FW 1.14d --ALP keeps things running--

1.14a: How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly forebidden, to steal our historic presents...
1.14b: She is livving in our midst of debt and laffing through all plores for us (her birth is uncontrollable)...
1.14c: Gricks may rise and Troysirs fall (there being two sights for ever a picture) for in the byways...
1.14d: Let young wimman run away with the story and let young min talk smooth behind the butteler's back...
1.14e: Though the length of the land lies under liquidation (floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow...
1.14f: And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand...


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synopsis: her stolen presents — her role in life




Let young wimman run away with the story

women


and let young min talk smooth behind the butteler's back.

AngloIrish accent: min: men
Dutch min: love; wet nurse

butler
butter
German Bettler: beggar


She knows her knight's duty while Luntum sleeps.

"She" = ALP

night's

duty = religious obligation?

Luntum = HCE
l'intime? French 'the intimate one'

song 'While London's Fast Asleep' ♬ is a tearjerker about homelessness and suicide by the author of 'Bicycle Built for Two'. [lyrics] [sheetmusic] (Spotify has a version by Roy Hudd.)


Did ye save any tin? says he. Did I what? with a grin says she.

tin = money
anything


And we all like a marriedann because she is mercenary.

'laugh like'??

harridan
married Ann
harried
merry Dan
Mary Dan?
Pont Marie, Paris (bridges of Paris)



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FW 1.14e --even when things are worst--

1.14a: How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly forebidden, to steal our historic presents...
1.14b: She is livving in our midst of debt and laffing through all plores for us (her birth is uncontrollable)...
1.14c: Gricks may rise and Troysirs fall (there being two sights for ever a picture) for in the byways...
1.14d: Let young wimman run away with the story and let young min talk smooth behind the butteler's back...
1.14e: Though the length of the land lies under liquidation (floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow...
1.14f: And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand...


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Though the length of the land lies under liquidation (floote!)

'all the length of the land' (biblical phrasing)

liquidation = selling off of property, esp. at bankruptcy

German Flut: flood
French flute! (expletive)


and there's nare a hairbrow nor an eyebrusch on this glaubrous phace

nare = nose = to float (Latin)
nary

eyebrow, hairbrush

at the subsidence of the Universal Flood in Norse myth, the body of the dead Ymir, father of the giants, became the world, his hair the trees, and his eyebrows the grass and flowers

bush, brush

archaic glabrous: hairless (glabro in Italian, glabre in French)

phase

baby's face?


of Herrschuft Whatarwelter

German Herr = mister
German Der Herr schuf die Welt: The Lord created the world
German Herrschaft: dominion, reign
German Herrschaften: ladies and gentlemen
German Schuft: scoundrel

water world
what are/our world
welter

the land has re-emerged from the flood but there's still no vegetation


she'll loan a vesta and hire some peat

Avesta: sacred writings of Zoroaster
Italian veste: dress


match + fuel


and sarch the shores her cockles to heat

finding a dry place to build a fire

AngloIrish accent: sarch: search
Italian sarchiare: to weed with a hoe
scorch?

cockles

phrase: 'it warms the cockles of my heart'

eat


and she'll do all a turfwoman can to piff the business on.

turf = peat

French slang: piffer: to smell

children's game Push the Business On: 'I hired a horse and borrowed a gig, And all the world shall have a jig; And I'll do all 'at ever I can To push the business on'


Paff. To puff the blaziness on. Poffpoff.

paff = astonished (Luxembourgish)
German paffen: to smoke

laziness

"piff... Paff... puff... Poffpoff"



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FW 1.14f --ALP fixes things but they keep breaking--

1.14a: How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly forebidden, to steal our historic presents...
1.14b: She is livving in our midst of debt and laffing through all plores for us (her birth is uncontrollable)...
1.14c: Gricks may rise and Troysirs fall (there being two sights for ever a picture) for in the byways...
1.14d: Let young wimman run away with the story and let young min talk smooth behind the butteler's back...
1.14e: Though the length of the land lies under liquidation (floote!) and there's nare a hairbrow...
1.14f: And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty times as awkward again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand...


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FDV: "She brings us her presents from the goneaway past how there'll be eggs for the brekkers come to mourning. For where{ver} there's a gale find {the} gall & ?wherethen a hind seek the hun." →
"We know all men by these her presents from the goneaway past how there'll be eggs for the brekkers come to mourning. For there's wherever the gale [seek][guess]{find} the gall & whenthere's a hind [hunt]{seek} the hun."



