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Saturday, September 27, 2014

FW 1.4a --sounds of battle--

1.4a: What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek...
1.4b: Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes...
1.4c: What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves...
1.4d: O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but...
1.4e: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you...


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FDV (Oct/Nov26) "What cha clashes of wills & wits were not here & there abouts!" →
"What clashes here of wills upon wonts! oystrygods gaggin fishigods" →
"What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods!" [cite]



What clashes here of wills gen wonts,

clash of wills, clash of wits
will and won't
wont = habit (will = nonhabitual effort)
wills = legal documents

German gegen: against
again

"were not here & there abouts!" (deleted)
"were not" = were
'here and there' = approximate positions
'thereabouts' = approximately


oystrygods gaggin fishygods!

fish gagging on oysters?

'Goth' refers to the ancestral tribe c500BC in southern Sweden, splitting into Ostrogoths (Goths of the rising sun/ east) and Visigoths (true Goths, misinterpreted as western Goths), so a classic brother-battle

at the battle of Catalaunian Fields in northern France, 451AD, Attila and the Ostrogoths were beaten by Aetius (a Roman) and the Visigoths (the most significant conflict of these rival Gothic tribes) [wiki]

a giant ostracod (seed shrimp)

the term ostracod goes back to 1860s

Ulysses p13: 'fishgods of Dundrum'
oysters in Ulysses are emblems of sexual potency, especially Boylan's
the fish is an ancient symbol of Christ
(has anyone ever worshipped oyster gods? maybe: follow their example by staying in your 'shell'... and growing pearls?)

fishigods → fishygods
oyster-y, fishy (fishy = suspicious)


Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek!

Aristophanes: The Frogs: 'Brekekekex koax koax' (refrain sung by the Marsh Frogs of Styx, calling time for Dionysus, god of wine, as Charon makes him row across to the underworld; Dionysus shouts the cry back and silences them by reaching the farther bank)
it’s Βρεκεκεκέξ κoàξ κoàξ (Brekekekex koax koax, BKK) in the original
cf Mrkgnao! 


sounds of machine gun fire and artillery barrage?


Kóax Kóax Kóax!

Aristophanes' original captured the call-and-response(?) of frogs in nature?

BKKK! KKK! = Ku Klux Klan, which goes back to 1860s (cluster: "the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head... Killykillkilly") [fweet-12]
glorified by DW Griffith's 'Birth of a Nation' [wiki] which played in France in 1920

(phrase moved from after the ualus)


Úalu Úalu Úalu!

triplet motif:
Kékkek Kóax Úalu!
Kékkek Kóax Úalu!
Kékkek Kóax Úalu!
harsh consonants give way to soothing vowels (cf U-Sirens?)
battle sounds to mourning after
breaking waves, retreating?

longshot: 'ūălū' means 'sinew thread' in Western Innuit

ulalu: a wailing cry, a lamentation (from Irish uileliúgh) used by Yeats in early poem

cf dedALUs

FW1 had "Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh!" (no accents)


Quáouáuh!

(no guesses, people??)

surely mournful?
or comical 'sad trombone' wah-wah?! (1920s) (eg) an ironic black comeback to the KKK references???



maybe to balance the lone "Brékkek"? Viconian four-cycle?

the spelling looks Mayan??
kwa-oo-ahh?gwae = (Welsh) woe
qua
quahog or quahaug = clam
whoa!

variant spellings: Quaouauh (FnF, Vkg, JCM), Quáouauh (Penguin)

'the lamentation “Úalu Úalu Úalu! Quáouáuh!” was printed in 1939 without accents... 1st entered text on 1st fair copy, dated 29Nov26 w/accents, which were left out on HSW's typescript but inserted by hand on “Úalu”, not on “Quaonauh” (w/typo). In transition 1, “Úalu” is correct, and one accent has been restored in “Quáonauh”, suggesting intervention by JAJ.  “Quáouauh” appears correctly in the published issue. In the galleys, “Quáouauh” appears unaltered, but accents on “Úalu” are missing again; text published w/only the accent on “Quáouauh”.' [paraphrased]



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FW 1.4b --rabelasian battlesounds--

1.4a: What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek...
1.4b: Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes...
1.4c: What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves...
1.4d: O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but...
1.4e: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you...


