guinness.
wind up
- to bring to
conclusion, end + 'As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be...'
(prayer).
bottle of Bass (ale) +
Battle of New Ross.
Roderick O'Connor, last
high king of Ireland
Dane - a native or subject of
Denmark; in older usage including all the Northmen who invaded England from the 9th to the
11th c. + (way of the Danes = displaced).
regularly
- at fixed times or intervals, in accordance with rule or established principles
regroup - to form a new group
busman's holiday
-
leisure time spent in occupations of the same nature as those in which one engages for a
living + bushboy - a native Australian or South
African bushman.
Quaker's meeting - a
religious meeting of Quakers, characterized by long periods of silent meditation
and prayer
sandbath - a bath taken by fowls
in sand + Witch's Sabbath.
'omos (gr) - same + 'eteros
(gr) - other.
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (song):
'Ye eyeless, noseless, chickenless egg'
spa - a medicinal or mineral spring or
well + (mad when in a spa, but sane at his pub).
Emillian
- of or pertaining to Emilia, a district of northern Italy + Aemilia Via (l) - Aemilian Way: name of three different Roman roads,
built by M. Aemilius Lepidus and M. Aemilius Scaurus +
half a million.
bogus - counterfeit, spurious,
fictitious, sham
census
- an official enumeration of the population of a country or district
Haussmann, Baron (1809-91)
- leading spirit in the rebuilding of
Paris + Hausmann (ger) - tenant, lodger.
Jean Alphand was an
assistant to Baron Haussmann in the 19th-century rebuilding of Paris.
handy andy
- someone skilled
in many jobs + Rooney, "Handy Andy" - title, hero of Lover's novel. He is a bumbling
Irish servant who turns out to be an Irish peer + Andes.
elegant + Allegheny
Mountains, in Appalachians.
Humpty Dumpty
secession - Rom. Hist. the
temporary migration of the plebeians to a place outside the city, in order to compel the
patricians to grant redress of their grievances.
plump - to vote at an election for
one candidate alone (when one is entitled to vote for two or more). The original sense was
app. to give a direct, straight, unqualified, or absolute vote for a
person.
plebeius (l) - a
plebeian, member of the Roman lower
classes + phlegmatikos (gr) - full of phlegm.
Grace O'Malley was refused
entrance to Howth Castle as gates were closed for dinner. In retaliation, she
abducted the Earl's son and heir, the 10th Baron. He was eventually released
when a promise was given to keep the gates open to unexpected visitors, and to
set an extra place at every meal [021.04].
rut - to mount or cover (the female);
rut is the mating season of ruminant animals such as deer, sheep, elk, moose,
caribou, ibex, goats, pronghorn and Asian and African antelope.
dub - to name, style, nickname
limn - to portray, depict (a subject)
+ (some dub him Rothschild and others Rockefeller).
fly
- a spy (with allusion to the insect's finding its way into the most private
places); lure in fishing; man's trouser buttons or zipper
[shows his fly (i.e. exhibitionism)]
+ fly (Slang) - cunning, artful.
demisphere - hemisphere
+ damsels.
cover up a
person's tracks
- to conceal or screen his
motions or measures
tracer - seeker, one who follows
the footprints or track of anything + (tries to cover his traces to the three
soldiers).
dovecote - a house for doves or
pigeons + Seven cities of the ancient world claimed to be the birthplace of Homer
(Chios and Smyrna are best supported) + 7 rainbow girls.
Pigeon - lived at the end
of Dublin's South Wall and gave his name to the Pigeonhouse
+ Heim (ger) - home
+ Henrik Ibsen:
"Et Dukkehjem"
(The Doll's House).
homer - a homing
pigeon + home - to fly back to its 'home' or loft after being released at a
distant point +
Homer
SMYRNA - Now called
Izmir, city and port on Aegean Sea, Western Turkey. In ancient times it was first
Aeolian, then Ionian; both peoples claimed it as the birthplace of Homer, known as "son of the Meles"
+ Merrion, district of Dublin.
Rhodes - island off Asia
Minor, contender for Homer's birthplace + Roebuck, district of Dublin.
Kolophon - city in
Ionia, contender for Homer's birthplace + Clonskeagh, district of Dublin.
SEAPOINT - Residential
area between Blackrock and Monkstown, South-East of Dublin + Salamis - town in
Cyprus, contender for Homer's birthplace
Chios (gr) - Ionian
island, contender for Homer's birthplace + Howth, district of Dublin.
ASHTOWN - Residential district North of Phoenix Park. Phoenix Park racecourse is just
outside the park at Ashtown
Gate + Argos
(gr) - "Unworked, fallow": city in southern Peloponnesus, contender
for Homer's birthplace.
Athens was one of the 7
cities claimed to be the birthplace of Homer + Raheny, district of Dublin.
lordship - the rank of a lord,
dominion
chamberlain - an officer
charged with the management of the private chambers of a sovereign or
nobleman + Chamberlain, Joseph (1836-1914)
- British politician, wrecked Home Rule, may have been the force behind Captain O'Shea,
Dublin alone was exempt from his power.
acknowledging - recognizing
or admitting as true or valid
prine - the holm or
evergreen oak; ilex + Thomas Moore: Irish
Melodies, song: I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime [air: Domhnall].
"Donald a Domhnall," the air to T. Moore's
"I Saw Thy
Form" + Domhnall (donel) (gael)
- "World-mighty"; anglic. Donnell.
reek
- to emit hot vapour or steam; to smell strongly and unpleasantly, to stink
il bel paese (Italian)
- "the homeland"; the cheese of this name has a map of Italy on the wrapper
Iceland's ear ~
Ireland's eye (i.e. neither works) [John Bishop: Joyce's Book of the Dark].
quot - quotation; squat
+ quot (l) - how many, as many + quiet
tot quot
- Eccl. A dispensation
or licence to hold as many ecclesiastical benefices as the holder pleases or
can get; hence, the holding of such benefices, unlimited pluralism; pl. benefices so
held + tot (l)
- so many [usually with quot] + (lodged in many places and lived through many
reigns).
reign - royal power or rule,
kingdom, sovereignty
sunbath - an exposure to the direct rays of the sun, orig. as a method of medical
treatment + szombat
(Hungarian) -
Saturday.
Wasser
(ger) - water + Wassernapf (ger) - water basin + nap - a draught
+ vasarnap
(Hungarian) -
Sunday.
bout
- a contest, match, trial of strength, physical or intellectual +
bye
stoolball
- an old english game resembling cricket played chiefly by women +
(notebook
1930): 'stoolball'
→ an old English game similar to cricket, believed
to be originally played in Sussex with milkmaids' stools as wickets (reported in
several British newspapers on 19 May 1930 or thenabouts, following a game played
on 17 May at Arundel Castle).
Girofle and Girofla -
title of and twin sisters in Lecocq's opera + (notebook 1930): '
*L* Giroflé Girofla' →
Giroflé, Girofla (French song): 'Que t'as de belles filles! Giroflé, girofla': 'What pretty daughters
you have! Giroflé, girofla' (children's game
mentioned in Verrimst:
Rondes et Chansons Populaires 51) + {after a goot bout at football he
enjoys the twin sisters}
nevermore
- never again + Poe: The Raven:
'Quoth the raven "nevermore"' + (Noah's raven missed land, while his dove found
it).
Columbus + columba (l)
- dove.
goalkeeper + gold +
Protestantism: every man his own priest.
fullback
- (Football), position in the field behind the other 'backs'; a player in this
position
+ Allblacks - the New Zealand national rugby team +
(notebook 1930): 'Africa for the
fullblacks' →
many newspapers reported in May 1930 about riots in South Africa over government
policy against black people.
arc
- an arch (obs.)
+ (notebook 1930):
'arc of his drive'.
drive - a private road affording
access to a residence or other building + {the arc of his batting hit was forty
degrees}
stump - a stake; (pl.) legs
+ to pull up one's stumps - to leave one's
home, to move one's habitation + stumps pulled at end of play (cricket).
thews
- muscles or tendons
+
thew (Archaic) - thigh + thew (obs) - custom + (notebook 1930): 'thick
& thews (Gaels)'.
creater = creature
+ crater.
i nÉirinn (Irish)
- in Ireland
look down on
- to hold in contempt, to scorn, to consider oneself superior to
Robinson, Swiss Family - title, characters in a novel by J. S. Wyss
colle (it) - hill
nouveaux riches
(fr) - persons who have recently acquired
wealth + nouvelles roches (fr) - new rocks
+ (notebook 1930): 'les nouveaux roches
(Alps)' → the
Swiss Alps are relatively new rocks.
turn to
- to direct one's attention to something practically; to apply oneself to or
take up an occupation or pursuit
stick to
- to adhere, keep or
hold to (an argument, demand, resolve, opinion, bargain, covenant, and the like); to
refuse to renounce or abandon; to persist in.
futurism + futuete! (l) - fuck!
leglifter (Slang)
- fornicator + (notebook 1930): '
chorus
girls they hang their legs like censers'.
cense - to judge, estimate; to burn
incense before, offer incense to; esp. by way of worship or honour + sense.
souriantes (fr) - smiling
boor - any rude, ill-bred fellow
browbending
- frowning
+ Brow
Bender (nursery rhyme): 'Brow bender, Eye peeper, Nose dreeper, Mouth eater, Chin chopper'.
grommellants (fr) - grumbling
hindmost - final, last, terminal,
all the way to the rear
yeled (Hebrew)
- male child + lasses and lads + Ulysses and Iliad.
glimse
= glimpse
+ Thomas Moore:
song: Tho' the Last Glimpse
of Erin with Sorrow I See.
lug (lug) (gael)
- mountain-hollow; name of several
mountains + Lug - Celtic sungod.
luk = look; luck
+ luch (lukh) (gael)
- mouse + Loki - Norse god.
Thor - Norse god
Wotan - another name for
Odin, Norse god + Mangan and Berkeley valued tar water as medicine.
asana - manner of sitting (as in
practice of yoga) + Asama - Japanese volcano + Asa - a name applied to the Æsir,
the major Norse gods + asthma.
