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040.01the Little Old Man's and All Swell That Aimswell, the Cup and
–040.01+Little Old Man: the last sheaf, in some harvest customs
–040.01+Motif: Grand Old Man
–040.01+Anglo-Irish Slang old man: overflow waste in pouring draught stout, beer refuse recycled and sold to unsuspecting customers
–040.01+proverb All's well that ends well: a happy ending makes up for earlier difficulties
–040.01+William Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well
–040.01+stirrup cup: a parting drink, such as given to horse-riding guests whose feet are already in the stirrups, e.g. when leaving or when setting out on a hunt (song The Stirrup Cup, with music by Arditi) [039.35] [044.22]
040.02the Stirrup, he sought his wellwarmed leababobed in a hous-
–040.02+Irish leaba: bed
–040.02+bed
–040.02+rooming house
040.03ingroom Abide With Oneanother at Block W.W., (why didn't
–040.03+song Abide with Me
–040.03+Winny Widger [039.02] [039.11]
040.04he back it?) Pump Court, The Liberties, and, what with
–040.04+Pump Court, London (featured in Charles Dickens: all works: Martin Chuzzlewit)
–040.04+Pump Alley, Dublin, crosses Liberty Street
–040.04+The Liberties: district of Dublin
040.05moltapuke on voltapuke, resnored alcoh alcoho alcoherently to
–040.05+Volapük motapük: mother-tongue
–040.05+Italian molto più: much more
–040.05+Italian una volta di più: once more
–040.05+Volapük: artificial language
–040.05+(Motif: stuttering)
–040.05+alcoholically
–040.05+incoherently
040.06the burden of I come, my horse delayed, nom num, the sub-
–040.06+burden: refrain of a song; heavy load [038.34]
–040.06+Benedict: The Lily of Killarney (opera based on Boucicault: The Colleen Bawn): song The Moon Hath Raised Her Lamp Above: 'I come, I come, my heart's delight'
040.07stance of the tale of the evangelical bussybozzy and the rusinur-
–040.07+VI.B.1.120k (o): 'evangelical busybody'
–040.07+Russian bezbozhnyi: godless
–040.07+Motif: How Buckley shot the Russian General
–040.07+Bulgarian rusin: Russian
–040.07+Martial: Epigrammata XII.57: 'Rus in Urbe' (Latin 'The Country in Town')
040.08bean (the 'girls' he would keep calling them for the collarette
–040.08+
040.09and skirt, the sunbonnet and carnation) in parts (it seemed he
–040.09+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 10: 'sun-bonnet'
040.10was before the eyots of martas or otherwales the thirds of fossil-
–040.10+eyot: small island, ait
–040.10+Ides of March: 15 March (the date of Julius Caesar's assassination)
–040.10+Irish Márta: March
–040.10+otherwise
–040.10+Welsh fusiliers [033.26-.27]
040.11years, he having beham with katya when lavinias had her mens
–040.11+been
–040.11+Behan (*S*)
–040.11+Katya: eastern European female given name, diminutive of Katherine (equivalent to Kate; *K*)
–040.11+Sanskrit katyayana: a middle-aged widow [079.27]
–040.11+Romansch lavina: avalanche
–040.11+Slang monthlies: menstruation
–040.11+menses: menstruation
–040.11+Latin mens: mind
040.12lease to sea in a psumpship doodly show whereat he was looking
–040.12+lost at sea
–040.12+see
–040.12+Slang pumpship: to urinate
–040.12+Punch and Judy
–040.12+Dutch dood: dead
040.13for fight niggers with whilde roarses) oft in the chilly night (the
–040.13+Motif: dark/fair (nigger, white)
–040.13+Colloquial nigger: a black person
–040.13+Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (discussed in Joyce: Ulysses.9.522-532)
–040.13+wild horses
–040.13+Old English hild: battle, war
–040.13+Robert Ross: faithful friend, first male lover, and literary executor of Oscar Wilde
–040.13+Slang arse: buttocks
–040.13+Thomas Moore: other works: National Airs: song Oft, in the Stilly Night
040.14metagonistic! the epickthalamorous!) during uneasy slumber in
–040.14+Greek met' agôna: with struggle
–040.14+Greek epithalamios: nuptial, bridal (hence, epithalamium: a nuptial poem honouring the wedded couple)
–040.14+epic
–040.14+amorous
040.15their hearings of a small and stonybroke cashdraper's executive,
–040.15+Slang stony-broke; stone-broke, ruined [.16]
–040.15+VI.B.25.160c (r): 'Cash draper'
–040.15+cash drawer
–040.15+cashmere drapery
–040.15+Drapier: an epithet of Swift (in reference to the persona he adopted in Swift: Drapier's Letters)
040.16Peter Cloran (discharged), O'Mara, an exprivate secretary of no
–040.16+(*VYC*; Peter, O'Mara and Hosty) [.21] [580.31]
–040.16+Peter Cloran [212.03]
–040.16+the name Peter derives from Greek petros: stone, rock [.15]
–040.16+Joseph O'Mara: Irish tenor (sang the role of Tristan, among many others)
–040.16+Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams, ch. 30: 'ex-private secretary' [042.08]
–040.16+Joyce: Ulysses.15.732: 'FIRST WATCH: (reads) Henry Flower. No fixed abode. Unlawfully watching and besetting'
–040.16+Joyce: Ulysses.15.1157: 'THE CRIER: (loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance'
040.17fixed abode (locally known as Mildew Lisa), who had passed
–040.17+Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult): first words of Liebestod ('love-death') aria: 'Mild und leise' (German 'gentle and soft')
040.18several nights, funnish enough, in a doorway under the blankets
–040.18+funny
–040.18+Finnish
–040.18+Mark Twain: other works: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch. 6: (Huck Finn) 'slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet' [041.17]
–040.18+VI.B.5.124f (r): 'The blankets of homelessness'