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synopsis: storms of warfare — fall and rise [fweet]

added in one chunk in 1938:  "Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head. ?Assiegales and boomeringstroms. Sod’s brood, by my be me fear! Sanglorians, save! Arms apeal with larms appalling. Killykillkilly: a toll, a toll." (by 1938, Joyce seemed able to generate multilayer puns effortlessly in any quantity!)

we'd normally expect each battling pair to have one primary historical prototype, but these two pairs (partisans/Micgranes, Verdons/Whoyteboyce) are still mysterious


Where the Baddelaires partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes

"Where"?
Baudelaire: French poet
battle lairs/airs
bad
partisans, artisans
FW1 had "Baddelaries"

Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais I.70: 'Badelaire, "a type of sword with one back and one edge large and curving towards the tip like the scimitar of the Turks"'
I.72: 'Partisane or pertuisane, a strong pike with a straight iron head and two edges'

"still out"?

_OE_ math: to mow, to cut down
_Skt_ math: to annihilate
_Gr_ mathê: learning, education
song Master McGrath
McMaster?
Malachi Mulligan (Ulysses)
Malachi [fweet-7]
_It__Coll_ micragne: penuries, poverties
migraine: headache
Magrath = HCE's nemesis
Italian grane: troubles (2 syllables, via grain?)

Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais I.70: 'Malchus, a curved sword similar to a cutlass'
I.90: 'Migraine, a fire grenade, from Provençal migrano, pomegranate (fruit)'

partisans vs Mulligan? (Gogarty collaborated with Sinn Fein)
French vs Irish... competing in math??


and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie Head.

(could this be cricket references?)

Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais I.70: 'Verdun, a long and narrow sword, properly sword of Verdun, a town ever renowned for its manufacturing of steel blades'
I.91: 'catapulte' (catapult)

Battle of Verdun, 1916
verde = green (Spanish); Verdi??
TK de Verdon wrote a long poem honoring Britain's losses in the Crimean War [ebook]
Bertram De Verdon was allied with Gerald Cambrensis c1186
Rose Verdon supposedly built Roche Castle in Louth
longshot: Vernon family supposedly possessed Brian Boru's sword

pelting

Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais I.90: 'Camisade... "An attack on the enemy before dawn, or at another time during the night, by armed men dressed in white shirts or similar covering to recognise themselves"'
I.91: 'Baliste' (French 'Ballista')

camisole de force = straitjacket (French)
cannibalism, camouflage
ballistics/gymnastics?

Whiteboys: 18thC Irish rebels, dressed in white smocks [wiki]
Hoyt [wiki], Boyce [wiki]
white boys in hoods (eg Ku Klux Klan) 


Howth Head
there's a Beachy Head 50 miles from Bognor

hoodie = hooded crow

Assiegales and boomeringstroms.

war = storm
FW1 had 'Assiegates'

French assieger: to besiege (soft 'g' though)

Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais I.71: 'Aze gaye, zagaie... a name of a spear'; referring to the assegai, an African spear



gales, storms
_Du_ boom = _Cz_ strom = tree
boomerang
booming
_G_ Strom: stream, current
(references to trees/Shem are usually balanced by references to stone/Shaun)


Sod's brood, be me fear!

God's blood!
Ireland's people; be my men

 "by my" → "be me"

I fear you, or I fear for you
Irish fear, fir: man, men


Sanglorians, save!

French sans: without
glory

French sang: blood
laureates?

