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      Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is joky for Jacob. A few
toughnecks are still getatable who pretend that aboriginally he
was of respectable stemming (he was an outlex between the lines
of Ragonar Blaubarb ant Horrild Hairwire and an inlaw to Capt.
the Hon. and Rev. Mr Bbyrdwood de Trop Blogg was among
his most distant connections) but every honest to goodness man
in the land of the space of today knows that his back life will
not stand being written about in black and white. Putting truth
and untruth together a shot may be made at what this hybrid
actually was like to look at.
    Shem's bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an
eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a
sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip,
a trio of barbels from his megageg chin (sowman's son), the
wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial
tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of
thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of
two buttocks, one gleetsteen avoirdupoider for him, a manroot
of all evil, a salmonkelt's thinskin, eelsblood in his cold toes, a
bladder tristended, so much so that young Master Shemmy on
his very first debouch at the very dawn of protohistory seeing
himself such and such, when playing with thistlewords in their
garden nursery, Griefotrofio, at Phig Streat 111, Shuvlin, Old
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sense? would we now for annas and annas? would we for full-
score eight and a liretta? for twelve blocks one bob? for four tes-
ters one groat? not for a dinar! not for jo!) dictited to of all his
little brothron and sweestureens the first riddle of the universe:
asking, when is a man not a man?: telling them take their time,
yungfries, and wait till the tide stops (for from the first his day
was a fortnight) and offering the prize of a bittersweet crab, a
little present from the past, for their copper age was yet un-
minted, to the winner. One said when the heavens are quakers,
a second said when Bohemeand lips, a third said when he, no,
when hold hard a jiffy, when he is a gnawstick and detarmined
to, the next one said when the angel of death kicks the bucket
of life, still another said when the wine's at witsends, and still
another when lovely wooman stoops to conk him, one of the
littliest said me, me, Sem, when pappa papared the harbour, one
of the wittiest said, when he yeat ye abblokooken and he zmear
hezelf zo zhooken, still one said when you are old I'm grey fall
full wi sleep, and still another when wee deader walkner, and
another when he is just only after having being semisized, an-
other when yea, he hath no mananas, and one when dose pigs
they begin now that they will flies up intil the looft. All were
wrong, so Shem himself, the doctator, took the cake, the correct
solution being — all give it up? — when he is a — yours till
the rending of the rocks, — Sham.
    Shem was a sham and a low sham and his lowness creeped out
first via foodstuffs. So low was he that he preferred Gibsen's tea-
time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest
roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was
gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time
he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever
smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias' cans,
Findlater and Gladstone's, Corner House, Englend. None of
your inchthick blueblooded Balaclava fried-at-belief-stakes or
juicejelly legs of the Grex's molten mutton or greasilygristly
grunters' goupons or slice upon slab of luscious goosebosom
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swamp of bogoakgravy for that greekenhearted yude! Rosbif of
Old Zealand! he could not attouch it. See what happens when
your somatophage merman takes his fancy to our virgitarian
swan? He even ran away with hunself and became a farsoonerite,
saying he would far sooner muddle through the hash of lentils
in Europe than meddle with Irrland's split little pea. Once when
among those rebels in a state of hopelessly helpless intoxication
the piscivore strove to lift a czitround peel to either nostril, hic-
cupping, apparently impromptued by the hibat he had with his
glottal stop, that he kukkakould flowrish for ever by the smell,
as the czitr, as the kcedron, like a scedar, of the founts, on moun-
tains, with limon on, of Lebanon. O! the lowness of him was
beneath all up to that sunk to! No likedbylike firewater or first-
served firstshot or gulletburn gin or honest brewbarrett beer either.
O dear no! Instead the tragic jester sobbed himself wheywhing-
ingly sick of life on some sort of a rhubarbarous maundarin yella-
green funkleblue windigut diodying applejack squeezed from
sour grapefruice and, to hear him twixt his sedimental cupslips
when he had gulfed down mmmmuch too mmmmany gourds of
it retching off to almost as low withswillers, who always knew
notwithstanding when they had had enough and were rightly
indignant at the wretch's hospitality when they found to their
horror they could not carry another drop, it came straight from
the noble white fat, jo, openwide sat, jo, jo, her why hide that,
jo jo jo, the winevat, of the most serene magyansty az archdio-
chesse, if she is a duck, she's a douches, and when she has a
feherbour snot her fault, now is it? artstouchups, funny you're
grinning at, fancy you're in her yet, Fanny Urinia.
    Aint that swell, hey? Peamengro! Talk about lowness! Any
dog's quantity of it visibly oozed out thickly from this dirty
little blacking beetle for the very fourth snap the Tulloch-Turn-
bull girl with her coldblood kodak shotted the as yet unre-
muneranded national apostate, who was cowardly gun and camera
shy, taking what he fondly thought was a short cut to Caer Fere,
Soak Amerigas, vias the shipsteam Pridewin, after having buried
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mer desh to tren, into Patatapapaveri's, fruiterers and musical
florists, with his Ciaho, chavi! Sar shin, shillipen? she knew the
vice out of bridewell was a bad fast man by his walk on the
spot.
    [Johns is a different butcher's. Next place you are up town pay
him a visit. Or better still, come tobuy. You will enjoy cattlemen's
spring meat. Johns is now quite divorced from baking. Fattens,
kills, flays, hangs, draws, quarters and pieces. Feel his lambs! Ex!
Feel how sheap! Exex! His liver too is great value, a spatiality!
Exexex! COMMUNICATED.]
    Around that time, moravar, one generally, for luvvomony
hoped or at any rate suspected among morticians that he would
early turn out badly, develop hereditary pulmonary T.B., and
do for himself one dandy time, nay, of a pelting night blanketed
creditors, hearing a coarse song and splash off Eden Quay sighed
and rolled over, sure all was up, but, though he fell heavily and
locally into debit, not even then could such an antinomian be
true to type. He would not put fire to his cerebrum; he would
not throw himself in Liffey; he would not explaud himself with
pneumantics; he refused to saffrocake himself with a sod. With
the foreign devil's leave the fraid born fraud diddled even death.
Anzi, cabled (but shaking the worth out of his maulth: Guarda-
costa leporello? Szasas Kraicz!) from his Nearapoblican asylum
to his jonathan for a brother: Here tokay, gone tomory, we're
spluched, do something, Fireless. And had answer: Inconvenient,
David.
    You see, chaps, it will trickle out, freaksily of course, but the
tom and the shorty of it is: he was in his bardic memory low.
All the time he kept on treasuring with condign satisfaction each
and every crumb of trektalk, covetous of his neighbour's word,
and if ever, during a Munda conversazione commoted in the
nation's interest, delicate tippits were thrown out to him touch-
ing his evil courses by some wellwishers, vainly pleading by
scriptural arguments with the opprobrious papist about trying
to brace up for the kidos of the thing, Scally wag, and be a men
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the meaning, sousy, of that continental expression, if you ever
came acrux it, we think it is a word transpiciously like canaille?:
or: Did you anywhere, kennel, on your gullible's travels or
during your rural troubadouring, happen to stumble upon a
certain gay young nobleman whimpering to the name of Low
Swine who always addresses women out of the one corner of
his mouth, lives on loans and is furtivefree yours of age? with-
out one sigh of haste like the supreme prig he was, and not a bit
sorry, he would pull a vacant landlubber's face, root with ear-
waker's pensile in the outer of his lauscher and then, lisping,
the prattlepate parnella, to kill time, and swatting his deadbest
to think what under the canopies of Jansens Chrest would any
decent son of an Albiogenselman who had bin to an university
think, let a lent hit a hint and begin to tell all the intelligentsia
admitted to that tamileasy samtalaisy conclamazzione (since, still
and before physicians, lawyers merchant, belfry pollititians, agri-
colous manufraudurers, sacrestanes of the Pure River Society,
philanthropicks lodging on as many boards round the panesthetic
at the same time as possible) the whole lifelong swrine story of
his entire low cornaille existence, abusing his deceased ancestors
wherever the sods were and one moment tarabooming great
blunderguns (poh!) about his farfamed fine Poppamore, Mr
Humhum, whom history, climate and entertainment made the
first of his sept and always up to debt, though Eavens ears ow
many fines he faces, and another moment visanvrerssas, cruach-
ing three jeers (pah!) for his rotten little ghost of a Peppybeg,
Mr Himmyshimmy, a blighty, a reeky, a lighty, a scrapy, a bab-
bly, a ninny, dirty seventh among thieves and always bottom
sawyer, till nowan knowed how howmely howme could be, giv-
ing unsolicited testimony on behalf of the absent, as glib as eaves-
water to those present (who meanwhile, with increasing lack of
interest in his semantics, allowed various subconscious smickers
to drivel slowly across their fichers), unconsciously explaining,
for inkstands, with a meticulosity bordering on the insane, the
various meanings of all the different foreign parts of speech he
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other people in the story, leaving out, of course, foreconsciously,
the simple worf and plague and poison they had cornered him
about until there was not a snoozer among them but was utterly
undeceived in the heel of the reel by the recital of the rigmarole.
    He went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway
approaching a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row
and, as often as he was called in to umpire any octagonal argu-
ment among slangwhangers, the accomplished washout always
used to rub shoulders with the last speaker and clasp shakers (the
handtouch which is speech without words) and agree to every
word as soon as half uttered, command me!, your servant, good,
I revere you, how, my seer? be drinking that! quite truth, grati-
as, I'm yoush, see wha'm hearing?, also goods, please it, me
sure?, be filling this!, quiso, you said it, apasafello, muchas
grassyass, is there firing-on-me?, is their girlic-on-you?, to your
good self, your sulphur, and then at once focuss his whole
unbalanced attention upon the next octagonist who managed to
catch a listener's eye, asking and imploring him out of his
piteous onewinker, (hemoptysia diadumenos) whether there was
anything in the world he could do to please him and to overflow
his tumbletantaliser for him yet once more.
    One hailcannon night (for his departure was attended by a
heavy downpour) as very recently as some thousand rains ago he
was therefore treated with what closely resembled parsonal viol-
ence, being soggert all unsuspectingly through the deserted village
of Tumblin-on-the-Leafy from Mr Vanhomrigh's house at 81 bis
Mabbot's Mall as far as Green Patch beyond the brickfields of
Salmon Pool by rival teams of slowspiers counter quicklimers
who finally, as rahilly they had been deteened out rawther lae-
tich, thought, busnis hits busnis, they had better be streaking for
home after their Auborne-to-Auborne, with thanks for the pleasant
evening, one and all disgustedly, instead of ruggering him back,
and awake, reconciled (though they were as jealous as could be
cullions about all the truffles they had brought on him) to a
friendship, fast and furious, which merely arose out of the noxious
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looking on him with the contemp of the contempibles, after
first gaving him a roll in the dirt, might pity and forgive him, if
properly deloused, but the pleb was born a Quicklow and sank
alowing till he stank out of sight.
    All Saints beat Belial! Mickil Goals to Nichil! Notpossible!
Already?
In Nowhere has yet the Whole World taken part of himself for his
      Wife;
By Nowhere have Poorparents been sentenced to Worms, Blood and
        Thunder for Life
Not yet has the Emp from Corpsica forced the Arth out of Engleterre;
Not yet have the Sachsen and Judder on the Mound of a Word made
        Warre;
Not yet Witchywithcy of Wench struck Fire of his Heath from on
        Hoath;
Not yet his Arcobaleine forespoken Peacepeace upon Oath;
Cleftfoot from Hempal must tumpel, Blamefool Gardener's bound to
        fall;
Broken Eggs will poursuive bitten Apples for where theirs is Will
      there's his Wall;
But the Mountstill frowns on the Millstream while their Madsons
        leap his Bier
And her Rillstrill liffs to His Murkesty all her daft Daughters laff
        in her Ear.
Till the four Shores of deff Tory Island let the douze dumm Eire-
        whiggs raille!
Hirp! Hirp! for their Missed Understandings! chirps the Ballat of
        Perce-Oreille.
    O fortunous casualitas! Lefty takes the cherubcake while
Rights cloves his hoof. Darkies never done tug that coon out to
play non-excretory, anti-sexuous, misoxenetic, gaasy pure, flesh
and blood games, written and composed and sung and danced
by Niscemus Nemon, same as piccaninnies play all day, those
old (none of your honeys and rubbers!) games for fun and ele-
ment we used to play with Dina and old Joe kicking her behind
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games like Thom Thom the Thonderman, Put the Wind up the
Peeler, Hat in the Ring, Prisson your Pritchards and Play Withers

