added issue 21 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine
page: (the cad with the pipe, the cad's wife, Lily is a lady,
"Text of the letter: followed with a fork")
10 Jan 2022
reviewed page 619
added issues 16–17 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
added six shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (soft, three-consonant sentences) +
(head/foot, Picts/Scots, lisping, rhotacism)
30 Jan 2022
reviewed page 620
following up on elucidations contributed by Andrew Gibson, John Hughes and others, added
eleven shorthands to the "Classics", "Clusters", "Diacritics", "Folk Culture", "Joyce" and
"Motifs" brevities on the search engine page:
(Book of Common Prayer) + (Wicklow) + (ž) + (Commedia dell'arte, Punch and Judy) +
(Pomes Penyeach) + (washerwomen, Copenhagen, yes/no, Deathbone..., Grand Old Gardener)
11 Feb 2022
reviewed page 621
added five shorthands to the "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Shaun's belted lamp) + (Tristan, Iseult,
Iseult of Brittany, King Mark)
renamed a shorthand in the "Languages" brevity on the search engine
page, from "Ruthenian" to "Ukrainian"
25 Feb 2022
crossed the 92,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 622
began a new "Places" brevity on the search engine page
added nine shorthands to the "Joyce", "People" and "Places" brevities on the
search engine page: (Maddox) + (Armoricus (Amory) Tristram,
Diarmaid MacMurrough) + (Chapelizod, Howth Head, Lucan, Leixlip, Phoenix Park, Strawberry
Beds)
31 Mar 2022
reviewed page 623
added three shorthands to the "Bible", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Douay-Rheims) + (The Letter (mentioned)) +
(Grace O'Malley)
16 Apr 2022
reviewed page 624
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (Prince) + (Respectable) + (Erin go bragh) +
(Roderick (Rory) O'Connor)
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Prince)
deleted the "Low Latin" shorthand from the "Languages" brevity on the
search engine page (as its elucidations have
been merged into plain Latin)
14 May 2022
added nineteen shorthands to the "Clusters", "Motifs", "People" and "Places" brevities on the
search engine page: (So) + (coincidence of contraries, four fifths,
hide/seek, hook/eye, full stop, "Hohohoho, Mister Finn, you're...", "I am, I am",
life worth living, not yet, saucy sisters, the four of them, the ghost of a notion,
the haves and the have-nots, X is for, "faith, hope, charity", "Father, Son, Holy Ghost") +
(Nicholas of Cusa) + (Hundred of Manhood)
2 Jun 2022
reviewed page 625
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added seven shorthands
to the "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the search engine
page: (Box/Cox, Romulus/Remus, brand on brow, let us pray) + (Michael Gunn, Selskar Gunn,
Daniel O'Connell)
12 Jun 2022
reviewed page 626
added two shorthands to the "Motifs" and "People" brevities on the
search engine page: (big bad bold) + (Strongbow)
17 Jun 2022
reviewed page 627
added two shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine
page: (murthering Irish, nation of shopkeepers)
28 Jun 2022
reviewed page 628 (thus ending one chapter, a good point to move to some other FW-related
activities; fingers crossed, reviewing should resume in 2023)
following up on elucidations contributed by Matthew Horrell and others, added three shorthands
to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the search engine page:
(Larminie, Sturluson) + (cause/effect)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(Larminie, Sturluson)
9 Jul 2022
crossed the 93,000-elucidation mark
added issue 22 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added three shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (The Mythology of All Races, Bodelsen) +
(Pat Pig)
added fourteen electronic texts to the sources page:
(The Mythology of All Races (x13), Bodelsen)
moved the changes for the years 2020-2021 into their own separate
pages, in order to decrease the size of the
main catalogue page
24 Jul 2022
following up on elucidations contributed by Matthew Horrell and others, added five shorthands
to the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine page:
(some/more, some/others, queer man, sign of the cross, 4 seasons)
5 Aug 2022
added Hart's "Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake" to the
bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Clusters" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (up) + (three cheers, triste to death,
what is the time?)
20 Aug 2022
added eight shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Impey) + (this is, 2&3, odd/even,
right/wrong, true/false, "Peter, Jack, Martin", "silence, exile, cunning")
added one electronic text to the sources page:
(Impey)
deleted the "P/K" shorthand from the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page (as its elucidations have
been merged into P/Q or deleted)
deleted the "L/R" shorthand from the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page (as its elucidations have
been merged into Chinese Pidgin or deleted)
deleted the "cant" and "college" shorthands from the "Registers" brevity on the
search engine page (as their elucidations have
been merged into plain slang)
deleted the "French Romanisation (of Chinese)" shorthand from the "Registers" brevity on the
search engine page (as its elucidations have
been merged into plain Chinese)
split the catalogue for the years 2011-2015 into 5 separate catalogues, one per year, all
accessible from the main catalogue page
3 Sep 2022
following up on elucidations contributed by Max Carol and others, added two shorthands
to the "Motifs" brevity on the search engine page: (Biddy the hen,
Tory/Whig)
16 Sep 2022
moved the "Minor Characters" shorthands from the "Motifs" brevity to their own newly-created
brevity on the search engine page
added one shorthand to the "Minor Characters" brevity on the
search engine page: (the prankquean)
added a short note to the "comment on me!" page reading:
"UPDATE: Over the upcoming months, I will be travelling extensively,
with limited free time and often with limited internet.
Feel free to continue sending comments and suggestions during
this time; I will reply to all of them when I get back to a
regular routine."
accordingly, I do not expect to post any changes here until sometime in 2023