French sanglot: sob
French riant: smiling, cheerful
Saint Lawrence

Latin salve, ave: hail


Arms apeal with larms appalling.

appeal, appealing
a-peal = bells pealing
German Lärm: noise
French larme: tear
FW1 had a comma after "larms"


Killykillkilly: a toll, a toll.

meter: 10-0-10, 01-01 not 10-10-10

James Stephens: The Wind/ Stephen's Green? '...And said he'd kill and kill and kill' (Joyce translated the poem into French, German, Latin, Norwegian, and Italian in 1932, see Ellmann 656)

_AngI_ kill: church

KKK: Ku Klux Klan again

bells tolling vs pealing?

_AngI__ph_ at all, at all


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FW 1.4c --main themes as battles--

1.4a: What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek...
1.4b: Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes...
1.4c: What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves...
1.4d: O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but...
1.4e: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you...


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synopsis: storms of warfare — fall and rise [fweet]
[fweet]

FDV: "What chance cuddleys, what castles aired & ventilated, what biddymetolives sinduced by what egosetabsolvers, what true feeling for hair with false voice of haycup, what rorycrucians byelected by rival emilies!"
"What chance cuddleys, what castles aired & ventilated, what biddymetolives sinduced by what tegotetabsolvers, what true feeling for hay hair with false voice of jiccup, what rosycrucians contested of simily emilies!"



What chance cuddleys,

Legalese chance-medley: manslaughter by misadventure

cuddle


what cashels aired and ventilated!

AngloIrish cashel: stone fort or building; circular wall enclosing a church or group of ecclesiastical buildings

cashel (open stone fort)
cudgels
Russian kashyel: cough
phrase castles in the air

airing disputes = using words

(evacuated)


What bidimetoloves sinduced by what tegotetabsolvers!

song 'Bid me to live... thy Protestant to be'

longshot: Latin bi- = Greek di- = two ([ Ʌ

sin
seduced

goat/sheep motif: teg (sheep in its second year)/ goat

French tête-à-tête: private conversation
Latin ego te absolvo: I absolve you (priest's formula to penitent in Roman Catholic confessional)

(confessors)


What true feeling for their's hayair

Genesis 27:22: 'And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau' [fweet-42]

'There's hair!' is supposedly an obscure catchphrase, c1900? maybe meaning 'just hair, no brains' (cf Isolde) or maybe related to the Robert Burns lyric 'There's Hair On't' (which may be a very bawdy reference to pubic hair) or maybe just drawing attention to someone's hair...? [fweet-8]

heir
hay/ straw (hay is valuable feed, straw is just bedding)


with what strawng voice of false jiccup!

strong

Ʌ impersonating [, ie not real Jacob?
[ impersonating Ʌ, ie deceitful Jacob

Jacob
hiccup


dropped phrase: "what rorycrucians byelected by rival emilies!" →
"what rosycrucians contested of simily emilies!"

byelection for contested seat?
simile?
enemies
Emilie Bardach's affair with Ibsen inspired Bygmester Solness
Emily Sinico in 'A Painful Case'

is there some Rosicrucian/Emily antagonism?


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FW 1.4d --from the depths to the heights--

1.4a: What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek...
1.4b: Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes...
1.4c: What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves...
1.4d: O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but...
1.4e: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you...


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FDV: "But O here how has sprawled upon the dust the father of fornications but O, my stars & body, how has finespanned in high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement. Was Isot! Ere we sure?" →
"And O here how has sprawled upon the dust the father of fornicationists but O, my shining stars & body, how has finespanned in high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement. Wasis? Isot! Ere were sure?"


O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists

hear, hear
how hath
Howth
sprawled
prowled
Dutch met: with
dusk
dust


but (O my shining stars and body!)

phrase my stars!
seeing stars
heavenly bodies

FW1 had a comma after "but" (commas before parentheses was a consistent stylistic oddity that FW2 consistently rejects)


how hath fanespanned most high heaven the skysign of soft advertisement!

finespun
fane: flag, pennant, weathercock

OTIsa 48:13: 'my right hand hath spanned the heavens'

rainbow
sky-sign: an advertisement on the roof a building, so constructed that its letters stand out against the sky; an advertisement in sky-writing



But waz iz? Is eut?

