FW 1.66c --invention of printing--

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: "A bone, a pebble, a ramskin: chip them, chop them, cut them allways: leave them in the slow of their oven: and the day of magnum charter we must one way dawn else there is no virtue more in alcohoran." →
"A bone, a pebble, a ramskin: chip them, chap them, cut them allways: leave them to terracook in the slowth of their mutthering pot: and the gutenmorg of a magnum charter we must one way dawn else is there no virtue more in alcohoran."



But the hour, the smiting, the day of decision is not now.

STPM xxxix: 'The day of judgement is a stern reality to Mohammad... he calls it the Hour... the Smiting... the Day of Decision' unmodified!

(viconian thunderclap?)


A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap them, cut them up allways;

MLK 13: 'The Prophet... effortlessly retained the divine verses in memory... and could... dictate them to his secretaries... Those wrote them down... on palm leaves, flat pebbles, skins and shoulder blades of sheep'

ram's skin may have been for special documents because it was larger
(Jacob/Esau?)

Joyce's bricolage


leave them to terracook in the slowth of the muttheringpot:

Italian terracotta: baked earth
cook in pot

(Joyce wrote slowly)
growth

German Mutter: mother
mothering
muttering


and Gutenmorg with his cromagnom charter,

FDV: "the day of magnum charter we must one way dawn"

Gutenberg invented printing press (1439)
German 'guten Morgen' = good morning

VI.B1.50: 'Cro-Magnon'
Cro-Magnon man (40000 BC)

Magna Carta (1215)
magnum opus

Dubliners: 'The Sisters': 'gnomon'


tintingfast and great primer

German Tintenfass: inkwell
German fast: almost
fast = won't fade
Tintagel? Arthur's home

great primer: 18pt typesize (used especially for bibles)


must once for omniboss step rubrickredd out of the wordpress

phrase once and for all

Latin omnibus: for everybody (so 'for omnibus' is redundant?)
boss

rubric: a heading of a section of a book, printed in red
brick-red (cf? "This earth is not but brickdust" above)

printing press
winepress?


else is there no virtue more in alcohoran.

"else is there no virtue more" poetic phrasing

'virtue' = alchemists' name for chemical properties

alcohol
al Koran (this Islam-ref predates the rest)

(did Joyce ever credit alcohol with helping him write?)



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