And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty times as awkward again

nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty

shall
eggshell

frumenty (sometimes frumentee, furmity, fromity, or fermenty)
frumpy


in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand remonstrancers

bosom
song Kafoozalum [♬ Kafoozalum?-nsfw] [lyrics]

The Grand Remonstrance: a document produced by Parliament in 1641 giving account of royal mismanagement and recommending radical reforms


there'll be iggs for the brekkers come to mournhim,

Higgs?

for breakfast

Danish brikker: in chess, men or pieces
breakfasters
breakers?

come the morning

mourn him


sunny side up with care.

VI.B6.121: "eggs with sunny side up" (NPFJr 08Feb24: 'By the Way': 'poached eggs, or, as we say, 'eggs with the sunny side up'')


So true is it that therewhere's a turnover the tay is wet too

turn over = start new viconian cycle
turn over = invert (inverted T = ⊥ ?)

turnovers

AngloIrish phrase: the tea is wet: the tea is ready (also euphemism for sexual intercourse)
AngloIrish accent: tay: tea

when the turnovers are served, the tea should be ready too

FDV: "For where there's a gale find gall" →
"For there's wherever the gale seek the gall"
(Gael = Irish, Gaul = French, classic FW brotherbattle; where there's yin there's yang)


and when you think you ketch sight of a hind make sure but you're cocked by a hin.

FDV: "?wherethen a hind seek the hun" →
"whenthere's a hind hunt the hun"
(hind = deer, hun = German?)

catch

"but you're" = that you're not

cock
caught

AngloIrish accent: hin: hen
him

so, the hind could be a trap arranged by your enemy



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FW 1.15a --relax and look around--

1.15a: Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b: like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c: We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d: though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e: But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f: Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...


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synopsis: an overview of the city and its hills — so this is Dublin


FDV: "The best plan is to tour round east & north & review the two mounds." →
"The cheapest plan is to tour round east & north to the review of two mounds."
(east and north of Dublin, eg Howth)

Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy,

behaviourist
favourite

Queen Anne's Bounty: provision for maintenance of the poor clergy
acquaintance
quaintness
Quaintance: rare surname

bandy = tossing back and forth, bowlegged
band


fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe,

'frut' = boy (Friulian)
Jewish Day of First Fruits

time
tithe = 10% religious tax


we may take our review of the two mounds,

FDV: "The best plan is to... review the two mounds"
Revue des Deux Mondes: major French literary review (literally French 'Review of the Two Worlds')

two mounds (cf 5 hills below)
if Howth is the head and Phoenix Park is the toes, where are the buttocks?


to see nothing of the himples here as at elsewhere,

to say nothing
cf below "We may see and hear nothing if we choose..."

German Himmel: sky, heavens
pimples


by sixes and sevens,

phrase at sixes and sevens: disordered



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FW 1.15b --it's like kids at a teaparty--

1.15a: Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b: like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c: We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d: though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e: But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f: Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...


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like so many heegills and collines sitton aroont,

boys and girls

German Hügel: hill
eagles?

French colline: hill
AngloIrish colleen: girl

sitting around
Sarah Siddons??

AngloIrish aroon: my dear, beloved


scentbreeched and somepotreek,

scent

St Brigid and St Patrick: patron saints of Ireland

chamberpot reek?


in their swishawish satins and their taffetaffe tights,

mishe/tauf

taffeta: a type of fabric


playing Wharton's Folly at a treepurty

playing a game

playing music (the lyrics of song Lillibullero are attributed to Lord Thomas Wharton)

Wharton's Folly: 'The Star Fort', an unfinished fortress in Phoenix Park, built by Viceroy Wharton on high ground, now between the Magazine Fort and the Zoo (a term also spuriously attributed to the Magazine Fort, despite it being built twenty years after Wharton's death)

tea party
Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick: a medieval manuscript describing Saint Patrick's life


on the planko in the purk.

Esperanto: planco: ground
plank
pachinko? 1930

park


Stippup, mickos! Make strake for minnas!

step up

'Move up, Mick, make room for Dick' (a Dublin graffito after Collins' death, 1922, referring to Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy, his successor)

Dublin slang: micky = penis
Mick/Nick 

make straight


By order, Nicholas Proud.

