[etext: Mutt and Jute FDV]

FDV:

Scuse me, guy. You tollerday donsk? N. you talkatiff Scowegian? you spigotty angliss? You Phonio Saxo? Nnnn. 'Tis clear all so. Tis a Jute. Let us swop hats
Jute— Are you Jeff?
Mutt— Someward.
Jute— You are not a jeffmute?
Mutt— No, only an utterer
Jute— What is the mutter with you?
Mutt— I became a stummer.
Jute— What turrurrurrurrible thing to because! How?
Mutt— Aput the buttle.
Jute— Whose Poddle? Wherein?
Mutt— The Inns of Dungtarf.
Jute— You are almost inedible to me. Become a little wiseable. Let me cross your. [...] Boohooros I trumple in my mines when I rememmerem.
Jute— Let me cross your qualm with gilt. Here is coyne, a piece of oake.
Mutt— How I know it! It is him. He was poached on that eggtentical spot by the liveries. There where the missers mooney.
Jute— Simply because he dumptied the wholebarrow of rubbages on to soil?
Mutt— Just a puddingstone at a riverpool.
Jute— Lord a marshy! With what for a noise like?
Mutt— Somular to a bull in a Clompturf. I could snore with my owth by the neck I am sutton on O'Flynn.
Jute— Boiledoil for me if I can forestand you norse noise as you make out of it.
Mutt— Rest a while. Half a look onward you will see [...] Thousand & one livestories netherfallen here. They are tombed to the mound. This earth is not but brickdust. He who runes may read it. But speak siftly.




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FW 1.30c --approaching the caveman--

1.30a: In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje in pelted thongs a parth a lone who the joebiggar...
1.30b: It is slaking nuncheon out of some thing's brain pan. Me seemeth a dragon man. He is almonthst...
1.30c: What a quhare soort of a mahan. It is evident the michindaddy. Lets we overstep his fire defences...
1.30d: Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered women blown monk sewer? Scuse us, chorley guy! You tollerday...


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synopsis: Mutt meets Jute — Mutt attempts to address him



What a quhare soort of a mahan!

AngloIrish accent: quare: queer

queer sort of a man

Dutch soort: sort, kind

AngloIrish mahan: bear
Mahan = Irish surname


It is evident the michindaddy.

why not evidently?

Dialect miching: playing truant, skulking, shrinking from view (obsolete pilfering, cheating)
Hamlet III.2 "miching malicho"

miching daddy

so, the fallen HCE?


Lets we overstep his fire defences

let us
lest?

"we" = narrator and reader??? so we've entered the story?

step over
overreach

Danish fire: four

fire at mouth of cave? (no cave has been mentioned)


and these kraals of slitsucked marrowbones. (Cave!)

kraal: fairly sophisticted stockade, pen, enclosure, or even village in South Africa (from Afrikaans)

Neanderthal Man cracking and sucking marrowbones in his cave

silt

marrowbones
Dutch merg: marrow

Latin cave!: beware!


He can prapsposterus the pillory way to Hirculos Pillar.

perhaps propose to us
preposterous (why?)
poster us, post us, point us

'us' again includes reader

pillory = whipping post
billowy way (poetic cliche incl Walter Scott: sea)

Latin hirculus: little goat, smelly person

Pillars of Hercules (the northern of the two 'pillars' is unmistakeable, the southern one ambiguous, so maybe we're on the African side, eg in South Africa? maybe travelling by ship?)



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FW 1.30d --identifying his language--

1.30a: In the name of Anem this carl on the kopje in pelted thongs a parth a lone who the joebiggar...
1.30b: It is slaking nuncheon out of some thing's brain pan. Me seemeth a dragon man. He is almonthst...
1.30c: What a quhare soort of a mahan. It is evident the michindaddy. Lets we overstep his fire defences...
1.30d: Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered women blown monk sewer? Scuse us, chorley guy! You tollerday...


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FDV: "Scuse me, guy.... You tollerday donsk? N. you talkatiff Scowegian? you spigotty angliss? You Phonio Saxo? Nnnn. 'Tis clear all so. Tis a Jute. Let us swop hats" →
"Scuse me, guy.... You tollerday domk? N. You talkatiff Scowegian? Nn. You spigotty angliss? Nnn. You Phonio Saxo? Nnnn. 'Tis clear all so. Tis a Jute. Let us swop hats & exchange a few verbs with each either & have a tolk about the blooty kreeks."



Come on, fool porterfull, hosiered women blown monk sewer?

French: comment vous portez-vous aujourd'hui, mon blond monsieur?: how are you today, my fair sir? (HowAreYouToday)
(the caveman is blond???)

porter (drink)
hosier = stockingmaker
(fancy ladies fellate monk in sewer?)

