Sunday, August 31, 2014

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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Saturday, August 30, 2014

FW 1.76b --the replacement's family--

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: "humphing his showlders like he's such a grandfallar with a pockedwife and three sly little clinkers, two twin bugs and one pucell," →
"humphing his showlders he's such a grandfallar with a pockedwife in pickle that's a flyfire and three lice nittle clinkers, two twilling bugs and one midget pucelle,"



humphing his share of the showthers is senken on him

hump
humping
humphing: uttering humph (expression of doubt or dissatisfaction)
Smollett: Humphrey Clinker

show there
shoulders
sure there

German senken: to submerge, to lower
sinking
sending

carrying a burden

(so Tristan is developing a hump from taking on others' responsibilities?)


he's such a granfallar, with a pocked wife in pickle that's a flyfire

fdv: "like he's"
fw1 had "grandfallar"

grandfather (but isn't this "a big rody ram lad"?)
grand fellow
Italian farfalla: butterfly (insects)
landfall

slang pox: syphilis
pockmarked
pocket-knife
wife fits in pocket

phrase a pig in a poke?

insertion: "in pickle that's a flyfire"

in a pickle = having difficulties
slang in pickle: venereally infected?

Smollett: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle [wiki]

firefly (insects)
why flyfire?


and three lice nittle clinkers,

3 = Shem/Shaun/Issy

lice (insects)
nice little

fdv: "sly"

nits (insects)

Smollett: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker [wiki]


two twilling bugs and one midgit pucelle.

Danish twilling: twin

bugs (insects)
boys

midge: small gnat-like insect (insects)
Barnum exhibited midgets
idiot?

French puce: flea (insects)
French pucelle: virgin



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FW 1.76c --opinions of his guilt vary--

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 either he did what you know or he did not what you know {with the clouds alone for {weeping} witnesses} and that'll do now" →
"and either he did what you know or he did not what you know weep the clouds alone for smiling witnesses and that'll do now"



And aither he cursed and recursed

AngloIrish accent: aither: either
Greek aithêr: ether

cursing as a sin?
cursive

recurred
Italian ricorso: recurring (Vico)
recursive, recursion
(is cursing twice worse than just once?)


and was everseen doing what your fourfootlers saw

ever seen
evergreen

Mamalujo

fourfooted
slang footle: to talk or act foolishly (cf fuck around) [wkt]

phrase what the butler saw: euphemism for sex (especially in a voyeuristic context)

U513: "BLOOM I was precocious. Youth. The fauna. I sacrificed to the god of the forest. The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing time. Capillary attraction is a natural phenomenon. Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I saw at her night toilette through illclosed curtains, with poor papa's operaglasses. The wanton ate grass wildly. She rolled downhill at Rialto Bridge to tempt me with her flow of animal spirits. She climbed their crooked tree and I. A saint couldn't resist it. The demon possessed me. Besides, who saw?"


or he was neverdone seeing what you coolpigeons know,

seen doing... done seeing

your... you

stool pigeons
pigeons = lipoleums


weep the clouds aboon for smiledown witnesses,

with

clouds weeping = rain

dialect aboon: above (Scottish)
alone
a boon

weep/smile

why oneword smiledown? lockdown? (cf deadlop above) smiled on?
crown witness? friendly witness?

Hebrews 12:1: 'compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses'

"Clouds of Witness" was a 1926 Dorothy Sayers detective novel [wiki]

(how could the clouds witness him NOT doing anything?)


and that'll do now about the fairyhees and the frailyshees.

that will do = please no more [def]

he/she
fair/frail?
fairies

Anglo-Irish shee: fairy (from Irish sídhe)
but why heEs? heels?

is 'fraily' a (multilingual?) pun?
frail-ish?

ie, no more gossip about his sins with boys and girls



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FW 1.76d --it's our Creation--

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: [nothing]



Though Eseb fibble it to the zephiroth

Aesop's Fables (cf fw308 "Esop" general pattern of e-for-ae)

fw1 has 'Eset'
Hebrew eshet: wife of (form of Hebrew isha: woman, wife)
East

fib: lie
fiddle

Zephyr: the west wind personified
Sephiroth: the ten emanations of Ain Soph in kabbalistic lore
zenith?


and Artsa zoom it round her heavens for ever.

Eseb and Artsa = Adam and Eve? Eve and Adam??

Hebrew artsa: to the earth (form of Hebrew erets: earth, country)
a star (anagram)
arts
Latin astra: star

'zoom' as a verb dates to 1892? [wkt]


Creator, he has created for his creatured ones a creation.

create (x4)

creator = artist?

featured
created
chosen?


White monothoist? Red theatrocrat?

in PoA, the white rose was York, the red Lancaster

White and Red political factions (especially during the Russian Civil War)
red = communist

white dwarf (1932??), red giant (1921): types of stars

monotheist: a believer in one god
(but why THO? thou? thought?)
rhinoceros???

rule by theatre?
theocracy: priest-rule (Viconian age)


And all the pinkprophets cohalething? Very much so!

red + white = pink (compromise)

(why no space?)

profits

coalescing
Hebrew 'qoheleth' = Ecclesiastes (after its author/assembler 'preacher'?)





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