Team, Mikel on the Luckypig, Nickel in the Slot, Sheila Harnett and

her Cow, Adam and Ell, Humble Bumble, Moggie's on the Wall,

Twos and Threes, American Jump, Fox Come out of your Den,

Broken Bottles, Writing a Letter to Punch, Tiptop is a Sweetstore,

Henressy Crump Expolled, Postman's Knock, Are We Fairlys Rep-

resented?, Solomon Silent reading, Appletree Bearstone, I know a

Washerwoman, Hospitals, As I was Walking, There is Oneyone's

House in Dreamcolohour, Battle of Waterloo, Colours, Eggs in the

Bush, Habberdasherisher, Telling your Dreams, What's the Time,

Nap, Ducking Mammy, Last Man Standing, Heali Baboon and the
Forky Theagues, Fickleyes and Futilears, Handmarried but once in
my Life and I'll never commit such a Sin agin, Zip Cooney Candy,
Turkey in the Straw, This is the Way we sow the Seed of a long and
lusty Morning, Hops of Fun at Miliken's Make, I seen the Tooth-
brush with Pat Farrel, Here's the Fat to graze the Priest's Boots,
When his Steam was like a Raimbrandt round Mac Garvey.
    Now it is notoriously known how on that surprisingly bludgeony
Unity Sunday when the grand germogall allstar bout was harrily
the rage between our weltingtoms extraordinary and our petty-
thicks the marshalaisy and Irish eyes of welcome were smiling
daggers down their backs, when the roth, vice and blause met the
noyr blank and rogues and the grim white and cold bet the black
fighting tans, categorically unimperatived by the maxims, a rank
funk getting the better of him, the scut in a bad fit of pyjamas
fled like a leveret for his bare lives, to Talviland, ahone ahaza, pur-
sued by the scented curses of all the village belles and, without
having struck one blow, (pig stole on him was lust he lagging it
was becaused dust he shook) kuskykorked himself up tight in
his inkbattle house, badly the worse for boosegas, there to stay
in afar for the life, where, as there was not a moment to be lost,
after he had boxed around with his fortepiano till he was whole
bach bamp him and bump him blues, he collapsed carefully under
a bedtick from Schwitzer's, his face enveloped into a dead war-
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wottle at his feet to stoke his energy of waiting, moaning feebly,
in monkmarian monotheme, but tarned long and then a nation
louder, while engaged in swallowing from a large ampullar, that
his pawdry's purgatory was more than a nigger bloke could bear,
hemiparalysed by the tong warfare and all the shemozzle, (Daily
Maily, fullup Lace! Holy Maly, Mothelup Joss!) his cheeks and
trousers changing colour every time a gat croaked.
    How is that for low, laities and gentlenuns? Why, dog of the
Crostiguns, whole continents rang with this Kairokorran low-
ness! Sheols of houris in chems upon divans, (revolted stellas
vespertine vesamong them) at a bare (O!) mention of the scaly
rybald exclaimed: Poisse!
    But would anyone, short of a madhouse, believe it? Neither of
those clean little cherubum, Nero or Nobookisonester himself,
ever nursed such a spoiled opinion of his monstrous marvellosity
as did this mental and moral defective (here perhaps at the
vanessance of his lownest) who was known to grognt rather than
gunnard upon one occasion, while drinking heavily of spirits to
that interlocutor a latere and private privysuckatary he used to
pal around with, in the kavehazs, one Davy Browne-Nowlan, his
heavenlaid twin, (this hambone dogpoet pseudoed himself under
the hangname he gave himself of Bethgelert) in the porchway of
a gipsy's bar (Shem always blaspheming, so holy writ, Billy, he
would try, old Belly, and pay this one manjack congregant of
his four soups every lass of nexmouth, Bolly, so sure as thair's a
tail on a commet, as a taste for storik's fortytooth, that is to
stay, to listen out, ony twenny minnies moe, Bully, his Ballade
Imaginaire which was to be dubbed Wine, Woman and Water-
clocks, or How a Guy Finks and Fawkes When He Is Going Batty,
by Maistre Sheames de la Plume, some most dreadful stuff in a
murderous mirrorhand) that he was avoopf (parn me!) aware
of no other shaggspick, other Shakhisbeard, either prexactly
unlike his polar andthisishis or procisely the seem as woops
(parn!) as what he fancied or guessed the sames as he was him-
self and that, greet scoot, duckings and thuggery, though he was
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lionses of Lumdrum hivanhoesed up gagainst him, being a lapsis
linquo with a ruvidubb shortartempa, bad cad dad fad sad mad
nad vanhaty bear, the consciquenchers of casuality prepestered
crusswords in postposition, scruff, scruffer, scrufferumurraimost
andallthatsortofthing, if reams stood to reason and his lanka-
livline lasted he would wipe alley english spooker, multapho-
niaksically spuking, off the face of the erse.
    After the thorough fright he got that bloody, Swithun's day,
though every doorpost in muchtried Lucalizod was smeared with
generous erstborn gore and every free for all cobbleway slippery
with the bloods of heroes, crying to Welkins for others, and
noahs and cul verts agush with tears of joy, our low waster never
had the common baalamb's pluck to stir out and about the com-
pound while everyone else of the torchlit throng, slashers and
sliced alike, mobbu on massa, waaded and baaded around, yamp-
yam pampyam, chanting the Gillooly chorus, from the Monster
Book of Paltryattic Puetrie, O pura e pia bella! in junk et sampam
or in secular sinkalarum, heads up, on his bonafide avocation (the
little folk creeping on all fours to their natural school treat but
childishly gleeful when a stray whizzer sang out intermediately)
and happy belongers to the fairer sex on their usual quest for
higher things, but vying with Lady Smythe to avenge Mac-
Jobber, went stonestepping with their bickerrstaffs on educated
feet, plinkity plonk, across the sevenspan ponte dei colori set up
over the slop after the war-to-end war by Messrs a charitable
government for the only once (dia dose Finnados!) he did take
a tompip peepestrella throug a threedraw eighteen hawkspower
durdicky telescope, luminous to larbourd only like the lamps in
Nassaustrass, out of his westernmost keyhole, spitting at the
impenetrablum wetter, (and it was porcoghastly that outumn) with
an eachway hope in his shivering soul, as he prayed to the cloud
Incertitude, of finding out for himself, on akkount of all the
kules in Kroukaparka or oving to all the kodseoggs in Kalatavala,
whether true conciliation was forging ahead or falling back after
the celestious intemperance and, for Duvvelsache, why, with his
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layen loves in meeingseeing, he got the charm of his optical
life when he found himself (hic sunt lennones!) at pointblank
range blinking down the barrel of an irregular revolver of
the bulldog with a purpose pattern, handled by an unknown
quarreler who, supposedly, had been told off to shade and
shoot shy Shem should the shit show his shiny shnout out
awhile to look facts in their face before being hosed and creased
(uprip and jack him!) by six or a dozen of the gayboys.
    What, para Saom Plaom, in the names of Deucalion and
Pyrrha, and the incensed privy and the licensed pantry gods
and Stator and Victor and Kutt and Runn and the whole mesa
redonda of Lorencao Otulass in convocacaon, was this dis-
interestingly low human type, this Calumnious Column of
Cloaxity, this Bengalese Beacon of Biloxity, this Annamite Aper
of Atroxity, really at, it will be precise to quarify, for he seems
in a badbad case?
    The answer, to do all the diddies in one dedal, would sound:
from pulling himself on his most flavoured canal the huge chest-
house of his elders (the Popapreta, and some navico, navvies!)
he had flickered up and flinnered down into a drug and drunkery
addict, growing megalomane of a loose past. This explains the
litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite,
neoclassical, which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after
his name. It would have diverted, if ever seen, the shuddersome
spectacle of this semidemented zany amid the inspissated grime
of his glaucous den making believe to read his usylessly unread-
able Blue Book of Eccles, �dition de t�n�bres, (even yet sighs the
Most Different, Dr. Poindejenk, authorised bowdler and censor,
it can't be repeated!) turning over three sheets at a wind, telling
himself delightedly, no espellor mor so, that every splurge on the
vellum he blundered over was an aisling vision more gorgeous
than the one before t.i.t.s., a roseschelle cottage by the sea for
nothing for ever, a ladies tryon hosiery raffle at liberty, a sewer-
ful of guineagold wine with brancomongepadenopie and sick-
cylinder oysters worth a billion a bite, an entire operahouse
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everthemore his queque kept swelling) of enthusiastic noble-
women flinging every coronetcrimsoned stitch they had off at
his probscenium, one after the others, inamagoaded into ajustil-
loosing themselves, in their gaiety pantheomime, when, egad, sir,
acordant to all acountstrick, he squealed the topsquall im Deal
Lil Shemlockup Yellin (geewhiz, jew ear that far! soap ewer!
loutgout of sabaous! juice like a boyd!) for fully five minutes, in-
finitely better than Baraton Mc Gluckin with a scrumptious cocked
hat and three green, cheese and tangerine trinity plumes on the
right handle side of his amarellous head, a coat macfarlane (the
kerssest cut, you understand?) a sponiard's digger at his ribs,
(Alfaiate punxit) an azulblu blowsheet for his blousebosom
blossom and a dean's crozier that he won from Cardinal Lin-
dundarri and Cardinal Carchingarri and Cardinal Loriotuli and
Cardinal Occidentaccia (ah ho!) in the dearby darby doubled for
falling first over the hurdles, madam, in the odder hand, a.a.t.s.o.t.,
but what with the murky light, the botchy print, the tattered
cover, the jigjagged page, the fumbling fingers, the foxtrotting
fleas, the lieabed lice, the scum on his tongue, the drop in his
eye, the lump in his throat, the drink in his pottle, the itch in his
palm, the wail of his wind, the grief from his breath, the fog of
his mindfag, the buzz in his braintree, the tic of his conscience,
the height up his rage, the gush down his fundament, the fire
in his gorge, the tickle of his tail, the bane in his bullugs, the
squince in his suil, the rot in his eater, the ycho in his earer,
the totters of his toes, the tetters on his tumtytum, the rats in his
garret, the bats in his belfry, the budgerigars and bumbosolom
beaubirds, the hullabaloo and the dust in his ears since it took him
a month to steal a march he was hardset to mumorise more than
a word a week. Hake's haulin! Hook's fisk! Can you beat it?
Whawe! I say, can you bait it? Was there ever heard of such
lowdown blackguardism? Positively it woolies one to think
over it.
    Yet the bumpersprinkler used to boast aloud alone to himself
with a haccent on it when Mynfadher was a boer constructor and
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board (trying to copy the stage Englesemen he broughts their
house down on, shouting: Bravure, surr Chorles! Letter purfect!
Culossal, Loose Wallor! Spache!) how he had been toed out of
all the schicker families of the klondykers from Pioupioureich,
Swabspays, the land of Nod, Shruggers' Country, Pension
Danubierhome and Barbaropolis, who had settled and stratified
in the capital city after its hebdomodary metropoliarchialisation
as sunblistered, moonplastered, gory, wheedling, joviale, litche-
rous and full, ordered off the gorgeous premises in most cases on
account of his smell which all cookmaids eminently objected to
as ressembling the bombinubble puzzo that welled out of the
pozzo. Instead of chuthoring those model households plain
wholesome pothooks (a thing he never possessed of his Nigerian
own) what do you think Vulgariano did but study with stolen
fruit how cutely to copy all their various styles of signature so as
one day to utter an epical forged cheque on the public for his own
private profit until, as just related, the Dustbin's United Scullery-
maid's and Househelp's Sorority, better known as Sluttery's
Mowlted Futt, turned him down and assisted nature by unitedly
shoeing the source of annoyance out of the place altogether and
taytotally on the heat of the moment, holding one another's
gonk (for no-one, hound or scrublady, not even the Turk, un-
greekable in purscent of the armenable, dared whiff the polecat
at close range) and making some pointopointing remarks as they
done so at the perfects of the Sniffey, your honour, aboon the
lyow why a stunk, mister.
    [Jymes wishes to hear from wearers of abandoned female cos-
tumes, gratefully received, wadmel jumper, rather full pair of
culottes and onthergarmenteries, to start city life together. His
jymes is out of job, would sit and write. He has lately commited
one of the then commandments but she will now assist. Superior
built, domestic, regular layer. Also got the boot. He appreciates
it. Copies. ABORTISEMENT.]
    One cannot even begin to post figure out a statuesquo ante
as to how slow in reality the excommunicated Drumcondriac,
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shamiana, how few or how many of the most venerated public
impostures, how very many piously forged palimpsests slipped
in the first place by this morbid process from his pelagiarist pen?
    Be that as it may, but for that light phantastic of his gnose's
glow as it slid lucifericiously within an inch of its page (he would
touch at its from time to other, the red eye of his fear in
saddishness, to ensign the colours by the beerlitz in his mathness
and his educandees to outhue to themselves in the cries of girl-
glee: gember! inkware! chonchambre! cinsero! zinnzabar! tinc-
ture and gin!) Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to
sheepskin. By that rosy lampoon's effluvious burning and with
help of the simulchronic flush in his pann (a ghinee a ghirk he
ghets there!) he scrabbled and scratched and scriobbled and
skrevened nameless shamelessness about everybody ever he met,
even sharing a precipitation under the idlish tarriers' umbrella
of a showerproof wall, while all over up and down the four
margins of this rancid Shem stuff the evilsmeller (who was
devoted to Uldfadar Sardanapalus) used to stipple endlessly
inartistic portraits of himself in the act of reciting old
Nichiabelli's monolook interyerear Hanno, o Nonanno, acce'l
brubblemm'as, ser Autore, q.e.d., a heartbreakingly handsome
young paolo with love lyrics for the goyls in his eyols, a plain-
tiff's tanner vuice, a jucal inkome of one hundred and thirtytwo
dranchmas per yard from Broken Hill stranded estate, Came-
breech mannings, cutting a great dash in a brandnew two guinea
dress suit and a burled hogsford hired for a Fursday evenin
merry pawty, anna loavely long pair of inky Italian moostarshes
glistering with boric vaseline and frangipani. Puh! How un-
whisperably so!
    The house O'Shea or O'Shame, Quivapieno, known as the
Haunted Inkbottle, no number Brimstone Walk, Asia in Ireland,
as it was infested with the raps, with his penname SHUT sepia-
scraped on the doorplate and a blind of black sailcloth over its
wan phwinshogue, in which the soulcontracted son of the secret
cell groped through life at the expense of the taxpayers, dejected
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hydrants of zolfor and scoppialamina by full and forty Queasi-
sanos, every day in everyone's way more exceeding in violent
abuse of self and others, was the worst, it is hoped, even in our
western playboyish world for pure mousefarm filth. You brag
of your brass castle or your tyled house in ballyfermont? Niggs,
niggs and niggs again. For this was a stinksome inkenstink, quite
puzzonal to the wrottel. Smatterafact, Angles aftanon browsing
there thought not Edam reeked more rare. My wud! The warped
flooring of the lair and soundconducting walls thereof, to say
nothing of the uprights and imposts, were persianly literatured
with burst loveletters, telltale stories, stickyback snaps, doubtful
eggshells, bouchers, flints, borers, puffers, amygdaloid almonds,
rindless raisins, alphybettyformed verbage, vivlical viasses, om-
piter dictas, visus umbique, ahems and ahahs, imeffible tries at
speech unasyllabled, you owe mes, eyoldhyms, fluefoul smut,
fallen lucifers, vestas which had served, showered ornaments,
borrowed brogues, reversibles jackets, blackeye lenses, family
jars, falsehair shirts, Godforsaken scapulars, neverworn breeches,
cutthroat ties, counterfeit franks, best intentions, curried notes,
upset latten tintacks, unused mill and stumpling stones, twisted
quills, painful digests, magnifying wineglasses, solid objects cast
at goblins, once current puns, quashed quotatoes, messes of mot-
tage, unquestionable issue papers, seedy ejaculations, limerick
damns, crocodile tears, spilt ink, blasphematory spits, stale shest-
nuts, schoolgirl's, young ladies, milkmaids', washerwomen's,
shopkeepers' wives, merry widows', ex nuns', vice abbess's, pro
virgins', super whores', silent sisters', Charleys' aunts', grand-
mothers', mothers'-in-laws, fostermothers', godmothers' garters,
tress clippings from right, lift and cintrum, worms of snot,
toothsome pickings, cans of Swiss condensed bilk, highbrow
lotions, kisses from the antipodes, presents from pickpockets,
borrowed plumes, relaxable handgrips, princess promises, lees of
whine, deoxodised carbons, convertible collars, diviliouker
doffers, broken wafers, unloosed shoe latchets, crooked strait
waistcoats, fresh horrors from Hades, globules of mercury,
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war moans, special sighs, longsufferings of longstanding, ahs ohs
ouis sis jas jos gias neys thaws sos, yeses and yeses and yeses, to
which, if one has the stomach to add the breakages, upheavals
distortions, inversions of all this chambermade music one stands,
given a grain of goodwill, a fair chance of actually seeing the
whirling dervish, Tumult, son of Thunder, self exiled in upon
his ego, a nightlong a shaking betwixtween white or reddr haw-
rors, noondayterrorised to skin and bone by an ineluctable phan-
tom (may the Shaper have mercery on him!) writing the mystery
of himsel in furniture.
    Of course our low hero was a self valeter by choice of need so
up he got up whatever is meant by a stourbridge clay kitchen-
ette and lithargogalenu fowlhouse for the sake of akes (the
umpple does not fall very far from the dumpertree) which the
moromelodious jigsmith, in defiance of the Uncontrollable Birth
Preservativation (Game and Poultry) Act, playing lallaryrook
cookerynook, by the dodginess of his lentern, brooled and cocked
and potched in an athanor, whites and yolks and yilks and whotes
to the frulling fredonnance of Mas blanca que la blanca hermana
and Amarilla, muy bien, with cinnamon and locusts and wild bees-
wax and liquorice and Carrageen moss and blaster of Barry's and
Asther's mess and Huster's micture and Yellownan's embrocation
and Pinkingtone's patty and stardust and sinner's tears, acuredent
to Sharadan's Art of Panning, chanting, for all regale to the like
of the legs he left behind with Litty fun Letty fan Leven, his
cantraps of fermented words, abracadabra calubra culorum, (his
oewfs � la Madame Gabrielle de l'Eglise, his avgs � la Mistress
B. de B. Meinfelde, his eiers Usquadmala � la pomme de ciel,
his uoves, oves and uves � la Sulphate de Soude, his ochiuri
sowtay sowmmonay a la Monseigneur, his soufflosion of oogs
with somekat on toyast � la M�re Puard, his Poggadovies alla
Fenella, his Frideggs � la Tricar�me) in what was meant for a
closet (Ah ho! If only he had listened better to the four masters
that infanted him Father Mathew and Le P�re Noble and Pastor
Lucas and Padre Aguilar — not forgetting Layteacher Baudwin!
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nature never needed such an alcove so, when Robber and Mum-
sell, the pulpic dictators, on the nudgment of their legal advisers,
Messrs Codex and Podex, and under his own benefiction of their
pastor Father Flammeus Falconer, boycotted him of all mutton-
suet candles and romeruled stationery for any purpose, he winged
away on a wildgoup's chase across the kathartic ocean and made
synthetic ink and sensitive paper for his own end out of his wit's
waste. You ask, in Sam Hill, how? Let manner and matter of this
for these our sporting times be cloaked up in the language of
blushfed porporates that an Anglican ordinal, not reading his
own rude dunsky tunga, may ever behold the brand of scarlet
on the brow of her of Babylon and feel not the pink one in his
own damned cheek.
    Primum opifex, altus prosator, ad terram viviparam et cuncti-
potentem sine ullo pudore nec venia, suscepto pluviali atque discinctis
perizomatis, natibus nudis uti nati fuissent, sese adpropinquans,
flens et gemens, in manum suam evacuavit (highly prosy, crap in his
hand, sorry!), postea, animale nigro exoneratus, classicum pulsans,
stercus proprium, quod appellavit deiectiones suas, in vas olim
honorabile tristitiae posuit, eodem sub invocatione fratrorum gemino-
rum Medardi et Godardi laete ac melliflue minxit, psalmum qui
incipit: Lingua mea calamus scribae velociter scribentis: magna voce
cantitans (did a piss, says he was dejected, asks to be exonerated),
demum ex stercore turpi cum divi Orionis iucunditate mixto, cocto,
frigorique exposito, encaustum sibi fecit indelibile (faked O'Ryan's,
the indelible ink).
    Then, pious Eneas, conformant to the fulminant firman which
enjoins on the tremylose terrian that, when the call comes, he
shall produce nichthemerically from his unheavenly body a no
uncertain quantity of obscene matter not protected by copriright
in the United Stars of Ourania or bedeed and bedood and bedang
and bedung to him, with this double dye, brought to blood heat,
gallic acid on iron ore, through the bowels of his misery, flashly,
faithly, nastily, appropriately, this Esuan Menschavik and the first
till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only fools-
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continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marry-
voising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history (thereby, he said,
reflecting from his own individual person life unlivable, trans-
accidentated through the slow fires of consciousness into a divi-
dual chaos, perilous, potent, common to allflesh, human only,
mortal) but with each word that would not pass away the squid-
self which he had squirtscreened from the crystalline world
waned chagreenold and doriangrayer in its dudhud. This exists
that isits after having been said we know. And dabal take dab-
nal! And the dal dabal dab aldanabal! So perhaps, agglaggagglo-
meratively asaspenking, after all and arklast fore arklyst on his
last public misappearance, circling the square, for the deathf�te
of Saint Ignaceous Poisonivy, of the Fickle Crowd (hopon the
sexth day of Hogsober, killim our king, layum low!) and brandish-
ing his bellbearing stylo, the shining keyman of the wilds of
change, if what is sauce for the zassy is souse for the zazimas, the
blond cop who thought it was ink was out of his depth but
bright in the main.
    Petty constable Sistersen of the Kruis-Kroon-Kraal it was, the
parochial watch, big the dog the dig the bog the bagger the
dugger the begadag degabug, who had been detailed from pollute
stoties to save him, this the quemquem, that the quum, from the
ligatureliablous effects of foul clay in little clots and mobmauling
on looks, that wrongcountered the tenderfoot an eveling near
the livingsmeansuniumgetherum, Knockmaree, Comty Mea, reel-
ing more to the right than he lurched to the left, on his way from
a protoprostitute (he would always have a (stp!) little pigeoness
somewhure with his arch girl, Arcoiris, smockname of Mergyt)
just as he was butting in rand the coyner of bad times under a
hideful between the rival doors of warm bethels of worship
through his boardelhouse fongster, greeting for grazious oras
as usual: Where ladies have they that a dog meansort herring?
Sergo, search me, the incapable reparteed with a selfevitant
subtlety so obviously spurious and, raising his hair, after the
grace, with the christmas under his clutcharm, for Portsymasser
and Purtsymessus and Pertsymiss and Partsymasters, like a prance

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of findingos, with a shillto shallto slipny stripny, in he skittled.
Swikey! The allwhite poors guardiant, pulpably of balltossic
stummung, was literally astundished over the painful sake, how
he burstteself, which he was gone to, where he intent to did he,
whether you think will, wherend the whole current of the after-
noon whats the souch of a surch hads of hits of hims, urged and
staggered thereto in his countryports at the caledosian capacity
for Lieutuvisky of the caftan's wineskin and even more so,
during, looking his bigmost astonishments, it was said him,
aschu, fun the concerned outgift of the dead med dirt, how that,
arrahbejibbers, conspuent to the dominical order and exking
noblish permish, he was namely coon at bringer at home two
gallonts, as per royal, full poultry till his murder. Nip up and nab
it!
    Polthergeistkotzdondherhoploits! Kick? What mother? Whose
porter? Which pair? Why namely coon? But our undilligence has
been plutherotested so enough of such porterblack lowneess, too
base for printink! Perpending that Putterick O'Purcell pulls the
coald stoane out of Winterwater's and Silder Seas sing for Harreng
our Keng, sept okt nov dez John Phibbs march! We cannot, in
mercy or justice nor on the lovom for labaryntos, stay here for
the residence of our existings, discussing Tamstar Ham of Ten-
man's thirst.
    JUSTIUS (to himother): Brawn is my name and broad is my
nature and I've breit on my brow and all's right with every fea-
ture and I'll brune this bird or Brown Bess's bung's gone bandy.
I'm the boy to bruise and braise. Baus!
    Stand forth, Nayman of Noland (for no longer will I follow
you obliquelike through the inspired form of the third person
singular and the moods and hesitensies of the deponent but ad-
dress myself to you, with the empirative of my vendettative, pro-
vocative and out direct), stand forth, come boldly, jolly me,
move me, zwilling though I am, to laughter in your true colours
ere you be back for ever till I give you your talkingto! Shem
Macadamson, you know me and I know you and all your she-
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all the morning since your last wetbed confession? I advise you
to conceal yourself, my little friend, as I have said a moment
ago and put your hands in my hands and have a nightslong
homely little confiteor about things. Let me see. It is looking
pretty black against you, we suggest, Sheem avick. You will
need all the elements in the river to clean you over it all and a
fortifine popespriestpower bull of attender to booth.
    Let us pry. We thought, would and did. Cur, quicquid, ubi,
quomodo, quoties, quibus auxiliis? You were bred, fed,
fostered and fattened from holy childhood up in this two easter
island on the piejaw of hilarious heaven and roaring the other
place (plunders to night of you, blunders what's left of you, flash
as flash can!) and now, forsooth, a nogger among the blankards
of this dastard century, you have become of twosome twiminds
forenenst gods, hidden and discovered, nay, condemned fool,
anarch, egoarch, hiresiarch, you have reared your disunited king-
dom on the vacuum of your own most intensely doubtful soul.
Do you hold yourself then for some god in the manger, Sheho-
hem, that you will neither serve not let serve, pray nor let pray?
And here, pay the piety, must I too nerve myself to pray for the
loss of selfrespect to equip me for the horrible necessity of scan-
dalisang (my dear sisters, are you ready?) by sloughing off my
hope and tremors while we all swin together in the pool of So-
dom? I shall shiver for my purity while they will weepbig for
your sins. Away with covered words, new Solemonities for old
Badsheetbaths! That inharmonious detail, did you name it? Cold
caldor! Gee! Victory! Now, opprobro of underslung pipes,
johnjacobs, while yet an adolescent (what do I say?), while
still puerile in your tubsuit with buttonlegs, you got a hand-
some present of a selfraising syringe and twin feeders (you know,
Monsieur Abgott, in your art of arts, to your cost as well as I do
(and don't try to hide it) the penals lots I am now poking at) and
the wheeze sort of was you should (if you were as bould a stroke
now as the curate that christened you, sonny douth-the-candle!)
repopulate the land of your birth and count up your progeny by
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the wious pish of your cogodparents, soph, among countless
occasions of failing (for, said you, I will elenchate), adding to the
malice of your transgression, yes, and changing its nature, (you
see I have read your theology for you) alternating the morosity
of my delectations — a philtred love, trysting by tantrums,
small peace in ppenmark — with sensibility, sponsibility, passi-
bility and prostability, your lubbock's other fear pleasures of a
butler's life, even extruding your strabismal apologia, when
legibly depressed, upon defenceless paper and thereby adding to
the already unhappiness of this our popeyed world, scribblative!
— all that too with cantreds of countless catchaleens, the man-
nish as many as the minneful, congested around and about you
for acres and roods and poles or perches, thick as the fluctuant
sands of Chalwador, accomplished women, indeed fully edu-
canded, far from being old and rich behind their dream of arri-
visme, if they have only their honour left, and not deterred by bad
weather when consumed by amorous passion, struggling to pos-
sess themselves of your boosh, one son of Sorge for all daughters
of Anguish, solus cum sola sive cuncties cum omnibobs (I'd have
been the best man for you, myself), mutely aying for that natural
knot, debituary vases or vessels preposterous, for what would
not have cost you ten bolivars of collarwork or the price of one
ping pang, just a lilt, let us trillt, of the oldest song in the wooed
woodworld, (two-we! to-one!), accompanied by a plain gold
band! Hail! Hail! Highbosomheaving Missmisstress Morna of
the allsweetheartening bridemuredemeanour! Her eye's so glad-
some we'll all take shares in the —� groom!
    Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest
of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil
and fast for our feast, you with your dislocated reason, have
cutely foretold, a jophet in your own absence, by blind poring
upon your many scalds and burns and blisters, impetiginous sore
and pustules, by the auspices of that raven cloud, your shade, and
by the auguries of rooks in parlament, death with every disaster,
the dynamitisation of colleagues, the reducing of records to
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of sweetempered gunpowdered didst unto dudst but it never
stphruck your mudhead's obtundity (O hell, here comes our
funeral! O pest, I'll miss the post!) that the more carrots you
chop, the more turnips you slit, the more murphies you peel, the
more onions you cry over, the more bullbeef you butch, the
more mutton you crackerhack, the more potherbs you pound,
the fiercer the fire and the longer your spoon and the harder you
gruel with more grease to your elbow the merrier fumes your
new Irish stew.
    O, by the way, yes, another thing occurs to me. You let me tell
you, with the utmost politeness, were very ordinarily designed,
your birthwrong was, to fall in with Plan, as our nationals
should, as all nationists must, and do a certain office (what, I will
not tell you) in a certain holy office (nor will I say where) during
certain agonising office hours (a clerical party all to yourself) from
such a year to such an hour on such and such a date at so and
so much a week pro anno (Guinness's, may I remind, were just
agulp for you, failing in which you might have taken the scales off
boilers like any boskop of Yorek) and do your little thruppenny
bit and thus earn from the nation true thanks, right here in our
place of burden, your bourne of travail and ville of tares, where
after a divine's prodigence you drew the first watergasp in your
life, from the crib where you once was bit to the crypt you'll
be twice as shy of, same as we, long of us, alone with the colt
in the curner, where you were as popular as an armenial with
the faithful, and you set fire to my tailcoat when I hold the
paraffin smoker under yours (I hope that chimney's clear) but,
slackly shirking both your bullet and your billet, you beat it
backwards like Boulanger from Galway (but he combed the grass
against his stride) to sing us a song of alibi, (the cuthone call over
the greybounding slowrolling amplyheaving metamorphoseous
that oozy rocks parapangle their preposters with) nomad, mooner
by lamplight, antinos, shemming amid everyone's repressed
laughter to conceal your scatchophily by mating, like a thorough-
paste prosodite, masculine monosyllables of the same numerical
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sixpenny stile, an unfrillfrocked quackfriar, you (will you for
the laugh of Scheekspair just help mine with the epithet?) semi-
semitic serendipitist, you (thanks, I think that describes you)
Europasianised Afferyank!
    Shall we follow each others a steplonger, drowner of daggers,
whiles our liege, tilyet a stranger in the frontyard of his happi-
ness, is taking, (heal helper! one gob, one gap, one gulp and
gorger of all!) his refreshment?
    There grew up beside you, amid our orisons of the speediest
in Novena Lodge, Novara Avenue, in Patripodium-am-Bummel,
oaf, outofwork, one remove from an unwashed savage, on his
keeping and in yours, (I pose you know why possum hides is
cause he haint the nogumtreeumption) that other, Immaculatus,
from head to foot, sir, that pure one, Altrues of other times,
he who was well known to celestine circles before he sped
aloft, our handsome young spiritual physician that was to be,
seducing every sense to selfwilling celebesty, the most winning
counterfeuille on our incomeshare lotetree, a chum of the
angelets, a youth those reporters so pettitily wanted as game-
fellow that they asked his mother for ittle earps brupper to
let him tome to Tindertarten, pease, and bing his scooter
'long and 'tend they were all real brothers in the big justright
home where Dodd lives, just to teddyfy the life out of him
and pat and pass him one with other like musk from hand to
hand, that mothersmothered model, that goodlooker with not
a flaw whose spiritual toilettes were the talk of half the town, for
sunset wear and nightfallen use and daybroken donning and
nooncheon showing and the very thing for teasetime, but him
you laid low with one hand one fine May morning in the Meddle
of your Might, your bosom foe, because he mussed your speller
on you or because he cut a pretty figure in the focus of your
frontispecs (not one did you slay, no, but a continent!) to find
out how his innards worked!
    Ever read of that greatgrand landfather of our visionbuilders,
Baaboo, the bourgeoismeister, who thought to touch both him-
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the waters of his thought? Ever thought of that hereticalist Marcon
and the two scissymaidies and how bulkily he shat the Ructions
gunorrhal? Ever hear of that foxy, that lupo and that monkax
and the virgin heir of the Morrisons, eh, blethering ape?
    Malingerer in luxury, collector general, what has Your Low-
ness done in the mealtime with all the hamilkcars of cooked
vegetables, the hatfuls of stewed fruit, the suitcases of coddled
ales, the Parish funds, me schamer, man, that you kittycoaxed so
flexibly out of charitable butteries by yowling heavy with a
hollow voice drop of your horrible awful poverty of mind so as
you couldn't even pledge a crown of Thorne's to pawn a coat
off Trevi's and as how you was bad no end, so you was, so whelp
you Sinner Pitre and Sinner Poule, with the chicken's gape and
pas mal de si�cle, which, by the by, Reynaldo, is the ordinary
emetic French for grenadier's drip. To let you have your plank
and your bonewash (O the hastroubles you lost!), to give you
your pound of platinum and a thousand thongs a year (O, you
were excruciated, in honour bound to the cross of your own
cruelfiction!) to let you have your Sarday spree and holinight sleep
(fame would come to you twixt a sleep and a wake) and leave to
lie till Paraskivee and the cockcock crows for Danmark. (O
Jonathan, your estomach!) The simian has no sentiment secre-
tions but weep cataracts for all me, Pain the Shamman! Oft in
the smelly night will they wallow for a clutch of the famished
hand, I say, them bearded jezabelles you hired to rob you, while
on your sodden straw impolitely you encored (Airish and naw-
boggaleesh!) those hornmade ivory dreams you reved of the
Ruth you called your companionate, a beauty from the bible, of
the flushpots of Euston and the hanging garments of Maryle-
bone. But the dormer moonshee smiled selene and the light-
throwers knickered: who's whinging we? Comport yourself,
you inconsistency! Where is that little alimony nestegg against
our predictable rainy day? Is it not the fact (gainsay me, cake-
eater!) that, while whistlewhirling your crazy elegies around
Templetombmount joyntstone, (let him pass, pleasegood-
jesusalem, in a bundle of straw, he was balbettised after hay-

