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049.01whistled him before he had curtains up they are whistling him
–049.01+curtain up, curtain down: the beginning and end of a theatre show, respectively (Motif: up/down) [.01-.02]
049.02still after his curtain's doom's doom. Ei fù. His husband, poor old
–049.02+Archaic doom: judgement
–049.02+VI.B.6.058a (b): 'qui fuit'
–049.02+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 20: 'Five pages are then occupied with the Genealogy of Christ, each line beginning with "Qui fuit"... The initials are all through interlaced with birds, dragons, beasts and snakes' (Cluster: He Was)
–049.02+Italian ei fù: he was (Cluster: He Was)
–049.02+(he's dead)
–049.02+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...fù...} | {Png: ...fu...}
–049.02+Motif: mixed gender (his husband) [048.02] [050.06]
049.03A'Hara (Okaroff?) crestfallen by things and down at heels at the
–049.03+(CHARACTER: O'Mara)
–049.03+Motif: A/O
–049.03+Irish a chara: my friend (vocative)
–049.03+phrase down at heels: destitute
049.04time, they squeak, accepted the (Zassnoch!) ardree's shilling at
–049.04+(squeaky shoes) [.03]
–049.04+speak
–049.04+Slang take the king's shilling: to enlist [.07]
–049.04+Czech zas noc: night again
–049.04+Russian zasnut': to fall asleep
–049.04+Irish Sasanach: Englishman, English
–049.04+German phrase auch das noch!: not that too!
–049.04+Russian noch: night
–049.04+Irish ardrí: high king (of Ireland)
049.05the conclusion of the Crimean war and, having flown his wild
–049.05+phrase sown his wild oats: had many sexual relationships
–049.05+Flight of the Wild Geese: the departure of thousands of Irish Jacobite soldiers to Europe after the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 [.08]
049.06geese, alohned in crowds to warnder on like Shuley Luney,
–049.06+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Alone in Crowds to Wander On [air: Shule Aroon]
–049.06+German Colloquial löhnen: to pay up
–049.06+war
049.07enlisted in Tyrone's horse, the Irish whites, and soldiered a bit
–049.07+in 1607, in what became known as the Flight of the Earls, the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, accompanied by about ninety Irish followers, fled Ireland to Europe, hoping to raise an army for an invasion of Ireland with Spanish help
–049.07+Irish whites: type of potato
–049.07+Whiteboys: 18th century Irish insurrectionists, dressed in white smocks
–049.07+VI.B.3.101b (o): 'soldiered'
–049.07+VI.B.5.020b (r): 'soldiered a while'
049.08with Wolsey under the assumed name of Blanco Fusilovna Buck-
–049.08+Viscount Wolseley: Irish field marshal in Crimea
–049.08+VI.B.3.080a (o): 'Blanco Buckley is the wild goose' [.05-.06]
–049.08+Blanco White: Irish-Spanish priest (converted from Catholicism to Anglicanism and thence to Unitarianism)
–049.08+Motif: How Buckley shot the Russian General
–049.08+(blank)
–049.08+French fusil: rifle, gun
–049.08+(daughter of a gun)
–049.08+(son of Buckley)
049.09lovitch (spurious) after which the cawer and the marble halls
–049.09+VI.B.5.128f (k): 'cawer'
–049.09+Motif: dove/raven (caw, dove, raven, crow) [.09-.11] [.13]
–049.09+Irish cathair: city, citadel
–049.09+Balfe: The Bohemian Girl: song I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls
049.10of Pump Court Columbarium, the home of the old seakings,
–049.10+Pump Court, London
–049.10+Latin columbarium: dovecote; sepulchral chamber (from Latin columba: dove) [.09]
–049.10+The Pigeonhouse, Dublin
–049.10+VI.B.42.094c (r): 'home of old seaking'
–049.10+Bodelsen: The Red White and Blue 160: (of British nationalistic song writing at the time of the Second Boer War) 'generally the poet... confines himself to celebrating "the home of the old Sea-Kings" (a favourite expression) and its sons'
049.11looked upon each other and queth their haven evermore for it
–049.11+VI.B.25.143j (r): 'saw him no more'
–049.11+Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven: 'Quoth the Raven "Nevermore"' [.09]
–049.11+quit their heaven (Adam and Eve)
049.12transpires that on the other side of the water it came about that on
