2.1a:
Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Frees and Lili O'Rangans)...
2.1b:
which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues...
2.1c:
We are told how in the beginning it came to pass that, like cabbaging...
2.1d:
Forgetful of all save his vassal's plain fealty to the ethnarch, Humphrey...
2.1e:
On his majesty, who was, or often feigned to be, noticeably longsighted...
2.1f:
Our sailor king, who was draining a gugglet of obvious adamale...
2.1g:
turned towards two of his retinue of gallowglasses, Michael, etheling lord...
2.1h:
(in either case a triptychal religious family symbolising puritas of doctrina...
2.1i:
For he kinned Jom Pill with his court so gray and his haunts in his house...
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FDV: "Concerning the genesis of his agnomen" →
"Concerning the genesis of {Harold or} Humphrey Coxon's agnomen and discarding finally those theories" →
4DV: "
Now, concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey
Chimpden's occupational
agnomen and discarding
once for all those theories
from older sources"
synopsis: the origin of Earwicker's name, the result of a meeting with the king — Here Comes Everybody, with his imposing figure
Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Frees and Lili O'Rangans),
forbear = delay
fore = forehead?
bare = naked
forever
why no space? dolittle? belittle?
freeze?
.jpg/158px-Modigliani_-_Female_nude_(Iris_Tree).jpg) |
| Iris Tree by Modigliani |
Iris Tree: English poet, actress and artists' model 1897-1968 [
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fw1 has "Trees"
in the
Aeniad, Juno sends Iris to free Dido
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| freesias |
since both names end with 's' they may each be plural 'types'
the temptresses as a duo are
mostly absent from ch1, so this forbearance is more forwardlooking than back
green/orange
song Orange Lily, O
♬
why Lil
i?
organs?
concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimpden's occupational agnomen
weird parallels emphasizing how the Guinness brewery was
often called a 'concern':
fw99: "Elsewere there here no concern of the Guinnesses."
fw126: "for the concern of Messrs Jhon Jhamieson and Song"
fw309: "It may not or maybe a no concern of the Guinnesses but."
"Harold" is not widely reused
he's a hunchback?
Chimpden/chimp [
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he's apelike?
occupational: he catches earwigs as part of his profession?
agnomen: an additional name or nickname, generally on account of some exploit
(we are back in the presurnames prodromarith period, of course,
presurnames period: a period in Irish history (before the 10thC) when men bore essentially one name, usually composed of two yoked elements (e.g. Conchobhar, 'high-will'), sometimes complemented by a patronymic ('Mac' plus genitive of father's name) or an agnomen
proDROMarith
like predominant
artificial Greek: pro-drom-arithmos: what comes before numbers (from
Greek prodromos: forerunner; dromos: road; arithmos: number)
-ith is rare in English, -eth more common
pre-christian period of Irish history?
(what timeframe does "period" imply?)
just when enos chalked halltraps)
why "just"? only, exactly, coincidentally?
ech
Enos: son of Seth (
Genesis 5:6), regarded by kabbalists as a greater magician than any before him (why no cap?)
Hebrew enosh: man
plural of eno?
U
616 mentions the superstition that you can trap a rooster by drawing a chalk circle around it (cf earwigging??)
wrote graffiti in chalk
slang chalk: to slash, to scratch
traps in the hall, created with chalk, or marked as warning?
hilltops
trapdoors
cf? U
411: "You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander"
and discarding once for all those theories from older sources
"once for all" as a phrase usually refers to Jesus [
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once and for all
all for one and one for all
VI.B3.158: 'from older sources'
Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 29: 'an Irish historical tract, written about 721 A. D., and copied
from older sources, gives the definite Gaelic monarchy as beginning contemporaneously with Alexander the Great in the fourthC B. C.'
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