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making) you squandered among underlings the overload of
your extravagance and made a hottentot of dulpeners crawsick
with your crumbs? Am I not right? Yes? Yes? Yes? Holy wax
and holifer! Don't tell me, Leon of the fold, that you are not a
loanshark! Look up, old sooty, be advised by mux and take your
medicine. The Good Doctor mulled it. Mix it twice before re-
pastures and powder three times a day. It does marvels for your
gripins and it's fine for the solitary worm.
    Let me finish! Just a little judas tonic, my ghem of all jokes, to
make you go green in the gazer. Do you hear what I'm seeing,
hammet? And remember that golden silence gives consent, Mr
Anklegazer! Cease to be civil, learn to say nay! Whisht! Come
here, Herr Studiosus, till I tell you a wig in your ear. We'll do a
whisper drive, for if the barishnyas got a twitter of it they'd tell
the housetops and then all Cadbury would go crackers. Look!
Do you see your dial in the rockingglass? Look well! Bend down
a stigmy till I! It's secret! Iggri, I say, the booseleers! I had it
from Lamppost Shawe. And he had it from the Mullah. And Mull
took it from a Bluecoat schooler. And Gay Socks jot it from
Potapheu's wife. And Rantipoll tipped the wink from old Mrs
Tinbullet. And as for she was confussed by pro-Brother Thaco-
licus. And the good brother feels he would need to defecate
you. And the Flimsy Follettes are simply beside each other.
And Kelly, Kenny and Keogh are up up and in arms. That a
cross may crush me if I refuse to believe in it. That I may rock
anchor through the ages if I hope it's not true. That the host
may choke me if I beneighbour you without my charity! Sh!
Shem, you are. Sh! You are mad!
    He points the deathbone and the quick are still. Insomnia,
somnia somniorum. Awmawm.
    MERCIUS (of hisself): Domine vopiscus! My fault, his fault,
a kingship through a fault! Pariah, cannibal Cain, I who oathily
forswore the womb that bore you and the paps I sometimes
sucked, you who ever since have been one black mass of jigs and
jimjams, haunted by a convulsionary sense of not having been
or being all that I might have been or you meant to becoming,

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bewailing like a man that innocence which I could not defend
like a woman, lo, you there, Cathmon-Carbery, and thank Movies
from the innermost depths of my still attrite heart, Wherein
the days of youyouth are evermixed mimine, now ere the comp-
line hour of being alone athands itself and a puff or so before
we yield our spiritus to the wind, for (though that royal one
has not yet drunk a gouttelette from his consummation and the
flowerpot on the pole, the spaniel pack and their quarry, retainers
and the public house proprietor have not budged a millimetre
and all that has been done has yet to be done and done again,
when's day's woe, and lo, you're doomed, joyday dawns and,
la, you dominate) it is to you, firstborn and firstfruit of woe, to
me, branded sheep, pick of the wasterpaperbaskel, by the
tremours of Thundery and Ulerin's dogstar, you alone, wind-
blasted tree of the knowledge of beautiful andevil, ay, clothed
upon with the metuor and shimmering like the horescens, astro-
glodynamonologos, the child of Nilfit's father, blzb, to me
unseen blusher in an obscene coalhole, the cubilibum of your
secret sigh, dweller in the downandoutermost where voice only
of the dead may come, because ye left from me, because ye
laughed on me, because, O me lonly son, ye are forgetting me!,
that our turfbrown mummy is acoming, alpilla, beltilla, ciltilla,
deltilla, running with her tidings, old the news of the great big
world, sonnies had a scrap, woewoewoe! bab's baby walks at
seven months, waywayway! bride leaves her raid at Punchestime,
stud stoned before a racecourseful, two belles that make the
one appeal, dry yanks will visit old sod, and fourtiered skirts
are up, mesdames, while Parimiknie wears popular short legs,
and twelve hows to mix a tipsy wake, did ye hear, colt Cooney?
did ye ever, filly Fortescue? with a beck, with a spring, all her
rillringlets shaking, rocks drops in her tachie, tramtokens in
her hair, all waived to a point and then all inuendation, little
oldfashioned mummy, little wonderful mummy, ducking under
bridges, bellhopping the weirs, dodging by a bit of bog, rapid-
shooting round the bends, by Tallaght's green hills and the
pools of the phooka and a place they call it Blessington and

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slipping sly by Sallynoggin, as happy as the day is wet, bab-
bling, bubbling, chattering to herself, deloothering the fields on
their elbows leaning with the sloothering slide of her, giddy-
gaddy, grannyma, gossipaceous Anna Livia.
    He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak.
    — Quoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoiq!

Jim + Shem, son of Noah + FDV: Shem is short for Shemus as Jim is jokey for Jacob. A few are found still who say that Originally of respectable connections his back life simply won't stand being written about;

Cain - Ham (Shem) - Esau - Jim the Penman / wellknown for violent abuse of self & others. lives at expense of ratepayers in haunted inkbottlehouse infested with the raps [the worst, it is believed, in the western word for pure filth.] boycotted, local publican refuse to supply books, papers, synthetic ink, foolscap, makes his own from dried dung sweetened with spittle (indelible ink) writes universal history on his own body (parchment) hospitality, all drunk & rightly indignant. (Joyce had a great deal of difficulty evolving this character, as witness the disorganized state of his first draft)

shamus - a police officer; a private detective + Shemus - man in Yeats' Countess Cathleen who sells his soul to devil + James

DRAFT TWO: Shem is as short for Shemus as Jim is joky for Jacob. A few toughnecks are still found scattered who say that originally very originally he was of respectable connections (- - - was among his cousins) but every honest to goodness man in the land of today knows that his back life will not stand being written about. Putting truth and lies together some shot may be made at how this hybrid actually looked.

pretend - to put forward as an assertion or statement, to allege; now esp. to allege or declare falsely or with intent to deceive

aboriginally - from the very beginning, in the earliest times or conditions known to the history or science

stemming - originating from (the action of the verb stem: to derive or take origin from)

outlet - issue + lex (l) - law + outlaw - one put outside the law and deprived of its benefits and protection + (illegitimate child).

Ragnar Lodbrok ("shaggy breeches") - Viking, saga hero who, tradition says, died in Ireland

Bluebeard - a personage of popular mythology, so called from the colour of his beard. References are frequent in literature to the locked turret-chamber, in which hung the bodies of his murdered wives + blau (ger) - blue + barbe (fr) - beard.

Harald Fair Hair (Haarfager) (850-933) - first king of Norway, annexed Scottish isles + horrid.

warfare + there's hair, like wire! (phrase) - there's a girl with a lot of long and stiff hair! (catch-phrase of the early 20th century).

inlaw - a relative by marriage. This term was used in a much broader sense than it is today, referring to any relationship created by legal means (normally a marriage). For example, a stepfather was normally called a father-in-law + [(notebook 1924): 'an in-law of'].

Sir George Birdwood: Sva (1910), xxi: 'there must be wars, and in the earlier stages of the evolution of humanity from savagery to barbarism... there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels, against the Dragon and his angels' [114.13]

Bloggs - mock English working-class name + {became an in-law [brother] to the respectable de Trop Blogg [Shaun]}

distant relations (notebook 1924) → Sullivan: The Book of Kells 41: 'the zoomorphic, or animal, forms introduced in the decoration of the Manuscript... distant relations, as it were, of the lion, the calf, and the eagle, of the Evangelical symbols'.

black and white - simple and direct + in black and white - in writing or in print.

adze - an edge tool used to cut and shape wood + "In the stars of the Great Bear the Egyptians saw an adze or a fore-leg... The constellation of the Great Bear is the sign of Seth, as Orion is the star of Osiris and Sirius the star of Isis" H. Te Velde: Seth, God of Confusion + Adzehead - St Patrick was so called by the Irish, probably because of the shape of his tonsure. Prophecy of the Druids: "Adzehead will come and build cities." [(notebook 1924): 'adzehead with crookhead staff' → Bury: The Life of St. Patrick 79: 'Adze-head will come with a crook-head staff'].

gull + Tailcenn (talken) (gael) - Adze-head (name for St. Patrick, from tonsure or miter) + FDV: 1 eye halfopen, 1 arm, 42 hairs on his head, 17 on upper lip, 5 on chin, the wrong shoulder high [then the right], 3 teeth, all ears, no feet, 10 5 thumbs, � a buttock, � & � a testicle, - - when is man not a man? A forger, can imitate all styles, some of his own. 1st copies of most original masterpieces even the most venerated impostures were not spared slipped from his plagiarist pen. Sings hymn: lingua Lingua mea calamus scribae, veliciter scribentis.

eye + DRAFT TWO: His bodily makeup getup, it seems, included 1 halfopen an ⅛ of an eye, 1 arm, 42 hairs on to his crown, 18 on from his upper lip, 5 on from his chin, the wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, no feet, 5 a handful of thumbs, 2 fifths of a 2 buttocks, a testicle stone & a half, so much so that in the very dawn of history even Shem himself seeing himself, when playing with words in the his garden nursery asked of his brothers brethren & sisters the first riddle of the universe: When is a man not a man?: offering a prize of a crabapple to the winner.

have something up one's sleeve - to have something in reserve, or at one's disposal

uncrown - to deprive of a crown, dethrone; to uncover, to display + one crown + Uncrowned king of Ireland - Parnell.

barbel (OF) - 'little beard' + barbel - a filament hanging from the mouths of some fishes + DRAFT TWO (SDV): 1 arm, 42 hairs on to his crown, 18 on from his upper lip, 5 on from his chin,

mega- (gr) - great- + meigead (Irish) - goat's chin and beard + Ulysses.15.3369: 'THE NANNYGOAT (bleats) Megeggaggegg!' + goatee - a small chin beard trimmed into a point [named for its resemblance to a goat's beard (Joyce had one at different times)].

not a leg to stand on - with no support whatever; with no chance of getting away with it + SDV: all ears, no feet, 5 a handful of thumbs,

handful - a quantity that fills the hand; a small quantity or amount. (Usually depreciative) + phrase: handful of thumbs (awkward).

fifth - one of five equal parts into which a quantity may be divided + FDV: � a buttock, � & � a testicle, + SDV: 2 fifths of a 2 buttocks, a testicle stone & a half,

116 + gleet - sticky or greasy filth + steen - an earthenware container for liquids or foods + stone (Slang) - testicle + 1 stone = 14 pounds + Gladstone.

avoirdupois - weight, degree of heaviness; the standard system of weights used, in Great Britain, for all goods except the precious metals, precious stones, and medicines.

manroot - an herpaceous california vine with an enormous root + (notebook 1924): 'manroot ginseng' → Perry: The Origin of Magic and Religion 153: (of the initiation rituals of the Ojibwa) 'use is made of ginseng, "man root," which is supposed to be of "divine" origin' + manroot (Slang) - penis.

(salmon) kelts (notebook 1924) → Irish Statesman 30 Aug 1924, 800/1: 'Salmon by the Million. A New View': 'The killing of kelts by the poacher is evidently not such a serious matter as we thought, for if the salmon as a rule only spawns once, the kelt as a rule will not return to the river' + kelt - a salmon or sea trout after spawning and before returning to the sea.

debouch - to issue from a narrow or confined place, as a defile or a wood, into open country; hence gen. to issue or emerge from a narrower into a wider place or space.

protohistory - a period between prehistory and history, during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted its existence in their own writings.

pilling - plundering, robbing; removal of the skin, bark, etc. + pill - trans. To dose with pills + feeling + *VYC* + pounds, shillings and pence.

anna - an East Indian denomination of money; the 16th part of a rupee + annus (l) - year + *A*.

full score - Mus. a score in which the parts for all voices and instruments are given on separate staves + (28+1 = *Q*).

tester - a shilling of Henry VII decreasing from 9 pence to 6 pence in Shakespere’s time + *X* (with ass).

groat - a denomination of coin which was recognized from the 13th c. in various countries of Europe. Its standard seems to have been in the 14th c. theoretically one-eighth of an ounce of silver.

dinar - Serbian or Arabic coin; also, name given to various oriental coins (applied anciently to a gold coin, corresponding to the Byzantine denarius auri, or crown of gold, and to the gold mohr of later times) + Dinah (*K*).

jo - a gold Portuguese coin (18, 19 c.) + joe (Slang) - fourpenny piece + not for Joe (Anglo-Irish phrase) - definitely not (after song Not for Joseph, a 19th century music-hall song, inspired by Joseph Baxter, a bus driver who was in the habit of exclaiming 'Not for Joe!') + Joe (*S*).

The O'Gorman Mahan. When is a man not a man? (LB) (notebook 1923) → Charles James Patrick Mahon (The O'Gorman Mahon) was a 19th century colourful Irishman who served as a high-ranking officer in several armies around the world; LB is Leopold Bloom of Joyce's Ulysses + Maurice Mahon (Tubhan) + REFERENCE

this day, Monday, Monday was (a), etc. fortnight - a fortnight from (this day, etc.) + The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. I, 231: The Tale of Nur al-Din Ali and His Son: 'His day was as a month' (glossed in a footnote: 'He grew as fast in one day as other children in a month').

crab - the wild apple tree of northern Europe, the original of the common apple (generally known as "wild apple", "crab apple", "crabapple" or "crab"); the common name for decapod crustaceous animals of the tribe Brachyura, applied especially to the edible species found on or near the sea coast in most regions of the world + according to Greek mythology, Juno took Cancer (the Crab) to be a constellation in heaven as a reward for dying while biting Hercules's foot, when the latter was fighting the Hydra of Lerna.

copper age - third of four ages (gold, silver, copper, iron), i.e. human age not started yet + time is money (phrase).

unminted - not minted + mint - to make (coin) by stamping metal + (for it was in a time before mints or money).

DRAFT TWO (SDV): One said when the heavens are rocking, another a second said when other lips, a third said when the fair land of Poland, the next one said when those angel faces smile, still another said when the wine is in, one of the youngest said when father papered the parlour, still one said when you are old & grey & full of tears sleep, and still another when we were boys, & another when you come down the vale, another et enim imposuit manus episcopas fecit illum altissimis � sacerdotem & one when pigs begin to fly. All were wrong, he said. So Shem took the cake himself, the correct solution being: when he is a sham.

quaker - one that quakes + crack - to make a sharp or explosive noise [said of thunder or a cannon] (chiefly dial.) + Quakers (HERESY).

BOHEMIA - Province, West Czech, subject of Balfe's opera, "The Bohemian Girl." Arlene, heroine of the opera is a high-born girl, stolen by gypsies, who dreams she dwells in marble halls and is restored to high place and faithful lover + meandro (Italian) - labyrinth (i.e. Daedalus) + Bohemian Protestants (HERESY).

lip - to kiss + Balfe: The Bohemian Girl: Then You'll Remember Me (song): 'When other lips...' + (babbling, second stage of Viconian cycle) + SDV: another a second said when other lips,

crawsick + gnostic (Slang) - a knowing fellow + agnostos (gr) - unknown, unknowable + gnostikos (gr) - of or having knowledge + Gnostics (HERESY).

to be determined - to have come to a decision or definite resolve (to do something); to be finally and firmly resolved + (age of heroes) + Arminians (HERESY) + SDV: a third said when the fair land of Poland,

kick the bucket - to die + kiss the book of life + SDV: the next one said when those angel faces smile,

at one’s wits end - very confused + SDV: still another said when the wine is in,

conk - to punch on the nose, to hit on the head + Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin, Dublin Annals section 1822: 'Riot in the theatre, on the Marquess of Wellesley, the lord lieutenant's first visit thither, during which a bottle was flung into his Excellency's box' (by a woman during a performance of Oliver Goldsmith's 'She Stoops to Conquer') + Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 24: song 'When lovely woman stoops to folly'.

song: 'When Papa papered the parlour You couldn't see him for paste; Pasty here and pasty there Paste and paper everywhere; My mother was stuck to the ceiling, The kids were stuck to the floor; You never saw a family That was so stuck up before' + SDV: one of the youngest said when father papered the parlour,

yeat = get + Genesis 3:5: 'in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened' (snake to Eve).

William Butler Yeats: 'When You Are Old': 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep / And nodding by the fire, take down this book / And slowly read, and dream of the soft look / Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep' + SDV: still one said when you are old & grey & full of tears sleep,

Naar vi d�de vaagner (1899) - When We Dead Awaken, drama by Ibsen + deader (Slang) - corpse + SDV: and still another when we were boys,

semi- - half, partly + civilized + circumcised + SDV: & another when you come down the vale,

manana - tomorrow, the day next after the present. Often taken as a synonym of easy-going procrastination as said to be found in Spanish-speaking countries: the indefinite future + have a banana (Slang) - to have sexual intercourse with a woman + song: 'Yes, we have no bananas / We have no bananas today' + ananas - the pineapple + SDV: another et enim imposuit manus episcopas fecit illum altissimis � sacerdotem

intil - into, to, unto + when pigs begin to fly (phrase) - never + SDV: & one when pigs begin to fly.

take the cake - to carry off the honours, rank first + SDV: All were wrong, he said. So Shem took the cake himself, the correct solution being: when he is a sham.

rend - to split into parties or factions + Matthew 28:20: 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen' + Matthew 27:51: 'and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent' (when Jesus died) + Ragnar�kr (Old Norse) - destruction of the Norse gods + rocks (Slang) - testicles (i.e. castration, eunuch).

sham - a spurious imitation + shaman (i.e. Jim is shaman) + Sham, Shame - combines Shem and Ham. Suffering the first hangover, Noah dispossessed his black son, Ham, made him servant to his brothers, Shem and Japheth, who represented the Jews and the Gentiles. "Sham" represents a later time when Jews and blacks were alike dispossessed and "Shamrock" adds on the dispossessed Irish. Shaun, the Aryan supremacist, puts down his brother Shem by calling him "Sham," i.e., black and ham, a meat forbidden Jews. Wyndham Lewis is model for the Aryan supremacist. (Glasheen, Adaline / Third census of Finnegans wake).

creep - to advance or come on slowly, stealthily, or by imperceptible degrees; to insinuate oneself into + SDV: & his lowness came out first in foodstuffs.