(heroes in the Norse
Valhalla live perpetually on one boar)
stave - to drive off or beat with a staff or stave; esp. in
to stave off, to beat off (a dog in Bear- or Bull- baiting; also transf. a human
combatant), to keep back (a crowd) + pigsty.
reglar
- regular
+ Ragnarøkr (Old Norse) - destruction of the
Norse gods.
rack - the rib section of lamb used
for chops and roasts
cloak - to cover with or as if with
a cloak, hide, disguise, screen
reclined - placed in a reclining
or recumbent position + (cloaked beggars recline around his pedestal).
padstool
- a mushroom + paddy - Irishman; policeman
+
paddenstoel (Dutch) - mushroom, toadstool + pedestal
winken (ger) - beckon
Christien = Christian
+ {text of an obituary}
Advent - The Coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ as Saviour of the world; the Incarnation. Hence his expected Second Coming as
Judge, and the Coming of the Holy Spirit as at Pentecost.
New Zealand
easterling
- an inhabitant of an
eastern country or district; also, a member of the Eastern Church + Easter - one of the great festivals of the
Christian Church, commemorating the resurrection of Christ, and corresponding to the
Jewish passover + Easterling - Viking (used for invaders of Ireland).
Pentecost - a festival of the
Christian Church observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter, in commemoration of the
descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples + pentekostitis (gr) - inflammatory disease of fifty
+ peritonitis - infection of the abdominal lining following the rupture of an
appendix or other intestinal organ + costitis - inflammation of the ribs.
follower - one who
attends funeral
bequest
- transference or bestowal by will, or by a similar procedure + (no flowers by
request).
fanfare - to call attention to
with much clamour + fun for all + funeral.
Thomas Moore: Irish
Melodies, song: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
Ball, John - English rebel, subject of Morris'
romance, "The Dream of John Ball." Mr Atherton knows a nursery rhyme in which
John Ball "shot them all."
ballotist - a professed
advocate of the ballot (the method or system of secret voting, originally by means of
small balls placed in an urn or box) + bulletist ~ maker of a bulletin [a brief
report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or
broadcast)].
Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-79)
- British physicist
clark = clerk
commenced
+ commited + comminxit (l) - he [she, it] polluted, defiled, pissed on + (notebook 1930): 'to
comminx'.
under
articles
(notebook 1930)
→ Ellis: The Life of Michael Kelly 22n:
'Michael Arne (1741-86)... was the composer of many songs, and pieces for the
harpsichord... He was under articles to compose an opera for Covent Garden'.
finished
+ Phoenix.
Borgia - infamous Italian
family
bier - a tomb, a
sepulchre; beer + Bier (ger) - beer
+
een vat bier (Dutch)
- a barrel of beer + vatbier (Dutch)
- draught beer.
bure (Serbian) - barrel,
vat, cask
buttle - to serve or act as butler
+ bottle.
bawn
- the wortified court of a castle, an enclosure about a farmhouse or castle in
Ireland
+
bawn (Anglo-Irish) - white.
Al *E*
(notebook 1930)
→ Paget: Babel 31:
'Let the reader try... raising the tip of his tongue to touch the roof of his
mouth, as if pointing to the sky. If... the reader simultaneously grunts... he
will find that it results in articulating a sound which might be written ULL or
OLL in English, or AL in the Latin languages. AL... is therefore a natural
gesture-word meaning up' + "One day the emissary's voice gave me a fabulous
bonus. It said that, in order to ensure the keenness and accuracy of our
dreaming attention, we must bring it from behind the roof of the mouth, where an
enormous reservoir of attention is located in all human beings. The emissary's
specific directions were to practice and learn the discipline and control
necessary to press the tip of the tongue on the roof of the mouth while
dreaming. This task is as difficult and consuming, the emissary said, as finding
one's hands in a dream. But, once it is accomplished, this task gives the most
astounding results in terms of controlling the dreaming attention." (Carlos
Castaneda: The Art Of Dreaming)
an = wind
(notebook 1930)
→ Paget: Babel 47:
(listing Indo-European roots) 'AN breathe' [.16-.18]
roh (ger) - raw, crude
re - regardings, concerning, with
regard to
huckleberry -
any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries
resembling blueberries
+ Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn.
whenas - while; for the reason
that; although, whereas
tuck
- to put into a snug place, to pull or gather up in a fold or folds, to fold +
{filled himself with blueberries when [food was] luck}
toss - to fling or jerk oneself
about + toss up - prepare food quickly.
youngster
- a young person who is not of age; a child, esp. a boy
+ yang (Chinese)
- ocean.
fou - drunk; foul
+ fou (fr) - mad.
hock
- the wine called in German Hochheimer, produced at Hochheim on the Main; hence,
commercially extended to other white German wines
Becher (ger) - beaker,
mug + {fell drunk from wine (hock)}
wherein - in what, in which, where
gauge - to 'take the measure'
of + (gained the age of reason).
raisin
- a cluster of grapes; a grape (obs.) + reason
ad = eat
(notebook 1930)
→ Paget: Babel 47: (listing Indo-European
roots) 'AD eat'
aliment - nutriment,
food
da = give
(notebook 1930)
→ Paget: Babel 47: (listing Indo-European
roots) 'DA give'
dole - food or money given in
charity
rap
- to exchange, barter (dial. and slang.)
+ (notebook
1930): 'rup = break' → Paget: Babel 47: (listing Indo-European
roots) 'RUP break' .
rustic - a countryman, a peasant; a
stone of the kind employed in rustic work (usu. pl.)
tame
- to overcome the wildness or fierceness of (a man, animal, or thing)
+ (notebook
1930): 'tan = stretch' → Paget: Babel 47: (listing Indo-European
roots) 'TAN stretch'.
turmoil - disturbance, tumult;
trouble
has
+ (notebook
1930): 'sa = sow' →
Paget: Babel 47: (listing Indo-European roots) 'SA sow (corn)'.
semination - sowing, planting
sue
- to woo, court; to institute legal proceedings against (a person)
+ (notebook
1930): 'su = squeeze' → Paget: Babel 47: (listing Indo-European
roots) 'SU squeeze out'.
skivvy - a female domestic servant
on the sly
- secretly
from hand to mouth
- with attention to immediate wants only; by consuming food as soon as it is
obtained, without provision for the future
+ (notebook
1930): 'from hand to mouth' → Paget: Babel 54: 'the influence of
unconscious mouth-gesture will continue to affect human speech as long as the
pantomimic instincts of man and the sympathy between his hand and mouth both
persist'.
earish
- auricular +
Irish +
(notebook 1930): 'to learn earish'.
hack
- to clear (a path) by cutting away vegetation
+ (notebook
1930): 'hang = static hack = dynamic' → Paget: Babel 60: 'compare such words as
clang and clack, hang and hack... the nasal sound symbolizes something static,
the same mouth-gesture without the nasal bypassing something dynamic'.
hick
- hiccup + heck -
hell + hock - prison; to tease or harass
+ hic haec hoc (l) - this, this here (masc., fem., neut.)
himself
+ his help
hereafter - after this in time
Rialto
- an exchange or mart + Rialto
Bridge, Dublin (carries South Circular Road over Grand Canal).
ANNESLEY - Bridge (also
Road) over Tolka River, Dublin (West of Fairview Park)
BINNS'S BRIDGE - Bridge carrying
Drumcondra Road across the Royal Canal, Dublin
BALLS BRIDGE - Bridge which carries the ancient highway from Dublin to
Blackrock over the Dodder River
Newcomen Bridge, Dublin
(carries North Strand Road over Royal Canal) + at all + Tolka Bridge, Dublin (no
such bridge, but five bridges span the Tolka river: Annesley, Ballybough,
Drumcondra, Saint Mobhi's, Glasnevin).
Ulysses.2.41: 'How, sir? Comyn asked. A bridge is across a river' (possibly alluding
to Skeat's definition of a bridge as 'a structure built across a river').
dearth - scarcity of anything,
material or immaterial; scanty supply
vile - to bring to a vile or low
condition, to defile
ville - a town or
village
Bornholm - Danish
island in the Baltic Sea
town
+ The Wild Man
from Borneo (song): 'The flea on the hair of the tail of the dog of the nurse of the
child of the wife of the wild man from Borneo has just come to town'.
dye
- to diffuse a colour or tint through; to tinge with a colour or hue; to colour
+ died
tartan - to clothe or array in
tartan (a type of criss-crossed cloth associated with the different clans of the
Scottish Highlands) + (7 colours of rainbow).
rue
- a perennial evergreen shrub
+ (notebook 1930): 'tormentil rue root } red' →
The Scottish Clans and their Tartans xxviii: (native dyes used in Scottish
tartan manufacture) 'Red... Rue root... Tormentil'.
dulse - an edible species of
seaweed, Rhodymenia palmata, having bright red, deeply divided fronds
+ (notebook 1930): 'lichen dulse currants & ales } brown' →
The Scottish Clans and their Tartans xxviii: (native dyes used in Scottish
tartan manufacture) 'Brown (yellowish)... Lichen... Dulse... Currant, with Alum'.
bracken - a fern; spec. (in modern
writers) Pteris aquilina, the 'Brake'; a shade of brown resembling the
colour of turning bracken; a warm orangey-brown
+ (notebook 1930): 'ashtree & bracken bog myrtle } yellow'
→
The Scottish Clans and their Tartans xxviii: (native dyes used in Scottish
tartan manufacture) 'Yellow... Bog-Myrtle... Ash-tree root... Bracken root'.
teasel - a plant of the genus
Dipsacus, comprising herbs with prickly leaves and flower-heads, used for
teasing or dressing cloth so as to raise a nap on the surface
+ (notebook 1930): 'broom whinbark teasel fuller's thistle heather } green' →
The Scottish Clans and their Tartans xxviii: (native dyes used in Scottish
tartan manufacture) 'Green... Broom... Whin-bark... Teasel, or Fuller's
Thistle... Heather, with Alum'.
sundew - any plant of the genus
Drosera, which comprises small herbs growing in bogs
+ (notebook 1930): 'sundew cup moss
rue root } purple' (semi-cancellation of 'cup moss')
→
The Scottish Clans and their Tartans xxviii: (native dyes used in Scottish
tartan manufacture) 'Purple... Sundew... Lichen, Cupmoss'.
cress
- the common name of various cruciferous plants, having mostly edible leaves
+ (notebook 1930): 'wild cress } violet' ('violet' replaces a cancelled 'yellow') →
The Scottish Clans and their Tartans xxviii: (native dyes used in Scottish
tartan manufacture) 'Violet... Wild Cress'.
gone
+ Gunn, Michael (1840-1901) - manager of the Gaiety Theatre, South King Street,
Dublin; husband of Bessie Sudlow, father of Selskar Gunn + (notebook 1930):
'Gunn' → The Scottish Clans and their Tartans 28: (a Scottish clan) 'Gunn'.
forgotten
stood - p. of
stand - to resist without yielding or retreating
+ (notebook 1930): 'underwent a sharp
siege'.
girth - to gird, surround,
encompass + grosser (ger) - larger.
