FW 1.47-49 --HCE took a dump--

[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]



FDV: "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?" →
"Jute— Sumply because, as Taciturn pretells, the our wrongstory shortener, he dumptied this wholebarrow of rubbages on to soil
here?
Mutt— Just like a puddingstone inat the brookcells of a riverpool.
Jute— Loud Load a marshey! Wid wad for a noise like?"



JUTE: Sumply because, as Taciturn pretells, our wrongstoryshortener,

poached on... simply because

Tacitus briefly mentions Ireland (has a concise style)

wrong story (gets the story wrong)

phrase to make a long story short


he dumptied the wholeborrow of rubbages on to soil here?

dumped the wheelbarrow of rubbish
formation of midden heap

nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
emptied
defecated

dialect rubbage: rubbish
cabbages

MUTT: Just how a puddinstone inat the brookcells by a riverpool.

just like
FDV: "Just a puddingstone"

German wie: how; like

VI.B14.03: 'poudingue pudding stone'
SDGC 263: 'We need a more subtle working of the mind to separate and classify the elements of this pudding-stone' (glossed in a footnote: 'This is not an arbitrary frenchisation, but a word of geology')
pudding-stone: a conglomerate rock consisting of naturally-cemented pebbles (French poudingue)

French Bruxelles: Brussels
_G__Dial Bruck: bridge

Celbridge (Church of the Bridge), County Kildare, on Liffey river, west of Dublin

Liverpool (L/R)


JUTE: Load allmarshy! Wid wad for a norse like?

wheelbarrowload

Lord Almighty!
Lord have mercy!

all marshy

AngloIrish accent: wid: with

Cornish: wad: forefather
what

noise



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 

FW 1.50 --Mutt's sworn testimony--

[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]


FDV: "Mutt— Somular to a bull in a Clompturf. I could snore with my owth by the neck I am sutton on O'Flynn." →
"Mutt— Somular to a bull in a Clompturf. I could snore to him woolseley side in with my owth by the neck I am sutton on old Brian O'Flinn."



MUTT: Somular with a bull on a clompturf.

similar to
modular? somnolent?

phrase like a bull in a china shop

longshot: bull-roarer: a piece of wood or bone making a roaring noise when swung round on the end of a string (used by druids and Australian aborigines for religious purposes)

Clontarf (coastal parish three miles northeast of Dublin centre and site of famous battle; name means 'Bull Meadow')


Rooks roarum rex roome!

rooks = crows; cheaters
roux = redhead; sauce-thickener

Latin rex rerum: king of wealth
rorem = moisture

Latin rex Romae: king of Rome

(no-punctuation suggests causality?)


I could snore to him of the spumy horn, with his woolseley side in,

Swiss German: schnore: chatter, talk
swear

spumy: covered with sea-foam, frothy
spermy?

horn: a piece of land projecting into the sea, a promontory
horn = erection

FDV: "I could snore with my owth"
Howth, oath
song Brian O'Linn: (had breeches with) 'The skinny side out and the woolly side in'
FDV above: " How I know it the livery greytecloke of Cedric Silkyshag with his hairyside out"

Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington


by the neck I am sutton on, did Brian d'O Flinn.

Isthmus of Sutton, joining Howth and the mainland (Greek isthmos: neck)

sitting
certain

song Brian O'Linn
Dublin
Black Linn: the highest point on Howth
Irish linn: pool



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 

FW 1.51, 1.52a -Jute's in denial-

1.51: Jute.— Boildoyle and rawhoney on me when I can beuraly forsstand a weird from sturk to finnic...
1.52a: Mutt.— Quite agreem. Bussave a sec.
1.52b: Walk a dun blink roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters...
1.52c: Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr. Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering rue. Hither...
1.52d: Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!
1.53: Jute.— 'Stench!
1.54a: Mutt.— Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey...


[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]


FDV: "Jute— Boiledoil for me if I can forestand you your norse noise as you make out of it. {Good aftermeal!}
Mutt— Rest a while." →
"Jute— Boiledoyl & rawhony on me if I can forestand such a noise norse as you make out of it. You tell of rutterdamrott unheardof & unscene. Good aftermeal! See you doomed.
Mutt— Rest a while."


JUTE: Boiledoyle and rawhoney on me

boiled oil and raw honey (both were used as forms of torture, the former by immersion, the latter by attraction of biting insects)

Baldoyle and Raheny: districts of Dublin


when I can beuraly forstand a weird from sturk to finnic

German wenn: if

French beurre: butter
Irish Béarla: English language

barely understand a word

Danish forstand: understanding

Doctor Sturk: a character in LeFanu, who lives in Chapelizod and is knocked unconscious in Phoenix Park, but recovers briefly before dying (his damaged skull inspires the book, a century later)

start to finish
Turkish to Finnish

Finnic: pertaining to the Finnish people, or to a branch of languages comprising Finnish, Estonian and related languages
finnoc: a white trout


in such a patwhot as your rutterdamrotter, onheard of and umscene!

