FW 1.65b --omens--

1.64k: Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.
1.65a: Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus...
1.65b: Starting off with a big boaboa and threelegged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths...
1.65c: What a meanderthalltale to unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor...


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Starting off with a big boaboa and threelegged calvers

boa constrictor
maga-boaboa = evilsmelling abyss (Oceanic)

MKSC 49: (examples of omens) 'Three-legged calves, big snakes, the discovery of rocks of strange appearance'

Dutch kalvers: calves


and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths.

Igraine: mother of King Arthur

evergreen

William Archer: The Green Goddess (1921 play; Archer is better known for being Ibsen's translator; Joyce corresponded with him in 1900-2)

MKSC 45: (before Confucius's birth) 'a fabulous animal known as a chi lin appeared before the prospective mother, bearing in its mouth a jade tablet inscribed with a message prophesying future greatness for the son then about to be born. The young girl tied a silken scarf around the single horn of the animal and it disappeared the same night, only (according to the story) to reappear more than seventy years later, just after the death of Master Kung'


And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue

dread-filled

111
unleavened

MKSC 43: (in ancient China) 'Most of the writing done was laboriously inscribed with a stylus on slips of bamboo... a book the size of the volume now in the reader's hands would fill a small truck. It was said of one industrious scholar that he read 'a hundredweight daily''

Latin liber: book
Latin liberorumque: and of children

French slang: queue: penis


to con an we can till allhorrors eve.

archaic con: to study, to commit to memory
French slang: con: female genitalia
Conan: one of the Fianna, Finn's army

an = if

archaic All Hallows' Eve: Halloween



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