Cosgrave: North Dublin, City and Environs 29n: 'there are twenty-four Dublins in
the United States'.
germinate - to sprout, put forth
shoots, begin to vegetate
namesake
- a person or thing having the same name as another +
Lublin - City in Poland.
initial - an initial letter
young rose [BUD] ...French
- Egyptian [NIL] - Dublin + Nil (French) - Nile.
slump
- to fall or sink suddenly, collapse; a collapse
Christie's - London
auction house
heart
+ (Eve made of Adam's rib).
blood is thicker
than water
- the tie of relationship is strong
Bishop of Glendalough
(post declined by Saint Laurence O'Toole)
Howth + hoed (Dutch)
- hat + Finnegan's Wake (song):
'Tim Finnegan... he carried a hod' + Earl of Howth.
surrounded
+ you and I...surrented by...bldns - [dUblIns] + Sorrento - part of Dalkey.
brwnt (Welsh) - foul, dirty
Erin’s free port
+ polt - a blow, a hard rap or knock; poult (a chicken, a child) + Lord Elgin
signed a peace-treaty in 1860 which made Peking a port which Europeans could
feely enter.
The Inner City of Peking contains
Hwang Cheng, known as the "Imperial City" or "Forbidden City"
+ hwang (
Chinese)
- yellow + huang-shang (Chinese)
- a term for Emperor (Chinese French Romanisation: chang).
was one of your
pipey
- containing tubular formations, having the hollow form of a pipe
+ highty-tighty (Slang) - uppish, quarrelsome + pipe
fancy - to frame in fancy; to
portray in the mind; to picture to oneself
fag - a cheap cigarette; any cigarette
(the current use)
at his
mish - missionary
+ SLIEVE MISH - Mountain, County Antrim, where St Patrick tended swine as a boy slave
of Milchu.
MELL OF MOY - Ancient Irish
elysium; Magh Meall, Ir. "honey plain." A name for the Otherworld.
venture - voyage
+ cardinal virtue +
*IJ* and *VYC*.
capitol
- the building in which a legislative body meets, statehouse +
capital sins.
pocketbook - a book for notes,
memoranda, etc., intended to be carried in the pocket; a note-book
packetboat - a boat or vessel
plying at regular intervals between two ports for the conveyance of mails, also of goods
and passengers; a mail-boat.
keep - care, attention; charge
Bartholomew Van
Homrigh, Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1697-8)
Benjamin Lee Guinness,
Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1861)
Peter Paul McSwiney,
Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1864, 1875)
T.D. Sullivan,
Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1886-7)
Valentine Blake
Dillon, Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1894-5)
T.C. Harrington,
Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1901-4)
Laurence O'Neill,
Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1917-23)
lunger
- one suffering from a chronic disease of the lungs +
lunch
diener - a laboratory helper
+ Diener (ger) - servant +
dinner
souper (Anglo-Irish)
- a Catholic who converts to Protestantism in return for food
Tipperary - county in Ireland
distinctly - clearly, plainly
+ Dear Dirty Dublin.
Wehr (ger) - defence, corps
morder = murder
ostman = hoastman - a member of a
corporation of merchant guild in Newcastle-upon tyre + Ostmen - Scandinavians anciently
settled along the east coast of Ireland + Ottoman (named after founder of the
dynasty, Osman).
effendi
- a Turkish title of respect chiefly applied to members of learned professions,
master
serge - a woollen fabric
padishah
- a persian title ("great king" or "emperor") applied in Persia to the shah, in
Europe usu. to the sultan of Turkey + {a Viking offender, Sergeant Paddy or
Ottoman ruler}
baas - master, boss; base
Priam - last king of Troy, character of
Homer's, Shakespeare's
parisite - a fluocarbonate of the
metals of the cerium group, found in small brownish-yellow crystals in the emerald mines
of Colombia + Paris - son of Priam. Carried off Helen to Troy, occasioning the Troyan War.
Les Rois Fainéants (fr) -
"sluggard kings", last of the Merovingian kings (500 -751)
tiara - a high ovate-cylindrical or
dome-shaped diadem worn by the pope; a kind of turban worn by Persians; the
head-dress of the Jewish High Priest + Tara of the kings - ancient capital of
Ireland.
scone - (More fully scone
cap) 'The
old broad bonnet of the Lowlands'; a large round cake + According to Keating, a
17th century Irish historian, the Coronation Stone in the coronation chair in
Westminster Abbey is Lia Fáil, the stone on which Irish kings were crowned at
Tara, brought to London by Edward I from Scone, Scotland, where it was on loan.
unfillable - incapable of being
filled, insatiable
liam
- leash
+
Liam (Irish)
- William + LIA FAIL - The "Stone of Destiny," a monolith at
ancient Tara which shrieked at the coronation of rightful high kings, and caused "black spot" on any
guilty man seated on it.
felled - p. of
fell - to beat or
knock down, kill + William Gladstone 'failed' Parnell ('uncrowned King of
Ireland') in Westminster when the Home Rule Bill was defeated.
Westminster - section of
London in which the house of parliament is located. Wesminster Abbey is now the repository
of the Lia Fail, aka the Stone of Scone.
strike out
-
to cancel or expunge with or as with the
stroke of
pen + strike - to deal or aim a blow with the fist, a stick, etc. Const. at. Also to
strike back, out.
row - 'To make a vigorous
investigation' into something (dial.)
saul = soul
+ Saule (ger) - column, pillar + Saul converted on road to Damascus, then took
name Paul.
appaling + Paul.
predicament - condition,
situation, position; esp. an unpleasant, trying, or dangerous situation.
Budapest
match head
- a piece of chemical composition with which a match is tipped
aspen - a tree of the poplar family
(Populus tremula), with greyish bark and spreading branches, the leaves
of which are specially liable to the tremulous motion that characterizes all the
poplars + alpenstock.
He will never set the Liffey
on fire (or 'He’ll never set the Thames on fire') - He’ll never make any figure
in the world; never plant his footsteps on the sands of time.
spare the rod
- to leave (a person) unhurt, to refrain from inflicting punishment upon
+ Spare the rod
and spoil the child (proverb).
Marry in
haste and repent at leisure (proverb) + married with Kate + 4-stage
Viconian cycle: thunder, marriage, burial, providence [.14-.17].
punk (Slang) -
prostitute + punk - to quit + repented
Rosie O'Grady (song):
'And when we are married, O how happy we'll be'
make the welkin
ring
- to make loud sounds
+
welkin (Archaic)
- sky.
Wilkins Micawber
- an
improvident person who lives in expectation of an upturn in his fortunes (a character in
Dicken’s novel "David Copperfield").
the god on top of the staircase
- Osiris in 'the oldest representation of the god which we have', according to Wallis
Budge.
carrion
- dead putrefying flesh of man or beast
+ Budge: The Book of the Dead xxi: (The early inhabitants of Egypt) 'made no
attempt to mummify the bodies... still... many bodies have been found wrapped in
skins of animals, and grass mats'.
mat - a piece of a coarse fabric
formed by plaiting rushes, sedge, straw, bast, etc., intended to lie, sit, or kneel upon,
or for use as a protective covering for floors, walls, plants, etc., or in packing
furniture.
falsehood
- that which is contrary to fact or truth; an untrue proposition, doctrine,
belief, etc.
spindle
- intr. Of cereals: To shoot up into the slender stalks on which the ear is
formed; to rise in a slender form +
spindel (Swedish)
- spider + Joyce's note: 'Spiders' web over cavemouth'
→ Holland 82: It is related that some of the
scouts came to the very mouth of the cave [where Mohammed was hiding], and were
about to enter when they noticed a thick network of spider's web spun
across the opening. Feeling certain that no one could have passed into the cave
for a considerable time, they agreed that further search was useles..
unsightliness - ugliness
nestling
- a young bird which is not yet old enough to leave the nest; the youngest child
of a family
+ Joyce's
note: 'accacia tree with 2 wild pigeons' →
Holland 82-83: Another legend tells that a party of armed men,
ranging over Mount Thaur, came to the entrance of the cave, and behold! an
acacia tree had sprung up just in front of the narrow opening, and two
wild pigeons had perched on its branches… To this day the birds are regarded
as sacred in the territory of Meccah; flocks of them are always to be seen
around the Kaabah, and no one would ever think of hurting them.
liven = enliven
arbutus
- a genus of evergreen shrubs and trees
+ My Love's an
Arbutus (song).
strike hands
- (said of two parties to a bargain) to take one another by the hand in
confirmation of a bargain
warsheet - some kind of rope used
on a ship + sheet - a broad piece of linen or cotton stuff,
canvas, or the like, for covering, swathing, protecting from injury, etc. (obs.)
pledge
- to bind by or as if by a pledge, plight
+
Joyce's note: 'great pledge'
→ Holland: The Story of Mohammed 77: (of a
famous early pledge to Islam) 'the Second or Great Pledge of Al-Akabah'.
mantle
- a loose sleeveless cloak of varying length; Applied (often with qualification
Irish mantle) to a kind of blanket or plaid worn until the 17th c. by the rustic
Irish, often as their only covering
+ Joyce's
note: 'green mantle' →
Holland 80: Rumors of the plot [by the Kuraysh] having reached
Mohammed, he escaped from the back of his house, and took refuge with his friend
Abu Bakr. Meanwhile Ali laid himself down on the Prophet's bed, wrapped in his
green mantle, to deceive any of the enemy who might chance to look in.
vicelegal, viceregal +
(our friend the Viking king, but also our sworn foe).
sworn foe
- one who has vowed perpetual enmity against another; hence, a determined or
irreconcilable enemy + Swaran - in Macpherson's Fingal, leader of the Norse
against whom Fingal fights. The Norse are defeated and general reconciliation
occurs + foi (fr) - fidelity, loyalty, guarantee, confidence.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal I: 'Four stones... rise on the grave of Câthba'
(glossed in a footnote: 'This passage alludes to the manner of burial among the
ancient Scots. They opened a grave six or eight feet deep... and four stones
placed on end to mark the extent of the grave').