_E,var_: {FnF, Png, JCM: ...waz...} | {Vkg: ...was...}

first words sung by Tristan in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Act I scene 2): 'Was ist? Isolde?' (German 'What's wrong? Isolde?')

woz: in Egyptian mythology, the cursed fish as a symbol of Osiris's incestuous sin with Isis

Arabic: 'azîz = dear, beloved

FnF, Vkg, JCM: "Iseut?"
Png: "...iz! Iseut! Ere were sewers!"


Ere were sewers?

is it? are you sure?

(ere + w = were; were + s = sewer)

sewers: waste conduits; tailors
were there ever sewers?

French soeurs: sisters



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FW 1.4e --trees reborn out of ashes--

1.4a: What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Brékkek...
1.4b: Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes...
1.4c: What chance cuddleys, what cashels aired and ventilated! What bidimetoloves...
1.4d: O here here how hoth sprowled met the duskt the father of fornicationists but...
1.4e: The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. Phall if you...


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FDV: "The oaks of old rest in peat. Elms leap where ashes lay. Till nevernever may our pharce be phoenished!" →
"The oaks of old maythey rust in peat. Elms leap where ashes lay. Till nevernever may our pharce be phoenished!"



The oaks of ald now they lie in peat

bog-oak: coniferous wood preserved in peat-bogs

Edmund Burke: A Letter to a Noble Lord, 1796: '... and I lie like one of those old oaks... I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth!'

longshot: the Invincibles had a last drink at the Royal Oak, Parkgate Street, before carrying out the Phoenix Park murders, 1882

of old
alder

rest in peace


yet elms leap where ashes lay.

in Norse myth, the ash and elm (Norwegian Ask, Embla) were the first man and woman (so, women leap where men lay)

Thomas Gray: Elegy in a Country Churchyard: 'Beneath those rugged elms, that yewtree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep'

Lord Chesterfield, when Lord-Lieutenant (i.e. Viceroy) of Ireland, planted an avenue of elms in Phoenix Park

sleep

FW1 had "askes"
Norwegian aske: ashes

ALP


Phall if you but will, rise you must:

in Theban Coptic, Re, the Sun God, is referred to as PH

phallus

James Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian: Fingal II: 'If fall I must, my tomb shall rise, amidst the fame of future times'

will/must: free will/determinism


and none so soon either

FDV: "Till nevernever"
Gilbert and Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore: Captain Corcoran's song: 'I'm never never sick at sea'
'the Never Never' = Australian outback
Neverland/ Never Never Never Land (Peter Pan)

none too soon


shall the pharce for the nunce

farce (broad theatrical comedy)obsolete farce: meat stuffing
French phare: lighthouse (from Pharos, Egypt)

according to the Book of Invasions, Fenius Farsaid created the Irish language (but this farfetched mention is the only one)

for the nonce
"none... nunce"
Nun: in Egyptian mythology, the primeval fluid from which world was created
nuns


come to a setdown secular phoenish.

"setdown" = humbling retort (cf 'putdown'?); or meal, or meeting

Set: Egyptian god of evil and brother of Osiris

Latin in saecula: forever ('into the ages'?)

finish
phoenix: in Egyptian mythology, a bird rising from its ashes after being burned in Heliopolis (now Cairo) site of a 68ft obelisk

the phoenix bird was singled out by Michelet as an apt symbol for Vico's cycle
references to Phoenix Park and Phoenix Brewery bring the bird in too, and Healy-opolis becomes Timothy Michael Healy's viceregal lodge, and Ashtown the phoenix's ashes


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FW 1.5a --Finnegan's prehistory--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchi­tecti­tipti­toploftical...


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synopsis: Tim Finnegan the masterbuilder — his tower?