Ibsen�s + (notebook 1924): 'Ibsen' + SDV: So low was he that he preferred Lazenby's teatime salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or friskiest troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip & Island Bridge & many was the time he said no fresh pineapple ever tasted like the chunks in Heinz's cans.

lax - a salmon + (notebook 1922-23): 'speckled lax heavy with roe' → Daily Mail 14 Dec 1922, 8/5: 'Salmon No. 23': 'a female fish of about 8lb., heavy with roe'.

parr - a young salmon before it becomes a smolt + (notebook 1924): 'parr & smolt (young salmon)'.

smolt - a young salmon in the stage intermediate between the parr and the grilse, when it becomes covered with silvery scales and migrates to the sea for the first time

gaff - to seize or strike (a fish) with a gaff (a barbed fishing spear, a stick armed with an iron hook for landing large fish, esp. salmon).

Leixlip ('salmon leap') - village in north-east County Kildare, Ireland, east of the midlands of Ireland, situated on the confluence of the River Liffey and the Rye Water.

botulism - poisoning caused by eating food, usu. imperfectly preserved, that contains botulinus toxin + (notebook 1922-23): 'botulism (coma)'.

smack - to have a slight taste or flavor, to be tinctured with any particular taste + FDV: & many was the time he said no fresh pineapple ever tasted like the chunks in Heinz's cans.

whopper - something uncommonly large of its kind; a very big thing, animal, or person

Ananias - name of a man who tried to deceive apostles (Acts 5:1-6): 'with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession and kept back part of the price'; Used allusively for a liar + ananas.

Findlater, Adam - 19th-century Dubliner who made money in groceries and spent it in civic restoration. The Dublin Presbyterian chapel in Parnell Square was restored by him and is called Findlater's Church.

Corner House - one of a number of large restaurants in London owned by J. Lyons and Co. Ltd.

Balaclava (literally 'fish pond') - Crimean village near Sevastopol, the site of a battle fought in the Crimean war.

stake = steak - a thick slice or strip of meat cut for roasting by grilling or frying

jelly - anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid.

Greeks + greh (Serbian) - sin (cyrilic 'x' = latinic 'h') + grex (l) - flock, crowd.

molten - dissolved (in a liquid); also, loosely, reduced to a partially liquid condition

greasily - unctuously, slippery + gristly - pertaining to, or of the nature of gristle; consisting or full of gristle; difficult to chew.

grunter - a pig + FDV: None of your nice long & thick bloody beefsteaks or juicy legs of melting mutton or fat belly bacon or greasy gristly pigs' feet or slice upon slice of luscious goose bosom with lump upon after lump of rich stuffing swamping in grand brown gravy for him.

go upon - to attack, to take in hand + croupon - the croup or rump of a horse or other animal.

stuffing - Cookery. Forcemeat or other seasoned mixture used to fill the body of a fowl, a hollow in a joint of meat, etc., before cooking.

bogoak - oak that has become dark from long burial in a peat bog + (notebook 1923): 'bog oak' → Flood: Ireland, Its Saints and Scholars 112: (the Cross of Cong) 'is made of oak covered with plates' + gravy - the fat and juices which exude from flesh during and after the process of cooking.

chicken hearted - timorous and cowardly as a chicken, faint-hearted + Greek, Jew (Leopold Bloom in 'Ulysses').

Jude (ger) - Jew + SDV: None of your inchthick blueblooded beef steaks or juicejelly legs of molten mutton or greasilygristly pigs' feet or slice upon slab of luscious goose bosom with lump after load of plum pudding stuffing in a swamp of bogbrown gravy for him.

ZEALAND (SEALAND, SJAELLAND) - largest of the islands of Denmark (contains Copenhagen) + Fielding: 'Oh! the roast beef of old England' + New Zealand.

somato- - body, corpse + -phage - one that eats + scatophage - a scatophagous (feeding upon dung) insect or animal + somatophagos (gr) - body-devourer, corpse-eater.

merman - an imaginary marine creature with a man's head and trunk, and a fish's or cetacean's tail instead of the lower limbs

take someone’s fancy - to cause a person to develop a liking for something + {See what happens when you mate a merman with a swan?}

run away with - to accept, believe (an idea, etc.), hurriedly, without due reflection

pharsun (farsun) (gael) - parson + (notebook 1924): 'farsoonerite' + far (Danish) - father + s�nner (Danish) - sons + forsone (Danish) - to atone.

muddle through - to blunder through, to succeed in one's object in spite of one's lack of skill and foresight

hash - a dish consisting of meat which has been previously cooked, cut small, and warmed up with gravy and sauce or other flavouring

lentils - the seed of a leguminous plant (Ervum lens, Lens esculenta); also the plant itself, cultivated for food in European countries + Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage of lentils (Genesis 25:34).

split pea - rhyming slang for 'tea' + SDV: He preferred the mess hash of Europe's lentils lentils in Europe to Ireland's tight little pea. Once when in a state of helplessly hopeless intoxication he tried to lift the peel of a citron to either nostril and hiccupped, apparently impromptu, that he could live all his days by the smell, as the citr, as the cedron, as the cedar, of the founts, on the mountains, with lemon on, of Lebanon.

impromptu - to compose off-hand; to improvise, extemporize + (notebook 1924): 'apparently impromptu'.

habit + hiba (Hungarian) - defect, deformity, fault + hibat (Persian) - giving, bestowing.

glottal stop - a sound produced by the sudden opening or shutting of the glottis with an emission of breath or voice

kukka (Finnish) - flower + FDV: Once when in a state of helplessly hopeless inebriation he tried to lift the peel of a citron to his nostrils & hiccupped apparently impromptu he could live all his days on the smell of it, as the citr, as the cedron, as the cedar on the founts on the mountains, lemon on, of Lebanon. The O, the lowness of him was beyond all that was ever known sunk to.

flourish - Of persons: To prosper, do well + (notebook 1922-23): 'live on the smell' + Psalms 92:13: 'The innocent man will flourish as the palm tree flourishes; he will grow to greatness as the cedars grow on Lebanon' + James Joyce, Dubliners: 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room': 'He'd live on the smell of an oil-rag'.

KEDRON - Stream and valley, in Jordan, between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives + Cedar of Lebanon - An evergreen coniferous tree growing up to 40 m tall, with a trunk up to 2.5 m diameter; it is native to the mountains of the Mediterranean region, Lebanon, western Syria and south central Turkey.

firstshot - weak poteen of first distillation + shot - a small drink of liquor + first come, first served (phrase).

Barett (ger) - beret + W.C. Barrett and Company, distillers, Dublin + FDV: No firewater or first shot or gutburning gin or honest red or brown beer. (SDV: honest ruddy beer either.)

jester - a person given to uttering jests or witticisms, a joker; any professed maker of amusement, esp. one maintained in a prince's court or nobleman's household.

rhubarb - plant having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked, leaves are poisonous + (red).

mandarin - a small flattened deep-coloured orange; a colour resembling that of the mandarin orange + (7 colours of rainbow).

blue funk - extreme nervousness, tremulous dread + funkel- (ger) - sparkle + funkle (Danish) - sparkle.

windigo - In the folklore of the northern Algonquian Indians: a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh + indigo

sedimental - of the nature of sediment + FDV: No. O no. But he botched up sobbed himself sick on some kind of a wheywhinging rhubarbarous yallagreen decoction of sour soured grapes & according to to hear him retching off in his sentimentality cups to his disreputable with swillers who [when they found they cd not carry another drop] were rightly indignant at his hospitality it came straight from the noble white fat, the most noble wide sat her white hide that, from the winevat of the lovely exquisite archduchess, Fanny Urinia.

betwixt the cup and the lip - while a thing is yet in hand and on the very point of being achieved + There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip (proverb) - Implies that between the time we decide to do something and the time we do it, things often go wrong + cupshot (Slang) - drunk.

retch - to stretch (oneself); to make efforts to vomit, to throw up in vomiting [(notebook 1922-23): 'retch off'].

swill - to drink freely, greedily, or to excess, like hogs devouring 'swill' or 'wash' + compotores (l) - drinking companions (literally 'withdrinkers').

indignant - moved by an emotion of anger mingled with scorn or contempt + (notebook 1924): 'offended by his hospitality'.

jo - used informally to address a man whose name the speaker does not know, guy, fellow + jo (Hungarian) - good, nice, pleasant + jo (Danish) - yes (as a reply to a negative question or assertion).

archdiocese - the diocese of an archbishop + One night drinking with Ottocaro Weiss, who had returned from the army in January 1919, Joyce sampled a white Swiss wine called Fendant de Sion. This seemed to be the object of his quest, and after drinking it with satisfaction, he lifted the half-empty glass, held it against the window like a test tube, and asked Weiss, 'What does this remind you of?' Weiss looked at Joyce and at the pale golden liquid and replied, 'Orina.' 'Si,' said Joyce laughing, 'ma di un'arciduchessa' ('Yes, but an archduchess's'). From now on the wine was known as the Archduchess.

duchess - a lady holding in her own right a position equal to that of duke; a woman of imposing demeanour or showy appearance (slang) + douche (fr) - shower + (duke, duchess).

fever + fervour - warmth or glow of feeling, passion, vehemence, intense zeal; an instance of the same + feherbor (Hungarian) - white wine.

Urania - muse of astronomy, planet, Aphrodite as spiritual love + urine + Orion + Urania - the muse of astrology (Greek mythology) + {what are you grinning at, you could fancy it [was her urine]}.

any God's quantity - abundance, large amount + (notebook 1923): 'any dog's quantity'.

black beetle - beetle (coleopterous insect) of black colour + blacking - the action of making black by applying some substance + bottle.

Kodak - the proprietary name of a range of cameras produced by Kodak Ltd. + "Where the photograph, taken through the open-eyed lens of the camera lucida (171.32), seeks to freeze the plentitude of the present in all its fleeting detail, the Wakean "scotograph," taken through "blackeye lenses" (183.17) kept as firmly "SHUT" beneath "a blind of black sailcloth" (182.32-33) as those of the eyes in sleep, seeks to capture only the absent." (John Bishop: Joyce's Book of the Dark).

apostate - a person who has renounced a religion or faith + New York Times Book Review 28 May 1922, 6: 'James Joyce's Amazing Chronicle' (review of Ulysses by Joseph Collins): (of Bloom's thoughts) 'the product of the unconscious mind of a moral monster, a pervert and an invert, an apostate to his race and his religion'.

gunshy - afraid of a gun + FDV: Lowness visibly oozed out from this dirty little beetle for the very first instant the Thornton girl with her Kodak saw him the as yet unremunerated national apostate who was genuinely guns gun & camera shy, walking taking a short cut when returning from a funeral into a Patatapapaveri's fruiterer & florist by the wrong [goods] entrance, she knew he was of a bad fast man by his walk on the spot.

fondly - affectionately, lovingly, tenderly. Also, with show of affection, caressingly.

short cut - a path or a course taken between two places which is shorter than the ordinary road

caer (Cornish) = caer (Welsh) - town, castle + Caer, worshipped by Aengus, was obliged to change into a swan every winter.

bury the hatchet - to put away strife, settle a quarrel; to cease from hostilities

exeunt - (Latin: "they go out") a stage direction signifying that at this point two or more actors leave the stage + {he tried to escape to South America via the goods exit of a fruit shop}

desh ta trin (Gipsy) - thirteen + tren (sp) - train + tren (Turkish) - railway + tren (Serbian) - moment, jiffy.

patata (it) - potato + papaveri (it) - poppies (Latin papaver: poppy) + Foster, Vere (1819-1900) - English philanthropist who helped Irish emigration in the famine. According to Ulysses (705), he put out a "handwriting copybook".

fruiterer - a dealer in fruit, a fruit-seller + SDV: Talk about lowness! Any dog's quantity of It visibly oozed out thickly from this dirty black beetle for the very first instant the Kenny Turnbull girl with her kodak saw the as yet unremunerated national apostate who was cowardly gun & camera shy taking what he fondly thought was a short cut [after having buried a friend not long before] by the wrong goods entrance into Patatapapaveri's, fruiterer's & musical florist florists', she knew he was a bad fast man by his walk on the spot.

florist - one who raises flowers for sale, or who deals in flowers + Joyce's note: 'florist' → Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin (1929), 1189: (heading under Dublin and Suburbs Trades' Directory, listing twenty establishments) 'Fruiterers and Florists'.

ciao - An informal Italian greeting or farewell (derived from Venetian Italian Dialect sciavo: (your) slave).

chiavi (it) - keys + schiavi (it) - slaves + chavi (Gipsy) - girl, child, daughter.

saor sinn (ser shin) [?] (gael) - free us + sar shin (Gipsy) - how are you?

fast - Of persons: extravagant in habits; devoted to pleasure, dissipated; usually implying a greater or less degree of immorality (a fast woman) + Belfast man.

john - guy, fellow, chap; cop, policeman + Shaun + (notebook 1924): 'Abel butcher' → Lamy, Commentarium in Librum Geneseos I.248: 'Undoubtedly Abel slaughtered the first-born of his flock in honour of God' (Genesis 4:4).

cattleman - a rearer of cattle on a ranche or run + Wyndham Lewis: Cantleman's Spring-mate (anti-feminine story).

spring - the season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow + Spring wheat - any kind of wheat sown in the spring + (time/space, wheat/meat).

hang - Of flesh: To be suspended or fastened up in the air to dry, mature or become 'high'

communicate - to transmit thoughts or feelings; to receive Communion (in the Catholic church) + excommunicate - (Eccl.) To cut off from communion; to exclude, by an authoritative sentence, from participation in the sacraments and services of the church, or from religious rites in general + Joyces' note: '.(Communicated)(Eol)'.

moreover - besides, in addition + morava (Gipsy) - to kill, to slay + Morava - river in Serbia + Moravia - a Czech country.

for love or money - at any price, by any means + luvvo (Gipsy) - money, currency.

turn out - to come to be, become ultimately + (notebook 1922-23): 'son turned out badly'.

nay - Used to introduce a more correct, precise, or emphatic statement than the one first made.

pelting - raging, furious; insignificant, paltry + pelt - to cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; to rain heavily.

blanketed - covered with a blanket + FDV: It was generally hoped when he got into debt heavily locally he wd develop suspected hereditary pulmonary T.B. and one pelting night bedded blanketed folk hearing a coarse song & splash thought all was over but of course not even there was he true to type: Low! Whole continents rang with his lowness.

song & splash (Joyce's note) → Freeman's Journal 20 Dec 1923, 8/5: 'Song's Tragic End. Mystery of the Liffey in the Early Morning': 'two seamen who were on the deck of the steamer Senda lying alongside George's quay heard a man singing a short distance away from the ship along the river side. The singing suddenly ceased, and a moment later a loud splash was heard'.

Eden - paradise + Eden Quay - one of the Dublin quays on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin. The quay runs the bank between O'Connell Bridge and Butt Bridge.

quay - an artificial bank or landing-place, built of stone or other solid material, lying along or projecting into a navigable water for convenience of loading and unloading ships.

roll - to turn over; to turn over (a matter) in the mind, consider, meditate upon (something)

all is up - all is over + SDV: About that time it was generally hoped or suspected he would develop hereditary pulmonary T.B. and one pelting [night] blanketed folk hearing a coarse song and splash off Eden Quay thought all was safely over but, though he fell heavily & locally into debt, of course not even then was could he he be true to type but cheated even death.

debit - a debt (obs.) + to fall into debt - to fall under obligation to pay something + (notebook 1924): 'got into debt locally' → Freeman's Journal 10 Jan 1924, 7/3: '"No Volition of His Own". Novel Defense of Man Charged with Forgery': 'His pay as a clerk was totally inadequate, and he got into debt locally'.

antinomian - one who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation + antinomianus (l) - believer that faith, not law, is the means of salvation.

explaudo (l) - to clap off (the stage); to drive out, to dissaprove + explode

pneuma (gr) - wind, breath, spirit + pneumatikos (gr) - of wind; inflated; breathing; spiritual + pneumantikos (gr) - prophetic by means of wind or spirit.

suffocate + 'Shem, down but not out, refuses, much to Shaun's annoyance, to accept saffron-cakes, symbols of death [in The Book of the Dead ch. XVII, saffron cakes stand for 'Osiris' or 'heaven and earth']' (Hart, Clive / Structure and motif in Finnegans wake).

sod - a piece or slice of earth together with the grass growing on it + 4 elements (fire, water, air, earth)

guardacoste (it) - coast-guard + quanto costa? (it) - how much? + guarda-costas (Portuguese) - bodyguard.

Nea polis (gr) - "New city": Naples (Vico) + Neapolitanus (l) - of Naples: Neapolitan wireless + Neapolitan - of of pertaining to Naples in Italy + near a pub.

Jonathan - (esp. in phrase Brother Jonathan.) A generic name for the people of the United States, and also for a representative United States citizen + for a jonathan to his brother + REFERENCE

here today gone tomorrow - present for only very short time (used to suggest that someone treats people in a very careless manner); someone remaining in a place for a short time + Tokay - a sweet Hungarian wine.

splice - to unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands + splash - to cause (something) to scatter fluid in flying masses + (we are broke).

the long and the short of it - the sum and the substance + Treacle Tom & Frisky Shorty [039.16-.18].

condign - worthily deserved, merited, fitting, appropriate; adequate [(notebook 1922-23): 'condign satisfaction'] + FDV: He treasured all unkind words with condign satisfaction. + SDV: All the time he kept on treasuring with condign satisfaction to himself all unkind words

backtalk - a retort or reply which is regarded as superfluous or impertinent; insulting speech, altercation + trek - a long journey or expedition (from Afrikaans) + trek (Dutch) - appetite + Dreck (ger) - dirt, filth, dung + (notebook 1924): 'treasured unkindly words'.

covetous - having an ardent or excessive desire of (or for) anything + Exodus 20:17: 'thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife' (9th Commandment, according to Roman Catholic tradition).

Munda - of or pertaining to the Mundas (pre Aryan people of India); a group of East Indian languages (including Santali) + Munda - Caesar's last and most costly victory + munda cor meum (l) - cleanse my heart (Mass) + Monday.

conversazione - intellectual gathering for discussion of arts or sciences + conversazione (Italian) - conversation, assembly for discussion or recreation + Joyce's note: 'conversazione'.

commote - to put into commotion, disturb + commited + (notebook 1924): 'commote'.

tippit - a game of chance, played by two parties of two or three a side; in one of the hands on one side a coin is hidden, and a player on the opposite side has to guess in which hand it is, touching the hand and saying tip it + titbit - a brief and isolated interesting item of news or information + FDV: delicate hints

wellwisher - one who wishes well to another + SDV: and if ever, during a conversazione in the nation's interest delicate hints were put thrown out to him about it, by some wellwisher in vain pleading with him to be a man such as:

opprobrious - conveying opprobrium or injurious reproach, abusive + (notebook 1924): 'opprobrium' → Outlook 29 Apr 1922, 339: 'James Joyce's Ulysses' (review by Arnold Bennett): 'Is the staggering indecency justified by the results obtained?... For myself I think that in the main it is not... but I must plainly add, at the risk of opprobrium, that in the finest passages it is'.

papist - an adherent of the pope; esp. an advocate of papal supremacy; a Roman Catholic + Joyce's note: 'papist'.

brace up - to cheer up, enliven, raise the morale of; to pull oneself together for an effort

kudos - glory, fame, renown (Greek kydos: glory, renown) + k�gy� (Hungarian) - snake (Pronunciation 'kidoo').

scrounger - one who lives at the expense of others, one who sponges + (notebook 1924): 'scrounger'.

souse - a drunkard; to intoxicate thoroughly + sosie (fr) - double, counterpart + scusi (it) - beg your pardon.

come across - to come upon or meet obliquely, indirectly, or unintentionally + crux (l) - cross + FDV: If ever in the public interest delicate hints were put to him during a conversazione [by wellwishers pleading with him to be a man] such as: What is the meaning of that foreign word if you ever came across it, we think it is canaille?:

canaille - the lowest class of people, the mob; a member of the canaille + canaille (fr) - rabble, mob; scoundrel (literally 'pack of dogs') + (notebook 1924): 'How wd you say canaille?' (on a Joyce's notebook page with several entries from Cr�pieux-Jamin's Les �l�ments de l'�criture des Canailles).

kennel - a house for dogs; a pack of dogs; canaille + FDV: or: do did you ever anywhere captain, in your tales of travels happen to meet a gentleman named by the name of something like [Low] Bugger who lives on loans & is 35 yrs of age? :

Gulliver's Travels - a novel by Jonathan Swift (ISAAC BICKERSTAFF) + gullible - capable of being gulled or duped; easily cheated, befooled.

whimper - to complain pulingly, to utter in a low and whining tone + SDV: or: Did you anywhere, captain, in your tales of travel happen to meet stumble over upon a gentleman by answering to the name of something like Low Bugger who lives on loans and is 35 years of age?:

lives on loans & is 35 (notebook 1924) → Cr�pieux-Jamin: Les �l�ments de l'�criture des Canailles 288: 'his great defects have propelled him and his family into a black misery. He lives on loans, on begging, and he is thirty-five'.