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora III: 'It is pierced, by his streams' (describes the
death of Tur-lathon, whose shield was apparently pierced by the streams of the
the Moruth river).
wassail bowl
- a bowl used for mixing and serving liquor formerly drunk in England
James Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian: The Death of Cuthullin: 'He offered him the shell of joy'
+ James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: The War of Inis-Thona: 'They rejoiced in the shell'
(glossed in a footnote: 'a phrase for feasting sumptuously and drinking freely'
(as shells were used as drinking vessels)).
MORA - In Macpherson's poems, one of a chain of hills overlooking
Moi-lena, the valley of the Lubar River, and the hill of Lora across the valley.
Fingal spends most of his time there watching battles in the valley.
in readiness
- in a state of preparation + James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora III: 'firm look in readiness' (gloss of name of
Cairbar and Cathmor's father, Colc-ulla).
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora I: 'forward spear' (glossed in a footnote as
signifying hostility).
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora V: 'her feet of wind'.
currach - a small boat made of
wickerwork covered with hides, used from ancient times in Scotland and Ireland + Curach - Ossianic hero, killed by Swaran
+
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal I: 'Curach' (glossed in a footnote: 'Cu-roach... the
madness of battle').
strew - to scatter, spread loosely
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora VII: 'The poet describes a kind of mist, which rose
by night from the Lake of Lego, and was the usual residence of the souls of the
dead, during the interval between their decease and the funeral song'.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal IV: 'I went, in suit of the maid, to Lego's sable
surge. Twelve of my people were there, the sons of the streamy Morven!'
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora III: (of Fingal) 'brightening in the last of his
fields'.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora VIII: (Fingal's companions) 'looked sidelong on
Erin's host, and darkened as they went' (i.e. grieved).
Year of
mourning
(Joyce's note)
→ Holland: The Story of Mohammed 64: (of the
death of Mohammed's wife Khadijah and of his uncle and protector Abu Talib)
'With good reason was the year in which these events took place called the Year
of Mourning'.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal I: 'Fithil' (glossed in a
footnote: 'an inferior bard'; also in Temora IV) + 'fidhil' is English 'feel'
spelt as Irish.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal II: 'the ghost of Crugal came from his cave. the
stars dim twinkled through his form'.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Temora I: 'Fingal, who is terrible in battle, the king of
streamy Morven!' + James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal III: 'Morven's' (glossed in a footnote: 'All the
northwest coast of Scotland probably went, of old, under the name of Morven,
which signifies a ridge of very high hills').
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal IV: 'sunbeam' (glossed in a footnote: 'Fingal's
standard was distinguished by the name of "sunbeam"... To begin a battle is
expressed, in old composition, by "lifting of the sunbeam"').
hereditatis
columna erecta (l) - the lofty column of inheritance [Wellington monument]
hagios chiton eripheios
(gr) - holy garment of a kid, sacred tunic of a young he-goat
nod - to let the head fall forward
when drowsy or asleep
for the nonce
- for the occasion; hence (in modern use), for the time being; temporarily
crow - to utter a loud inarticulate
sound of joy or exultation
cheerio
- a parting exclamation of encouragement; 'goodbye'; a salutation before
drinking
ecumenical
- belonging to or representing the whole (Christian) world, or the universal
church; general, universal, catholic
equate - to state the equality of
(one quantity) to or with (another).
integras (l) - you make
whole, heal, repair + eliminated integrals + {was split in the middle [two
girls]}
3/1 is an improper fraction
conical
- cone shaped + comical headpiece (Confucius had a strange bump on his
forehead).
headpiece
- a piece of armour for the head, a helmet; any covering for the head, a cap
+ Finnegan's Wake (song):
'Tim Finnegan... he carried a hod'.
Confucius and his
mother moved to Chufu after father's death
chinchin
- esp. of greeting or farewell, trivial talk, chatter; a phrase of salutation;
insolent talk + name 'Chinese' taken from short-lived rule of Chins + (the
Chinese letter 'Chin' looks like *M*).
Festy King [085.23] +
Confucius (Kung Fu-tze) born after his parents' prayer at a shrine from which
Tai Shan (The Great Mountain, a sacred mountain) was visible to the North +
kangaroo.
Thailand
+ Tasmania + T'AI SHAN - Mountain, Shantung province, China; for 4 millennia it has been a
sacred mountain and a pilgrimage site, with pilgrims climbing the road to the
temples on top + shanty (Anglo-Irish) - old house.
gasometer
- aparatus for measuring and hoding gas; voluble talker
(Slang)
lithium - a metallic element of
the alkaline group + *I*
lurid - pale and dismal in colour;
shining with a red glow or glare amid darkness + *J*
anularis (l) - relating
to a signet-ring; a white color made from chalk
wallow - to move about heavily or
clumsily
REGENT CIRCUS -
When Nash built London's Regent Street, in 1816-20, the circus at the intersection
with Piccadilly Street was called Regent Circus, and only later in the century
did it become universally known as Piccadilly Circus + raggiante (it) - radiant
+ circos (l) - precious stone mentioned by Pliny.
cabal
- a small body of persons
engaged in secret or private machination or intrigue; a
secret + Cabal - King Arthur's dog + cobblestone - rectangular paving stone with
curved top (once used to make roads).
coping
- Arch. The uppermost course of masonry or brickwork in a wall, usually made
of a sloping form to throw off rain + København (Danish) - Copenhagen.
cavin
- a hollow way or natural
hollow, sufficiently capacious to hold a body of troops, and faciliate their approach to a
fortress + cabin + cavern.
canine
- of, belonging to, or characteristic of, a dog; having the nature or qualities
of a dog + (canine constant ~ faithful dog).
American + ammirare (Italian)
- to wonder at.
approximate +
'paroxysm' from Greek par oxys: beyond acute.
preciosity + a peu prés (fr) - almost.
Atlas - high mountain in
Mauretania, on which heaven was fabled to rest
allongement (fr) - elongation in
space or time + alignment.
stickler - mediator,
meddler
BATTERSTOWN - Town, County Meath, 15 miles
North-West of Dublin. Baile an Bothair, Ir. "town of the road" +
Booterstown - district of Dublin + Battle of Badour, won by Arthur.
bare
+ Finn's hunt for the magic boar.
truth
+ Twrch Trwyth - a boar hunted by King Arthur in Mabinogi, killed by Mordred.
Mordred on Modred -
King Arthur's nephew/son, who brought down the Round Table and was killed by Arthur
+ madradh (Irish)
- dog + moderates.
CAMDEN STREET - The section North of the Grand Canal of the
main road from Dame Street to Rathmines and Rathgan (not to
Booterstown) + CAMLAN - Somewhere in Cornwall, possibly near Camelford, site of the battle (53 AD) in which King Arthur was killed, betrayed by his nephew
Modred, who also was slain.
Hannibal
+ The Book of Aneirin: 'an Arthur in the exhaustive conflict'.
Otho, Marcus Salvius
(32-69) - Roman emperor for three months 69 A.D. Ineffectual emperor, he
commited suicide so creating a by-word for softness of character + an author to
return [transition to Shem].
aiger
= eager - tidal bore + eager - characterized by or manifesting alacrity or
impatient desire
+ William Shakespeare: Hamlet I.4.2:
'a nipping and an eager air' + aigre (fr) - chill, bitter.
struggle for lifer
-
one who has a struggle to live; usually, one who is unscrupulous in his efforts to advance
himself in the world.
wooing - alluring, enticing
+ 4 elements: fire, air, earth, water.
divest - to unclothe
Nathaniel Lee: The
Rival Queens (a play) + *IJ* + {he removed his clothes to save the two girls
from drowning in the Liffey}
Grimshaw, Bagshaw, and
Bradshaw - a farce performed at the Haymarket, 1856 + *VYC*.
make off with
-
to decamp with (something) in one's possession
stolen
taxed - subjected to a
tax
rated - subject to
rates
licensed - to whom or for which a
licence has been granted; provided with a licence. Now often spec. (of a house,
etc.) licensed for the sale of alcoholic liquor.
rented - possessed
of property yielding a revenue or income (obs.) + rant - to use bombastic
laguage +
granted
stonehead
- the top of the stratum of solid stone or bed-rock beneath the loose or
soft superficial deposit
+ James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Cath-loda I: 'Three stones, with heads of moss, are there'.
white horse
- a mass of rock
enclosed within a lode + The 'White Horse of Wanstead' is a figure almost 400 ft long cut into the side
of a chalk hill near Uffingtom, England; by tradition it originally celebrated Alfred's
victory over the Danes + White Horse Hill, Berks, England.
print - any indentation in a
surface, preserving the form left by the pressure of some body, as the print
of a foot in the ground.
costellare (it) - to constellate,
to spangle
miracolone (it) - big miracle
+ mira (it) - look + culone (it) - big arse.
monstrum (l) - monster;
evil omen + uccellino (it) - little bird.
lead
- to go in advance of others, take the lead in an expedition or course of action
applause
hiss
- to make this sound as an expression of disapproval or derision
snake charmer
- an entertainer who exhibits his proffesed power to charm or fascinate venomous
snakes
stage + {led the applause
at the Creation [play] and hissed a charming snake off the stage}
hound - to hunt, chase, or pursue
with hounds
haunter - one who haunts (in
various senses), a frequenter
harrier
- harasser, a persistent attacker; a hound that resembles a foxhound but is
smaller (used to hunt rabbits).
marrier - one that marries
terrier - a small, active,
intelligent variety of dog, which pursues its quarry (the fox, badger, etc.) into its
burrow or earth + 'terrier' derived from Latin terra (hence, burial).
tamh (tav) (gael)
- sleep, death +
tavs (Danish) - silent + Rich
Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief (nursery rhyme) + 4-stage Viconian
cycle: thunder, marriage, burial, ricorso [414.31].
