FW 1.7b --islamic prayer--

1.7a: What then agentlike brought about that tragoady thundersday this municipal sin business?...
1.7b: Stay us wherefore in our search for tighteousness, O Sustainer, what time we rise and when...
1.7c: Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb...
1.7d: It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus...
1.7e: (what with the wallhall's horrors of rollsrights, carhacks, stonengens, kisstvanes, tramtrees...
1.7f: and the hoyse and the jollybrool and the peeler in the coat and the mecklenburk bitch bite...
1.7g: and the noobibusses sleighding along Safetyfirst Street and the derryjellybies snooping...
1.7h: of his ville's indigenous romekeepers, homesweepers, domecreepers, thurum and thurum...
1.7i: wan warning Phill filt tippling full. His howd feeled heavy, his hoddit did shake. (There was a wall...


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Stay us wherefore in our search for righteousness, O Sustainer,

VI.B45.105: 'Islam (strife for righteousness)'
Holland: The Story of Mohammed 45: (of Mohammed's religion) 'the particular name he gave it was Islam, which signifies "striving for righteousness"'

FW1 had "tighteousness,"
slang tight: drunk

VI.B45.110: 'O Sustainer'
The Story of Mohammed 99: (addressing Allah, in a parable about the strength of charity) ''O our Sustainer,' said the angels, 'is there anything in Thy creation stronger than wind?''


what time we rise and when we take up to toothpick

VI.B45.109: 'what time thou risest and in the night and at the fading of the stars'
The Story of Mohammed 93: 'Mohammed enjoined his followers to pray five times a day. 1. Before sunrise. 2. When the sun has begun to decline. 3. In the afternoon. 4. A little after sunset. 5. At night fall... but many... pray at other time as well. For it is written, "Celebrate the praises of thy Lord what time thou risest, and in the night, and at the fading of the stars"'

Mohammed used toothpicks (Ayesha handed him one as he lay dying)

FW1 had "toothmick"


and before we lump down upown our leatherbed

down, feather

upon
own

VI.B45.109: 'leather mattress,...'
The Story of Mohammed 96: 'The Prophet's bed was a leather mattress, stuffed with palm leaves, which was laid on the floor'


and in the night and at the fading of the stars!

VI.B45.109: 'what time thou risest and in the night and at the fading of the stars'
The Story of Mohammed 93: 'Mohammed enjoined his followers to pray five times a day. 1. Before sunrise. 2. When the sun has begun to decline. 3. In the afternoon. 4. A little after sunset. 5. At night fall... but many... pray at other time as well. For it is written, "Celebrate the praises of thy Lord what time thou risest, and in the night, and at the fading of the stars"'


For a nod to the nabir is better than a wink to the wabsanti.

proverb A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

VI.B45.109: 'Prayer is better than sleep'
The Story of Mohammed 94: (of Bilal, the first muezzin) 'Before the early morning prayer he added, "Prayer is better than sleep"'

Arabic: nabi: prophet
neighbor

FW1 had "than wink" (no 'a')

Wahabi: a Muslim sect
wasabi?
absent
Italian santi: saints

what does this mean? being kind to your neighbors is better than praying to absent saints??



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