FW 1.7d --the causes of the fall--

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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FDV: "And, as sure as Eve ate little red apples," →
"And, as sure as Abe bit Ivvy's red apples,"


It may half been a missfired brick, as some say,

Finn fell due in part to a poorly baked brick?

have

misfired
fired/thrown by a miss (cf Pyrrhus in U-Nestor)


or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it

"mought"? might + ought

collapse
Latin collapsus: fallen in
colossus

premises

their interpretation, or while they watched?

FW1 had "it. (There"


(there extand by now one thousand and one stories, all told, of the same).

extant
extend

1001 Nights

the first axiom of Vico's New Science is that rumors grow as they spread


But so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles

"as sure as Eve ate little red apples" →
"as sure as Abe bit Ivvy's red apples" →
"so sore did abe ite ivvy's holired abbles"

'as sure as God made little red apples' [other sayings]

Abel and Eve (as nursing baby)
Adam and Eve
Abraham and Sarah?

Ivvy = Eve + Livvy/Livia

song The Holly and the Ivy [♬ Holly&Ivy]

FW1 has a comma after "abbles,"


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