landlubber - a sailor's term of contempt for a landsman + FDV: he would begin without a sign of haste like a first class supreme prig [with a vacant [landlubber] look] to tell all the persons in the conversazione the whole lifelong story of his low existence

outer - an outer garment or the outer part of a garment + on the outer - penniless; out of favour, excluded.

lauschen (ger) - to eavesdrop + Lauscher (ger) - listener + {put a pencil in his ear}

prattling parnel - an old name for the plant London Pride (Saxifraga umbrosa) + Parnell.

kill time - to consume or spend (time, or any portion of time), so as to bring it to an end + SDV: & then, with what closely approached a lie lisping to kill time,

ALBION - Oldest name of Britain, rentined as poetical name of England + Albigensian heresy.

intelligentsia - the class of society regarded as possessing culture and political initiative; irresponsible middle-class with ideas (term originated in pre-revolutionary Russia) [ (notebook 1923): 'intelligentsia'] + intelligentia (l) - information, news, tidings.

samtale (Danish) - conversation + aisy (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - easy + Tamil and Santali are Indian languages (of different families).

conclamation - a loud calling out of many together + conclamazione (it) - acclamation + conversazione (it) - conversation.

law merchant - a special system of rules for the regulation of trade and commerce, differing in some respects from the Common Law + Chiniquy: The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional 65: 'I am now more than seventy-one years old, and in a short time I shall be in my grave. I shall have to give an account of what I now say. Well, it is in the presence of my great Judge, with my tomb before my eyes, that I declare to the world that very few�yes, very few�priests escape from falling into the pit of the most horrible moral depravity the world has ever known, through the confession of females. I do not say this because I have any hard feelings against those priests; God knows that I have none. The only feelings I have are of supreme compassion and pity. I do not reveal these awful things to make the world believe that the priests of Rome are a worse set of men than the rest of the innumerable fallen children of Adam; no; I do not entertain any such views; for everything considered, and weighed in the balance of religion, charity and common sense�I think that the priests of Rome are far from being worse than any other set of men who would be thrown into the same temptations, dangers, and unavoidable occasions of sin. For instance, let us take lawyers, merchants, or farmers, and, preventing them from living with their lawful wives, let us surround each of them from morning to night, by ten, twenty, and sometimes more, beautiful women and tempting girls, who would speak to them of things which would pulverize a rock of Scotch granite, and you will see how many of those lawyers, merchants, or farmers would come out of that terrible moral battlefield without being mortally wounded.'

belfry - a bell-tower + (notebook 1924): 'belfry politics' → politique de clocher (fr) - petty narrow-minded local politics (literally 'belfry politics').

sacristan - an officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton

board - food served at the table; daily meals provided in a lodging or boarding-house

carnal - bodily, fleshly, material + Like Joyce, Shem emigrates to Europe, staying at the Hotel Corneille in Paris + corna (it) - horns (i.e. cuckold) + canaille + SDV: begin to tell all the persons intelligentsia in at the conversazione consciously the whole lifelong story of his entire low existence, .

farfamed - widely and favorably known + (notebook 1924): 'reputed father of Jesus' → Kinane: St. Patrick 16: (of Jesus) 'St. Joseph, His reputed father, and next to Mary in power and glory'.

humhum - a coarse cotton cloth imported from India + hum - an inarticulate exclamation uttered with the lips closed, either in a pause of hesitation or embarrassment, or as expressing slight dissatisfaction, dissent, etc.

sept - a branch of a family esp. one which all members are believed to have descended from a single ancestor

vice versa - with a reversal or transposition of the main items in the statement just made

three cheers - three successive cheers in unison, freq. for someone or something + Joyce's note: '3 jeers!'

paper beg + Pepper's ghost - theatrical illusion + beg (Anglo-Irish) - little.

lighty - bright, shining; enlightened, well-informed + light - characterized by levity, frivolous, unthinking.

scrapy - producing a harsh grating noise + scrappy - inclined to scrap or fight, pugnacious; made up of odds and ends, disjointed, unconnected. quarrelsome.

bottom sawyer - a worker at a saw pit who stands below the timber + Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

testimony - personal or documentary evidence or attestation in support of a fact or statement; hence, any form of evidence or proof

on behalf of - in the name of, as the agent or representative of, on account of, for, instead of

glib - speaking smoothly and with flippant rapidity + SDV: giving unsolicited testimony on behalf of others as glib as eaves' water

semantic - (the study or analysis of) the relationships between linguistic symbols and their meanings [(notebook 1924): 'semantic'].

inkstand - a small vessel for holding ink (to dip the pen into); also, a device for holding ink and writing materials + instance

misused - improperly used, violated, abused + FDV: explaining the meanings of all the other foreign words he used and telling every lie imaginable about all the other people in the story whom he met except the simple word and person they had asked him about until they were completely undeceived.

cuttlefish - Used allusively in reference to the animal's habit of darkening the water when alarmed (obs.)

unshrinkable - uncapable of being shrunk + SDV: explaining the various senses of all the foreign words he misused and telling every lie imaginable unthinkable about all the other people in the story

foreconscious = preconscious - not present in consciousness but capable of being recalled without encountering any inner resistance (PICTURE).

word and place and person + SDV: except the simple word & person they had cornered him about until they were completely undeceived about him.

undeceive - to free (a person) from deception or mistake; to deliver from an erroneous idea [Joyce's note: 'undeceived'].

rigmarole - a succession of incoherent statements, an unconnected or rambling discourse, a long-winded harangue of little meaning or importance + Desmond MacCarthy: Criticism (1932): (of Work in Progress) 'rigmaroles' [183.22] [189.04]

SDV: It went without saying that he disliked anything anyway approaching a plain common straightforward standup or knockdown row & once when he was called in to umpire an octagonal argument among slangwhangers the low accomplished washout always agreed rubbed shoulders with the last speaker and agreed to every word as soon as half uttered with all his heart and then at once turned focussed his whole unbalanced attention to on the next octagonist who managed to catch a listener's eye, asking & imploring him out of his piteous one blinker winker whether there was anything in the wide world he cd do for to please him & to overflow his tumbler for him yet once more.

stand up - Pugilism. Of a contest: In which the combatants stand up fairly to one another without wrestling, flinching or evasion; esp. in (a fair, square, etc.) stand-up fight.

knock down - a stand up or free fight + "A collision with someone was the type of blunder which no sorcerer, much less a nagual, should ever make." (Carlos Castaneda: The Power of Silence)

row - a noisy dispute or quarrel + (notebook 1923): 'from anything whatsoever approaching a row' ('ever' not clear).

accomplished - highly skilled, complete in acquirements usually as the result of training

washout - one who fails in a course of study; a complete failure, a useless person, a person eliminated from a course of training + (notebook 1922-23): 'She is a washout' + 'a washout'.

rub shoulders with - to come into contact, to associate, with others + Joyces' note: 'rub shoulders with' → Irish Times 30 Dec 1922, 9/2: 'Resignation of Trinity's Chief Steward': 'We have kept Mr. Marshall's acquaintance with Royalty to the last. He rubbed shoulders (literally) with them on various occasions'.

meanly disagreed with last speaker' + 'cf opinion of the last speaker' (notebook 1924).

clasp hands - to join one's hands by interlocking the fingers; also, to close or firmly join hands with another

Your servant! (Joyce's note) → Kinane: St. Patrick 17: (a prayer) 'From my hidden sins cleanse me, O Lord, and from those of others spare Thy servant'.

to think that ...! - introducing a statement of a fact thought of as remarkable or surprising.

unbiased - not unduly or improperly influenced or inclined; unprejudiced, impartial + SDV: and then at once turned focussed his whole unbalanced attention to on the next octagonist who managed to catch a listener's eye,

eyewinker - eyelash or eyelid + SDV: asking & imploring him out of his piteous one blinker winker

hemoptysis - expectoration of blood from some part of respiratory tract + haimoptysia (gr) - a state of blood-spitting + diadymenos (gr) - slipping through + haimoptysma diadyomenon (gr) - evading bloody sputum.

tantalizer - a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach + FDV: & asking imploring him out of his piteous eyes to fill up his glass tumbler for him.

FDV: Of course he disliked a good sensible row and once when he was called in as umpire in an octagonal argument among the low mean evilsmelling wretch washout agreed always rubbed shoulders with the last speaker & quite fully agreed [with all his heart] with every word as soon as uttered & absorbed while he nudged the one octagonist who was speaking at once turned his attention to the next octagonist who managed to speak nudging him & asking imploring him out of his piteous eyes to fill up his glass tumbler for him.

FDV: One night As recently as 20 years ago he was alternately kicked through the deserted village from 82 Dublin Square as far as the lefthand corner of Europe Europa Parade by two groups of argumentalists who finally went home disgustedly, thought they had better be going home disgustedly one & all, reconciled to a friendship, fast & furious, solely on account of his perfect lowness. It was [thus] hoped that people might, after giving him a roll in the dust, pity & forgive him but �

SDV: One holiday kailkannon night as recently as 20 years ago he was therefore kicked alternately through the deserted village from 82 Dublin square as far as the lefthand corner of Europa Parade by rival teams of argumentalists who finally as they had been detained out rather late thought they had better be going streaking for home disgustedly one and all, reconciled to a friendship, fast & furious, which only merely arose out of his perfect lowness.

halcyon days - fourteen days of calm weather, anciently believed to occur about the winter solstice when the halcyon was brooding + colcannon (Anglo-Irish) - potatoes mashed with butter and milk and chopped cabbage and chopped scallions, traditional Anglo-Irish dish for All Hallow's Eve.

downpour - a pouring down; esp. a heavy, continuous fall (of rain, etc.) + (notebook 1924): 'snows = years downpours = day'.

snows = years downpours = day (Joyce's note) → Chateaubriand: �uvres Choisies Illustr�es I.35, Atala: 'il y aura sept fois dix neiges, et trois neiges de plus, que ma m�re me mit au monde' (French 'it will be seven times ten snows, and three snows more, since my mother brought me into the world') (glossed in a footnote: 'Neige pour ann�e, soixante-treize ans' (French 'Snow for year, seventy-three years')) + Otto Muck came to the conclusion that the final breaking up of Atlantis occurred on June 5, 8498 B.C.

soccer - the game of football as played under Association rules + soccered (i.e. kicked) + soggarth (Anglo-Irish) - priest.

VANHOMRIGH HOUSE - Bartholomew Vanhomrigh (father of Swift's Vanessa) lived in Celbridge when Swift visited his daughter Esther there. Earlier the Vanhomrighs lived in central Dublin, on the South bank of the Liffey in the vicinity of the present George's Quay. The Ballast Office Journal for 20 Feb 1707-08 records the opinion that the channel of the Liffey should be dredged and banked "from Mr. Mercer's (formerly Vanhomrigh's) house directly with Green Patch, a little without Ringsend point" (Haliday, 235). Finnegans Wake moves Vanhomrigh's house across the river to Mabbot's Mill.

Ulysses.15.1287: 'ZOE. No, eightyone. Mrs. Cohen's' + Ulysses.17.2055: 'Mrs Bella Cohen, 82 Tyrone Street, lower'.

bis (French) - Indicating a second unit at the same adress + Haliday: The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin 234n: 'River tried from Mr. Vanhomrigh's house to Ringsend point... Channel should run from Mr. Mercer's (formerly Vanhomrigh's) house directly with Green Patch... made good the bank as far as opposite Mabbot's mill... The bank at the west end of Cock (or Cockle) Lake called Salmon Pool bank, running southwards to the Brickfields is very high' (advice of an early 18th century committee on the forming of a new channel for the river Liffey).

MABBOT'S MILL - In the 17th and early 18th centuries it stood on North bank of Liffey, about the present Talbot Street. Built by Gilbert Mabbot, whose name survived in Mabbot Lane and Mabbot (now Corporation) Street, in the heart of the (erstwhile) brothel district.

mall - a sheltered walk serving as a promenade; in some towns adopted as a proper name + FDV: from 82 Dublin Square as far as the lefthand corner of Europe Europa Parade

GREEN PATCH - A pool and anchorage in Dublin Bay just off Ringsend, before the South Wall was extended in the 18th cent. About 1710 it was decided that the South Wall should run "from Mr Mercer's (formerly Vanhomrigh's) house to Green Patch".

brickfield - a place where bricks are made + BRICKFIELDS - Area between Merrion and Sandymount, so-called in the 17th and 18th centuries; aka Lord Merrion's Brickfields. According to early records quoted by Haliday, "The bank at the west end of Cock (on Cockle) Lake called Salmon Pool bank, running southwards to the Brick Fields is very high."

SALMON POOL - Channel of the Liffey between the Dodder River and Poolbeg; an anchorage before the South and North Walls were built into Dublin Bay. Haliday, 237n: "The bank at the west end of Cock Lake cabled Salmon Pool bank, running Southwards to the Brick Fields..."

counter - a table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

quicklime - a white crystalline oxide. On treatment with water it gives putty-like substance, and is used in finish coats of plastering; to treat with quicklime + James Joyce: The Shade of Parnell: 'The citizens of Castlecomer threw quicklime in his eyes' + FDV: by two groups of argumentalists

latish - somewhat late + SDV: who finally as they had been detained out rather late

streak - to rush swiftly + striking + SDV: thought they had better be going streaking for home disgustedly one and all,

AUBURN - Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "The Deserted Village" ("Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain"), is about Auburn, an idealized village set in England but based on memories from the poet's Irish childhood.

rugger - Slang or colloquial alteration of Rugby (in the sense of 'Rugby football').

truffle - any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color

pervert - a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

contemptible - worthy only of being despised and rejected + Old Contemptibles - British Expeditionary Force, 1914.

Wicklow + SDV: Again there was a hope that people treating him with comparative contempt might, after first giving him a roll in the dust pity & forgive him but he was born low and sank lower till he sank out of sight.

Belial - the spirit of evil personified: used from early times as a name for the Devil or one of the fiends, and by Milton as the name of one of the fallen angels; Semitic god of the underworld, identified with Satan.

blood and thunder - bloodshed and violence + (Adam and Eve after Fall from the Garden of Eden).

judder - to shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively + Jude (ger) - Jew + Jyder (Danish) - 'Jutlanders' + Jute on the mound [015.29]

witchy - resembling or characteristic of a witch + Ast (Greek: Isis): throne & nbt or Hwt (Greek: Nephthys): Lady of the House + (Prankquean) [021.15] + mishe mishe (voice from afire).

strike fire - to produce (fire, a spark) by percussion, esp. by the percussion of flint and steel + "heather on Howth often on fire" (Ulysses.13.1139).

peace upon earth (Noah and God) + "rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface".

from the egg to the apples (Latin: 'ab ovo usque ad mala') - From first to last. The Romans began their �dinner� with eggs, and ended with fruits called �mala�; �Ab ovo� (Latin: 'from the beginning, the origin, the egg') is a reference to one of the twin eggs of Leda and Zeus disguised as a swan from which Helen was born. Had Leda not laid the egg, Helen would not have been born, so Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no Trojan War etc.

"When a warrior has acquired patience he is on his way to will. He knows how to wait. His death sits with him on his mat, they are friends. His death advises him, in mysterious ways, how to choose, how to live strategically. And the warrior waits! I would say that the warrior learns without any hurry because he knows he is waiting for his will; and one day he succeeds in performing something ordinarily quite impossible to accomplish. He may not even notice his extraordinary deed. But as he keeps on performing impossible acts, or as impossible things keep on happening to him, he becomes aware that a sort of power is emerging. A power that conies out of his body as he progresses on the path of knowledge. At first it is like an itching on the belly, or a warm spot that cannot be soothed; then it becomes a pain, a great discomfort. Sometimes the pain and discomfort are so great that the warrior has convulsions for months, the more severe the convulsions the better for him. A fine power is always heralded by great pain. When the convulsions cease the warrior notices he has strange feelings about things. He notices that he can actually touch anything he wants with a feeling that comes out of his body from a spot right below or right above his navel. That feeling is the will, and when he is capable of grabbing with it, one can rightfully say that the warrior is a sorcerer, and that he has acquired will. (Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality)

Humpty Dumpty (nursery rhyme): 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall' + Where there's a will there's a way (proverb) + "The obvious technical and artistic mastery of Early Kingdom temples presupposes clear thinking of some sort. But what kind of 'logic' dictates a preference for working with difficult material? To comprehend the motives of the Egyptians, we must look away from logic...What could that reason be? The Egyptian artist was not free to choose his material or his subject. Thus, it would seem that
those in command deliberately chose difficult mediums in order to create difficulties for their artists. As I have mentioned, it is universal law, dictated by the necessities of number, that achievement takes place only in the face of commensurate opposition." (John Anthony West: Serpent In The Sky The High Wisdom Of Ancient Egypt)

still - a calm, stillness, a still pool (obs.); an aparatus for distillation, a distillery

TORY ISLAND - Island, 7 miles off North coast of County Donegal; ancient haunt of pirates, esp. "Balor of the Baleful Eye," who had one eye whose glance could kill. The island was noted for its various clays, used for heat-resistant pottery.

douze = douse - to plunge vigorously in water, to throw water over + douze (fr) - twelve + dozen (*O*).

chirp - to talk in sprightly and lively tones, to give utterance to cheerful feelings

fortunous - fortuitous, fortunate, successful + O fortuna casualis (l) - O accidental fate + O fortunata causalitas (l) - O lucky causality + O Fortunatus Casus (l) - O Fortunate Fall (continuation of hymn celebrating Adam's fall [O felix culpa] because it elicited the Incarnation).

take the cake - to carry off the honours, rank first; often used ironically + cherub - an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child.

cloven hoof - ascribed in pagan mythology to the god Pan, and thence in Christian mythology to the Devil, and often used allusively as the indication of Satan, Satanic agency, or temptation.

darky = darkie - negro + FDV: He never could be got dragged to play rational national flesh & blood games such as hat in the ring, Shiela Harnett & the her cow, here's the fat to grease the priest's boots & it's now notoriously known that how when on that surprisingly bloody Sunday when the grand germogall fight battle all star bout was gaily raging between those fighting men extraordinary & Irish eyes [of blue] were smiling he fled for his bare life corked himself up in his inkbottle much badly the worse for drink and hid under a bedtick with his face enveloped in an overcoat semiparalysed by [all] the shemozzle where under the sacred shield of coward with his face & trousers changing changed colour every time a rifle spoke gat croaked.

tug - to move by pulling hard, to drag + SDV: No force could tug him out Darkie never done tug that fellow out to play flesh & blood children of nature's rational games like pickanninny hat in the ring, Sheila Harnett & her cow, put the wind up the other fellow, Healy Baba & the 40 Thieves, here's the fat to grease the priest's boots, and it is now notoriously known how on that surprisingly bloody Unity Sunday when the grand germogall all star bout was gaily the rage between our fighting men extraordinary & eyes of Irish blue were smiling up their sleeves rank funk getting the better of him, the scut fled for his bare life, without striking having struck one blow, & corked himself up tight in his inkbottle house badly the worse for drink & when he hid under a bedtick with his face enveloped in an a dead warrior's overcoat moaning feebly that his punishment was more than a nigger man could bear, and hemiparalysed by all the shemozzle, his face cheeks & trousers changing colour every time a gat croaked. How is that for low, ladies and gentlemen laymen? Why, whole continents rang with his lowness!

excretory - rel. to excretion (the action of casting out of the body that which has been separated by any of the organs; esp. evacuation of the bowels)

gassy - characterized by 'gas' or empty talk + Ghazi Power - Irish journalist [521.22]

nescimus (l) - we do not know + nemo (l) - nobody + nescimus neminem (l) - we do not know nobody (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).

rubbers - In various games of skill or chance, a set of (usually) three games, the last of which is played to decide between the parties when each has gained one + children's game: hornies and robbers (i.e. cops and robbers).

element - the surroundings in which one feels at home, ordinary range of activity

tomtom = tamtam + Thonar or Thon - god worshipped in England and on the Continent, maybe a form of Thor because his name is that of the Teutonic word for "thunder" + 'Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin'.

throw one's hat into the ring - to take up a challenge + Joyce's note 'hat in the ring'

withers - In a horse, the highest part of the back, lying between the shoulder-blades + Joyce's note: 'piss up your legs & play with with the steam' → Douglas: London Street Games 20: (quoting an argument between two children) 'Piss up yer leg, an play wiv the steam'.

slot - the opening in a slot-machine for the reception of a coin. Also (slang), a slot-machine.

sheila - a young woman, girl + Joyce's note: 'Sheila Harnett' → Irish Times 6 Jan 1923, 5/6: 'County Kerry. Death Sentence. Several People Arrested': 'Peter O'Connell... who was tried... on a charge of taking part in an attack on National troops... was convicted and sentenced to death... Sheila Harnett... and... as well as... and... have been brought to Tralee from Kenmare, and lodged in the county jail'.

adam (Hebrew) - man + el (Hebrew) - god + AL (Chaldean) - Lit. "The"; a term for God, Great, Almighty. It is the technical title of Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) which was delivered to Crowley by Aiwaz in 1904.

ell - a measure of length varying in different countries. The English ell = 45 in; "L" + Douglas: London Street Games 89: (from the book's index) 'Adam and Ell, 55' → 55: (listing girls' rope chants) 'Mademoiselle went to the Well (which is interesting because they have forgotten what 'mademoiselle' means and now call it Adam and Ell)'.

humble bee = bumble bee + Humpty Dumpty + Douglas: London Street Games 94: (from the book's index) 'Humble-bumble, 80'.

moggy - house cat, cow, calf + Douglas: London Street Games 96: (from the book's index) 'Moggies on the wall, 16' → 16n: 'Moggies are cats' + By the Magazine Wall, zinzin, zinzin (motif) + Well, how are you Maggy? (motif).

