FW 1.54b --the balance of opposites--

1.52d: Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!
1.53: Jute.— 'Stench!
1.54a: Mutt.— Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey...
1.54b: Llarge by the smal an' everynight life olso th'estrange, babylone the great grandhotelled...


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still Mutt speaking:


Llarge by the smal an' everynight life olso th'estrange,

opposites: large/small (cf whimbrel/peewee above?)

cf 269.F05 "Llong and Shortts Primer of Black and White Wenchcraft."
initial double-ell suggests Welsh

Dutch smal: narrow

opposites: everyday/strange

Oslo, Norway

also the stranger

French l'étrange: the strange


babbylone the greatgrandhotelled with tit tit tittlehouse,

babby = baby (eg, see Ulysses; rarely used in FW)

Babylone: district of Paris

Revelation 17:5: 'BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS'

Arnold Bennett: Grand Babylon Hotel (Bennett reviewed Ulysses rather unfavourably (NPOut 29Apr22; Deming: The Critical Heritage 219))

opposites: great/little

opposites: hotel/house

siglum: ◻

stuttering

nursery rhyme 'Little Tommy Tittlemouse Lived in a little house'


alp on earwig, drukn on ild,

4 elements air, earth, water, fire??

opposites: △/E

ALP

German Alpdruck, Alpdrücken: nightmare (in the form of suffocating pressure on the sleeper's chest)
German alp = spirit
German drücken = to press

Earwicker

opposites: water/fire

Danish drukne: to drown

Norwegian ild: fire


likeas equal to anequal

like as

opposites: equal/unequal


in this sound seemetery which iz leebez luv.

opposites: sound/sight (ear/eye)

cemetery

is

Livvy's
German: 'Liebes-' = love-
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod ('love-death' aria)
love



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