French phrase: mon bon monsieur: my good sir


Scuse us, chorley guy! You tollerday donsk? N.

excuse
"us" still plural

VI.B14.182: 'Sorley boy' (Gwynn: Ulster 25: 'no figure of those days is more notable than the MacDonnell chief, Somhairle Buidhe, "Yellow Charles", Sorley Boy, as the English wrote him')
Sorley Boy MacDonnell: rebellious 16thC Ulster chief
Charlie
churlish

Danish Taler de Dansk?: Do you speak Danish?
tolerate

do you speak Danish, Norwegian, English, Saxon? No.


You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.

Tolka river, Dublin
Danish tolke: to interpret
talkative

"scowegian" = derogatory slang for Scandinavian
scow = simple boat


You spigotty anglease? Nnn.

LNDO 399 (XX.4): 'Round Panama everything native is called spiggoty, because in the early days the Panamanians, when addressed, used to reply, "No spiggoty [speak] Inglis"'

Richard Pigott, an Irish journalist, attempted to incriminate Charles Stewart Parnell in the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders by means of false letters; trapped at a government inquiry by his spelling of 'hesitancy' as 'hesitency'

Angles, Saxons, Jutes: three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries


You phonio saxo? Nnnn.

euphonium (tuba-like), saxophone (musical instruments)

Greek phoneo: I speak

Latin saxo: a Saxon

"N... Nn... Nnn... Nnnn" (q&a's more often occurs in threes)


Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.

German also: so, therefore

VI.B14.111: 'I am a Jute'

mute


Let us swop hats and excheck a few strong verbs weak oach eather

"us" = narrator and caveman (or maybe narrator and interpreter??)

swop: alternative spelling of swap

(no sooner has the caveman been named a Jute than 'Jute' becomes the interrogator of an inferior called 'Mutt')

exchange

strong and weak verbs in Germanic languages (e.g. Old English)
strong words = angry
words with each other


yapyazzard abast the blooty creeks.

VI.B1.144: 'yap'
NPLdr 15Mar24: 'As Others See Us': 'S' donkey's years since I've had a yap with you old man'
slang yap: a chat; to chat
haphazard
buzzard, blizzard, lizard

avast

about the bloody Greeks

Dutch bloot: naked

German Krieg: war (bloody wars)

creeks

(asking directions, or making smalltalk-- like Bloom-- to win his sympathy?)



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FW 1.31-42 --Mutt is a fallen man--

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synopsis: the dialogue of Mutt and Jute begins — memories of the battle of Clontarf


FDV: "Jute— Are you Jeff?
Mutt— Someward.
Jute— You are not a jeffmute?
Mutt— No, only an utterer
Jute— What is the mutter with you?
Mutt— I became a stummer.
Jute— What turrurrurrurrible thing to because! How?
Mutt— Aput the buttle.
Jute— Whose Poddle? Wherein?
Mutt— The Inns of Dungtarf." →
"Jute— Jute!
Mutt— Much Mutts pleasure.
Jute— Are you Jeff?
Mutt— Someward.
[no changes]Jute— Whose Poddle? Wherein?
Mutt— The Inns of Dungtarf where used ought to be."



JUTE: Yutah! MUTT: Mukk's pleasurad.

Mutt and Jeff: American comic-strip characters

Mutt is tall and married and bets on horses, Jeff is short and an inmate of insane asylum [wiki]

you there!
Utah, USA?

much pleasure had (at meeting you)
why pleasurAD?

(at this point it's still not clear who's the newcomer/superior)


JUTE: Are you jeff? MUTT: Somehards.

deaf

somewhat
hard of hearing

(Shem has eye problems, Shaun ear problems)

(who's asking who, and what provoked the question? wasn't it the caveman who didn't hear the newcomer approach?)


JUTE: But you are not jeffmute? MUTT: Noho. Only an utterer.

VI.B1.68: 'deafmute'

slang: nohow
Noah, Nehemiah

utterer: (legal) one who passes counterfeit coins
stutterer


JUTE: Whoa? Whoat is the mutter with you? MUTT: I became a stun a stummer.

what

German Mutter: mother
matter

Danish stund: a short while

Vico claimed first men moved from muteness to stuttering in imitation of the thunder, God's voice

German Stummer: a mute person
stammer


JUTE: What a hauhauhauhaudible thing to be cause! How, Mutt?

stuttering (four hau's)

horrible
audible
haud = Latin no

to be sure because
to be coarse


MUTT: Aput the buttle, surd.

Latin apud: with
upon

bottle battle
butler

Latin surdus: French sourd: deaf
archaic surd: stupid

cf Tim Finnegan's shaky drunken fall


JUTE: Whose poddle? Wherein? MUTT: The Inns of Dungtarf where Used awe to be he.

Poddle river, Dublin

Erin?

