FW 1.73b --the boys are growing up--

1.73a: Everything's going on the same, or so it appeals to all of us, in the old holmsted here...
1.73b: Coal's short but we've plenty of bog in the yard. Meat took a drop when Reilly-Parsons failed...
1.73c: Kevin's just a doat with his cherub cheek and his little lamp and schoolbelt...
1.73d: And Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. You remember Essie...


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FDV: "Coal's short but we've plenty of bog in the yard. And barley's up again. The boys is attending school regular, sir."



Coal's short but we've plenty of bog in the yard.

can't afford coal so using peat (peatbog)

bog = outhouse

coalyard?


Meat took a drop when Reilly-Parsons failed.

price of meat is up (but is that good or bad for the speaker and HCE?)

'take a drop' = drink alcohol

when Persse O'Reilly fell

"Reilly-Parsons" sounds like a business


But barley's up again, begrained to it!

The lads is attending school nessons regular, sir.

Church of the Three Sons of Nessan, Ireland's Eye, Ireland (ruins, 8thC)

nice and regular

lessons regularly


Spelling beesknees with hathatansy

spelling bee

slang bee's knees = great
business

the ancient Egyptians used beeswax, tansy, and mud for embalming

hesitency
Greek athanasia: immortality


and turning out tables by mudapplication.

table-turning: ouija-board variant

multiplication tables

cf Muddest1: "Take mud. You take your river. Dump it at a given point to be called α but pronounced olfa. There's mud & α."


All for the books and never pegging smashers

one for the books (memorable, historical)

peg: to aim (a missile) cricket?
cf?? U83: "Still Captain Buller broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg."

proverb People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?

smasher: a bookbinder's compressing-machine; or a counterfeiter


after Tom Bowe-Glassarse or Timmy the Tosser.

Tom/Tim

French tombeau: tomb, grave

why Bowe? why Glassarse?

slang toss: masturbate
toss/peg/smash/glass?


'Tisraely the truth! Now isn't it, roman pathoriks?

'tis really

Benjamin Disraeli: 19thC British politician (opposed Gladstone and Irish Home Rule) (why?)
Israelite

fw1 had "No"

St Patrick

Roman Catholics (P/K; L/R)
why no caps?


You were the doublejoynted janitor the morning they were delivered

double-jointed progenitor?
why joYnt? overjoyed?

cf? U323: "Yes, says J. J., and every male that's born they think it may be their Messiah. And every jew is in a tall state of excitement, I believe, till he knows if he's a father or a mother."


and you'll be a grandfer yet entirely

grandfather
cf below "he's such a granfallar"
transfer??


when the ritehand seizes what the lovearm knows.

rite (what rite?)

Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis 158: 'Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left?' (left/right) maybe: Does your right side love your left? ie, are you in love with yourself? [cite]

NT-Matthew 6:3: 'let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth'

why arm? (does "lovearm" = penis?)




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FW 1.73c --the kids' personalities--

1.73a: Everything's going on the same, or so it appeals to all of us, in the old holmsted here...
1.73b: Coal's short but we've plenty of bog in the yard. Meat took a drop when Reilly-Parsons failed...
1.73c: Kevin's just a doat with his cherub cheek and his little lamp and schoolbelt...
1.73d: And Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. You remember Essie...


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FDV: "Hetty Jane's a child of Mary."



Kevin's just a doat with his cherub cheek

"Kevin... Jerry" Jerry/Kevin

AngloIrish dote: a term of endearment (especially for a child; also spelled 'doat') cf 'dote on'


and his little lamp and schoolbelt and bag of knicks,

Shaun's belted lamp (fw404: "When look, was light and now'twas as flasher, now moren as the glaow. Ah, in unlitness 'twas in very similitude, bless me, 'twas his belted lamp!")

bag of tricks
knickknacks (cf ALP's bag fw10: "She's burrowed the coacher's headlight the better to pry (who goes cute goes siocur and shoos aroun) and all spoiled goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy spattees and flasks of all nations, clavicures and scampulars, maps, keys and woodpiles of haypennies and moonled brooches with bloodstaned breeks in em, boaston nightgarters and masses of shoesets and nickelly nacks and foder allmicheal and a lugly parson of cates and howitzer muchears and midgers and maggets, ills and ells with loffs of toffs and pleures of bells and the last sigh that come fro the hart (bucklied!) and the fairest sin the sunsaw (that's cearc!).")

"knicks... milk"? Nick's (Mick/Nick)


chalking oghres on walls

ancient Irish Ogham alphabet

ochres: yellowish-brown pigments used in cave painting

and playing postman's knock round the diggings,

children's game Postman's Knock (involves kissing a partner)
Shaun-Kevin the girls' favorite

midden heap (fw110-111)


and if the seep were milk you could lieve his olde by his ide.

farfetched?
Irish Melodies: song Lay His Sword by His Side [air: If the Sea Were Ink]

what's seeping?
Dutch zeep: soap

milksop: a weak or effeminate person
ink/milk = black/white
Mick?

leave
believe

Isolde
old

why not Side?


