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Sunday, August 31, 2014

FW 1.75c --the cat's 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]



Bald Tib does be yawning and smirking cats' hours

fw1 had "Boald"
bold
bald

Dialect tib-cat: a female cat
Tibert: cat in the Reynard cycle (also known as Tybalt)
Tybalt/Baltyb

AngloIrish does be (habitual present tense of 'to be')

Castor (and Pollux)

phrase banker's hours: short work hours


on the Pollockses' woolly round tabouret cushion

(Castor and) Pollux

Round Table

tabouret: low, drum-shaped stool without arms or back



watching her sewing a dream together,

goddess weaves world on loom


the tailor's daughter, stitch to her last.

phrase stick to one's last
last ditch
without a stitch


Or, while waiting for winter to fire the enchantment,

enchantment


decoying more nesters to fall down the flue.

Serbo-Croatian nestera: niece
nesting birds
Esthers?


It's an allavalonche that blows nopussy food.

proverb It's an ill wind that blows nobody good

French à l'aval: downstream
avalanche
hell of a lunch?
alluvial?



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FW 1.75d --HCE's nostalgia for ALP--

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]



If you only were there to explain the meaning,


best of men, and talk to her nice of guldenselver.

'best of men': an epithet of the Buddha

Dutch gulden: golden; guilder, florin
gold and silver
anachronism: Gildersleeve


The lips would moisten once again.


As when you drove with her to Findrinny Fair.

cf? fw628: "Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair."

AngloIrish findrinny: silver-bronze, white-bronze (from Irish fionndruine)

Letters I.348 16Oct34: 'A 30-year wedding should be called a 'findrinny' one. Findrinny is a kind of white gold mixed with silver'


What with reins here and ribbons there all your hands were employed

archaic reins: kidneys, loins

colloquial ribbons: reins (for driving)

cf U225: " I was tucking the rug under her and settling her boa all the time. Know what I mean?"


so she never knew was she on land or at sea


or swooped through the blue like Airwinger's bride.

fw446: "Aerwenger's my breed"




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FW 1.75e --ALP's femininity--

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: "And it's herself that's fine too, don't be talking, and fond of the concertina of an evening:"



She was flirtsome then and she's fluttersome yet.


She can second a song

second: to sing second voice to (a singer or song)


and adores a scandal when the last post's gone by.

last post: bugle call at a burial or at the end of day


Fond of a concertina and pairs passing

concert


when she's had her forty winks for supper

colloquial forty winks: a short nap [wiki]


after kanekannan and abbely dimpling

AngloIrish colcannon: an Irish dish of potatoes, cabbage and scallions mixed with butter and milk (from Irish cál ceannfhionn)



Cain/Abel

apple dumpling



and is in her merlin chair assotted,

merlin chair: an invalid wheelchair invented by J.J. Merlin



aseated
besotted


reading her Evening World.

Evening World: a New York City newspaper, 1887-1931 [wiki]



To see is it smarts, full lengths or swaggers.

smart: (of clothing) stylish

full-length coat

swagger coat: a type of three-quarter-length woman's coat (fashionable in the 1930s)





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FW 1.75f --ALP sees herself in news stories--

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]



News, news, all the news.

cf U435: "A VOICE FROM THE GALLERY Moses, Moses, king of the jews, Wiped his arse in the Daily News."


Death, a leopard, kills fellah in Fez.



fellah: a peasant in Arabic countries


Fez: city, Morocco


Angry scenes at Stormount.

Stormont: the seat of the Northern Ireland parliament


Stilla Star with her lucky in goingaways.

Italian stilla: drop
Italian stella: star

her bridegroom? fiance?

going-away clothes: clothes worn by a bride when going off on her honeymoon


Opportunity fair with the China floods

phrase

1931


and we hear these rosy rumours.

rare


Ding Tams he noise about all same Harry chap.

Dick, Tom, Harry
damnall?

knows

Harry chap


She's seeking her way, a chickle a chuckle,


in and out of their serial story, Les Loves of Selskar et Pervenche,

(Selskar and Periwinkle) [388.06] [580.17-.18]

Danish elsker: loves

Selskar Gunn: son of Michael Gunn, manager of Gaiety Theatre, Dublin (Selskar was one year younger than Joyce, their families were friendly in Dublin, and he further socialised with Joyce in Paris in the 1920s) [626.19]

French pervenche: periwinkle


freely adopted to The Novvergin's Viv.

no virgin

Norwegian's

Danish viv: wife

French vive: lively (feminine)




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FW 1.75g --ALP has many years left--

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: "Her hair's as brown as ever it was. And wivvy and wavy. Repose you now! Finn no more!"