Olaf - first Norse king
of Dublin
oxman
- a man who tends or drives
oxen + Oxman - Viking (as in Oxmantown, part of North Dublin).
Turko the Terrible - first
Christmas pantomime at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (Ulysses.1.258) + Thorgil -
Turgesius [051.16].
vespasian
- a public lavatory in
France (from Titus Flavius Vespasianus, Roman
emperor) + Vespasianus (l) - Roman emperor, A.D. 69-79, overthrew Vitellius who had
overthrown Otho.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
(161-180 A.D.)
- Roman emperor, stoic philosopher, author of Meditations.
whiggamore - Originally, One
of a body of insurgents of the West of Scotland who in 1648 marched on Edinburgh, their
expedition being called the 'whiggamore raid, road, or inroad'; later (contemptuous), =
Whig.
traditor (l) - traitor
+ traditore (it) - traitor +
Tory + tory (Anglo-Irish) - robber.
raglan
- an overcoat without shoulder seams (after the lord Raglan, the Brittish
commander in the Crimean war)
+
Raglan Road, Dublin + Ragnarøkr (Old Norse) - destruction of the
Norse gods.
MARLBOROUGH PLACE - A mews off
East side of Marlborough Street.
cromlech - a structure of
prehistoric age consisting of a large flat or flattish unhewn stone resting horizontally
on three or more stones set upright.
Cromail (krumil) (gael)
- English name Cromwell + Cromleach and Crommal Hill,
County Antrim, in James Macpherson's "The Poems of Ossian".
farfamed - that is famed to a
great distance, well known
(pissed into the river)
Lubar (luber) (gael)
- Convolutions; according to Macpherson, a name for the Six-Mile river, Co.
Antrim.
mareschal = marshal - to
arrange, place or rank in order at a feast + Marschall (ger) - marshal.
wardmote - a meeting of the
citizens of a ward; esp. in the City of London, a meeting of the liverymen of a ward under
the presidency of the alderman.
delimit - to mark or determine the
limits of
main - the chief or principal part; a
host of men, a (military) force
netted - caught in a net
nibble - to take little bites, to
eat or feed in this fashion
turn the scale
- to cause
one scale of a balance to descend
gross - to become gross or great, to
increase + grace
ton
BANBA - One of the 3 queens of the
Tuatha Dé Danann (according to Keating); the others were Eire and Fodhla. Sovereignty
rotated annually among the 3 kings, and each year the country took the name of the ruling queens. Since
Eire was queen when the Milesians arrived, they knew Ireland by her name alone.
Beurla (Irish) - English
language
mela (it) - apple + melarancia (it) - orange (fruit).
doughty - valiant, brave, stout,
formidable
granturco (it) - maize
+ El Gran Turco (sp) - Sultan of Turkey.
orge (fr) - barley
formento (
Italian Archaic)
- wheat
Luxemburger + Lachs
(ger) - salmon + bulge, lean + {a Luxemburger [lax], he leaps like lean salmon}
genial - sympathetically cheerful,
jovial, kindly
sagacity
- keenness and soundness of judgement in the estimation of persons and
conditions
benevolence - disposition to
do good, desire to promote the happiness of others, kindness, generosity, charitable
feeling (as a general state or disposition towards mankind at large).
forbear
- an ancestor, forefather, progenitor (usually more remote than a grandfather) +
[Mahon].
turnpike - tollgate, a toll
road, a main road
Carey, James (1845-83) -
one of the Invincibles who killed Lord Frederick Cavendish and T. H. Burke in the Phoenix
Park, then turned
informer + quare (l) - by what means, how?
cur - a dog; a worthless, low-bred, or
snappish dog + cur (l) - why? + Daniel Curley was one of the Invincibles hanged
for the murders.
burked (Slang) - smothered
+ barked + {how was he convicted, and why was he murdered?}
partitioned
- having
partitions, divided or separated by partitions
Irsk (Danish) - Irish
+ holm (Danish) - islet + Partition of Ireland, 1922.
United Irishmen -
nationalist group founded by Wolfe Tone, 1791
take a swing at
- to
deliver a punch with a sweep of the arm (boxing) + svigermoder (Danish) - mother-in-law
+ svig (Danish) - deceit.
Methyr - name of Isis in
Plutarch + methy (gr) - wine.
gorko (Serbian) - bitter
+ tasted a bit corky (wine).
(salmon travelling
upriver) + REFERENCE
komm (ger) - come + Tom,
Dick and Harry.
eile dich (ger) -
hurry up
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
- characters in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
warden - one who guards, protects,
or defends + warden (ger) - wait.
havoc - devastation, destruction
+ Howth.
James Macpherson: The
Poems of Ossian: Fingal I: 'Moran the son of Fithil!' (glossed in a
footnote: 'Moran signifies many').
rope - to lay hold
of + Europe.
Home Ruler
- one who advocates
or practises Home Rule (government of a country, colony, province, etc., by its own
citizens).
figure
- portray, consider, assume, to give figure to, to form, shape, to represent in
a picture + (figure in an illustration).
hoist - to raise aloft; to set or
put up; to place on high
scruff - the back
side of the neck
shaggy - covered with or having
long coarse or bushy hair + (hanged by the neck).
ration
- to supply (persons) with rations, to provision; to divide (food, etc.) into
rations, to serve out in fixed quantities
isobaric - indicating equal
barometric pressure
patty - a little pie or
pasty + (Eucharist) + (cannibalism).
(Adam)
RIESENGEBIRGE - "Giant mountains";
mountain range, part of Sudetic Mountains, along the boundary between South-West Poland (former
Prussia) and North Czech + (the mountain of a man).
fit up
- to supply with
necessary fittings, furniture, or stores
plantureux (fr) - copious
+ planters - English settled on forfeited Irish lands in 17th century.
existency - something which
exists; a being, an entity
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (song)
+ oog (Dutch)
- eye.
mite
- a very small object; often, a very small living creature, as a tiny child +
(the mite of a woman).
taut ship
- a disciplined or
strictly run ship
scupper
- pl. an opening in a ship's side on a level with the deck to allow water to run
away; a deprecatory term for woman esp. a prostitute
awash - washed by the sea, covered
with water
mack - neat, tidy, apt, convenient
+ mach - make, do.
Liebster (ger) -
dearest + lobsterpot [or 'dear pet' ALP].
aquascutum (l) -
water-shield +
scutum
(l) - shield + aquascutum - mackintosh ('Aquascutum' is a UK-based luxury
clothing manufacturer and retailer, owned by Jaeger) + aquarium.
kay
- key; left, sinister; "k" + gay women (Slang) - whores
+ kay (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - quay.
G man
- a political detective in
Ireland, a special agent (U.S.) + gee - horse, "g".
pierce - to enter, penetrate, or
pass, as something sharp-pointed, into or through + Persse... O'Reilly +
(javelin throwers).
ally - one united or associated with
another by treaty or league
host
- an armed company or multitude of men; a "company" of sparrows
"rawl chocolates" +
(soldiers)
third party
- a person other
than the principals
rot
- the process of rotting, or the state of being rotten; decay, putrefaction
rant
- to talk or declaim in an extravagant high-flown manner; to use bombastic
language; to be jovial, boisterous, uproariously gay or merry
oxtail - the skinned tail of cattle
used for soup
porto - a well-known strong dark-red
wine of Portugal
flippant
- ready in the use of words, speaking freely, fluent, talkative, voluble
bigoted - obstinately and blindly
attached to some creed, opinion, or party + Pigott Richard - English
journalist. On April 18, 1887, The Times published a facsimile of a letter purporting to
be written by Parnell condoning the Phoenix Park murders of May 1882. Nearly two years
later, on the examination of Charles Russell, counsel of Parnel, Pigott's mis-speling of
the word 'hesitancy' had revealed him as the forger of the letters supposedly written by
Parnell himself, for in them the same error occured.
silvicola (l) -
inhabiting woods, sylvan + "Sylvia Silence, the girl detective..."
Matrosen
(ger) - sailors + Hosen (ger) - trousers + "Meagher, a naval rating,... with
whom were Questa and Puella,..."
sinews - strength, energy, force
+ the sinews of war - money.
chest of drawers
fief
= feoff - an estate of inheritance in land
+ William Shakespeare:
King Lear III.4.174: 'Fie, foh, and fum'.
copyhold - a kind of tenure in
England of ancient origin
alday - every day, always
polemy - warfare, strife; polemical
writing + polity -
mode of administering or managing public or private affairs, policy + polemopoliteia (gr) - war-citizenship.
suntime - a time of brightness or
joy; solar time
for the love of
- for the
sake of, on account of + {his pub is always open for sake of the city, except at
night-time when he makes love to Janus [ALP/Issy]}
Janus - 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.
petti- - designing garments having some of the characteristics or functions of a
petticoat + pickle - an unattractive woman.
jewess - a female jew
+ Maria the Jewess (or Maria Prophetissa) - important figure of early alchemy
(she has lived anywhere between the first and third centuries A.D.). Several
cryptic alchemical precepts have been attributed to Maria Prophetissa. She is
said to have spoken of the union of opposites: "Join the male and the female,
and you will find what is sought." The following was known as the Axiom of
Maria: "One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one
as the fourth."
Raoul - hero of Meyerbeen's
opera, Les Huguenots; hero of Sweets of Sin
in the sulks
- in a state of
ill humour + silks.
popeling
- papist, a petty or deputy pope
+ Ulysses.8.622: 'poplin... The
huguenots brought that here' + (Catholic).
run down
- to collide with and
knock down, to chase until exhausted
Huguenot - a French Protestant
(16., 17. cent.)
Bonaparte
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wellington
uber (ger) -
over + Meer (ger) -
sea + Schall (ger) - resonance, echo + marshal.
Blücher (1742-1819) -
Prussian marshal who came to Wellington's aid at Waterloo.
supercharger
- compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an
internal-combustion engine
Levey & O'Rorke:
Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 15: 'Mons. Ducrow and his Equestrian
Company in the interesting spectacle, "The Battle of Waterloo." Ducrow was
indeed the Napoleon of Equestrians' (Andrew Ducrow was a horseman).