FDV: "Bygmister Finnegan, builder, lived on the broadest way imaginable" →
"Bygmister Finnegan of the Stuttering Hand, builder, lived in the broadest way imarginable in his {rushlit} toofarback for messuages"


Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand,

Norwegian: bygmester/byggmester: master builder, architect (bygge = to build)

Ibsen's play: Bygmester Solness (The Master Builder)

Parnell and Lewis Carroll stuttered [motif] hesitancy
trembling / handwriting (cf Mamafesta)
Tim Finnegan (not a master builder) was shaking from drink before he fell [song]
masturbation [motif]

farfetched: Nancy Hand's (pub) [info] (did the pub's sign ever depict a hand?)


freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way immarginable

FDV: "builder"

German Freimaurer: freemason (used secret sign language)

German Maurer: bricklayer, mason

on Broadway
1926
Matthew 7:13: 'Enter ye at the strait gate for... broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction'

"imaginable" → "imaginoble" (broad... noble)


in his rushlit toofarback for messuages

rushlight: candle made from rush dipped in grease



slang rushlight: liquor? [misreading?]

Dublin slang farback: maybe a tenement consisting of two back rooms instead of the usual one front and one back [cite]

what sort of dwellingplace is a "toofarback for messuages"? a hideout? (surely not a tower??)

messuage: dwelling house plus adjacent land and buildings (so far back it has no adjacent land or buildings?)

messages (Shaun the Post can't find it?)


before joshuan judges had given us numbers

Pentateuch/Torah = (Genesis, Exodus,) Leviticus, book of Numbers and Deuteronomy
followed by Joshua, Judges, (Samuel and Kings)

Joshua
Judges
Numbers

too far back in history for the sorts of messages that need numbers? pre-Biblical


or Helviticus committed deuteronomy

Latin Helveticus: Swiss (the typeface is later)

Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771) author of heretical/burned philosophy book [wiki] or his ancestor Helvétius (Johan Friedrich Schweitzer): freethinker and alchemist

Leviticus

commit to writing
commit sin/crime

Deuteronomy (Hebrew name means 'book of words')
numbers/words


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FW 1.5b --parenthesis, parting the waters--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchi­tecti­tipti­toploftical...


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(one yeastyday he sternely stuck his tete in a tub

yeast (used in beer brewing; causes dough to rise)

yesterday

Easter

German Sterne: stars

_M,Swift/Sterne_ 

(several oriental folktales about a ruler plunging his head in a bath and finding himself transformed and transported to a foreign place where he undergoes various experiences only to finally return to his bath and to the same moment in time in which he had plunged his head in the water)

FW1 had "struxk"
struck
Styx river

French tête: head

Swift: A Tale of a Tub


for to watsch the futures of his fates

Italian forte: strong
Latin forte: by chance

German watschen: to slap (on the face)
watch

wash the features of his face

FW1 had "future"


but ere he swiftly stook it out again, by the might of Moses,

Swift

Moses supposedly wrote Pentateuch (first five books of Old Testament)

Moses split the waters of the Red Sea

FW1 had "moses"


the very water was eviperated and all the guenneses had met their exodus

evaporated
oviparity: reproduction by eggs
FW1 had "eviparated"

OTGen
Guinness

ousted

OTExd


so that ought to show you what a pentschanjeuchy chap he was!)

Pentateuch: the first five books of the Bible

German panschen: to adulterate, to water down, to dilute

Punch and Judy: traditional English puppet show

LLR II.300: 'Noms propres (pour désigner le membre): Jean Chouart... Jean Jeudi' (French 'Proper names (to refer to the male member): Jean Chouart... Jean Jeudi')



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FW 1.5c --Finnegan as builder and husband--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchi­tecti­tipti­toploftical...


