FW 17.5c --HCE needs washing--

17.5a: Vah! Suvarn Sur! Scatter brand to the reneweller of the sky,...
17.5b: We, Durbalanars, theeadjure. A way, the Margan, from our astamite,...
17.5c: Even unto Heliotropolis, the castellated, the enchanting. Now if soomone...
17.5d: Yet clarify begins at. Whither the spot for? Whence the hour by? See but!...
17.5e: A flasch and, rasch, it shall come to pasch, as hearth by hearth leaps live....
17.5f: The spearspid of dawnfire totouches ain the tablestoane ath the centre...
17.5g: Overwhere. Gaunt grey ghostly gossips growing grubber in the glow. Past now palls....
17.5h: Let shrill their duan Gallus, han, and she, hon, the Sassqueehenna,...
17.5i: Kwhat serves to rob with Alliman, saelior, a turnkeyed trot to Seapoint, pierrotettes,...
17.5k: Death banes and the quick quoke. But life wends and the dombs spake!...
17.5l: Lambel on the up! We may plesently heal Geoglyphy's twentynine ways...
17.5m: For korfs, for streamfish, for confects, for bullyoungs, for smearsassage,...
17.5n: for lungfortes, for moonyhaunts, for fairmoneys, for coffins,...
17.5o: Tep. Come lead, crom lech! Top. Wisely for us Old Bruton has withdrawn his theory....
17.5p: We seem to understand apad vellumtomes muniment, Arans Duhkha,...
17.5q: how the mudden research in the topaia that was Mankaylands...


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Even unto Heliotropolis, the castellated, the enchanting.

KJV: 'even unto' death, end of world

VI.B47.56: 'Heliotropolis'

HCE

heliotrope (color of Issy's panties)
phoenix burned and resurrected at Heliopolis

when Tim Healy became Irish Free State's Governor-General (1923-1927), Dubliners called Viceregal Lodge 'Healiopolis'

three castles on Dublin coat of arms

castellated battlements

Now if soomone felched a twoel

why sOOme? (Finnish 'pretty'??) why not soomEone?
salmon??

fetched
filched
(Google offers a supremely gross current definition 'felch' that sort of fits the context; but Wikipedia dates it to 1972, and Joyce seems pretty limited in his knowledge of oral-sex slang)

towel
Swedish tvål: soap
tool
dowel (cf newel above?)


and soomonelses warmt watter

someone else warmed water

someone else's warmed water (drinking bathwater?? or urine???)

Swedish varmet vatten: warm water


we could, while you was saying Morkret Miry

Swedish mörkret: the dark
longshot: meercat

Margaret Mary
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque [wiki] 'preferred drinking water in which laundry has been washed'
U193: "Buck Mulligan, his pious eyes upturned, prayed: —Blessed Margaret Mary Anycock!"

mir = peace (Russian); quick (Irish)

cf? 'quicker than you can say Jack Robinson'


or Smud, Brunt and Rubbinsen,

Smith, Brown and Robinson [jjon-13kb] [Dudeney puzzles?]

cf Tom, Dick and Harry

Danish smudsig: dirty
smudge

Swedish brunt: brown

rub in
rubbings
(why -sEn? Ibsen?!)


make sunlike sylp

Sunlight Soap

sylph
syrup?


om this warful dune's battam.

Sanskrit om (a word of solemn or sacred affirmation, not unlike 'amen')

on (U692: "the last time he came on my bottom")

Woeful Dane Bottom: valley in Gloucestershire, possibly site of a Danish defeat [340.09] [369.12] [503.21] gMaps

awful
wonderful??

why dune?

battle



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