Wednesday, September 3, 2014

FW 1.72i --HCE remembered as heroic--

1.72a: Now be aisy, good Mr Finnimore, sir. And take your laysure like a god on pension...
1.72b: Meeting some sick old bankrupt or the Cottericks' donkey with his shoe hanging...
1.72c: but let your ghost have no grievance. You're better off, sir, where you are...
1.72d: and have all you want, pouch, gloves, flask, bricket, kerchief, ring and amberulla...
1.72e: And it isn't our spittle we'll stint you of, is it, druids? Not shabbty little imagettes, ...
1.72f: Poppypap's a passport out. And honey is the holiest thing ever was, hive, comb and earwax...
1.72g: Your fame is spreading like Basilico's ointment since the Fintan Lalors piped you overborder...
1.72h: And admiring to our supershillelagh where the palmsweat on high is the mark of your manument...
1.72i: and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses you showed our labourlasses...
1.72k: He's duddandgunne now and we're apter finding the sores of his sedeq but peace to his great limbs...
1.72l: No, nor a king nor an ardking, bung king, sung king or hung king. That you could fell an elmstree...
1.72m: If you was hogglebully itself and most frifty like you was taken waters still what all where was your like...
1.72n: But as Hopkins and Hopkins puts it, you were the pale eggynaggy and a kis to tilly up. We calls him...
1.72o: So may the priest of seven worms and scalding tayboil, Papa Vestray, come never anear you...
1.72p: Your heart is in the system of the Shewolf and your crested head is in the tropic of Copricapron...
1.72q: The loamsome roam to Laffayette is ended. Drop in your tracks, babe! Be not unrested!...
1.72r: For we have performed upon thee, thou abramanation, who comest ever without being invoked...


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FDV: "The grand old Gunne, they do be saying, that was a planter for you!"



and when you were undone in every point fore the laps of goddesses

"in every point" usually refers to keeping an agreement

phrase in the lap of the gods: beyond human control, left to fate
lapse

cf Bloom's thoughts in church on being seen unbuttoned U80


you showed our labourlasses how to free was easy.

German freien: to woo

free and easy


The game old Gunne, they do be saying (skull!),

same

Grand Old Man (G.O.M.): an epithet applied to Gladstone by his supporters

the Gunn brothers
Michael Gunn: manager of Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
61yo in 1901

Ireland 1901 had 19 Gunnes, 440 Gunns
Maud Gonne?

Danish skaal! (toast)


that was a planter for you,


a spicer of them all!

spice-dealer; specialist cook?
someone rat-like? [very rare cite]


Begog but he was, the G.O.G!

by God
agog

Gog and Magog: legendary giants in British folklore

game old Gunne




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