Battle of Clontarf, Dublin, 1014 (high king Brian Boru defeated the Danish army of occupation, although he himself was killed in the process)

as 'Clontarf' means 'Bull Meadow', so 'Dungtarf' would mean 'Bull Shit'

buttle... tarf (Butt/Taff)

where I used to be he
FDV: "where used ought to be"
where you ought to be

before Mutt's fall, he was a hero/king



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FW 1.43-45 --money exchanged--

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FDV: "Jute— You are almost inedible to me. Become a little wiseable. Let me cross your. [...] Boohooros I trumple in my mines when I rememmerem.
Jute— Let me cross your qualm with gilt. Here is coyne, a piece of oake." →
"Jute— You are almost inedible to me. Become a little more wiseable as if I were you.
Mutt-- Up Urp Boohooru! Boroorusurp Booru! Usurp! I trumple with wrath from rath in mine mines when I rememmerem.
Jute— Let me cross your qualm with trinkgilt. Here is coyne, a piece of oaks."


JUTE: You that side your voise are almost inedible to me.

voice

inaudible

(it was Mutt who had hearing problems, but now it's Jeff?)


Become a bitskin more wiseable, as if I were you.

speak up, wise up, cooperate, surrender

German ein bisschen: a little
foreskin

visible
understandable
wise up?

FDV: "Become a little wiseable."


MUTT: Has? Has af? Hasafency? Urp Boohooru! Booru Usurp!

FW1 had "Has at? Hasatency?"

hesitency

FDV: "Up"

boohoo = (fake) weeping
boo = disapproving

alarmed? suspecting treachery?

_JJow: Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages: 'the usurper Brian Boru' (for ending the long-lived O'Neill clan dynasty of high-kings)


I trumple from rath in mine mines when I rimimirim!

tremble
trumpet

wrath in my mind
Rathmines: district of Dublin
mines

remember him (IM: song War Song: Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave (about Brian Boru))
Italian mi rimiro: I look at myself
rimimir, mirim are palindromes


JUTE: One eyegonblack. Bisons is bisons.

agon = contest (pronun??)

eye gone black (Joyce wore a black eye-patch at times, Shem has "an eighth of a larkseye")
German Augenblick: moment

slang bison: nickel (United States coin)
phrase business is business
phrase bygones are bygones
two sons


Let me fore all your hasitancy cross your qualm with trinkgilt.

before

hesitency 

phrase cross one's palm with silver: to bribe, to tip, to pay

German Trinkgeld: tip
gilt trinket
guilt

Mutt admitted to being an utterer, but maybe now Jute is passing counterfeits too?


Here have silvan coyne, a piece of oak.

silver coin
sylvan = of the forest (oak, fir, yew) tree = Shem

coyne and livery: billeting practised under Brehon Laws by Irish chiefs

piece of eight


Ghinees hies good fir yew.

Ghini = 16thC botanist (fir, yew)
guineas

hies = hurries

phrase Guinness is good for you (advertisement)

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FW 1.46 --Mutt remembers HCE--

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FDV: "Mutt— How I know it! It is him. He was poached on that eggtentical spot by the liveries. There where the missers mooney."
"Mutt — How I know it the livery greytecloke of Cedric Silkyshag {with
his hairyside out}! He is him. Tormentor Thormentor. He was poached on that eggtentical spot by the. Here where the liveries. There where the missers mooney: Minnikin Passe. "
why "Tormentor"? (backscratcher??)

these FDVs are in the present tense, as if HCE is present, but the published version is all past tense


MUTT: Louee, louee! How wooden I not know it, 

Italian lui, lui!: it's him!
French l'ouie: hearing
louis (coins)

wooden money
Wood's halfpence
would/wouldn't


the intellible greytcloak of Cedric Silkyshag!

indelible
untellable
un/intelligible
unmistakeable

great
Harald Graycloak ruled West Norway in the 10thC
HCE wore a rubberised Inverness

O'Connell statue

Sitric Silkenbeard led the Danes againt Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf (some of his coins are preserved)

loongshot: silky shark (species)

Cead mealy faulty rices for one dabblin bar.

Irish céad míle fáilte romhat: a hundred thousand welcomes before you (traditional Irish greeting)
but does 'romhat' account for "rices"??
pronun:

dabbling
Dublin Bar = society of local lawyers
slang bar: one pound sterling


Old grilsy growlsy! He was poached on in that eggtentical spot.

longshot: grilse: young salmon after smolt stage, returning from the sea to fresh water for the first time (not used elsewhere)

growl

poached salmon
poached egg (Humpty Dumpty)
killed
FDV had no "in": "He was poached on that eggtentical spot by the liveries"
livery stables? (eg, mentioned twice in Ulysses)

identical
tenticles


Here where the liveries, Monomark.

coyne and livery
Liberties: district of Dublin
FDV above had "How I know it the livery of Cedric Silkyshag"

'Monomarks' were a 1925 scheme for giving people unique ID-numbers

Greek monomachos: gladiator
Mark the First
monolith


There where the missers moony, Minnikin Passe.

Here/There
(if "There" is the maggies, is "Here" the soldiers?)

missies: girls
misters

moony = moody
Greek slang: mouni: female genitalia
to moon = to expose buttocks

FDV: "mooney"
Mooney's pub is mentioned several times in Ulysses
maybe 'Mrs Mooney'?

minikin = small, small person
Manneken-Pis: statue in Brussels of a child urinating

passe = out of fashion
French slang: passe: a fuck


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