French patois: dialect, cant
pat what
nitwit???

Rotterdam: a city in the Netherlands (name means 'muddy water')
rotter = cad, ratrut = lust, fucking
longshot: German Götterdämmerung: twilight of the gods (doesn't add any new letters beyond Rotterdam)

FDV: "your norse noise" → "such a noise norse" → → "such a patwhot as your rutterdamrotter"
why "noise norse"? just adjective after noun?

Dutch on-: un-
unheard of

German umsehen: look around (why?)
unseen
obscene


Gut aftermeal! See you doomed.

German gut: good
good afternoon!
get after (behind) me

after meal = (eg) postprandial

phrase I'll see you damned first
see you soon


MUTT: Quite agreem. Bussave a sec.

agree
green
a dream

but
save

wait a second
sec = thirst



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 

FW 1.52b --a lesson of the land--

1.51: Jute.— Boildoyle and rawhoney on me when I can beuraly forsstand a weird from sturk to finnic...
1.52a: Mutt.— Quite agreem. Bussave a sec.
1.52b: Walk a dun blink roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters...
1.52c: Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr. Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering rue. Hither...
1.52d: Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!
1.53: Jute.— 'Stench!
1.54a: Mutt.— Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey...


[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]

synopsis: Mutt tells of the fallen — the dialogue of Mutt and Jute ends


FDV: "Half a look onward you will see" →
"Walk a look roundward you will see {how old the plain} From Inn the Bigning Bygning to Finnisthere. Punct."


Walk a dun blink roundward this allbutisle

Half a league onward (see FDV)

dun = tan horse
dun = hill (Old English)
dun = debt collector
Dunsink Observatory, Dublin
Dublin
don't blink

all but isle ('peninsula' from Latin pæne insula = almost island)
Prince Albert Island, Canada


and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters, hunfree and ours,

skull
shall

how old (there's a verb expected but not delivered?? unless "olde" is the verb???)
ye olde?

Moyelta or Magh Elta: the old plain of Elta, where the Parthalonians supposedly died of plague and were buried; maybe between Howth and Dublin

complaint?

elders
German Eltern: parents

Humphrey
free of huns

hours?
his and ours?


where wone to wail whimbrel to peewee o'er the Saltings,

wone = house, custom

whimbrel, peewee (birds)
"whimbrel to peewee" large wailing to small? all wailing, large and small?

VI.B25.155: 'Saltings'
salting: meadow flooded by tide


where wilby citie by law of isthmon,

will be
Wilby = Dublin surname
Danish by: town

city

law of nature? (Vico?)

Isthmus of Sutton, joining Howth and the mainland


where by a droit of signory icefloe was

droit de seigneur: the supposed right of a feudal overlord to deflower the bride of any of his tenants on the first night of her marriage

(Howth was an island before the last Ice Age 8000yr ago?)
"icefloe" = HCE??

from his Inn the Bygning

Genesis 1:1, John 1:1: 'In the beginning'

Danish bygning: building

FDV: "you will see From Inn the Bigning to Finnisthere. Punct."


to whose Finishthere Punct.

finishing point
Finisterre: an indication on ancient maps for the end of the known world (from Latin finis terræ: end of the earth)
Cape Finisterre: northwestern tip of Spain (Celts supposedly came thence to Ireland)
Phoenix Park

German Punkt: period, full stop



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 

FW 1.52c --the tides of war--

1.51: Jute.— Boildoyle and rawhoney on me when I can beuraly forsstand a weird from sturk to finnic...
1.52a: Mutt.— Quite agreem. Bussave a sec.
1.52b: Walk a dun blink roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters...
1.52c: Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr. Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering rue. Hither...
1.52d: Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!
1.53: Jute.— 'Stench!
1.54a: Mutt.— Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey...


[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]


FDV: "Thousand & one livestories {have} netherfellen here."



Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr.

IM: song Let Erin Remember the Days of Old [♬] melody aka "Moddereen Rue" (The Red Fox)

German Ehre: honour, glory
everyone
him

German Ruhm: glory, fame
murmur


Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering rue.