Mudson (Slang) - Adam
paunch
- the belly +
Punch - the name of the
principal character, a grotesque hump-backed figure, in the puppet-show called Punch and
Judy. (The name Judy for 'Punch's wife' appears to be later.)
judex - judge
full of beans - lively
brehon - a lawyer of ancient
Ireland
cauchemar (fr) - nightmare
+ coachman.
ectoplasm - a viscous substance
which is supposed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium, and to develop into
a human form or face.
pass for
- to be taken for,
to be accepted as
baa
- the bleat of a sheep
+ 'Baa Baa
Black Sheep, have you any wool?' (nursery rhyme)
black sheep
- a bad character
wooly - a woollen garment or
covering; a sheep
dramatize
- to convert into a drama; to put into dramatic form, adapt for representation
on the stage
Buck Mulligan + Alice
Milligan: The Last Feast of the Fianna (a one-act play about Finn
MacCool).
shepherd
+ Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828) - German composer.
Samuel A. Ossory Fitzpatrick
- author of 'Dublin, Historical and
Topographical Account' + W.J. Fitzpatrick - authority on social life of past
Ireland.
emirate - the jurisdiction or
government of an emir
The Boys
of Wexford (song about the 1798 insurgents)
babu
- a Hindy gentleman
+ babbo (it) - daddy
(babbo was used in Joyce household).
identified +
indemnify - to secure against loss or damage, to insure, to provide someone with
protection, especially financial protection, against possible loss, damage, or
liability.
boro
- rice harvested in spring; a
pledge, borrow + Brian Boru - Irish high king who defeated the Danes at the
Battle of Clontarf, 1014; his name is etymologised as 'Brian of the tributes'.
schenken
(ger) - to give (present),
to pour out (a drink) + schenkt (ger) - pours, gives + Schenke (ger) - pub.
the brig (Slang) - military punishment cells
+ sent to Coventry - ostracised + (Henry II gave Dublin to people of Bristol in
1173).
drey = dry
+ drei (ger) - three + Ulysses.12.1460: 'three birthplaces of the first
duke of Wellington'.
Ortschaft (ger) -
village, place
entumulatus (l) -
put into a burial mound,
buried
triplex (l) - threefold
likeness - a sculptured image, a
statue; resemblance, similarity
terre cuite
= terra cotta - a hard unglazed pottery, an
object of art made of this substance
+ cuite (fr) - burned, fired.
give
(something or someone) a rest
- to stop thinking or talking about
rainbowed - brightened or
spanned with or as with a rainbow
ebriety (Archaic)
- drunkenness + Liberty,
Fraternity, Equality - the motto of the French Revolution.
fraternity - a body or order
of men organized for religious or devout purposes a body of men associated by some tie or
common interest; a company, guild + froth-for-eternity.
reverse - the side of
a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design.
make a virtue of
-
to make a merit of, to gain credit by +
make a virtue of necessity - obtain kudos from apparently willingly doing
something that one was in fact couldn't avoid doing. It is also used to mean
'submit with good grace'.
Necessity is the
mother of invention
obverse - the side of a
coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design +
the obverse and
reverse - the front and the back side.
mar - to spoil,
impair + to mar (one's) market - to spoil (one's) own trade + {his first son
makes a virtue of necessity [Shaun], while his other upsets his mother with all
his invention [Shem]}
gunwale
- the upper edge of a ship's side; flat braided cord attached near the lower
edge of a sail for tying up a reef + {put silk on his sides and he's the second
city in the Empire}
imperial - a kind of roofing
slate + Hall: Dublin and Wicklow: 'In population and size, Dublin is the
second city of the British Empire'.
point - a lace for tying parts of a
garment + (points attach hose to doublet).
tenter = tenter hook - a hooked
nail or spike, a metal hook upon which anything is hung.
lath
- thin strips of wood used as a base for applying plaster + lath and plaster (Rhyming Slang) - master
.
plaster -
a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water which hardens into a smooth
solid (used to cover walls and ceilings) + {undo his stockings and his clothes
and he’s the true master}
allthing
- even, just, all through, entirely;
everything + Althing (Danish) - national assembly.
ovum (l) - egg + ovo (l) - to exult, rejoice
+ uovo (it) - egg + each of us.
basideus (l) =
basileus (gr) - king
árd-rí (Irish) - high king
kongsemne (Norwegian) - heir to the crown;
pretender, claimant + Henrik Ibsen:
"Kongs-Emnerne"
(The Crown-Pretenders).
rex regulorum (l) - king of
princes, king of kinglings
Dee river (two such rivers,
in Scotland and in England) + Saint Patrick landed at Inverdea, at the mouth of
the Vartry river (previously the Dea river).
broadside - at large, at random,
all together + bared his backside at Balaclava [Russian General].
Eldorado
- fictious country abounding in gold, a place of fabulous wealth
ultima Thule
- The ancient
Greek and Latin name (first found in Polybius's account of the voyage of Pytheas)
for a land six days' sail north of Britain, which he supposed to be the most northerly
region in the world; fig. the highest or uttermost point or degree attained
or attainable, the acme,
limit + thole - to endure with patience.
kraal
- an enclosure for domestic animals, corral; a village of south African native
peoples + kralj (Serbian) =
král (Czech
) - king.
fou - drunk; foul
+ fou (fr) - mad + four
feud -
a state of perpetual hostility between two families, tribes, or individuals, marked by murderous assaults in revenge for some previous insult or
injury; Feudal Law. An estate in land (in England always a heritable estate), held on condition of homage and service to a superior lord, by whom it is granted and in whom the ownership remains.
pub crawl - a tour of
bars or public houses (usually taking one drink at each stop)
pub - public house
lay out
- to arrange,
design, to plan in detail
lashings - a great plenty,
abundance
livery - livery stable (a stable where horses are kept at livery, or are let out for
hire) + lavery (Slang) - Irish one pound note with portrait of
Lady Lavery posing as an Irish colleen (painted by her husband, Sir John Lavery).
hunt down
- to chase (an animal)
until caught or killed
pled - p. of
plead
+ paid + played.
double or quits - a bet
of the same value as the initial one, resulting in either a doubling of a loss,
or it being cancelled
hush up
- to reduce to tranquillity, to suppress (anything disturbing or disquieting)
bucker - a horse given to bucking
+ bugger.
sodden - saturated or soaked with
water or moisture + Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only two survivors of the Flood in
Greek mythology, created people by throwing stones behind their back.
dragoon
- to compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; a heavily armed trooper in
some European armies of the 17th and 18th centuries + Cadmus sowed dragons'
teeth and armed warriors sprang up (so had Jason).
peos (gr) - penis + opla
(gr) - weapons + pladô (gr) - to be flaccid
Gambrinus, Gaudio -
Flemish king, credited with brewing the first beer
Peter the Great
hearts
diamonds
+ demimonde - a class of woman not considered respectable because of indiscreet
or promiscuous behavior.
spate
- a flood or inundation; esp. a sudden flood or rising in a river or stream
caused by heavy rains or melting snow + spades
twi- - twice, double, two
+ 29.
nurse (Slang) - prostitute
+ *IJ*
drum (Slang) - brothel
three to one
- three chances
to one, the ratio of three to one + tre (it) - three + uno (it) - one + 31 +
*VYC*.
tip the scale
- to register weight on a scale, to shift the balance of fortune or power + {he
enjoyed the two nurses [prostitutes] but three-to-one [soldiers] tipped the
scale against him}
reel - a (long) portion of a motion
picture; In early usage in Cinemat., reel was restricted in signification to a fixed
length of film, normally one thousand feet at 35 mm.
brace
- a pair, a couple. Often a mere synonym for two
+ Mrs Anne Bracegirdle (1674- 1748)
- English actress.
girdle
- a woman’s close fitting undergarment + girls
silver
- the metal as used for the ornamentation of textile fabrics, silver thread
+ silver screen (Slang) - cinema + {he had the title role opposite a
brace of actresses on the Silver Screen}
sequence -
serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent
pattern; to arrange in a sequence; the action of following in order
set - the place or area in which
filming takes place
crookback - one who has a
crooked back, a hunchback
titular - a person having a title
rick
- a sprain or overstrain, esp. in the back
+ Richard III (1452-85) - English king of the House of York,
crookbacked like HCE, called The Boar or The Hog, from the device on his crest. In Shakespeare's
Richard III, he is a villain, brother-slayer + Richard Burbage - Shakespearian
actor.
barry
- barracuda +
Harry +
Barry, Spranger (1719-77) - Dublin-born actor who built the Crow Street Theatre,
David Garrick's London rival.
get on
- move along, proceed, to
mount (a horse, etc.)
come off
- to take place, happen; to get off, escape, to detach oneself, to fall off
vigintiquinque
(l) - twenty five
germinal - incipient, embryonic,
rel. to germ; the seventh month of the French revolutionary calendar (early
spring, March 21 to April 19; so 25 Germinal fell on 14-16 April in the years it
was in use) + [controversy between old Irish and Roman churches over the date of
Easter, i.e. 22 March (first possible date) and 25 April (last possible date)].
Ojibway Indians of North
Ontario + Haveth Childers Everywhere.
arithmo- - number
+ -sophy - knowledge + aritmosophia (gr) - skill in counting, number-wisdom,
philosophy based on numbers (favourite of Crowley, Ripel, Grant etc.) + In
Theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual
energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great
Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth (Sanat Kumara),
and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to the human race.
Plough and the Stars -
flag used by Irish rebels
URSA MAJOR - The most prominent constellation of the North hemisphere has been
known as the Bear (Gk, Arctos; Lat, Ursa) since the time of Homer. Other
names have been the Plough, the Dipper, the Wagon, and Charles's Wain +
"According to an ancient magical tradition, the seven phases or lines of
evolution were originally presided over by one of the seven stars of Ursa Major"
(Kenneth Grant: Cults of the Shadow) + "They dwelt in Yuggoth [Pluto] for
a time, and then came to a young planet called Sharhah [Earth], where they
established their civilization; but, because of the punishment, they could not
go back to the stars. Then the seven seasons of the fell upon Earth."