Douglas: London Street Games 101: (from the book's index) 'Two's and three's, 25, 71'.

Douglas: London Street Games 92: (from the book's index) 'Fox come out of your den, 6'.

Punch - the name of the principal character, a grotesque hump-backed figure, in the puppet-show called Punch and Judy + Douglas: London Street Games 102: (from the book's index) 'Writing letter to Punch, 15' + Punch (periodical).

tiptop - top, summit, the highest class of society; excellent + Douglas: London Street Games 101: (from the book's index) 'Tip-top is a sweets store, 56' + tip, signal word for Kate; zin, signal word for Maurice.

Douglas: London Street Games 98: (from the book's index) 'Postman's knock, 77'

Douglas: London Street Games 100: (from the book's index) 'Solomon silent reading, 16'

Douglas: London Street Games 89: (from the book's index) 'Apple-tree, peartree, etc., 47' → 47: 'Appletree, peartree, plumtree pie, How many children before I die?'.

Douglas: London Street Games 94: (from the book's index) 'I know a washerwoman, etc., 32' → 32: 'I know a washerwoman, she knows me, She invited me to tea, Guess what we had for supper -- Stinking fish and bread and butter'.

Douglas: London Street Games 89: (from the book's index) 'As I was walking, etc., 28' → 28: 'As I was walking through the City Half past eight o'clock at night, There I met a Spanish lady Washing out her clothes at night'.

Drumcolliher - "Hazelwood Ridge": Town, Co Limerick, South of Newcastle West. Percy French's song "Drumcolliher" praises Drumcolliher as a town which everyone should visit: "There's only one house in Drumcolliher / For hardware, bacon, and ten."

Douglas: London Street Games 89: (from the book's index) 'Battle of Waterloo, 79'

Douglas: London Street Games 91: (from the book's index) 'Colours, 26' → 26: 'some of the best girls' games are with skipping ropes. They have... Colours'.

Douglas: London Street Games 92: (from the book's index) 'Eggs in the bush, 68'

haberdasher - a dealer in small articles appertaining to dress, as thread, tape, ribbons, etc.; Formerly also a drink-seller + Douglas: London Street Games 93: (from the book's index) 'Haberdasher isher, etc., 55' → 55: 'Haberdasher Isher Asher Om Pom Tosh'.

Douglas: London Street Games 100: (from the book's index) 'Telling your dream, 81'

Douglas: London Street Games 102: (from the book's index) 'What's the time, 79'

mammy = mamma + Douglas: London Street Games 91: (from the book's index) 'Ducking mummy, 72, 88'.

Douglas: London Street Games 95: (from the book's index) 'Last man standing, 79'

Ali Baba - the name of the principal character in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, from the Arabian Nights + baboon - as a term of abuse; cf. ape + Punch (July 2, 1887) calls the Parliamentary Parnellites "The Forty Thieves"; with Tim Healy; Teague is a common name for an Irishman, like Paddy

handmaid - a personal maid or female servant + Barnaby Finegan (song): 'I married but once in my life, / But I'll never commit such a sin again' + (masturbated).

zip - to move or act with speed, to close or open with zipper + Old Zip Coon (song).

in the straw - in childbed, lying in (childbearing); (of corn) not yet threshed + Turkey in the Straw (song).

lusty - pleasing, pleasant (obs.) + song: 'Here we go gathering nuts in May, / On a cold and frosty morning... / This is the way we wash our hands'.

Millikin, Richard (1767-1815) - author of 'The Groves of Blarney' + Finnegan's Wake, chorus: 'Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake'.

graze - to scrape gently + grease - to smear or anoint with grease + Joyce's note: 'O lay by the fat for to grease the priest's boots' → Irish Independent 8 Jan 1924, 6/5: 'The Shoe-Black Artists': 'city people only used polish. In the country boots were greased, and goose grease being the most fashionable and highly thought of was used by the clergy. An old ballad begins: "Oh! lay by the fat to grease the priest's boots"' + The Priest in His Boots (song).

Rembrandt - Dutch painter + Enniscorthy (song): 'and the steam was like a rainbow round McCarthy'.

bludgeon - a short stout stick or club; to hit with a bludgeon, beat + (notebook 1922-23): 'surprisingly nice day' + FDV: it's now notoriously known that how when on that surprisingly bloody Sunday

Trinity Sunday - the Sunday next after Whit-Sunday (a festival in honour of the Trinity) + Joyce's note: 'bloody Sunday' → Bloody Sunday: 21/11/1920, when Black and Tans murdered civilians at Croke Park [.24]

Grand-Guignol - Paris theatre noted for scenes of horror + The Letter: "grand funeral".

gall (Irish) - foreigner + FDV: when the grand germogall fight battle all star bout was gaily raging between those fighting men extraordinary

bout - a contest or match esp. of boxing or wrestling; attack + Joyce's note: 'star bout'.

Finnegan's Wake 4 (song): 'Shillelagh law was all the rage' [originally, Poole: Tim Finigan's Wake: 'Shillalah-law was all the rage,']

Wellingtons + Tom + Tommy (Colloquial) - a private in the British army + (Joyce's note): 'fighting man extraordinary'

thick - a thick-headed or stupid person + Dick + paddywhack (Slang) - Irishman + "petty lipoleum".

speak or look daggers - to speak or look fiercely, savagely or angrily + When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (song) + FDV: & Irish eyes [of blue] were smiling + SDV: & eyes of Irish blue were smiling up their sleeves

noir, blanc et rouge (French) - black, white and red (pre-1918 German tricolour)

Black and Tans - popular name for an armed force specially recruited to combat the Sinn-Feiners in 1921, so named from the mixture (black and khaki) of constabulary and military uniforms worn by them.

imperative - expressive of command, authoritatively or absolutely directive + Kant defined an imperative as any proposition that declares a certain action (or inaction) to be necessary. A hypothetical imperative compels action in a given circumstance: if I wish to quench my thirst, I must drink something. A categorical imperative, on the other hand, denotes an absolute, unconditional requirement that asserts its authority in all circumstances, both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

pyjamas - loose drawers or trousers, usually of silk or cotton, tied round the waist, worn by both sexes in Turkey, Iran, India, etc., and adopted by Europeans in those countries, especially for night wear.

for dear life - so as to save, or, as if to save, one's life + Joyce's note: 'fly for his life'

a hon (Hungarian) = a haza (Hungarian) - the fatherland + ahany haz annyi szokas (Hungarian proverb) - as many countries as many customs + honn (Hungarian) - at home + haza (Hungarian) - homeward + ochone! (Anglo-Irish) = och�n! (Irish) - alas!

pistol + pig (Slang) - sixpence + Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 142: 'Example (in Afar): ala yo-k bata wah ani-k ramili yo utuq: camel me to was lost I miss I am because sand me throw. "Throw me some sand, since I cannot find the camel that I have lost"' (sand throwing is a form of divination for finding lost items).

lag - to linger, loiter, steal; to serve as convict, to deport as convict (Slang) + to leg it - to use the legs, to walk fast or run.

Koskenkorva - a Finnish vodka + Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 141: 'Couchitique' (French 'Cushitic'; Afar is an Eastern Cushitic language of North-East Africa) + FDV: corked himself up in his inkbottle much badly the worse for drink

go from bad to worse - to become worse + (notebook 1922-23): 'the worse for drink' → Leader 11 Nov 1922, 319/1: 'Current Topics (on 'the drink evil')': 'poor fellows... make their way home as best they can in the small hours of the morning much the worse of drink... the constable arrived back at the barrack the worse of drink!'

box - to fight with fists; now mostly of purely athletic practice with boxing-gloves

fortepiano - loud than immediately soft (direction in music); An early name of the pianoforte (a musical instrument producing tones by means of hammers, operated by levers from a keyboard, which strike metal strings, the vibrations being stopped by dampers).

bedtick - a large flat quadrangular bag or case, into which feathers, hair, straw, chaff, or other substances are put to form a bed

SWITZER'S - Long-established deptartment store on Grafton Street [Joyce's note: 'Switzers'] + Switzerland (neutral in World War I) + SDV: hid under a bedtick with his face enveloped in an a dead warrior's overcoat

almanac - an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year + Telemachus - Odysseus's son + Thelema - a religious philosophy that was developed by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley based upon a religious experience that he had in Egypt in 1904. By his account, a possibly non-corporeal being that called itself Aiwass contacted him and dictated a text known as The Book of the Law or Liber AL vel Legis, which outlined the principles of Thelema. Franciscan monk Fran�ois Rabelais in the 16th century used Th�l�me, the French form of the word, as the name of a fictional Abbey in his novels, Gargantua and Pantagruel. The only rule of this Abbey was "fay �e que vouldras" ("Fais ce que tu veux," or, "Do what thou wilt").

sunbonnet - a light bonnet with a projection in front and a cape behind to protect the head and neck from the sun + somnus (l) - sleep.

stoke - supply with a fuel or something resembling fuel + store + "A warrior cannot be helpless," he said. "or bewildered or frightened; not under any circumstances. For a warrior there is time only for his impeccability; everything else drains his power. Impeccability replenishes it." (Carlos Castaneda: The Tales of Power)

Marian - pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or characterized by special devotion to her + The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk (Ulysses.10.585) + Mon Khmer language [178.15-.16]

monothematic - having a single dominative theme + monothema (gr) - sole treasure, horoscope; solitary tomb + monotone.

tarn - (ger) - camouflage, mask + Yankee Doodle (song): 'I see another snarl of men / A digging graves they told me, / So 'tarnal long, so 'tarnal deep, / They 'tended they should hold me... / ...And every time they shoot it off, / It takes a horn of powder, / and makes a noise like father's gun, / Only a nation louder.'

ampullar - resembling or rel. to an ampulla (a small nearly globular flask or bottle, with two handles) + ampulla (l) - flask.

padre - 'father': a title applied in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America, to the regular clergy + Padraig (padrig) (gael) - Patrick + Patrick's Purgatory - a cave on an island in Lough Derg, which Christ revealed to St Patrick, saying that whoever spent a day and a night there would witness hell's torments, heaven's bliss. It was a favorite resort of pilgrims, but was closed by the pope's order on St Patrick's Day, 1497. Also, according to legend it was the last stronghold of the devil in Ireland until St Patrick drove the devil out by 40 days of fasting and prayer).

bloke - man, chap, fellow + Genesis 4:13: 'And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear' + knickerbocker + SDV: moaning feebly that his punishment was more than a nigger man could bear,

tong - a deep sound given out by a large bell; a secret society esp. among chinese formerly notorious for gang warfare and associated with racketeering, gambling and drugs; attrib., esp. in tong war.

shemozzle - a confused situation or affair, mess, quarrel, row [Joyce's note: 'shemozzle']

joss (Pidgin) - God + Litany of Blessed Virgin Mary: 'Hail Mary, full of grace. Holy Mary, mother of God'.

his trousers changed colour (notebook 1923) + (shitting himself in fright) + "The mystery or the secret of the sorcerers' explanation is that it deals with unfolding the wings of perception." He put his hand over my writing pad and said that I should go to the bushes and take care of my bodily functions, and after that I should take off my clothes and leave them in a bundle right where we were. (Carlos Castaneda: The Tales of Power)

gat - a revolver or other gun (gangsters' slang, 1920s) + FDV: his face & trousers changing changed colour every time a rifle spoke gat croaked.

croak - to utter a deep, hoarse, dismal cry, as a frog or a raven + (notebook 1924): 'croak with a gat (shoot)' + SDV: hemiparalysed by all the shemozzle, his face cheeks & trousers changing colour every time a gat croaked.

"At one moment I had an inconceivable sensation. I was fully and soberly aware that I was standing on the edge of the rock with don Juan and don Genaro whispering in my ears, and then in the next instant I was looking at the bottom of the ravine." (Carlos Castaneda: The Tales of Power)

laity - the body of the people not in orders as opposed to the clergy; unprofessional people, as opposed to those who follow some learned profession, to artists, etc. + SDV: How is that for low, ladies and gentlemen laymen?

Christian + ...who allegedly had heard him blaspheme Muhammad, whereupon the Turk is reported to have said: "That dog of a Christian shall die by my hand." + Crossguns Bridge, Dublin.

Karakorum - ancient capital of Mongolia, established by Genghis Khan + Cairo + Koran - the sacred book of the Muslims, consisting of revelations orally delivered at intervals by Muhammad, and collected in writing after his death + koira (Finnish) - dog.

Sheol - the underworld; the abode of the dead or departed spirits, conceived by the Hebrews as a subterranean region clothed in thick darkness, return from which is impossible + shoal - a large number of persons thronging together, a troop, crowd.

houri - a nymph of the Muslim Paradise. Hence applied allusively to a voluptuously beautiful woman.

chemise - the under-garment, usually of linen, worn by females + Joyce's note: 'chem(ise)' → Freeman's Journal 23 Jun 1924, 1/6: 'CLERYS SOME WONDERFUL BARGAINS FOR THIS SUMMER': (of chemises) 'Useful Chem. In good quality Longcloth, daintly trimmed Swiss work with V or square shaped neck. Bargain Price 1/11'.

vespertine - rel. to evening, blossoming in the evening + revolsae stellae vespertinae (l) - violated stars of the evening.

scaly - having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles + "You must fix your gaze on the nagual" he said. "All thoughts and words must be washed away." He repeated it five or six times. His voice was strange, unknown to me. It gave me the actual feeling of the scales on the skin of a lizard. That simile was a feeling not a conscious thought. Each of his words peeled, like scales. There was such an eerie rhythm to them. They were muffled; dry; like soft coughing; a rhythmical murmur made into a command. (Carlos Castaneda: The Tales of Power)

SDV: But would anyone believe it out short of a madhouse believe it? Nero or Nabuchadonosor himself never nursed such a spoiled opinion of his monster marvellosity as did this mental defective who bragged was known to brag on one occasion to an interlocutor he used to pal around with in a gipsy's bar that he was aware of no other person either exactly unlike or precisely the same as what he fancied or guessed he was himself he himself was.

New York Times Book Review 28 May 1922, 6: 'James Joyce's Amazing Chronicle' (review of Ulysses by Joseph Collins): (of Joyce) 'He is the only individual that the writer has encountered outside of a madhouse who has let flow from his pen random and purposeful thoughts just as they are produced'.

cherubim - one of the second order of angels of the Dionysian hierarchy, reputed to excel specially in knowledge (as the seraphim in love); In modern art, a cherub is usually represented as a beautiful winged child; Applied to persons: a beautiful and innocent child + Joyce's note: 'clean little cherubs' → Sporting Times 1 Apr 1922, 4: 'The Scandal of Ulysses' (review of Ulysses by Aramis): 'Joyce is more than a bit like that himself. Lenehan and Boylan are clean little cherubs compared with him'.

Nero - the fifth Roman emperor (AD 54-68). He became infamous for his personal debaucheries and extravagances and, on doubtful evidence, for his burning of Rome and persecutions of Christians.

Nebuchadrezzar II - the second and greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned c. 605 - 561 BC). He was known for his military might, the splendour of his capital, Babylon, and his important part in Jewish history + no book is honester + (notebook 1924): 'Nobookishonester (Nabucco)' → Nebuchadnezzar II was subject of Verdi's Nabucco.

New York Times Book Review 28 May 1922, 6: 'James Joyce's Amazing Chronicle' (review of Ulysses by Joseph Collins): (of Bloom's thoughts) 'the product of the unconscious mind of a moral monster'.

defective - a person who is subnormal physically or mentally + detective + (notebook 1923): 'mental defective'

Vanessa + quintessence + Nephthys is the Greek form of an epithet (transliterated as Nebet-het, and Nebt-het, from Egyptian hieroglyphs). The origin of the goddess Nephthys is unclear but the literal translation of her name is usually given as "Lady of the House," which has caused some to mistakenly identify her with the notion of a "housewife," or as the primary lady who ruled a domestic household. This is a pervasive error repeated in many commentaries concerning this deity. Her name means quite specifically, "Lady of the [Temple] Enclosure" which associates her with the role of priestess. She is the sister of Isis and companion of the war-like deity, Set. As the primary "nursing mother" of the incarnate Pharaonic-god, Horus, Nephthys also was considered to be the nurse of the reigning Pharaoh himself.

grogner (fr) - to grunt, grumble + FDV: Nabuchadonosor himself had not such a high & mighty opinion of himself as had this mental defective who bragged on one occasion to an interlocutor in a bar that he was aware of no other person either exactly unlike or precisely the same as what I know or imagine I am myself.

a latere (l) - from the side, aside; in intimate association with + (notebook 1924): 'a latere �i' → a latere Christi (l): from the side of Christ (a term applied to a type of highly-ranked papal legate; usually just 'a latere').

pal - keep company, to become pals + to fool around - to 'hang about' aimlessly.

kavehaz (Hungarian) - cafe, coffee-house + SDV: to an interlocutor he used to pal around with in a gipsy's bar

Castor and Polux - twin sons of Leda and Jove, hatched out of one egg (O Hehir, Brendan; Dillon, John M. / A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake).

hambone - a performer doing an imitation of negro dialect; negro in American comic strip + hambone (Slang) - amateur.

agnomen - additional name subsequently acquired + give a dog a bad name and hang him (phrase).

BEDDGELERT - "Gelert's Grave"; village in North Wales, named after the legend of the hound Gelert, who was left by his master King Llewelyn to guard his infant son. Returning to find Gelent covered with blood, his master slew him before he discovered the body of the wolf Gelert had killed in protecting the baby. "Beth-Gelert" is a doggerel poem on the subject by William Robert Spencer (1769-1834) + {with that private secretary, Davy Brown-Nowlan [Bruno of Nola], his twin with the pseudonym Bethgelert [a dog's grave]}

archway - an arched or vaulted passage, the arched entrance to a castle, etc. + porch - an exterior structure forming a covered approach to the entrance of a building.

billy - fellow, companion; brother + Joyce's note: 'Bully!' → The Four Million, 'After Twenty Years' 214: "[...] How has the West treated you, old man?" "Bully; it has given me everything I asked it for. You've changed lots, Jimmy.[...]" (MS 47474-27v, LPS: every ~~lust of the mouth~~ ^+lass of nexmouth ~~bully,~~ ^+Bully,+^+^ | JJA 47:408 | 1924-5 | ).

congregant - one that congregates with others, a member of a congregation + (notebook 1924): '1 congregant'.

last next month + nex (l) - murder + MS 47474-27v, LPS: every ~~lust of the mouth~~

story + storico (it) - historic + starik (Russian) - old man + Stoics' fortitude.

water clock - an instrument designed to measure time by the fall or flow of water + waterclosets + In 1917, Joyce was approached by a man called Jules Martin to rewrite a screenplay entitled 'Wine, Women, and Song' (obviously so named after J.H. Voss: 'wine, women and song').

guy = Guy Fawkes - an effigy habited in grotesquely ragged and ill-assorted garments and traditionally burnt on the evening of November the Fifth, usu. with a display of fireworks.

batty - the buttocks or anus; mad, crazy, silly; resembling a bat + Woon, Basil - asked Joyce to write on "What you feel and do when you are going blind?" (Letters, I, 237).

plume (fr) - feather, pen + Thackeray: Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. (contains letters with many comical misspellings).

Shakespeare + �Ah, there�s only one man he�s got to get the better of now, and that�s that Shakespeare!� (Nora Joyce).

exactly + (notebook 1924): 'exactly unlike or precisely the same as what I know or imagine myself to be' → Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 139 (sec. 135): (quoting Charles Dickens) 'they are exactly unlike. They are utterly dissimilar in all respects'.

antithesis - an opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite, the contrast

same + Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 136 (sec. 133): 'More than in anything else the richness of the English language manifests itself in its great number of synonyms, whether we take this word in its strict sense of words of exactly the same meaning or in the looser sense of words with nearly the same meaning... Sometimes the Latin word is used in a more limited, special or precise sense than the English, as is seen by a comparison of identical and same'.

(fancies himself a Shakespeare) + SDV: that he was aware of no other person either exactly unlike or precisely the same as what he fancied or guessed he was himself he himself was.

scoot - a drunken spree, a bout of drunkenness + Tom + Scott, Sin Walter (1771-1832) - Scottish poet, novelist + Scott, Dickens and Thackeray.

Roger - Used as a generic or special name for persons + rod (Slang) - penis + to roger (Slang) - to fuck + Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge.

lioness (Slang) - prostitute + Wyndham Lewis: The Lion and the Fox (1927, about Shakespeare).

humdrum - dullness, monotony + Lom-drom (Loumdrum) (gael) - Bare-ridge + drum (Slang) - brothel + Dundrum - district of Dublin + London + {with all the teashop lions of London up against him}

lapsus lingu� - a slip of the tongue + linquo (l) - I leave + lapsi (Finnish) - child.

short temper + -empa (Finnish) - (comparative; e.g. Finnish vanhempa: older).

Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 328: (of East Caucasian languages, such as Chechen) 'all the nouns are divided among several "classes" or grammatical genders, of which the number sometimes reaches up to six... Each gender is characterised by a consonant'.

Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Ballad of Francis Villon: 'Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name'

Vanity Fair - a place or scene where all is frivolity and empty show; the world or a section of it as a scene of idle amusement and unsubstantial display + vanha (Finnish) - old + vanhat (Finnish) - the old ones + "bear" - Ursa Major [Maurice Behan] + Vanity Fair - novel by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848).

casuality - chance; the state of being 'casual'; a chance or casual occurrence, contingency; esp. an unfortunate occurrence, accident, casualty

pester - to annoy, trouble, plague; to entangle, embarrass, obstruct the movements of (obs.)

crossword - a puzzle in which a pattern of chequered squares has to be filled in from numbered clues with words which are written usu. horizontally and vertically

post postition - placing (as a particle) after a gram. related word (as ward in cityward) + Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 164: (of Finnish) 'most postpositions are formed with the genitive'.

scruff - the nape of the neck; to seize (a person) by the nape of the neck; Applied to what is worthless or contemptible; refuse, litter; spec. base money + Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 167: (of Finnish) 'this comparative can also be applied to a noun: Finnish ranta "shore, bank", rannempana "closer to the shore"'.

ream - a large quantity of written matter; a quantity of paper (480 or 500 sheets) + without rhyme or reason (phrase).

it stands to reason (that) - it is quite clear (that), it is reasonable, it is natural or evident (that)

Halley's Comet - the best-known of the short-period comets, visible from Earth every 75 to 76 years

spook - to inhabit or visit as a spook, scare, frighten + Ally Sloper - grotesque, disreputable figure in a late-19th-century comic paper + 'spooky speaker'.

metaphorically - in a metaphorical sense; by the use of metaphor + multi-phonetically + phone (gr) - sound, voice + pohjoinen (Finnish) - the north.

face of the earth - surface of the earth + Erse - Irish + Asar, Ausar, Wsir, Wesir - Original (Kemetic) name of Osiris.

FDV: After bloody Sunday, though every door in muchtried Lucalizod was smeared with generous gore and the every cobbleway slippery with the blood of heroes, the low waster never had the pluck to venture out while everyone else [of the city throng,] slashers and sliced alike, waded about on their usual avocations for the only once he took a peep through his keyhole to find out whether conciliation was forging ahead or falling back and why he found himself looking into the barrel of an irregular revolver at point blank range at point blank range of an irregular revolver [of the bulldog pattern] of some unknown quarreler [who supposedly had been told off to shade Shem should he come stir out [awhile] to be creased]

SDV: After the thorough fright he got that bloody Sunday, though every doorpost in muchtried Lucalizod was smeared with generous gore & every cobbleway free for all slippery with the blood of heroes, the low waster never had the common baa lamb's pluck to stir out & about while everyone else of the city throng, slashers & sliced alike, waded around on their daily bonafide avocations or some others stonestepped stonestepping across the human bridge on their usual quest for after higher things, across the human bridge set up over the slop by Messrs the charitable government, for the only once he took a tompeep through a 3 draw telescope through his westernmost keyhole with an eachway hope in his [shivering] soul to find out whether conciliation was forging ahead or falling back & why he found himself at point blank range blinking into the barrel of an irregular revolver of the true bulldog pattern handled by and unknown quarreler who supposedly had been told off to shade & shoot shy Shem should the shit show his shiny nose out awhile to look facts in the face before he got hosed & creased by 1 or 2 of the playboys.

thorough - applied to or affecting every part or detail, complete + (notebook 1923): 'thoroughly afraid'.

Saint Swithin's Day - 15 July + Whitsunday - the seventh Sunday after Easter, observed as a festival of the Christian Church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost + Sunday.

doorpost - the post on each side of a door-way, on one of which the door is hung + Exodus 12:7: 'and they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses' (Passover).

gore - blood in the thickened state that follows effusion. In poetical language often: Blood shed in carnage (blood and gore, bloody gore)

cobble - a water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving + Joyce's note: 'stepping stones slippery with blood of heroes'.

welkin - sky, the heavens + to the welkin - 'to the skies' + (notebook 1924): 'blood calls for blood cry to heaven' → Lamy: Commentarium in Librum Geneseos I.253: 'The voice of thy brother's blood crieth, a personification to indicate the atrocity of the crime. Crieth unto me, desiring heavenly vindication' (Genesis 4:10)).

cul vert (fr) - green arse + culvert - a canal or drain of masonry conveying water beneath a road or embankment + (notebook 1924): 'noah = culvert'.

waster - one who lives in idleness and extravagance; one who wastefully dissipates or consumes his resources, an extravagant spender, a squanderer, spendthrift

stir - to pass from rest to motion, to begin to move, to move or walk about + stirabout - a kind of porridge + FDV: the low waster never had the pluck to venture out

compound - a union, combination, or mixture of elements; an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) + Giza pyramid complex.

throng - a crowded mass of persons actually (or in idea) assembled together, a crowd.

massa - master (southern negro speech) + en masse (fr) - as one body, overwhelmingly + massa (it) - crowd, mob.

waden (Dutch) - to wade (stem 'waad') + Wadjet - one of the oldest Egyptian goddesses. Her worship was already established by the Predynastic Period + FDV: while everyone else [of the city throng,] slashers and sliced alike, waded about on their usual avocations

baad (Danish) - boat + baden (Dutch) - to bathe (stem 'baad') + Bat - an ancient cow goddess of Upper Egypt.

yam (Hebrew) - sea + yam (Mon Khmer) - to die + p-yam (Mon Khmer) - to kill.

Gillooly (notebook 1924) → Kinane: St. Patrick 10: (quoting a letter of approbation from the Bishop of Elphin) 'Very sincerely yours... L. GILLOOLY, Bishop of Elphin'.

pia et pura bella (l) - pious and pure wars (Vico) + O pura e pia bella (it) - O pure and pious fair one.

junk - a name for the common type of native sailing vessel in the Chinese seas + nunc et semper (l) - 'now, and always'.

sampan - a Chinese word meaning 'boat', applied by Europeans in the China seas to any small boat of Chinese pattern

sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper; et in saecula saeculorum (l) - As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be; world without end.

avocation - an auxiliary activity; pl. Pursuits, duties, affairs which occupy one's time, usual employment + SDV: while everyone else of the city throng, slashers & sliced alike, waded around on their daily bonafide avocations

whizzer - something or someone extraordinary or wonderful, a 'stunner' + ("zinzin": sound of school bell).

intermediately - between things or times, indirectly + Intermediate Examination (Ireland) + intermittently - stopping or starting at intervals.

vying = pres p. of vie - to enter into, or carry on, rivalry; to contend or compete for superiority in some respect

avenge - to take vengeance, inflict retributive punishment, or retaliate on account of, or to exact satisfaction for

jobber - wholesaler, one on job or work + Majuba and Ladysmith - as Mrs Yoder says, battles in the Boer War + 'Avenge Majuba!' - rallying cry in Boer War.

Isaac Bickerstaff - pseudonym of Jonathan Swift; pretend author of Swift's Predictions for the Year 1708. Hewson, a cobbler, came to London, called himself Partridge, turned astrologer and almanack-maker and was much favored by William III because of vile denunciations of popery. Swift assumed the persona of a rival almanack-maker and predicted Partridge's death - "murdered a man by way of prophecy," as Hosty does in "The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly".

plink - a sharp metallic or ringing noise + plinkity plonk (World War I Slang) - white wine [Hargrave: Origins and Meanings of Popular Phrases & Names 370: 'PLINKITY-PLONK. Vin blanc'].

span - the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger; the space equivalent to this taken as a measure of length, averaging nine inches

ponte (it) - bridge + (rainbow after Flood) + SDV: or some others stonestepped stonestepping across the human bridge on their usual quest for after higher things, across the human bridge set up over the slop by Messrs the charitable government,

dei colori (l) - to the color of a god + ponte dei colori (it) - bridge of colours.

MM the govt (Joyce's note) → Leader 11 Nov 1922, 325/1: 'A Candid Critic on the Government': 'I have done something over the years towards making it possible for Messrs the Provisional Government Ministry to occupy their present exalted position'.

dia dos finados (Portuguese) - All Souls' Day, 2 November + dose (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - those.

peeping Tom - a person who gets pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, from secretly watching others + FDV: for the only once he took a peep through his keyhole

pipistrello (it) - bat + finestrella (it) small window + estrela (Portuguese) - star + Pip and Estella - characters in 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens.

Ulysses has three books and eighteen chapters + (notebook 1923): '3 draw telescope' + (having three withdrawable parts).

hawk - any diurnal bird of prey used in falconry; any bird of the family Falconid�

dur-dicki mengri (Gipsy) - telescope (literally 'far-seeing thing') + dicky - of inferior quality, sorry, poor + dick - penis + FDV: through a 3 draw telescope through his westernmost keyhole with an eachway hope in his [shivering] soul to find out whether conciliation was forging ahead or falling back

larboard - the side of a ship which is to the left hand of a person looking from the stern towards the bows; humorously used for: Left + Valery Larbaud assisted in the French translation of Ulysses.

At the top of the southern shaft of the Queens Chamber, a small limestone block with two copper fittings was discovered. When an opening was drilled through this small limestone block and an endoscopic camera inserted, archaeologists discovered a narrow empty space terminated by a rough limestone block, thought to be part of the pyramid core. The shaft in the north side of the Queens Chamber is the same. The corridor ends in front of a white limestone block bearing the traces of two copper fittings. Quarry marks are still visible, along with the sign of the work-gang "wadi" ("the green ones"). and a sign thought to be the hieroglyph "prjj" ("to come out" of the tomb) + REFERENCE

spit - to eject saliva (at or on a person or thing) as a means of expressing hatred or contempt

impenetrable - that can not be penetrated, pierced or entered [(notebook 1924): 'impenetrable weather'].

The two "air shafts" in the Queens Chamber were originally bricked up and not discovered until 1872. Averaging about twenty centimetres square, they rise from the north and south walls of the chamber and climb steeply up through the masonry above. The shafts are not entirely straight. The north shaft bends after about seventeen meters, possibly to curve around the grand galley. Similar shafts can also be found in the Kings Chamber.

rules + kula (Serbian) - tower + kule (Selkup Samoyed) - crow + kuleag (Selkup Samoyed) - the two crows.

Massacre by Black and Tans of Irish leaving football game in Croke Park, Dublin, 1920 + parka (Finnish) - poor.

code - a system or collection of rules or regulations on any subject = codex (obs.) + kokosh (Serbian) - hen + cod's eggs + cock's eggs.

Kalevala - Finnish national epic + kala (Finnish) - fish + tavala (Finnish) - in a way.

celestious - of or pertaining to the sky or material heavens; of or pertaining to heaven, as the abode of God (or of the heathen gods), of angels, and of glorified spirits.

Devil sake + Duvvel (Gipsy) - God + duvel (Dutch) - devil + dove (Asat) + Sache (ger) - thing, cause.

'see me', 'my see' and 'my seeing' are literal translations of Selkup Samoyed constructions for 'I see' and 'what I see' [Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 168: (of Selkup Samoyed) 'If it involves a concept that we express by the use of a verb... I see... he still says:... see-me... I can say: I see a horse... the Samoyed... says: see-my, that is: my act of seeing'] + (looking with two eyes, ˙׀˙)

corvo maggiore (it) - raven + korva (Finnish) - ear + {looking with one eye, ׀˙, and seeing curves of raven i.e. Nebthwt (Greek: Nephthys), [meaning "the Mistress of the House". The word "hwt" ("house") may refer to the sky (as in Hwt-hor, the "House of Horus": the name of Hathor)]}.

"decentest dozendest short of a frusker" [050.07] → Frisky Shorty and Decent Sort i.e. three soldiers lying low and looking at him.

hic sunt leones (l) - here live lions (unexplored regions) + hic sunt lenones (l) - here are pimps + Judge Michael Lennon attacked Joyce in Catholic World, 1931, despite their seeming friendship (James Joyce: Letters I.395: letter 06/08/37 to Constantine P. Curran: 'my fellow-countrymen... on the map of their island there is marked very legibly for the moment Hic sunt Lennones') + James Joyce: L'influenza letteraria universale del rinascimento: 'The compiler of atlases in the high middle ages did not lose his composure when he was in a quandary. He would write on the doubtful area the words: Hic sunt leones. The idea of solitude, the terror of strange beasts, the unknown were quite sufficient for him' (originally in Italian).

barrel - the metal tube of a gun, through which the bullet or shot is discharged + Joyce's note: 'found himself looking into barrel of revolver'.

irregular - not in accordance with what is usual or normal, abnormal + All shafts [2 in Queens and 2 in King's Chamber] bend, often several times. In addition, all the shafts begin, at their lower ends, with horizontal sections about 2 meters in length. So there is no way light from any source could ever have penetrated from the outside into either of the chambers. In several parts of the shafts, with the exception of the lower southern one, we even found extreme angle fluctuations. It is therefore ridiculous for anyone to claim that the shafts could ever have pointed precisely to certain stars. Given the many angle fluctuations, the shafts could be construed to be pointing at some 100 different stars, especially if construction of the pyramid is gratuitously redated to match specific stellar constellations. (Scientific report about the investigation of the so-called "air shafts" inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops)

bulldog - a pistol or revolver esp. one of large caliber and short barrel + FDV: [of the bulldog pattern]

a tin with a purpose (notebook 1922-23) + SDV: & why he found himself at point blank range blinking into the barrel of an irregular revolver of the true bulldog pattern handled by and unknown quarreler

quarreller - one who quarrels + Unknown Warrior (grave, Paris) + "That must be performed before you erase you thought, since only from that point everything is possible. At first you must create Void. Than project yourself to the outside, go to the Star, enter her and absorb her Energy. After that you will have to erase your being. You must be able to create Void and to be Void. After you accomplished that, propel yourself into the Black Tunnel. Don't look; there is nothing to be seen. Only Void in Dragon's convolutions. You know the Sign! Do it! Don't hesitate! Than recite fourth verse from the Third book: glance back and you will see Past, Present and Future. Than you must call Yog-Sothoth to show you the Way. He knows from where they came in past times and when He reveals the Key, the Door will open. Open the Door! When you reach behind you will meet One-who-has-no-Shape and who hides behind the Mask of Impersonal Chaos. Call him! Become him! When you summon him, you will know his Name and also yours since he Is and Is Not. He will become. Rise your spirit and become part of everything. Join with Ultimate Father, Create and BECOME! ... But beware! If you do this although you were not forced to do so you will turn against yourself. (Angor's ritual, combined II and III chapter of Shautenerom)

hue and cry + hose - to water with a hose + crease - to make wrinkled or creased + FDV: of some unknown quarreler [who supposedly had been told off to shade Shem should he come stir out [awhile] to be creased]

Jack the Ripper - popular name for a murderer of women in London in 1888, who mutilated the bodies of his victims + jack - to do for, ruin + Up, guards, and at them! + {prior to being slaughtered [or raped?]}

Deucalion - in Greek legend, the son of Prometheus (the creator of mankind), king of Phthia in Thessaly, and husband of Pyrrha. When Zeus, the king of the gods, resolved to destroy all humanity by a flood, Deucalion constructed an ark in which, according to one version, he and his wife rode out the flood and landed on Mount Parnassus. Offering sacrifice and inquiring how to renew the human race, they were ordered to cast behind them the bones of their mother. The couple correctly interpreted this to mean they should throw behind them the stones of the hillside ("mother earth"), and did so. Those stones thrown by Deucalion became men, while those thrown by Pyrrha became women.

privy - a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate + Lares (l) [privy gods] - tutelary spirits of the Roman household, hearth and slaves' quarters.

pantry - a small storeroom for storing foods or wines + Penates (l) [pantry gods] - guardian spirits of the larder in Roman households.

stator - sustainer, supporter (primarily an epithet of Jupiter) + Stator and Victor ("stand" and "vanquish") - epithets of Jupiter.

cut and run - to cut mooring cables and sail before the wind, to hurry off + kut (Dutch) - vulva.

mesa - isolated hill or mountain; a moderate brown + mesa (sp) - a table + mesa redonda (Portuguese) - round table.

Louren�ao (Portuguese) - Laurence + Saint Laurence O'Toole, patron of Dublin.

Atlas Mountains - a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,500 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Atlas lion is often considered to be the heaviest of the lion subspecies. It survived in the wild in northwestern Africa in what is now current day Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco until about 100 years ago.

convocation - the action of calling together or assembling by summons; the state or fact of being called together + convoca�ao (Portuguese) - convocation + invencao (Portuguese) - invention.

Bengal fire - a kind of firework producing a steady and vivid blue-coloured light, used for signals + beacon - a signal; spec. a signal-fire.

aper - the european wild boar; one that apes (to imitate, copy, mimic) + ape

SDV: What was this extremely low human type really engaged on? The answer is: a drug & drunkery addict megalomane at a loose end. This explains the litany of letters, honorific, highplaced, erudite, neoclassical which he loved to place after his name. It would have diverted much if ever seen the shuddersome spectacle of this zany in the grime of his den making believe to read his tattered eminently unreadable chapbook turning over 3 pages at a time sheets in the wind for what with the murky light, the botchy print, the tattered jacket the jigjagged page, [the itch jig in his ribs, the gush in his fundament,] the fumbling fingers, [the itch in his palm the tickle of his tail,] the scum in his eye, the drink in his pottle, the rats in his garret, the hullabaloo and the dust in his ears he was hardly fit to memorise more than a word a minute. Was there ever heard of such lowdown blackguardism?

dedal - intricate, artistic, ingenious; an anglicized form of the proper name D�dalus; a skilful artificer or fabricator like D�dalus; a maze or labyrinth + dedal (Portuguese) - thimble + Stephen Dedalus.

popa (Portuguese) - poop (of a ship) + preta (Portuguese) - black (feminine).

navvy - an unskilled laborer; a labourer employed in the excavation and construction of earth-works, such as canals, railways, embankments, drains, etc.

drunkery - a place to get drunk in; a contemptuous appellation of a public-house or drink-shop + Joyce note: 'drunkery'.

addict - to devote, give up, or apply habitually to a practice + Joyce note: 'drug addict'

loose - inexact, indefinite, indeterminate, vague + FDV: A drug addict, too, his manner when he was at a loose end was to write strings of honourable, learned, highplaced neoclassical initials after his name while, if you could only have seen into his den, whenever he made believe to read one of his tattered chapbooks he did nothing but turn over three or 4 pages at a time growling because what with the bad light the dirty print, the torn page, the scum in his eyes, the drink in his stomach, the rats in his garret and the hullabaloo in his ears he was not fit to memorise as much as a word a minute Was there ever heard of such low down blackguardism?

litany - a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation; any long and tedious address or recital.

septuncial - of seven ounces, or seven parts of the whole + (notebook 1924): 'uncial' → Sullivan: The Book of Kells 16: 'The text of the Gospel according to St. Matthew follows in large uncial and minuscule combined' (Matthew).

trumpet (notebook 1924)' → Sullivan, The Book of Kells 15: (quoting Rev. Dr. Todd about the Monogram page) 'contains almost all varieties of design to be found in Celtic art... the divergent pattern known as the trumpet-pattern'.

erudite - learned, scholarly; Of literary productions, etc.: Characterized by erudition.

patricianly - in a patrician manner, aristocratically; related to the patricians of medieval Italy or ancient Rome; related to Saint Patrick

divert - to turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion + SDV: It would have diverted much if ever seen the shuddersome spectacle

demented - out of one's mind, crazed, mad + (notebook 1924): 'semi demented' → Nation and Athen�um 22 Apr 1922, 124/2: 'Mr. Joyce's Ulysses' (review of Ulysses by John M. Murry): 'an immense, a prodigious, self-laceration, the tearing-away from himself, by a half-demented man of genius, of inhibitions and limitations which have grown to be flesh of his flesh'.

zany - a fool, simpleton, 'idiot'; a comic performer attending on a clown, acrobat, or mountebank, who imitates his master's acts in a ludicrously awkward way; a poor, bad, feeble, or ludicrous imitator.

inspissated - brought to a thick consistence, thickened + (notebook 1924): 'inspissated' → Nation and Athen�um 22 Apr 1922, 125/1: 'Mr. Joyce's Ulysses' (review of Ulysses by John M. Murry): 'Every thought that a super-subtle modern can think seems to be hidden somewhere in its inspissated obscurities'.

glaucous - of a dull green passing into grayish blue; having a frosted look from a powdery coating (as on plants: "glaucous stems", "glaucous plums")

blue book - a book bound in blue + (notebook 1924): 'bluebook' → Manchester Guardian 15 Mar 1923, 39: 'Modern Irish Literature' (review of Ulysses by Stephen Gwynn): 'Seven hundred pages of a tome like a Blue-book are occupied with the events and sensations in one day of a renegade Jew'.

Eccles - town in Lancashire + Eccles Street, Dublin (Bloom's residence in Ulysses) + Kells.

Ezra Pound, while editing the 'Calypso' chapter of Ulysses for publication in The Little Review, censorially deleted portions of the risqu� text dealing with Bloom's visit to the privy.

bowlder - boulder + Bowdler, Thomas (1754-1825) - expurgated Shakespeare, Gibbon, and the Old Testament.

censor - an official in some countries whose duty it is to inspect all books, journals, dramatic pieces, etc., before publication, to secure that they shall contain nothing immoral, heretical, or offensive to the government; an adverse critic, one given to fault-finding.

three sheets in the wind - very drunk + SDV: turning over 3 pages at a time sheets in the wind

no (Portuguese) - in the + espelho (Portuguese) - mirror + mor (Portuguese) - bigger + m�r (Irish) - great + {telling himself in the mirror}.

blunder - to make a gross error or mistake + FDV: imagine telling himself fancying [over & over] that every splurge on the vellum he mumbled over was a vision more beautiful beauteousful than the last a rose cottage by the sea for nothing a year, or a ladies' hosiery sale at Arnott's, or a sewerful of pale gold wine or an entire theatre of noblewomen flinging all their clothes at him in wild enthusiasm for having sung the topnote in After the Ball or for seven & 1/2 minutes with a cocked hat & feathers on his head.

aisling - a poetical or dramatic description or presentation of a vision + aisling (ashlin) (gael) - vision, dream + (notebook 1924): 'aisling (vision)'.