Nicholas Proud: secretary of the Dublin Port and Docks Board in Joyce's time

62yo in 1901

saying: 'proud as Lucifer/Satan'



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FW 1.15c --the orchestral string section--

1.15a: Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b: like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c: We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d: though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e: But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f: Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...


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We may see and hear nothing if we choose

ear/eye (see/hear)

why would we choose not to see or hear musicians? simple negativity?


of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill

shortfingered = dishonest? (cf FW31 "that none too genial humour which William the Conk on the spindle side had inherited with the hereditary whitelock and some shortfingeredness from his greataunt Sophy")

German Berg: mountain

Alf BergAn: law clerk to the subsheriff in City Hall on Cork Hill, Dublin (character in Ulysses Cyclops) called 'little'

burghers
berg = viol (musical instruments)

violin (musical instruments)

Cork Hill, Arbour Hill, Summer Hill, Misery Hill, and Constitution Hill (why five? string quintet??)
if Cork Hill suits Alf Bergan, do the others have comparable associations?




or the bergamoors of Arbourhill

viola d'amore (musical instruments)
moors


or the bergagambols of Summerhill

viola da gamba (musical instruments)
gambol = frisk, dance


or the bergincellies of Miseryhill

violoncello (musical instruments)

cellmates in jail?


or the countrybossed bergones of Constitutionhill

contrabass (musical instruments)

bossed by others, or acting like a boss?

violone (musical instruments)

'bergIns... bergAmoors... bergAgambols... bergIncellies... bergOnes'
= i a a i o?


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FW 1.15d --other instruments and players--

1.15a: Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b: like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c: We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d: though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e: But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f: Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...


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lead-in: "We may see and hear nothing if we choose..."

though every crowd has its several tones

nursery rhyme 'As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives, and every wife had seven sacks...'

Pont de Sevres, Paris (bridges of Paris)?

(there's always a choice of "tones", despite which we may choose to hear none of them?)


and every trade has its clever mechanics

German Klavier: piano (musical instruments)

you can choose a clever tradesman, or not?


and each harmonical has a point of its own,

harmonica (musical instruments)
cf?? Bloom's fascination with concerthall acoustics and whispering galleries

crowd/tones, trade/mechanics, harmonical/point



Olaf's on the rise and Ivor's on the lift

the legend that three brothers, Aulaf, Sitric, and Ivar, founded Dublin, Waterford, and Limerick, apparently originated with Giraldus Cambrensis

Olaf/Dublin, Sitric/Waterford, Ivor/Limerick

Olaf Road (easternmost of the 3), Ivar Street (northernmost), and Sitric Road (southeast of Ivar, slightly southwest of Olaf) near Arbour Hill, Dublin



on the right (left/right)

on the left


and Sitric's place's between them.




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FW 1.15e --dancing on HCE's landscape--

1.15a: Then as she is on her behaviourite job of quainance bandy, fruting for firstlings and taking her tithe...
1.15b: like so many heegills and collines, sitton aroont, scentbreeched and somepotreek, in their swishawish...
1.15c: We may see and hear nothing if we choose of the shortlegged bergins off Corkhill or the bergamoors...
1.15d: though every crowd has its several tones and every trade has its clever mechanics and each harmonical...
1.15e: But all they are all there scraping along to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous...
1.15f: Behove this sound of Irish sense. Really? Here English might be seen. Royally? One sovereign punned...


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But all they are all there scraping along

"all they are all" ?

scraping = playing stringed instrument with bow


to sneeze out a likelihood that will solve and salve life's robulous rebus,

squeeze out a livelihood

Romulus and Remus

Rabelais

rebus: word-puzzle (from Latin rebus: by things, from things)


hopping round his middle like kippers on a griddle, O,

song Phil the Fluter's Ball: 'Hopping in the middle like a herrin' on a griddle, O!'


as he lays dormont from the macroborg of Holdhard

lies dormant

French mont: German Berg: mountain

from Howth Head (head) to the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park (feet)

macro, micro

hold hard
Howth Head?


to the microbirg of Pied de Poudre.

French pied poudreux: vagabond (literally 'dusty foot')

Pie Poudre: a court formerly held at a fair for quick treatment of hawkers, etc.

song Phil the Fluter?

French poudre: powder, gunpowder



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