(Frank Ripel: Shautenerom).
Wapentake - division
of some English counties
pike
- a northern English name for a pointed or peaked summit, or a mountain or hill
with a pointed summit
+ Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn explanatory: 'In this book a number of dialects are
used... the ordinary "Pike County" dialect' + pike, line, eel
(fishing).
vicious circle
- a
situation in which action and reaction intensify each other + cicle =
shekel - an ancient unit of weight of the Babylonians, a coin of this weitht; coin, money
+ Vico's cycles.
remains
+ renews + mew - Of a hawk: To moult, shed, or change (its feathers); also of other
birds.
offal -
waste parts, especially of a butchered animal; refuse, rubbish
floodlight
- a light providing a beam of intense illumination; the illumination so provided
Portobello - city in South
America + Portobello bridge, Dublin.
equa docta (l) -
learned mare, skilled
mare + aequa docta (l) - experienced female friend + aqueduct.
terracotta (pipe)
Aphrodite or Venus
(Botecelli painting of Birth of Venus standing on shell)
hard cash
- money in the form of
coin
Watling street
- Roman road running from near London (before 12. c.); street in the city of
London (16. - 17. c.), the principal street for draper’s shops + Wall Street +
Ulysses 10.773: 'Watling street... visitor's waitingroom' (the visitor's
waiting room of the Guinness Brewery is on the corner of James's Street and
Walting Street, which runs north to the Liffey.) + Poetically the 'Milky Way'
has been called the 'Watling Street of the sky'.
Giant Ivy flourishes in
Glenasmole (Finn's hunting ground)
younker
- a young man, child
+ Tír
na nÓg - timeless Land of Youth, where Oisín (Ossian) was
lured away by a fairy princess, having survived the destruction of his
comrades (Fenians) at the Battle of Gabhra. Ossian spent 300 years there, returned
to Ireland on his white horse, and aged as soon as his feet touched the ground.
apostolos (gr) -
envoy, messenger,
apostle;
fleet ready to sail + polos (gr) - axis, pivot, thing on which anything turns
+ -opolos (gr) - son of (surname ending).
gale
- a wind of considerable strength; a state of excitement or hilarity
gall - bitterness of spirit,
asperity, rancour; filth, impurity + J.H. Todd, ed.: The War of the Gaedhil
with the Gaill (1869), 79-81: 'They carried away their soft, youthful,
bright, matchless girls; their blooming, silkclad young women; and their active,
large, and wellformed boys' (Irish plunder of Viking-held Limerick, 968).
matchless - having no match,
without an equal, peerless
bosom - to form a bosom
+ blossom.
blooming
- in the bloom of health and beauty, in the prime of youth; flourishing
blot out
- to efface, wipe out of existence, sight, or memory; to annihilate, destroy
Harald Fair Hair (Haarfager)
(850-933) - first king of Norway, annexed Scottish isles
Olaf the White - first
Norse king of Dublin
endow -
to enrich with property; to provide (by bequest or gift) a permanent income
nepos - a grandson, a nephew
+ {[like a Pharoah or Tristan] he would marry his aunt and produce nephews}
hearken - to apply the ears to
hear; to listen, give ear + {
listen
and keep quiet – put up a screen and you will see him [a movie e.g. Book III.4]}
archbishopic - the
jurisdiction of an archbishop + {now an archbishop, now a tradesman [his
Everyman resurrections follow the wheel of fortune]}
brook - to possess and enjoy; to
endure, bear, tolerate + beck, burn, brook (all synonyms of stream) + Brücke
(ger) - bridge.
wath - a ford; a fordable
stream
scale - a landing place, port
scarred - bearing scars or traces
of wounds
scow - a large flat bottomed boat for
transporting sand, gravel or refuse + {[HCE’s Dublin was once] an ancient ford
of a brook, where a small boat landed}
rainfall - a fall of rain, the
quantity of rain falling in a certain time within a given area + (rainfall in
Dublin circa 30" per annum).
melting point
- that point of the thermometer which indicates the heat at which any particular
solid becomes fluid
bubbling
- the process of forming bubbles, rising in bubbles + boiling
tussle
- a vigorous or disorderly conflict; a severe struggle, a hard contest
trull
- a girl, a lass; a whore (Slang)
+ Henrik Ibsen:
Et Vers (A
Verse): 'To live is - war with trolls in the heart's and mind's vault. To write,
- that is to hold Doomsday over oneself'.
do oneself justice
- to perform something one has to do in a manner worthy of one's
abilities + do justice - to pledge in drinking; to do what is just, act justily
+ {falls at the hands of the soldiers}
eschatology - the department
of theological science concerned with 'the four last things: death, judgement, heaven, and
hell'.
Henry Humphreys: The
Justice of the Peace in Ireland (1890)
Theban - of or belonging to Thebes,
ancient capital of Upper Egypt
recense -
to make revision of a text + recensor (l) - reviewer, reviser + Theban recension
of The Book of the Dead.
bug
- insect, fad, craze, hobby +
The Book of the Dead contains drawings of Khepera, a self-created beetle-like
god, representing Resurrection +
The Book of the Dead ch. XXX.B, was often inscribed on, or said over, scarabs.
Dead
King Mark of Cornwall
melken (ger) - milk + melekh (Hebrew)
- king + making
murry - merry
+ murrisch
(ger) - surly, morose.
steep
- having a sharp inclination; let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to
cleanse + deep
armour + arbour +
amour - affair, a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.
fain - glad, rejoiced,
well-pleased
furry - resembling fur, fur-like,
soft + Furry Glen in Phoenix Park, also called Hawthorn Glen.
show one's
nose
- to allow oneself to be seen, make
an appearence + to show up - to expose (something underneath) + shoe - to put a
shoe on, to cover with a shoe.
pimp
- to spy on lovers + peeps
pomp - magnificent show, splendid
display or celebration
blackguard
+ 'The
king was in his countinghouse, counting out his money, The queen was in the
parlour, eating bread and honey, The maid was in the garden, hanging out the
clothes, Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose' (nursery rhyme).
pump gun
- a pump action shotgun
or rifle
foreteller - one who or that
which foretells
rear
- to bring (a thing) to or towards a vertical position; to set up, or upright
comether
= come hither - coaxing invitation to cows,
horses, etc., to coax, wheedle
+ put the comether on (Slang) - coax, wheedle.
acre
- a definite measure of land, originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough
in a day
mile
- a measure of area equal to the content of a square with a side one mile in
length
stripe - a long narrow tract of
land
Anakreon (gr) - lyric
poet, fl. 540 B.C. + eanach (anokh) (gael)
- marsh,
fen + Krawatte (ger) - necktie + Eliot:
The Waste Land 199-201: 'Mrs Porter... They wash their feet in soda water'.
he +
whou = how + {he missed Mrs Porter
[ALP]}
what
+ whot = hot.
set
- to take a journey
+ + 'O Mr Porter,
Whatever shall I do, I want to go to Birmingham and they're taking me on to
Crewe' (song).
Pimpla (gr, l) - place
and fountain in Pieria sacred to the Muses + Pimlico Street, Dublin + {Miss
Pimp-Loco [Issy]}
overawe
- to make submissive by awe or fear, inspire awe in
+ 'Deutschland,
Deutschland über alles' (song).
Edmund
+ ST EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR - London church, North side of Lombard Street, in
the City. Edmund was king of East Anglia, killed by Danes in 870 AD.
Saint Dunstan-in-the-East
- London church
ST PETER-LE-POER -
London church, West side of Old Broad Street, demolished ca 1912 + pitre (fr) -
clown.
Petrin - highest hill in
Prague
Bart (ger) - beard + Saint
Bartholomew the Great - London church.
Saint
Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange - London church + (4 churches/historians & ass).
hesten (Danish) -
horse
+ STATUE
OF WILLIAM III - The equestrian statue erected in College Green 1 July 1701
was long a symbol of the Protestant Ascendancy, a point of contention between
the Orange faction (William was Prince of Orange), for whom it was a rallying point, and Irish nationalists.
Before it was finally blown up in 1929, and removed, it was frequently covered
with tan and grease, defaced, or partially blown up. Generations of Dubliners
commented on the fact that the statue faced the Dame street and Castle, turning its back on
TCD.
troth
- faithfulness, good faith, loyalty, honesty (obs.) + trot + street + { he
hastens to the girls 'Truth' and 'Wedding-Hand'}
ORANGE - Town and region,
South France. The title was inherited by William the Silent, 1st prince of
Orange-Nassau, and founder of the Dutch Republic.
Nassau -
German duchy until 1866. William the Silent, founder of the Dutch
Republic, inherited the title of Nassau-Dillenburg from his father, of
Orange-Chalons from his cousin, was 1st prince of Orange-Nassau + Orange Nassau
- Dutch Royal family + Nassau Street, Dublin, runs south of Trinity College.
Bowlbeggar
Bill-the-Bustonly - as Mr Mink says, a legless criminal of Stoneybatter who used
his powerful arms to propel himself in an iron bowl and to strangle and rob
passersby
+ bull beggar (Slang) - someone who scares children.
brow - a steep hill or slope
hazel wood
- a wood or thicket
of hazel bushes + Drom-Choll-Coil - old Irish name of Dublin, means 'the brow of
hazel wood'.
Dublin's name derives
from Irish dubh linn: black pool
BULLOCK CASTLE - One of 7 castles in Dalkey,
South-East of Dublin. The name is a corruption of its earlier Danish name, Blowick.
artesian well
- well made
in Artois in the 18th cent., in which a perpendicular boring into a synclinal fold or
basin of the strata produces a constant supply of water rising spontaneously to the
surface of the ground. By extension applied to water obtainable by artesian boring.
The name of the Phoenix
Park is derived from a misunderstanding by English speakers of fionn uisge,
Irish "clear water," a spring in the park. The transliteration Feenisk was corrupted to "Phoenix," and the mistake is commemorated by the
stately bird atop the Phoenix Pillar.
handwriting - writing with the
hand, manuscript
face wall
- a wall built to
sustain the face of a natural bank of earth; the front wall (of a building) +
(writing on wall at Belshazzar's feast).
conchoid
- Geom. A plane curve of the fourth order invented by Nicomedes
+ siphono- - tube, pipe
+ -stomata - mouth, opening +
kryptokonchoeidesiphonostomata (gr) -
hidden-shell-like-tube-mouths + Charles Collette:
Cryptoconchoidsyphonostomata (a patter-farce given at Theatre Royal, Dublin;
literally 'hidden shell-like tube-mouths').