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FDV: "and during mighty odd years this man of Hod made buildung upon buildung on the banks of the livers by the Soandso. He addle iddle wife and he hugged the liddle crathur wither tear tuck up your pardner."
"and during mighty odd years this man of Hod Cement & [...] piled buildung super buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso. He addle iddle wyfie Annie hugged the liddle crathur Wither tare in hares hayre in honds tuck up your part-in-her."




and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp


song Finnegan's Wake 1: 'Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street, A gentleman Irish mighty odd, He had a tongue both rich and sweet, An' to rise in the world he carried a hod. Now Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way With the love of the liquor he was born, An' to help him on with his work each day, He'd a drop of the craythur every morn.' (originally, Poole: song Tim Finigan's Wake: 'Tim Finigan lived in Walker Street A gentleman Irishman — mighty odd — He'd a beautiful brogue, so rich and sweet, And to rise in the world he carried the hod. But, you see, he'd a sort of a tippling way — With a love for the liquor poor Tim was born, And to help him through his work each day, He'd a drop of the craythur' every morn.')

eighty

OTDeu 33:1: 'man of God' (Moses)

HCE (_M,HCE_)

archaic tope: drink heavily

tower's top

archaic thorp: village


piled buildung supra buildung pon the banks for the livers by the Soangso.

building

German Bildung: education, culture, formation

dung

Latin supra: above

upon

rivers (~_M,L/R_; _Cn__Pron_ of English)

Liffey river

_M,SoAndSo_

song

Hwang-ho river, China (a.k.a. the Yellow river)


He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur.

ALP (_M,ALP_)

Alice P. Liddell: friend of Lewis Carroll and model for AAIW

had a little wife

colloquial wifie: little wife (term of endearment)

AngloIrish anny: Irish eanaigh: fenny, marshy

and he

Dialect ug: to feel dread or disgust

hugged

_AngI__Pron_ craythur: creature


Wither hayre in honds tuck up your partinher.

withered

with her hair in hands

hare and hounds

Isolde of the Fair Hair and Isolde of the White Hands

Dutch hond: dog

take up your partner

slang fuck

song Finnegan's Wake, chorus: 'Dance to your partner'

penis

in her
obsolete inhere: to stick in
FW1 had "part inher"



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FW 1.5d --HCE as engineer--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchi­tecti­tipti­toploftical...


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FDV: "Though oftwhile balbulous"



Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead,


Latin balbulus: somewhat stuttering

Balbus: a Roman said to have built a wall in Gaul, probably in some Latin primer (PoA I: 'Balbus was building a wall') [ebook]

bibulous: addicted to drinking

Scottish mither: mother

(bishop's) mitre on head


mitre, trowel, overalls (mason's tools and clothes [.18])


with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed,

godly

obsolete trow: faith, belief

(penis)

ivory (white)

(oilskin overalls)

(condom)

Latin habitaculum: dwelling place

archaic habits: clothes, attire

habitually fancied

French fond: foundation

seed: sperm


like Haroun Childeric Eggeberth,

HCE (_M,HCE_)

Harun al-Rashid: Caliph of Baghdad in TTNN

two Frankish kings were called Childeric

child, egg, birth

Egbert: a 9th century West-Saxon king

FW1 omits the comma


he would caligulate by multiplicables the alltitude and malltitude

VI.B14.72: 'Caligula gathers shell on shore'
BSMSP 43: 'Caligula... determined at length, as Suetonius humorously observes, "to make war in earnest; he drew up his army on the shore of the ocean... and... commanded them to gather up sea shells... calling them 'the spoils of the ocean'"'

Saint Patrick's father, Calphurnius, supposedly maintained a lighthouse at Boulogne built by Caligula (mentioned in BSMSP 43-46)

calculate by multiplication

all

altitude and multitude

slang in one's altitudes: drunk

malt

(drunken)



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FW 1.5e --HCE's drunken erection--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchi­tecti­tipti­toploftical...


