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
4 Oct 2022
the site is seventeen years old (according to the Jewish calendar)
12 Oct 2022
the site is seventeen years old (according to the Gregorian calendar),
with over 3.7 million searches run
6 Nov 2022
reviewed page 555
added four shorthands to the "Books" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (Bonney) + ("green, white, orange", auspices,
niece)
added one electronic text to the sources page: (Bonney)
removed all donation-related links and buttons from the search engine
and search result pages, as I am now back to my original "no donations necessary" policy; if you
have set up your Fweet donation to be automatically or manually renewable, I encourage
you to cancel it now (at https://liberapay.com), as I myself
cannot do so unilaterally
many thanks to those who have donated during the years 2020 to 2022, and many thanks also to
those who had decided not to, but continued to support Fweet simply by using it; you all
have my utmost gratitude
14 Nov 2022
reviewed page 556
added three shorthands to the "Minor Characters" brevity on the
search engine page: (Constable Sackerson, Shaun the Post,
Shem the Penman)
22 Nov 2022
reviewed page 557
added two shorthands to the "Books" and "Minor Characters" brevities on the
search engine page: (O'Rahilly) + (Festy King)
added one electronic text to the sources page: (O'Rahilly)
5 Dec 2022
reviewed page 558
added one shorthand to the "Books" brevity on the
search engine page: (Russell)
added one electronic text to the sources page: (Russell)
7 Jan 2023
crossed the 94,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 559
23 Mar 2023
reviewed page 560
added issue 18 of the "James Joyce Online Notes" periodical
to the bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Books", "Clusters", "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities
on the search engine page: (Wilson) + (games) + (Î) +
(up/down)
added one electronic text to the sources page: (Wilson)
4 Apr 2023
reviewed page 561
added three shorthands to the "Clusters", "Motifs" and "Registers" brevities
on the search engine page: (Porter family) +
(7 rainbow/flower girls) + (childish)
27 Apr 2023
reviewed page 562
added six shorthands to the "Books", "Diacritics", "Motifs" and "People" brevities
on the search engine page: (Donehoo, Queyrat) + (Í) +
(Jacob/Esau) + (Brian Boru, the Virgin Mary)
added two electronic texts to the sources page:
(Donehoo, Queyrat)
14 May 2023
reviewed page 563
23 May 2023
reviewed page 564
added two shorthands to the "Motifs" brevity on the
search engine page: (Jew/Gentile, panther)
6 Jun 2023
crossed the 95,000-elucidation mark
reviewed page 565
added two shorthands to the "Diacritics" and "Motifs" brevities on the
search engine page: (ŝ) + (hill/hollow)
13 Jul 2023
reviewed page 566
added issue 23 of the "Genetic Joyce Studies" periodical to the
bibliography page
added four shorthands to the "Books" and "Minor Characters" brevities on the
search engine page: (Carruthers, Gentile, Rochester)
+ (the four's ass)
added sixteen electronic texts to the sources page:
(Handbook of the Ulster Question, Boldt, Carruthers, Cosgrave,
Foote & Wheeler, Fournier d'Albe, Gentile, Hargrave, Hine, Lewis (1st),
Massingham, McCabe, Paget, Perry, Rochester, Spaeth)
18 Jul 2023
following up on a suggestion by Levin Magruder, added a new display checkbox
option on the search engine page, called "Show Context"
(disabled by default), which when enabled, displays a synopsis entry above the
elucidations falling within that entry's page-line range; the purpose of this
feature is to remind a user faced with a given elucidation what narrative context,
as reflected by the current synopsis entry, it is part of