Italian mare: sea
mirror
merge

VI.B5.136: 'limit of 2 races child's grave'
OCI I.41, Atala: 'We passed close to the tomb of a child, that served as a boundary for two nations' (child honored by both)

race: a strong current in the sea or a river

sweet and brack (salty)
white and black (dark/fair)

mothering
song Moddereen Rue
Irish moddereen rue: little red dog (i.e. fox)

archaic rue: sorrow, regret, pity


Hither, craching estuards, they are in surgence:

H,ce

VI.B5.144: 'here flux unites ⊤ & ⊥ reflux divides'
GLF 215: (of the tides of the Baie de Tréspassés) 'A touching folk legend has it that here meet the souls of those who had killed themselves for love and had been lost in death. Once a year, they are allowed to see each other. The flux unites them, the reflux separates them, and they tear away from each other amid prolonged lamentations'

French cracher: to spit
crashing

eastwards
estuary
Stuarts, stewards

insurgents


hence, cool at ebb, they requiesce.

h,ce

quiescent
obsolete requiesce: to rest
Latin requiescat in pace: (of the dead) rest in peace


Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage,

FDV: "Thousand & one"
1001 Arabian Nights

many men have fallen

life stories

German niederfallen: fall down

French plage: beach
German Plage: plague
place


flick as flowflakes, litters from aloft,

thick as snowflakes

letters


like a waast wizzard all of whirlwords.

vast, waste
Dutch waas: haze, blur

blizzard, wizard

Old Norse Heimskringla: world's whirl (title of a saga)

FW2: -words (not -worlds)



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 

FW 1.52d, 1.53-54a --corpses of the fallen--

1.51: Jute.— Boildoyle and rawhoney on me when I can beuraly forsstand a weird from sturk to finnic...
1.52a: Mutt.— Quite agreem. Bussave a sec.
1.52b: Walk a dun blink roundward this albutisle and you skull see how olde ye plaine of my Elters...
1.52c: Let erehim ruhmuhrmuhr. Mearmerge two races, swete and brack. Morthering rue. Hither...
1.52d: Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!
1.53: Jute.— 'Stench!
1.54a: Mutt.— Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey...
1.54b: Llarge by the smal an' everynight life olso th'estrange, babylone the great grandhotelled...


[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]


FDV: "They are tombed to the mound {ishges to ishges, erde from erde}."



Now are all tombed to the mound,

"are all" not 'all are'

archaic tomb: to entomb, to bury
French tomber: to fall
doomed

burial mound
French monde: world


ishges to ishges, erde from erde.

Order for the Burial of the Dead: 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust'

Old English isge: ice
Greek gês: earth

German Erde: Old English erde: earth
French merde: shit


Pride, O pride, thy prize!

Brinabride [fweet-7]
Parnell: 'When you sell, get my price' [fweet-20]


JUTE: 'Stench! MUTT: Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey.

stench of corpses
God's tench?? attention? intention?

Latin fiat: let it be, so be it Latin fuit: it was
so be it, and it was
a purported prophecy of St Patrick's success at converting the Irish people, attributed to Leary's druids: 'All his household will respond, So be it, so be it' (in Latin fiat, fiat) [fweet-12]

herein under
German herunter, hinunter: downward (viewed from below or above, respectively)

lye: strong alkali (dissolves corpses; plague victims buried in quicklime)
lie they



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 

FW 1.54b --the balance of opposites--

1.52d: Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde from erde. Pride, O pride, thy prize!
1.53: Jute.— 'Stench!
1.54a: Mutt.— Fiatfuit! Hereinunder lyethey...
1.54b: Llarge by the smal an' everynight life olso th'estrange, babylone the great grandhotelled...


[last] [fweb-toc] [fweet] [finwake] [theall] [pgs]




still Mutt speaking:


Llarge by the smal an' everynight life olso th'estrange,

opposites: large/small (cf whimbrel/peewee above?)

cf 269.F05 "Llong and Shortts Primer of Black and White Wenchcraft."
initial double-ell suggests Welsh

Dutch smal: narrow

opposites: everyday/strange

Oslo, Norway

also the stranger

French l'étrange: the strange


babbylone the greatgrandhotelled with tit tit tittlehouse,

babby = baby (eg, see Ulysses; rarely used in FW)

Babylone: district of Paris

Revelation 17:5: 'BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS'

Arnold Bennett: Grand Babylon Hotel (Bennett reviewed Ulysses rather unfavourably (NPOut 29Apr22; Deming: The Critical Heritage 219))

opposites: great/little

opposites: hotel/house

siglum: ◻

stuttering

nursery rhyme 'Little Tommy Tittlemouse Lived in a little house'


alp on earwig, drukn on ild,

4 elements air, earth, water, fire??

opposites: △/E

ALP

German Alpdruck, Alpdrücken: nightmare (in the form of suffocating pressure on the sleeper's chest)
German alp = spirit
German drücken = to press

Earwicker

opposites: water/fire

Danish drukne: to drown

Norwegian ild: fire


likeas equal to anequal

like as

opposites: equal/unequal


in this sound seemetery which iz leebez luv.

opposites: sound/sight (ear/eye)

cemetery

is

Livvy's
German: 'Liebes-' = love-
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod ('love-death' aria)
love



[next]



full pages: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29