But, laus sake,

German Laus: louse (why?)

Huck Finn 32: 'law sakes' (interjection)


the devil does be in that knirps of a Jerry sometimes,

German Knirps: whippersnapper

Shem


the tarandtan plaidboy,

Irish tarraingteach: attractive (why?)
tartan plaid
Black and Tans: English recruits serving in the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920-1 [fweet-14]

John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World


making encostive inkum out of the last of his lavings

cf Shem1's Latin passage

Latin encaustum: purple-red ink
costive: constipated

AngloIrish accent: lavings: leavings
lave = wash


and writing a blue streak over his bourseday shirt.

colloquial blue streak: a constant stream of words

French bourse: purse
French Bourse: Stock Exchange

phrase birthday suit: bare skin

cf fw9: "Dispatch in thin red lines cross the shortfront of me Belchum."


Hetty Jane's a Child of Mary.

Issy

Children of Mary: Catholic girls' association
U347: Gerty has a Child of Mary badge

She'll be coming (for they're sure to choose her)

why sure?


in her white of gold with a tourch of ivy

green, white and orange of Irish flag

Litany of Blessed Virgin Mary: 'House of Gold, Tower of Ivory' (associated with Eileen in PoA: I)

French tour: tower

"ivy... Holly" song The Holly and the Ivy


to rekindle the flame on Felix Day.

Latin felix: happy
Felix Culpa
phoenix (bird of fire)




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FW 1.73d --Essie's sexy--

1.73a: Everything's going on the same, or so it appeals to all of us, in the old holmsted here...
1.73b: Coal's short but we've plenty of bog in the yard. Meat took a drop when Reilly-Parsons failed...
1.73c: Kevin's just a doat with his cherub cheek and his little lamp and schoolbelt...
1.73d: And Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. You remember Essie...


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FDV: "And Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts. 'Twould delight your heart to see."
(his heart?!)



And Essie Shanahan has let down her skirts.

short for Esther? [cites]

1901 census has 1200 female Shanahans


You remember Essie in Our Luna's Convent?

Irish Melodies: song You Remember Ellen: 'You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride' "...Were I a clerk" below [song inspired film]

Our Lady's
Latin luna: moon
Il Conte di Luna: character in Verdi's opera Il Trovatore (has two sons who quarrel over Eleonora, without knowing they are brothers)


They called her Holly Merry her lips were so ruddy berry

Holy Mary

red


and Pia de Purebelle when the redminers' riots was on about her.

'pia e pura bella': Vico's phrase for the religious wars of his heroic age ('pious and pure wars')

miners (strikes and riots were not uncommon)


Were I a clerk designate to the Williamswoods menufactors

IM: song You Remember Ellen [air: Were I a Clerk]

Williams and Wood's jam [info] (U: "not those 2 lb pots of mixed plum and apple from the London and Newcastle Williams and Woods goes twice as far")

William Wood's halfpence fw11: "woodpiles of haypennies"

menu
manufacturers
factors


I'd poster those pouters on every jamb in the town.

post those posters
cf U: Marie Kendall, charming soubrette

pouting lips, red from jam?
door-jamb (Passover)


She's making her rep at Lanner's twicenightly.

dancing

colloquial rep: reputation

Katti Lanner: famous 19thC Austrian-British ballet dancer and choreographer (Ulysses 15.4044: 'The Katty Lanner step')
(but here it's a place)

two shows per night


With the tabarine tamtammers of the whirligigmagees.

Les Amours de Tabarin and Isabelle (play) 17thC
taborin: a small drum

tam-tam: a drum; a gong
French slang: faire du tam-tam: to kick up a row

song The Ball of Mr Whirligig Magee Esquire ♬

archaic slang whirligigs: testicles


Beats that cachucha flat.

cachucha: a Spanish dance [yTube]


'Twould dilate your heart to go.

dilate your eyes?
delight

in fdv, refers to Essie letting down her skirts




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FW 1.74a --the corpse must be restrained--

1.74a: Aisy now, you decent man, with your knees and lie quiet and repose...
1.74b: You swamped enough since Portobello to float the Pomeroy...


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FDV: "Aisy now, you decent man, {with your knees} and lie quiet and repose your honour's lordship!"


synopsis: he attempts to rise — the four restrain him



Aisy now, you decent man,

AngloIrish accent: aisy: easy

not to awaken his bedmate?

(in Ulysses, 'decent' usually implies not a heavy drinker, esp. Dignam)


with your knees and lie quiet

insertion: with your knees

are the knees somehow the startingpoint of his trying to rise?
cf praying on knees?


and repose your honour's lordship!

'Timothy' means 'honouring God'

illiterate?


Hold him there, Ezekiel Irons,

Zekiel Irons: parish clerk and fisherman in LeFanu


and may God strengthen you!

'Ezekiel' means 'God will strengthen'


It's our warm spirits, boys, he's spooring.

warm spirits = alcoholic drink; life force

spooring = tracking an animal [wkt]
German spüren: to sense, to feel the effect of

Finnegan senses alcohol


Dimitrius O'Flagonan,

song Enniscorthy: 'Dimetrius O'Flanigan McCarthy'

dimity fabric??

flagon


cork that cure for the Clancartys!

cork that bottle

alcohol as cure?

cork for, or cure for?