Hellespontos (gr) -
Sea of Helle (legendary girl drowned there): strait between Europe and Asia, the
Dardanelles + Hero (gr) - priestess beloved by Leander who repeatedly swam to her accross the
Hellespont, but at length
drowned + heros
(gr) - a hero + Herospontos (gr) - Sea of Hero; Sea of Heroes.
ylde
= isle +
Abdul Hamid II, Sultan from 1876, centralized all government functions in the
Yibdiz Kiosk, a palace on the heights above the suburb of Beshiktash, and in
fear of assassination withdrew behind its fortifications after the 1895
massacres + oldest
Glasnevin (Dublin cemetery)
sounds like Irish 'Glaisin Aoibhinn', which means 'pleasant little field'
(spurious etymology)
kiosk - an open pavilion or
summerhouse of light construction, often supported by pillars and surrounded with a
balustrade; common in Turkey and Persia, and imitated in gardens and parks in Western
Europe.
youngest
+ angustus (l) - narrow, close.
hostel - a public house, inn
Ireland, island of saints and
scholars
night light
- the light which
burns or shines during the night
Daniel O'Connell killed
D'Esterre in duel on the Fifteen Acres, Phoenix Park (Ulysses.6.249:
'hugecloaked Liberator's form').
deck - cover, dress, to adorn
+ a white horse is a symbol of William III, painted on walls by loyalists.
rudder
- a broad, flat piece or framework of wood or metal, attached vertically to the
sternpost of a boat or ship in such a way that it can be employed in steering it
+ Budge: The Book of the Dead ch. CXXII: (naming parts of the deceased's
boat) '"Evil is it" is the name of the rudder'.
mairie
- (fr. mayor) a town hall (in France)
+ 'Amerikay' (James Joyce: A Portrait II).
quai
- a public way constructed on the quay, spec. such a street on either band of
the Seine in Paris
sons
Hun - one of an Asiatic race of
warlike nomads, who invaded Europe c a.d. 375, and in the middle of the 5th c., under
their famous king Attila (styled Flagellum Dei, the scourge of God), overran and ravaged a
great part of this continent.
dartars
- a disease of sheep + daugthers
Tartar - a native inhabitant of the
region of Central Asia extending eastward from the Caspian Sea, and formerly known as
Independent and Chinese Tartary. First known in the West as applied to the mingled host of
Mongols, Tartars, Turks, etc., which under the leadership of Jenghiz Khan (1202-1227)
overran and devastated much of Asia and Eastern Europe.
repulse
- to drive or beat back (an assailant); to repel by force of arms
oston (gr) - bone
+ Osten (ger) - East + Ton (ger) - sound, tone + Adams and
Liberty (song): 'For unmoved at its portals would Washington stand, And repulse with
his breast the assaults of the thunder; Of its scabbard would leap, His sword
from the sleep, And conduct, with its point, every flash to the deep!'
falchion
- to cut with a falchion (a broad sword), use a falchion upon + fashioned.
downs - 3d. sing of
down
locative - pertaining to
location
vehicule = vehicle
organization
circulation
+ celi- - belly, abdomen + caelicola (l) - dweller in heaven, deity.
Eblana - name of Dublin
used by Ptolemy
Hewitt - name used by
Robert Emmet
castèllo (it) - castle
+ Howth Castle.
equerry
- an officer in the
service of a royal or other exalted personage, charged with the care of the
horses
delighted
outing - the action of going out
look forward
- to look ahead, to look expectantly towards the future or to a coming event
rhodon (gr) - rose
+ rhododendrons (on Howth Head).
doldrums
- a condition of dullness or drowsiness; dumps, low spirits, depression +
Dundrum, district of Dublin.
luminiferous - producing or
transmitting light + legumen - the fruit, or the
edible portion of a leguminous plant, e.g. beans, peas, pulse.
Balfe: The Bohemian Girl: song: 'When
other lips and other hearts... Then you'll remember me' + {when he is old he’ll
resemble his spouse ALP}
clipping - a press cutting
void - to clear
buttress
- a brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it
stave
-
the system of five horizontal
lines on which the musical notes are written + {the night train whistle sings
his name, a song written by birds on a stave of wires}
wire
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
+ James Joyce: A Portrait II: 'He was travelling with his father by the
night mail to Cork... the insistent rhythm of the train; and silently, at
intervals of four seconds, the telegraph-poles held the galloping notes of the
music between punctual bars'.
crawl - to be all 'alive' with
crawling things + (he is an insect).
lice - pl. of
louse
swarm with
- to be crowded or thronged with; to contain swarms or great numbers of
maggots
+ sagart (Anglo-Irish) - priest.
mosque - a Muslim temple or place
of worship + quiet as a mouse
- very quiet.
synagogue - a building or place
of meeting for Jewish worship and religious instruction
Dilmun - Sumerian garden
of Paradise (on eastern shore of Persian Gulf), in which Tree of Life is date
palm [.09-.11]
palmy - notably flourishing or
prosperous + palmy days - triumphant, flourishing days.
crack a nut -
to puzzle out, make out, solve + {after his head was cracked [Humpty
Dumpty/Joyce’s skull cracked as a child]}
suck up
- to swallow
up
applaud
+ laut (Malay) - sea + Arthur's companions: Sugyn, who could suck up
seas; Gillia, chief Irish leaper; and Gwevyl, who could let one lip drop below
his belt and turn the other on to his head.
cushla ma chree
= cuislin a chroidhe (Irish)
- little pulse of my heart (endearment)
+ Thomas Moore: Irish
Melodies: song: Come o'er the Sea [air: Cuishlih ma Chree]
+ {with one girl on his lap and another on his knee}.
porter
- one who has charge of a door or gate; a kind of beer, of a dark brown colour
and bitterish taste, brewed from malt partly charred or browned by drying at a
high temperature + Glewlwyd of the Mighty Grasp - Arthur's gateman in The
Mabinogion.
baxter - baker
boon - a benefit enjoyed, blessing,
advantage
broadwife - a female slave
+ Broadway + white bread.
bound - to spring upwards, leap; to
advance with leaps or springs + The Mabinogion: Culhwch and Olwen: 'Thou
shalt receive the boon... as far as wind dries, as far as rain wets, as far as
sun runs, as far as sea stretches'.
exalt - to raise or set up on high;
to lift up, elevate; to elate with pride, joy, etc.
assemble - to put together
delude
- to befool the mind or judgement of, so as to cause what is false to be
accepted as true
disgusted
ostrov (Russian) - island
Mare Inferus - Tuscan Sea,
west of Italy + inferno.
mabbul (Hebrew)
- flood
flure = floor - to bring to the
floor or ground; to overcome in any way; to beat, defeat + flew.
Moyle - sea between
Ireland and Scotland
fatlike - resembling fat
tallow - the fat or adipose tissue
of an animal + a long Sumerian poem on Paradise: 'It shall be the ninth day in
her ninth month, month of the period of woman. Like fat, like fat, like tallow'.
grease - the melted or rendered fat
of animals + gracefulness.
yea - yes, more than this, not only so
but; affirmation, assent
dripping - that drips
scorbutic - 'one affected with
scurvy' + a long Sumerian poem on Paradise: 'None said, "O disease of the eyes,
thou art disease of the eyes". None said, "O headache, thou art headache". None
said to an old woman, "Thou art an old woman". None said to an old man, "Thou
art an old man".' + (Bruno takes a page and nearly a hundred examples to say he
calls things by their right name: 'calls bread bread, wine wine, head head, foot
foot' etc.)
URU - Sumerian ideogram for
'city' + a long Sumerian poem on Paradise: 'Thou hast founded a city, thou hast
founded a city, to which thou hast assigned its fate. Dilmun the city thou hast
founded, thou hast founded a city to which thou hast assigned its fate'.
raaf, raven (Dutch)
- raven, ravens + Ulysses.15.3948: 'An eagle gules volant in field argent
displayed' + (pirate boats of Dublin Danes had raven flags).
volant
- represented as flying, having the wings expanded as if in flight
+ gueulant (fr) - bawling + gule - In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the
colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours".
fjeld
- a barren plateau of the Scandinavian upland + fjell (Norwegian) - mountain
+ field.
dubh (duv) (gael)
- black +
duif, duiven (Dutch)
- dove, doves.
halo - an indication of
radiant light drawn around the head of a saint, aura + No man is a hero to his
valet (proverb).
varlet - in medieval
times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for
knighthood + *S*.
*K* + peacock + son of a
seacook (abusive slang phrase)
haycock
- a small rounded pile of hay
emmet
- ant + Emmet, Robert (1778-1803) - Irish rebel hero, hung.
boar + [Forum] Boarium (l) -
cattlemarket at Rome + boaro (it) - cowherd.
taurus (l) = tauros (gr)
- bull
ostrich + Österreich
(ger) - Austria.
mangy - having the mange; squalid,
poverty-stricken, shabby + mongoose.
skunk - a North American animal of
the weasel kind, Mephitis mephitica, noted for emitting a very offensive odour when
attacked or killed; a contemptible ill mannered person.
nettle
- a herb of the genus Urtica, which is covered with stinging, mildly
poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash + on nettles - in fidgets, excited.
rashness
- the quality of being rash, inconsiderate haste or boldness + FDV:
brewed
pressed
the beer of sapientia
ale age
out of the nettles of rashness,
coq
- cock (chicken) + attributed to Henri IV of France: 'I want there to be no
peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every
Sunday' + FDV:
put a roof on the
house
lodge
for God
Hymn
and a cog in the
his
pot for homo,
pro homine (l) - for man,
for a person + prohomo (l) - vice-man, one who stands in place of a person + {he
built the roofs of churches, and made sure people had food}
dapifer (l) -
feast-bearer: waiter at table
panis et
circensus (l) - bread and
circus contests + pancircumcensor (gr) - all-a