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033.01inged there a cuckoospit less eminent than the redritualhoods of
–033.01+cuckoo-spit: a frothy secretion exuded by certain insects (e.g. the frog-hopper) and deposited on plants to protect their larvæ
–033.01+cardinals are addressed as 'Your Eminence' and wear red skull caps [.02]
–033.01+pantomime Little Red Riding Hood
033.02Maccabe and Cullen) where, a veritable Napoleon the Nth, our
–033.02+Paul Cullen and Edward MacCabe were the first two Irish cardinals (both were 19th century anti-nationalist archbishops of Dublin and primates of Ireland, one after the other) [.01] [200.03]
033.03worldstage's practical jokepiece and retired cecelticocommediant
–033.03+William Shakespeare: As You Like It II.7.139: 'All the world's a stage'
–033.03+piece: a theatre play [.10]
–033.03+(Motif: stuttering)
–033.03+Crow Street Theatre, Cecilia Street, Dublin
–033.03+Italian celtico: Celtic
–033.03+Italian commediante: comedian
033.04in his own wise, this folksforefather all of the time sat, having the
–033.04+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...wise, this...} | {Png: ...wise this...}
–033.04+Danish folkeforfatter: popular author
–033.04+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...sat, having...} | {Png: ...sat having...}
033.05entirety of his house about him, with the invariable broadstretched
–033.05+VI.B.2.008h (b): 'with all his house'
–033.05+Morris: Life of St. Patrick 242: (after his dead son had been restored to life) 'It is needless to add that the father believed and was baptised with all his house'
033.06kerchief cooling his whole neck, nape and shoulderblades and in
–033.06+Motif: kerchief or handkerchief
033.07a wardrobe panelled tuxedo completely thrown back from a shirt
–033.07+VI.B.10.117g (b): 'tuxedos'
–033.07+American tuxedo: a tailless dinner jacket
–033.07+VI.B.2.075i (b): 'coat before shirt'
–033.07+Pascal: La Démence Précoce 101: (of the mentally ill) 'Les malades... mettent leur robe sans chemise' (French 'Patients... put on their robe without a shirt')
033.08well entitled a swallowall, on every point far outstarching the
–033.08+Colloquial swallow-tail: a tail-coat having a pair of pointed skirts
–033.08+starch: to stiffen (a laundry item) with starch
033.09laundered clawhammers and marbletopped highboys of the pit
–033.09+Colloquial claw-hammer: a tail-coat for evening dress
–033.09+Obsolete hautboy: oboe (from French haut bois: high wood)
–033.09+pit stalls: front seats in a theatre next to the orchestra pit (would cost around one shilling (i.e twelve pence) at the beginning of the 20th century)
033.10stalls and early amphitheatre. The piece was this: look at the lamps.
–033.10+piece: a theatre play [.03]
033.11The cast was thus: see under the clock. Ladies circle: cloaks may
–033.11+Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 104: 'The cast was thus:'
–033.11+ladies'
–033.11+dress circle: premium seats in a theatre, originally reserved for spectators in evening dress (would cost around one shilling six pence (i.e eighteen pence) at the beginning of the 20th century, which was still less than the three shillings or so for a seat in a private box)
033.12be left. Pit, prommer and parterre, standing room only. Habituels
–033.12+pit: the part of the ground-floor of a theatre behind the stalls (would cost around six pence at the beginning of the 20th century, which was still more than the four pence or so in the gallery)
–033.12+parterre: the part of the ground-floor of a theatre behind the orchestra
–033.12+phrase standing room only: no seats left at a well-attended event
–033.12+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–033.12+French habitué: regular attender
033.13conspicuously emergent.
–033.13+
033.14     A baser meaning has been read into these characters the literal
–033.14+{{Synopsis: I.2.1.B: [033.14-034.29]: baser and preposterous allegations against him — the sin in the park}}
–033.14+(the letters HCE) [.12]
033.15sense of which decency can safely scarcely hint. It has been blur-
–033.15+
033.16tingly bruited by certain wisecrackers (the stinks of Mohorat are
–033.16+Archaic bruit: to noise, report, rumour
–033.16+Colloquial wisecracker: one given to making clever remarks
–033.16+Hebrew mokhorath: tomorrow, morrow [.18]
033.17in the nightplots of the morning), that he suffered from a vile
–033.17+French vase de nuit: chamber pot (literally 'night pot')
033.18disease. Athma, unmanner them! To such a suggestion the one
–033.18+asthma
–033.18+Sanskrit atma: soul
–033.18+Hebrew ethmol: yesterday [.16]
–033.18+unman
033.19selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements
–033.19+The Quarterly Review, vol. 238, 225: 'Ulysses' (review of Joyce: Ulysses by Shane Leslie): 'The practice of introducing the names of real people into circumstances of monstrous and ludicrous fiction seems to us to touch the lowest depth of Rabelaisian realism. When we are given the details of the skin disease of an Irish peer, famous for his benefactions, we feel a genuine dislike of the writer. There are some things which cannot and, we should like to be able to say, shall not be done' (refers to Bloom's reflections in Joyce: Ulysses.5.306: 'lord Ardilaun has to change his shirt four times a day. Skin breeds lice or vermin') (Deming: The Critical Heritage 209) [.19-.21]