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FDV: "He would see by the light of the liquor his roundup tower to rise on itself (joy grant it!), with a skierscape of an eyeful hoyth entirely"



until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born

night light

(amniotic fluid)

twin

FW1 has a comma after "born"


his roundhead staple of other days

roundhead: a supporter of the Parliamentary party in the English Civil War

Round Table

German Stapfe: foot-print

steeple


to rise in undress maisonry upstanded (joygrantit!),

VI.B3.012: 'undressed masonry'

IISS 116: 'The earliest buildings were made without cement, and with undressed masonry'

wondrous

French maison: house

(erection)

Danish opstandelse: resurrection

God grant it

gigantic

Antit: the boat of the Sun in Egyptian mythology


a waalworth of a skyerscape of most eyeful hoyth entowerly,

German Wal: whale

Uaa: the boat of the Dawn in Egyptian mythology

Woolworth Building, New York City (skyscraper)


fire escape (Parnell alleged to have escaped from Captain O'Shea down one)

awful height

Eiffel Tower

(Anita Loos: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, chapter 4: 'when a girl looks at the Eyefull Tower she really knows she is looking at something'; _JJltrs_ I.246: letter 08/11/26 to Harriet Shaw Weaver: (of Weaver's "order" for the contents of chapter I.1) 'I set to work at once on your esteemed order... and so hard indeed that I almost stupefied myself and stopped, reclining on a sofa and reading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for three whole days')

hoy: a small boat, a sloop

Greek hoys: earth

Howth

entirely



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Friday, September 26, 2014

FW 1.5f --his majestic erection--

1.5a: Bygmester Finnegan, of the Stuttering Hand, freemen's maurer, lived in the broadest way...
1.5b: (one yeastyday he sternely struxk his tete in a tub for to watsch the future of his fates...
1.5c: and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edifices in Toper's Thorp...
1.5d: Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls...
1.5e: until he seesaw by neatlight of the liquor wheretwin 'twas born, his roundhead staple...
1.5f: erigenating from next to nothing and celescalating the himals and all, hierarchi­tecti­tipti­toploftical...


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synopsis: Tim Finnegan the masterbuilder — his tower

FDV: "and larrons of toolers clittering up on it & tumblers a' buckets clottering down."


erigenating from next to nothing

Latin erigens: building, erecting; arousing, stimulating
nervi erigentes: nerves involved in the erection of the penis
Greek êrigeneia: early-born (an epithet of Dawn)
originating

EB11 vol. IX, 'Erigena, Johannes Scotus', 744a: 'The infinite essence of God, which may indeed be described as nihilum (nothing) is that from which all is created, from which all proceeds or emanates'
Irish philosopher who theorised a quadripartite cyclical nature of the universe (his name means 'Irish-born')


and celescalating the himals and all,

celestial
escalating

German Himmel: sky, heavens
Himalaya

why "and all"?
Hell?


hierarchitectitiptitoploftical,

12 syllables ...ascending?

hierarchy
architect
tiptop
ti-tip-ti-top
colloquial toploftical: haughty


with a burning bush abob off its baubletop

Moses' burning bush

lights at top of high buildings such as Eiffel Tower and Woolworth Building (warn planes, guide travelers, impress all)

builders' tradition of placing a bush, wreath or small tree, sometimes adorned with red ribbons, on top of a new building [more]

a bush was a sign of an inn or place where liquor is sold ('The idea of the pub sign came to Britain at the time of the Roman invasion. Wine bars in ancient Rome hung bunches of vine leaves outside as trading signs but when the Romans came here, they found precious few vines in the inhospitable climate. Instead, they hung up bushes to mark out the inns and the names Bush or Bull & Bush still survive.' cite)

obsolete abob: to astonish, to confound
German Bau: building, construction
Tower of Babel


and with larrons o'toolers clittering up

workmen with tools and buckets

French larron: thief

St Laurence O'Toole, bishop and patron of Dublin, was a contemporary of St Thomas à Becket, bishop of Canterbury, at the time of Henry II (the former advanced his personal career, the latter was martyred)

alpha/omega

Thom's 1905: lists Richard Toole, James Beckett and William Beckett as Dublin builders

AngloIrish clittering: the noise of hurrying feet (from Irish cliotar)
German klettern: to climb
clitoris


and tombles a'buckets clottering down.

tumbles (...in hay?)

Becket was martyred

French phrase: il en tombe à seaux: it's raining (tomber = to fall) in buckets (seaux)

SwissGerman: lottern = to wobble


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