FW 1.66a --Joyce's early days--

1.66a: True there was in nillohs dieybos as yet no lumpend papeer in the waste and mightmountain Penn...
1.66b: But the world, mind, is, was and will be writing its own wrunes for ever, man, on all matters that fall...
1.66c: But the horn, the drinking, the day of dread are not now. A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap...
1.66d: For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints...
1.66e: So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical...


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FDV:  "True there was no paper in the waste and the mountain pen still groaned for the micies to deliver him. You gave me a boot and I ate the wind. I tipped you a quid and you went to quod." →
"True there was no lumpend papeer as yet in the waste and the mountain pen still groaned for the micies to deliver him. You gave me a boot (signs on it!) and I ate the wind. I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and you went to quod."


True there was in nilloh's dieybos

Latin in illis diebus: in those days (a formula to introduce lesson and gospel in Mass)
why NillOH's dieYbOs?


as yet no lumpend papeer in the waste

German Lumpenpapier = rag paper (ie, high quality)

Lumpen = cad
end

peer

wastepaper?
toilet paper?

"waste" = Sandymount Strand? U48: "That's twice I forgot to take slips from the library counter."


and mightmountain Penn still groaned for the micies to let flee.

man-mountain
cf below: "mulk mountynotty man"

fountain pen

longshot: Pepys denigrates Sir William Penn

constipation?

Horace: Ars Poetica 139: 'the mountains are in labour, a laughable little mouse is born'

mighty?

set him free
FDV: "for the micies to deliver him"

let fly?


All was of ancientry.

antiquity
anxiety?


You gave me a boot (signs on it!) and I ate the wind.

"You... I... I... you... you" could these be Joyce and Gogarty??

'give him the boot' = fired him
'give him a boot' = pressure him, nudge him

in Ulysses, Stephen wears boots given to him by Mulligan (Ulysses 3.16: 'My two feet in his boots')

mute religious acts were the language of Vico's first age

AngloIrish phrase: 'signs on it' = in confirmation (from Irish tá a shliocht air or Irish tá a rian air)

curse on it
U-Circe "THE VIRAGO Signs on you, hairy arse."

Carlyle used 'unless we could eat the wind' to mean seeking nourishment from empty air; but in the south Pacific it's a good thing, breathing fresh air


I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and you went to the quod.

asked you for one pound

Latin quis: who

Latin quid: what
phrase quid pro quo: tit for tat

quad (in Ulysses, 'quad' is never used, and "quadrangle" refers to Oxford)
Latin quod: because



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