033.20which ought not to be, and one should like to hope to be able to
–033.20+Lady Jane Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother, published Irish nationalist poems under the pseudonym Speranza (Italian speranza: hope) [.23]
033.21add, ought not to be allowed to be made. Nor have his detractors,
–033.21+
033.22who, an imperfectly warmblooded race, apparently conceive him
–033.22+VI.B.10.031j (b): 'imperfectly warmblooded'
–033.22+Daily Mail 15 Nov 1922, 8/4: 'The Wild Things in Winter': 'hedgehog, dormouse and bat are examples of creatures which have only... reached an imperfectly warm-blooded state... So at... cold weather they... lapse into a state of unconsciousness'
033.23as a great white caterpillar capable of any and every enormity in
–033.23+great white caterpillar: an epithet applied to Oscar Wilde (by Lady Colin Campbell)
–033.23+enormity: immorality, transgression (Obsolete hugeness)
–033.23+VI.B.2.028h (b): 'worst sin in calendar'
–033.23+Lloyd: God-Eating, A Study in Christianity and Cannibalism 32: (paraphrasing Saint Paul about attending Pagan rituals) 'there is no more heinous sin on the calendar'
033.24the calendar recorded to the discredit of the Juke and Kellikek
–033.24+VI.B.10.108a (b): 'Juke & Kellikek family — bred 250 criminals'
–033.24+Juke and Kallikak: American families of supposedly-hereditary degenerates, the subject of Henry Herbert Goddard's 'The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeblemindedness' (1912) and Richard L. Dugdale's '"The Jukes": A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease and Heredity' (1877), pseudo-scientific books forming part of the eugenics movement
033.25families, mended their case by insinuating that, alternately, he lay
–033.25+alternatively
033.26at one time under the ludicrous imputation of annoying Welsh
–033.26+VI.B.3.153a (b): 'It is not true that Pop was homosexual he had been arrested at the request of some nursemaids to whom he had temporarily exposed himself in the Temple gardens' [.26-.32] [034.12-.19] [034.26-.27]
–033.26+Harris: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions II.608: (comment by Robert Ross concerning the father of Constance Wilde, Oscar Wilde's wife) 'The charge against Horatio Lloyd was of a normal kind. It was for exposing himself to nursemaids in the gardens of the Temple' (i.e. 'normal' as opposed to homosexual)
–033.26+Royal Welch Fusiliers: a British army regiment (its reserve battalion was stationed in Ireland in 1917-8; 'Welch' is an old spelling of 'Welsh') [047.10]
033.27fusiliers in the people's park. Hay, hay, hay! Hoq, hoq, hoq!
–033.27+People's Park, Dún Laoghaire
–033.27+People's Gardens, Phoenix Park
–033.27+song Little Brown Jug: 'Ho, ho, ho. He, he, he, Little brown jug don't I love thee'
–033.27+German Hoch!: hurray!
033.28Faun and Flora on the lea love that little old joq. To anyone who
–033.28+fauna
–033.28+Motif: old/new [.29]
–033.28+joke
–033.28+French coq: cock, male fowl
033.29knew and loved the christlikeness of the big cleanminded giant
–033.29+new [.28]
033.30H. C. Earwicker throughout his excellency long vicefreegal exis-
–033.30+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–033.30+earwig (according to a long-standing superstition, earwigs can creep into the ear of a sleeping person in order to burrow into his brain and lay their eggs there)
–033.30+(Irish, Viking; Motif: Gall/Gael)
–033.30+awaker
–033.30+VI.B.25.160n (b): 'throughout my existence'
–033.30+His Excellency the Viceroy (a form of address used for the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland)
–033.30+excellently
–033.30+vice-free
–033.30+viceregal: pertaining to a viceroy (e.g. the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland)
–033.30+frugal
033.31tence the mere suggestion of him as a lustsleuth nosing for trou-
–033.31+(pig) nosing for truffles
033.32ble in a boobytrap rings particularly preposterous. Truth, beard
–033.32+phrase by the beard of the prophet (oath popularly supposed to be used by Muslims)
033.33on prophet, compels one to add that there is said to have been
–033.33+
033.34quondam (pfuit! pfuit!) some case of the kind implicating, it is
–033.34+Cicero: all works: Oratio In Catilinam I: 'Fuit, fuit ista quondam' (Latin 'There was, there was once')
–033.34+German pfui!: shame! [034.07]
–033.34+Motif: Fiat-Fuit (Latin fuit: it was, there was) [034.07]
033.35interdum believed, a quidam (if he did not exist it would be ne-
–033.35+Latin interdum: sometimes
–033.35+Latin quidam: a certain one
–033.35+VI.B.32.211d (b): '*C* if he did not exist it wd be necesse to invent him'
–033.35+Voltaire: Epîtres XCVI: A L'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs: 'Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer' (French 'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him')
033.36cessary quoniam to invent him) abhout that time stambuling ha-
–033.36+Latin quoniam: because, inasmuch as
–033.36+about
–033.36+VI.B.25.167f (b): 'now walking around Dublin'
–033.36+Stamboul: older form of Istanbul
–033.36+stumbling
–033.36+Harun al-Rashid: Caliph of Baghdad in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [034.05]


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