Earl of Clancarty [wiki] '5th Earl married English music-hall singer'




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FW 1.74b --sleep tight--

1.74a: Aisy now, you decent man, with your knees and lie quiet and repose...
1.74b: You swamped enough since Portobello to float the Pomeroy...


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FDV: [nothing]



You swamped enough since Portobello to float the Pomeroy.

swamp = to drench or overwhelm something
sweated?
swamped self = got drunk?

Portobello: district of Dublin [map]

float TO?

Pomeroy: town, County Tyrone [map]
'Pomeroy Abbey' 1878 novel


Fetch neahere, Pat Koy!

fetch up = arrive, overtake

near here
nigh

Russian vechnyi pokoi, na vechnuyu pamyat: eternal peace, for eternal memory (cf R.I.P.) "вечный покой, на вечную память" ♬?


And fetch nouyou, Pam Yates!

eternal memory

neahere/nouyou
Pat/Pam
Koy/Yates


Be nayther angst of Wramawitch!

Irish Binn Éadair: Howth

Anglo-Irish accent: nayther: neither
neither Pat nor Pam, peace nor memory??

German Angst: Dutch angst: fear

fear not

Russian Avramovich: surname meaning son of Abraham

Hindu god Rama? (why W? wrath?)
witch ( = ALP??)


Here's lumbos.

he slumbers

here we are in?

Latin lumbus: loin (cf lumbar)
limbo


Where misties swaddlum,

swaddle 'em

mists swaddle him = cloudcapped Howth?


where misches lodge none,

German Mischer: meddlers
mischievous

no lodging for guests?
wedding bed?


where mystries pour kind on,

mysteries
mis-tries

pour oil on troubled waters?
last unction?


misties/misches/mystries = Shem-Shaun-Tristan???
swaddle/lodge/pour kind = Viconian ages?


O sleepy! So be yet!

so sleepy?

so be it
soviet




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FW 1.75a --we're keeping an eye on the servants--

1.75a: I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate and the butter, trust me...
1.75b: The sternwheel's crawling strong. I seen your missus in the hall...
1.75c: Bald Tib does be yawning and smirking cats' hours on the Pollockses'...
1.75d: If you only were there to explain the meaning, best of men...
1.75e: She was flirtsome then and she's fluttersome yet. She can second...
1.75f: News, news, all the news. Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez...
1.75g: There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night...


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FDV: "I've an eye on queer Behan and Old {old} Kate and the milk {buttermilk}, trust me. And we put on your clock again, sir, for you."


synopsis: the whole household is fine — so is the wife



I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate

I'm keeping an eye on the untrustworthy servants

Sackerson, Kate

U562 has a jarvey called Behan (very common name)


and the butter, trust me.


She'll do no jugglywuggly


with her war souvenir postcards to help to build me murial.

(mementos from the museyroom? fw1.11)

memorial

mural
French mur: wall
French mûr: ripe; drunk, tipsy


Tippers, I'll trip your traps!

tip motif


Assure a sure there!

as sure as you're


And we put on your clock again, sir, for you.

wind, reset the clock


Did or didn't we, sharestutterers?


So you won't be up a stump entirely.

Huck Finn 32: 'up a stump'


Nor shed your remnants.

Huck Finn 20: 'shed his coat'




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FW 1.75b --ALP is doing well--

1.75a: I've an eye on queer Behan and old Kate and the butter, trust me...
1.75b: The sternwheel's crawling strong. I seen your missus in the hall...
1.75c: Bald Tib does be yawning and smirking cats' hours on the Pollockses'...
1.75d: If you only were there to explain the meaning, best of men...
1.75e: She was flirtsome then and she's fluttersome yet. She can second...
1.75f: News, news, all the news. Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez...
1.75g: There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres the night...


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FDV: [nothing]



The sternwheel's crawling strong.

Huck Finn 19: 'stern-wheel'

I seen your missus in the hall. Like queenoveire.

King Arthur's Hall

Guinevere: queen-consort of King Arthur

queen of Eire


Arrah, it's herself that's fine, sure, don't be talking!

AngloIrish arrah: but, now, really


Shirksends?

shirks ends
Shakespeare

"Shirksends? ...Shakeshands."


You storyan Harry chap longa me Harry chap storyan grass woman plelthy good trout.

historian

below: "...about all same Harry chap"

Beche-la-Mar: longa: to, at, by, in

Italian grassa: fat
grass widow

plenty
healthy


Shakeshands.

shakes hands

Shakespeare

Dibble a hayfork's wrong with her only her lex's salig.

AngloIrish devil a hap'orth: not a halfpennyworth

Lex Salica: a 6thC body of Frankish law (especially known for excluding females from succession to a throne)
leg's

Danish salig: blessed
Irish salach: dirty
German selig: happy, delighted
Dutch zalig: delicious




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