"My Love and Cottage Near Rochelle" is a 2nd act aria in the opera "The Siege of Rochelle" by Balfe + Schelle (ger) - bell + FDV: a rose cottage by the sea

cottage - a dwelling-house of small size and humble character; In U.S. spec. A summer residence (often on a large and sumptuous scale) at a watering-place or a health or pleasure resort.

raffle - a form of lottery, in which an article is assigned by drawing or casting of lots to one person among a number who have each paid a certain part of its real or assumed value.

at liberty - free + Liberty's - London silk goods firm, named for its founder + The Liberties - district of Dublin + FDV: or a ladies' hosiery sale at Arnott's,

sewer - an artificial channel or conduit, now usually covered and underground, for carrying off and discharging waste water and the refuse from houses and towns

guinea gold vine - evergreen vine widely cultivated for their large bright yellow single flowers + (Fendant [171.25]) + FDV: or a sewerful of pale gold wine

blancmange - a preparation of cornflour and milk, with flavouring substances + branco (Portuguese) - white + monge (Portuguese) - monk + puddingpie - a name for various forms of pastry; a tart made with pie-crust and custard.

billion - orig. and still commonly in Great Britain: A million millions; In U.S., and increasingly in Britain: A thousand millions.

standing room - accommodation for persons or a person standing; also in phr. standing room only, esp. in a theatre or similar place of resort + stamp - to bring down the foot heavily.

coronet - a decorative part of a woman's head-dress, consisting of a plate or band of metal, or the like, encircling the front of the head + crimson - to turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame.

every stitch - all the clothes one is wearing, every available piece + FDV: an entire theatre of noblewomen flinging all their clothes at him

proscenium - the space between the curtain and the orcestra + proboskis (gr) - snout, trunk.

anima - Jung's term for the inner part of the personality or character, as opposed to the persona or outer part; also, the feminine component of a male personality + �mago (Portuguese) - pith, essence, heart + amago (sp) - threatening gesture + inamorated

Gaiety - the name of a former London theatre famous, esp. in the 1890s, for its musical shows, used attrib. of features characteristic of these shows

accordant - in keeping, being in agreement or harmony + acord�r (Portuguese) - waken.

squeal - to utter (or give out) a more or less prolonged loud sharp cry, esp. by reason of pain or sudden alarm; to scream shrilly

squall - a discordant or violent scream + FDV: for having sung the topnote in After the Ball or for seven & 1/2 minutes

Seamrog Eireann (shamrog erun) (gael) - Shamrock of Ireland + The Dear Little Shamrock [of Erin] (song) + Shem-lockup yelling.

sabao (Portuguese) - soap + Romans 9:29: 'Lord of Sabaoth' + sabaoth (Hebrew) - hosts, armies (part of God's title).

McGuckin, Barton - Dublin tenor who believed John Joyce's voice was better than his own + barato (Portuguese) - cheap + bariton + Glocken (ger) - bells.

cocked hat - a hat with three corners + FDV: with a cocked hat & feathers on his head.

trinity - any combination or set of three (persons, things, etc) forming a unity or closely connected trio

amaryllis - bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers + amarelo (Portuguese) - yellow.

alpha (gr) - letter A + alphaino (gr) - to bring in, to yield, to incur + alfaiate (Portuguese) - tailor + alfinete (Portuguese) - pin.

punxit (l) - [he] has punctured, has stung (i.e. tailor) + pinxit (l) - painted (used on paintings with signature).

azure blue - the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky, or of the sea reflecting it + azul (Portuguese) - blue.

len�o de assoar (Portuguese) - handkerchief (literally 'sheet of nose-blowing')

dean - a dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop

crozier - a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office + Joyce's note: 'crozier' → Flood: Ireland, Its Saints and Scholars 113: 'The Irish artists who worked in metal have also left us many beautiful crosiers elaborately wrought'.

cardinal - one of the seventy ecclesiastical princes (six cardinal bishops, fifty cardinal priests, and fourteen cardinal deacons) who constitute the pope's council

Cork and Kerry (Munster) + riddle: 'Londonderry, Cork and Kerry, spell me that without a K'; answer: 'THAT' [089.18]

occidens (l) = occidente (it) - setting (of the sun); the west (Connacht) + accidentaccio! (it) - damn! + tacceo (l) - to say nothing, be silent.

hurdle - a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races + Town of the Ford of the Hurdles, Dear Dirty Dublin.

botchy - poorly done, bungled, marked with botches + botch - a patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner; an embarrassing mistake; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished + FDV: the dirty print,

tattered - torn or rent so as to hang in tatters, ragged + SDV: the tattered jacket,

zigzagged - having a zigzag form or marking + jagged - having the edge irregularly cut, gashed, or torn, into deep indentations and acute projections; torn or worn to a ragged or uneven edge + FDV: the torn page,

foxtrot - a ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm; to dance a foxtrot + Joyce's note: 'foxtrotting fleas lieabed lice'.

scum - a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid

drop - tear drop + have a drop in one's eye - to show signs of having had a glass (of acohol).

a lump in one’s throat - a physical sensation caused by powerful emotions esp. sadness [Joyce's note: 'lump in his throat'].

wail - a cry of pain or grief, esp. if loud and prolonged; a sound resembling a cry of pain

wind - 'air' or gas in the stomach or intestines + Joyce's note: 'wail of wind drip of nose'

..."the grief from his nose, the dig in his ribs, the age of his arteries, the weight of his breath, the fog"... (In typesetting Joyce's typescript the printer of This Quarter jumps down one line not finishing the one he is busy typesetting: from "from his" with still two words to go on line 21 he jumps down and picks up with "his breath" and then finishes the likewise two words he has to go on that line. In iceskating and any other sport that would be called cheating.) (Robbert-Jan Henkes, 22 May 2002)

tic - a disease or affection characterized by spasmodic twitching of certain muscles, esp. of the face; a whim + (notebook 1924): 'La conscience avec son tic-toc Est la clochette de S Kolledoc' → Sauv�: Proverbes et Dictons de la Basse-Bretagne no. 190: 'La conscience avec son tic-toc Est la clochette de Saint-Koll�doc' (French 'Conscience with its tic-toc Is the little bell of Saint Kolledoc') [glossed in a footnote: 'In popular belief, St. Ke, also called St. Kolledoc, possessed a little bell that informed him of the good he had to do or of the evil he had to avoid'].

height - the highest point, the utmost degree (of something immaterial), summit, zenith + Joyce's note: 'weight of breath height of rage'.

gush - a copious or sudden emission of fluid + SDV: the itch jig in his ribs, the gush in his fundament,

squince - inflammation of the tonsils + squints + sins + FDV: the scum in his eyes,

rot - process of rotting, decay + rot (ger) - red + FDV: the drink in his stomach,

totter - an unsteady or shaky movement or gait as of one ready to fall; wavering, oscillation

tetter - a general term for any pustular herpetiform eruption of the skin, as eczema, herpes, impetigo, ringworm, etc.

rats - 'humbug', 'nonsense' + to have a rats - to be eccentric or insane + rats in the garret (Slang) = bats in the belfry (Slang) - eccentric, mad (refers to someone who acts as though he has bats careering around his topmost part, i.e. his head).

garret - floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof (often used for storage); the head + Joyce's note: 'gubann no rats in his garret' [Anglo-Irish gubann: one who pretends to have deep knowledge, an unskilled tradesman (from Irish gob�n: Jack of all trades)].

have bats in the belfry - to have strange ideas, be slightly mad + belfry - the head.

hullabaloo - tumultuous noise or clamour; uproar; clamorous confusion + SDV: the hullabaloo and the dust in his ears

steal a march - in military sense, to succeed in moving troops without the knowledge of the enemy; hence gen. to get a secret advantage over a rival or opponent.

hake - a gadoid fish, Merlucius vulgaris, resembling the cod; a hook, esp. a pot-hook + hawk + "As with Mantra, Hekau [Words of Power] will be effective only if understood fully and executed perfectly. Otherwise, a potential Word of Power can be said ten million times without the slightest result." (Robert Masters: The Goddess Sekhmet) + The Egyptian word for magic was "heka" (which literally means "using the Ka") and Heka was the personification of magic.

hawk → The name Horus is Greek. To the Egyptians he was "Heru" (sometimes Hor or Har), which is translated as "the distant one" or "the one on high" (from the preposition "hr" meaning "upon" or "above"). He was considered to be a celestial falcon, and so his name could be a specific reference to the flight of the falcon, but could also be seen as a more general solar reference. It is thought that the worship of Horus was brought into Egypt during the predynastic period. He seems to have begun as a god of war and a sky god who was married to Hathor, but soon became considered as the opponent of Set, the son of Ra, and later the son of Osiris. However, the situation is confused by the fact that there were many Hawk gods in ancient Egypt and a number of them shared the name Horus (or more specifically Har, Heru or Hor). Heru-ur (Horus the Elder, Haroeris) was worshiped as Khenty-khem ("foremost of khem"), the patron of the blind. When his "eyes" (the sun and the moon) were visible, he was known as Hor-Khenty-irty ("He who has two eyes on his brow"). But, when neither were visible he was known as Hor-khenty-en-irty ("He who has no eyes on his brow").

fisk - a state or royal treasury + hakefisk (Norwegian) - name of several fish, as the salmon or trout, with hooked under-jaws (literally 'hookfish') + Pre-dynastic worship of Seth was also evident in the 19th and 19th Nomes of Upper Egypt. The standard for the 11th Nome is topped by a Set animal, and the name of the main town, Sha-shtp, means "The pig (Set) is pacified", and Set was worshipped in his form as a fish in the capital of the 19th Nome. At this point in history, Set was clearly associated with Upper Egypt and was a popular and esteemed god. However, by the Third Intermediate Period was associated with the Hyksos (who saw a similarity between Set and Baal) and so became seen as a force for evil. He was then "rehabilitated" during the Nineteenth Dynasty only to be recast as an evil deity by Greek, Roman and Christian theologists. Set was the black boar who swallowed the moon each month, obscuring its light. He was also identified with the hippopotamus, crocodiles, scorpions, turtles, pigs and donkeys - all animals which were considered to be unclean or dangerous. Some fish were considered to be sacred to Set (most notably the Nile carp and the Oxyrynchus) as they had apparently eaten the penis of Osiris after Set had dismembered the dead king. However, he was most often depicted as a "Set animal" or a man with the head of a "Set animal". The Set animal (sometimes known as a 'Typhonian animal' because of the Greek identification with Typhon) is a dog or jackal like creature, but it is not clear whether it exactly represented an extinct species, or was a mythological beast uniquely associated with Set himself.

Wadjet (Wadjyt, Wadjit, Uto, Uatchet, Edjo, Buto) was one of the oldest Egyptian goddesses. Her worship was already established by the Predynastic Period, but did change somewhat as time progressed. She began as the local goddess of Per-Wadjet (Buto) but soon became a patron goddess of Lower Egypt. By the end of the Predynastic Period she was considered to be the personification of Lower Egypt rather than a distinct goddess and almost always appeared with her sister Nekhbet (who represented Upper Egypt). The two combined represented the country as a whole and were represented in the pharaoh�s "nebty" name (also known as "the two ladies") which indicated that the king ruled over both parts of Egypt. The earliest recovered example of the nebty name is from the reign of Anedjib of the First Dynasty.

bait - to feed, take nourishment; to allure, entice, to furnish with a bait + bait (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - beat + fish bait.

blackguardism - behavior characteristic of a blackguard + Joyce's note: 'low blackguardism' + Ulysses.10.681: 'Wait awhile, Mr Dedalus said threateningly. You're like the rest of them, are you? An insolent pack of little bitches since your poor mother died... You'll all get a short shrift and a long day from me. Low blackguardism!'

woo - to 'invite', 'call', 'tempt' + voli (Serbian) - [it] loves + worries + (notebook 1922-23): 'woollies one'.

bumper - anything unusually large or abundant; a crowded 'house' at a theatre + sprinkler - a person who sprinkles (to disperse something over in small drops or particles) + Joyce's note: 'bumpersprinkling' + Thomas Moore: Fill the Bumper Fair (song): 'Fill the bumper fair! Every drop we sprinkle'.

min fader (Danish) - my father + mijn vader was een boer (Dutch) - my father was a farmer + James Clarence Mangan: 'If anyone can imagine such an idea as a human boa-constrictor, without his alimentative propensities, he will be able to form some notion of the character of my father'.

blackboard - a large wooden board, a tablet of papier-mach�, etc., painted black, and used in schools and lecture-rooms to draw or write upon with chalk.

bring down the house - to evoke such demonstrative applause as threatens or suggests the downfall of the building

Sir Charles Russell at Parnell inquiry trapped Pigott by asking him to spell 'hesitancy'.

Lewis Waller played Prince Lucio (Satan) in adaptation of Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan.

Sprache (ger) - language, speech + spache (Anglo-Irish Pronunciation) - speech.

toe - to kick with a toe + SDV: Yet he the bumpersprinkler used to boast aloud to himself how he had been put out of all the best families of the Klondykers who had settled in the capital city after its metropoliarchialisation ordered off the premises in nine cases out of ten on account of his smell which all the cookmaids objected to as resembling sinkwater the smell that came out of the sink.

shick (ger) - stylish + Schick (ger) - tact, due order + schicker (Yiddish) - drunk.

pioupiou - a popular name for a French private soldier + Reich (ger) - country, kingdom + (notebook 1924): 'Pioupiouland Swabspays Land of Nod Shruggers Country Danubier pension - Home Barbaropolis'.

Pays Bas (fr) - Netherlands + swab (Slang) - uncouth fellow + Schwabia, Germany.

land of Nod - the state of sleep + Genesis 4:16: 'And Cain [after killing Abel] went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden'.

shrug - to raise (and contract) the shoulders, esp. as an expression of disdain, indifference, disclaiming responsibility, etc.

pension (fr) - boarding-school, boarding-house + (notebook 1924): 'Pension Danubierheim'.

metropolis (gr) - mother-city + archi- (gr) - chief + hebdomodary metropoliarchialisation (gr) - making-the-mother-city-a-capital (allusion to the Easter Week Rebellion of 1916) + (notebook 1924): 'metropoliarchialisation' → Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 161 (sec. 159): 'When we examine these coined words, we find that by far the greater number of them are framed on classical lines, for instance... metropoliarchy... deanthropomorphization'.

blister - to be or become covered with blisters + blistered (Slang) - drunk + (Sunday).

plaster - to treat medicinally with a plaster + plastered (Slang) - drunk + (Monday, day of the moon).

gory - covered with gore, stained with blood, bloody + gory-eyed (Slang) - drunk + (Tuesday, day of Mars).

wheedle - to entice or persuade by soft flattering words + reeling (Slang) - drunk + (Wednesday).

jovial - characterized by hearty mirth, humour, or good fellowship + jolly, joyous (Slang) - drunk + (Thursday, day of Jove).

lecherous - lustful, lewd + litch - body + lit (Slang) - drunk + (Friday, day of Venus).

order off - to dismiss, get rid of + FDV: Low wretched tutor that he was he used to boast that he had been put out of all the best Klondyker families who had settled in the capital city after its metropoliarchialisation generally in most cases on account of his smell which all cookmaids objected to.

cookmaid - a maid or female servant employed in cooking, or as assistant to a cook

tutor - to give special or individual instruction to + FDV: In place of tutoring the these best outlander families plain wholesome handwriting (a thing he never possessed of his own)

household - the inmates of a house collectively; an organized family, including servants or attendants, dwelling in a house.

pothook - a curved or hooked stroke made in writing, a scrawl; now usually applied to a hooked stroke, as an element of handwriting, made by children in learning to write

Nigerian - of or pertaining to Nigeria or its inhabitants + niger (l) - black, wicked, false.

vulgarian - a vulgar person; freq., a well-to-do or rich person of vulgar manners

study with fruit (notebook 1924) + FDV: what do you think he did but copy studied with stolen fruit how to copy all their various styles of signature they had so as to utter large forged cheques in public for his own profit

Joyce imitated the styles of numerous authors in the 'Oxen of the Sun' episode of Ulysses.

James Townsend Saward, nicknamed Jim the Penman, forged signatures on money orders and cheques

forged (Joyce's note) → Freeman's Journal 10 Jan 1924, 7/3: '"No Volition of His Own". Novel Defense of Man Charged with Forgery': 'a charge of forging three cheques' + James Joyce: A Portrait V: 'to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race'.

dustbin - a bin or receptacle for the dust, ashes, and other refuse of a house + Dublin

scullerymaid - a maid concerned with the care of the plates, dishes, and kitchen utensils + James Joyce: A Portrait V: 'a church which was the scullerymaid of christendom'.

househelp - a domestic servant or 'help' + FDV: until, as just related, the Dublin United Scullerymaids & house helps kicked him the source of annoyance out of the place altogether in the heat of the moment on account of his stink? making some remark as they did so about the way he stunk.

sluttery - sluttishness, filthiness, dirtiness, untidiness + Slattery's Mounted Foot (song).

in the heat of the moment - without thought, while being influenced by excitement

scrub - to clean (esp. a floor, wood, etc.) by rubbing with a hard brush and water + (notebook 1924): 'scrubwomen'.

Wilde on fox hunters: 'The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable' + Armenia occupied by Turks from 1405.

prospect - a thing considered to be suitable for a particular purpose; aspect, a view

SDV: Instead of tutoring those best families plain wholesome handwriting (a thing he never possessed of his own) what do you think he did but study with stolen fruit how best to copy all their various styles of signature so as one day to utter a colossal forged cheque in public for his own private profit until, as just related, the Dublin United Scullery maids' & Housekeeps' Sorority, treated him kicked the source of annoyance out of the place altogether in the heat of the moment, making some pointed remarks as they did so about the low way he stunk.

jumper - a sleevess dress or skirt with a bib for women worn usu. with a blouse or sweater

William Shakespeare: Hamlet I.5.188-189: 'The time is out of joint. O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right!' + In the Osirian mythology Set was married to Nephthys, but their marriage was not a happy one. However, Set had many other wives/concubines. According to one myth he lived in the Great Bear, a constellation in the northern sky - an area which symbolized darkness, and death. He was restrained with chains and guarded by his wife Taweret, the hippo goddess of childbirth. He was given the two foreign goddesses Anat and Astarte as wives in compensation for Ma�at�s (or Neith�s) ruling that Horus should rule Egypt. However, he had no children, despite being married to the goddess of childbirth and a Cannanite fertility goddess as well as Nephthys and Neith.

"The oldest [Hens] being always reckoned the best Sitters, and the youngest the best Layers."; "The hens are of a bad breed and are infrequent layers."

status quo - the existing state of affairs + ante- - before + status quo ante (l) - the position in which [affairs were] before [some event] + SDV: One cannot even begin to imagine how really low such a creature really was.

excommunicate - (Eccl.) To cut off from communion; to exclude, by an authoritative sentence, from participation in the sacraments and services of the church, or from religious rites in general

Drumcondra - district of Dublin (Joyce spent part of his youth living there) + hypochondriac.

..."how many unsigned copies of original masterworks, how many pseudostylic"... (The same cheat, probably as the one in FW 180.21. The printer of This Quarter again jumps down before having finished his line. From line 22 of the typscript, with two and a half words to go, he surreptitiously cuts the corner after "how many" and continues, as if his nose bleeds (as we say in Holland: acting as though it's no concern of his), one lap down after the "how many" there and finishes the five words left on line 23. I don't think Joyce ever proofread with the old text next to the new, so these mistakes, that don't ruin the sentence grammatically, are not so easy to notice.) Robbert-Jan Henkes, 22.05.2002

pseudo- - false, pretended, counterfeit, spurious + FDV: Who knows how many unsigned first copies of original masterpieces, how many pseudostylous shamiana, how few of the most venerated public impostures, how very many palimpsests slipped from that plagiarist pen?

shamiana - an awning or flat tent-roof without sides; a flat awning or canopy; a material used for such awnings, a striped calico

imposture - a thing (or person) which is pretended to be what it is not + (notebook 1922-23): 'imposture book through the ages, revered more & more'.

palimpsest - a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.

plagiarist - one who plagiarizes, one who is guilty of plagiarism + Pelagius (l) = Pelagios (gr) - "Of the sea": British or Irish-born heretic (360-420), his name being a Greek translation of Celtic Morgan ("Sea-born"); he denied original sin and stressed man's free will to do good without the assistance of divine grace + Joyce's note: 'plagiarist' → Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 123 (sec. 121): 'Among the innumerable words of recent formation in -ist may be mentioned... plagiarist'.

be that as it may - whether that is so or not, that may well be so: phrases used to indicate that a statement or act, etc., is perhaps true or right from one point of view but not from another, or that there are other factors to be taken into consideration.

gnosis (gr) - knowledge + FDV: He was able to write in the gloom of his bottle only because of his noseglow nose's glow as it slid over the paper and while he scribbled & scratched nameless shamelessnesses about others everybody ever he met even under a slimy bridge out of a shower over & over his foul text he used to draw endless portraits of himself up and down the two margins as a strikingly handsome young man with lyrics in his eyes and a lovely pair of inky Italian moustaches. How unwhisperably low!

red eye - coarse fiery whisky; a drink made from beer and tomato juice + James Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian: Temora I: 'the red eye of his fear is sad' (describing Cairbar who has murdered Cormac).

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