040.19of homelessness on the bunk of iceland, pillowed upon the stone
–040.19+Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin
–040.19+Genesis 28:11: (of Jacob) 'he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep'
–040.19+Stone of Destiny: another name for Lia Fáil, a large stone on the Hill of Tara, which according to legend cried out when a rightful high king touched it
040.20of destiny colder than man's knee or woman's breast, and
–040.20+
040.21Hosty, (no slouch of a name), an illstarred beachbusker, who,
–040.21+Hosty
–040.21+Latin hostis: stranger, enemy
–040.21+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 17: 'no slouch of a name'
–040.21+VI.B.3.106h (r): 'busker (beach & town)'
–040.21+busker: itinerant musician, street performer [041.13]
040.22sans rootie and sans scrapie, suspicioning as how he was setting
–040.22+French sans: without
–040.22+VI.B.8.154j (o): 'rootie (bread)'
–040.22+Slang rootie: bread
–040.22+roots
–040.22+Slang scrape: butter
–040.22+scraps
–040.22+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 16: 'to suspicion'
–040.22+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 11: 'she set still' (i.e. sat)
040.23on a twoodstool on the verge of selfabyss, most starved, with
–040.23+toadstool
–040.23+wood
–040.23+VI.B.3.159e (o): 'on the verge of suicide'
–040.23+French Slang verge: penis (literally 'rod')
–040.23+self-abuse
–040.23+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 8: 'you must be most starved'
040.24melancholia over everything in general, (night birman, you served
–040.24+VI.B.5.022d (r): 'everything in general'
–040.24+Freeman's Journal 23 May 1924, 9/4: 'Hardresser's Denial. "Did Not Promise to Marry His Landlady"': 'the defendant said that at present he had no income... Mr. Henry — What became of the £5 a week? Defendant — I spent it. On what? — On everything in general'
–040.24+French birman: Burmese
–040.24+barman
–040.24+nightingale
040.25him with natigal's nano!) had been towhead tossing on his shake-
–040.25+Burmese nat: spirit
–040.25+Burmese -gale (denoting offspring)
–040.25+Burmese nwa-no: milk
–040.25+Italian nano: dwarf
–040.25+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 12: 'towhead' (a river sand-bar)
–040.25+Slang tossing: masturbating
–040.25+(cot)
040.26down, devising ways and manners of means, of what he loved
–040.26+(plans to commit suicide)
–040.26+Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner VII.64: 'What manner of man art thou?'
–040.26+Mark 4:41: 'What manner of man is this?'
040.27to ifidalicence somehow or other in the nation getting a hold of
–040.27+if he'd a licence
–040.27+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 13: 'how in the nation'
040.28some chap's parabellum in the hope of taking a wing sociable
–040.28+VI.B.10.049g (r): 'parabellum (rev)'
–040.28+parabellum: type of pistol [087.14]
–040.28+phrase take wing: to depart, to flee; (of a bird) to begin flying
–040.28+Slang wing: penny
040.29and lighting upon a sidewheel dive somewhere off the Dullkey
–040.29+Motif: up/down [.29-.30]
–040.29+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 19: 'side-wheel' (paddle steamboat)
–040.29+Dalkey, Kingstown and Blackrock Tram Line (Kingstown was renamed Dún Laoghaire after the Irish independence)
–040.29+Dialect daffydowndilly: daffodil (nursery rhyme Daffy-down-dilly)
040.30Downlairy and Bleakrooky tramaline where he could throw true
–040.30+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 11: 'throw true'
040.31and go and blow the sibicidal napper off himself for two bits to
–040.31+suicidal
–040.31+Latin sibi is the dative of the reflexive pronoun (i.e. 'to oneself, for oneself'), whereas Latin sui is the genitive of the same (i.e. 'of oneself')
–040.31+(killing a sibling)
–040.31+Slang napper: head
–040.31+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 9: 'worth two bits'
040.32boldywell baltitude in the peace and quitybus of a one sure shot
–040.32+bloody well
–040.32+Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn 19: 'balditude'
–040.32+beatitude
–040.32+VI.B.3.056a (r): 'peace and quietness'
–040.32+Corkery: The Hounds of Banba 120: 'The Aherns': 'If you rise again I'll go out and sleep in the shed — I'd have more peace and quietness'
–040.32+Latin quietibus: rests, dreams (dative or ablative)
–040.32+city bus
–040.32+Little Sure Shot: an epithet of Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter
040.33bottle, he after having being trying all he knew with the lady's
–040.33+been
040.34help of Madam Gristle for upwards of eighteen calanders to get
–040.34+Grisel Steevens founded Steevens' Hospital, Dublin
–040.34+(calendar months)
–040.34+colanders
–040.34+VI.B.3.001e (r): 'I am trying to get into Jervis Street'
–040.34+(get himself admitted into a hospital)
040.35out of Sir Patrick Dun's, through Sir Humphrey Jervis's and
–040.35+Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin
–040.35+Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin (the street is named after Sir Humphrey Jervis, sheriff 1674)
–040.35+Jerry [.36]
040.36into the Saint Kevin's bed in the Adelaide's hosspittles (from
–040.36+Saint Kevin's Hospital, Dublin
–040.36+Saint Kevin's Bed: a small man-made cave at Glendalough, said to have been used as a sleeping place by Saint Kevin
–040.36+Motif: Jerry/Kevin [.35] [041.03]
–040.36+Adelaide Hospital, Dublin


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