There'll be bluebells blowing in salty sepulchres

bluebells growing
bubbles blowing

cf fw626: "But I read in Tobecontinued's tale that while blubles blows there'll still be sealskers."

cf fw628?? "the near sight of the mere size of him, the moyles and moyles of it, moananoaning, makes me seasilt saltsick and I rush, my only, into your arms"


the night she signs her final tear. Zee End.

actress's final performance

teastain motif

Z (end of alphabet)
Dutch zee: sea
see (ie, cross-reference to the end of the book)

fw628 "the"


But that's a world of ways away.

Congreve: The Way of the World


Till track laws time.

track law (horse racing)

lost track of time

last time

Proust: In Search of Lost Time


No silver ash or switches for that one!

switch: a coil of false hair, worn by women as a hair-supplement


While flattering candles flare.

German flattern: to waver, to flutter


Anna Stacey's how are you!

Greek anastasê: resurrection

AngloIrish how are you!: don't be absurd! (Letter: How Are You)


Worther waist in the noblest,

German Wörter: words

worth her weight


says Adams and Sons, the wouldpay actionneers.

J. Adams and Sons, Dublin auctioneers

would-be

French actionnaire: shareholder


Her hair's as brown as ever it was.


And wivvy and wavy.

Italian vivi: alive (plural)


Repose you now! Finn no more!

French reposez-vous: have a lie down (literally 'repose you')

New Testament John 8:11: 'sin no more'




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FW 1.76a --a young HCE replacement--

1.76a: For, be that samesake sibsubstitute of a hooky salmon, there's already a big rody ram...
1.76b: humphing his share of the showthers is senken on him he's such a grandfallar...
1.76c: And aither he cursed and recursed and was everseen doing what your fourfootlers saw...
1.76d: Though Eset fibble it to the zephiroth and Artsa zoom it round her heavens...
1.76e: But however 'twas 'tis sure for one thing, what Sherif Toragh voucherfors...
1.76f: with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow, The Bey for Dybbling...
1.76g: and has been repreaching himself like a fishmummer these sixtyten years ever since...
1.76h: our old offender was humile, commune and ensectuous from his nature...


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FDV: "And be the hooky salmon there's a big lad now, I am told, like a lord mayor (on show), the height of a brewer's chimpney, " →
"And be the hooky sammon there's a big rody lad now at random on the premises, as it's told me, flourishing like a lord mayor (for show), the height of Brewster's chimpney,"


synopsis: he will not return — replacement is already here




For, be that samesake sibsubstitute of a hooky salmon,

by that
fdv: "And be the"

namesake

sibling substitute

U492: "By the hoky fiddle, thanks be to Jesus those funny little chaps are not unanimous."
hoc est corpus (this is [my] body)
hoc [fweet-8]
fishhook

Finn and the Salmon of Wisdom

on the vernal equinox, the sun leaves Pisces (fish) and enters Aries (ram)


there's already a big rody ram lad

Smollett (1721-1771) title-names cluster: [fweet-7] [wiki]
Roderick Random (1748) "rody ram lad at random"
Peregrine Pickle (1751) "pocked wife in pickle"
Humphry Clinker (1771) "lice nittle clinkers"
(not included in Oxen parodies?)

Hebrew ram: high, tall (cf below: "the height of Brewster's chimpney")

Tristram


at random on the premises of his haunt of the hungred bordles,

cf ROC4 "the socalled last free supper he greatly gave in his umbrageous house of the hundred bottles"
Conn of the Hundred Battles: legendary Irish king

hungry
hung, red

French bordel: brothel
bottles


as it is told me, Shop Illicit,

illicit drink shop
Chapelizod


flourishing like a lordmajor or a buaboabaybohm,

Penguin has "lord-major"

Lord-Mayor (of Dublin)

stuttering

baobab: African tree with a very thick trunk



German Baum: Dutch boom: tree


litting flop a deadlop (aloose!) to lea

letting
why lItting? littering?

cow-flop = manure
let flop = to shit?

colloquial dollop: a lump, a quantity
deadlock
dead-drop = unlucky drip-sound (Scottish)

alas!

the lee side and the weather side of a ship "to lea... on the breezy side"


but lifting a benbranch a yardalong (ivoeh!)

fw1 has "bennbranch"

Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798–1868) father of:
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840–1915)
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927) [wakp]

Hebrew ben: son

drop deadlop/ lift benbranch = Shaun/Shem?

a yard long

German i wo!: heavens no!, not a bit of it!
Latin evoe: shout of joy (of the Bacchantes)


on the breezy side (for showm!),

for show
for shame!
Shem/Shaun


the height of Brewster's chimpney

dialect brewster: brewer
Brewster [fweet-5] incl Blanchette Brewster, Josephine Brewser, Brigid Brewster
1901 census shows 163 Brewsters in ireland

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker
chimney

Guinness brewery chimney


and as broad below as Phineas Barnum,

height vs width

Phineas T. Barnum: American showman


fw1 had semicolon


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