–049.12+VI.B.5.109e (r): 'it came about'
049.13the field of Vasileff's Cornix inauspiciously with his unit he
–049.13+(field of battle)
–049.13+Latin cornix: crow [.09]
–049.13+auspice: an omen (usually a good one), originally based on divination by the observation of birds (from Latin avis: bird + Latin specere: to observe; auspices are discussed extensively throughout Vico: Principj di una Scienza Nuova; Motif: auspices) [.09-.13]
049.14perished, saying, this papal leafless to old chap give, rawl chaw-
–049.14+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...saying...} | {Png: ...suying...}
–049.14+VI.B.42.096a (r): 'royal choc box to mother papal leaflet to mother dear' [.14-.15]
–049.14+Bodelsen: The Red White and Blue 164: (quoting a British nationalistic song from the time of the Second Boer War) 'In another song a dying soldier says (referring to the Queen's Xmas gift of boxes of sweets): Give this — it is my last request — Royal chocolate box to mother'
–049.14+(book, or letter, bequeathed to his father)
–049.14+papal legate: an ambassador sent by a pope to represent him (from Latin legatus: dispatched, bequeathed)
–049.14+(belonging to papa)
–049.14+Russian papirosy: cigarettes
–049.14+(tobacco leaves)
–049.14+Archaic chap: Obsolete chaw: jaw
–049.14+raw chocolate
–049.14+Colloquial chaw: something being chewed, a quid of chewing tobacco
049.15clates for mouther-in-louth. Booil. Poor old dear Paul Horan,
–049.15+mother-in-law
–049.15+mouth
–049.15+County Louth
–049.15+Russian byl: he was (Cluster: He Was)
–049.15+Russian byl': true story (literally 'something that has been')
–049.15+(CHARACTER: Peter Cloran)
–049.15+Motif: Paul/Peter
–049.15+Horan: Lord-Mayor of Dublin
049.16to satisfy his literary as well as his criminal aspirations, at the
–049.16+
049.17suggestion thrown out by the doomster in loquacity lunacy, so
–049.17+Archaic doomster: judge
–049.17+Master in Lunacy
–049.17+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin: (of the lunacy department at Four Courts) 'Registrar in Lunacy... Chief Clerk in Lunacy'
049.18says the Dublin Intelligence, was thrown into a Ridley's for
–049.18+Dublin Intelligence: the name of two or three short-lived Dublin newspapers of the late 17th and early 18th century
–049.18+VI.B.5.150k (r): 'shoved him into asylum'
–049.18+Connacht Tribune 19 Jul 1924, 3/4: 'Dunmore District Court': (of a marital dispute trial) 'His wife took every copper he had, and then shoved him into the asylum'
–049.18+Dublin Slang Ridley's: mental hospital ward
049.19inmates in the northern counties. Under the name of Orani he
–049.19+
049.20may have been the utility man of the troupe capable of sustain-
–049.20+utility man: actor of the smallest speaking parts in a play
–049.20+Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 211: 'Casaboni, the most useful of "utility men"'
–049.20+Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 219: 'the young soprano, at a short notice, sustained the part of "Lucia"'
049.21ing long parts at short notice. He was. Sordid Sam, a dour decent
–049.21+Cluster: He Was
–049.21+(CHARACTERS: Treacle Tom and Frisky Shorty) [.21-.22]
–049.21+sordid: dirty, filthy; ignoble, contemptible
–049.21+Motif: Dear Dirty Dublin
049.22deblancer, the unwashed, haunted always by his ham, the unwished,
–049.22+Delaney or Delacey
–049.22+Dubliner
–049.22+disbalancer
–049.22+Ham, son of Noah
049.23at a word from Israfel the Summoner, passed away painlessly
–049.23+Israfel: Muslim archangel of music, who will blow the trumpet of resurrection on Judgement Day (a.k.a. 'The Summoner')
–049.23+VI.B.25.149j (r): 'passed away to the Beyond by means of poison' ('to' uncertain) [.23-.26]
049.24after life's upsomdowns one hallowe'en night, ebbrous and in
–049.24+ups and downs (Motif: up/down)
–049.24+Epsom Downs (famous for its horse racecourse)
–049.24+sundown
–049.24+Italian ebbro: drunk
049.25the state of nature, propelled from Behind into the great Beyond
–049.25+state of nature: in theology, natural moral state as opposed to state of grace
–049.25+(naked)
–049.25+VI.B.7.079b ( ): 'he Beyond Behind'
–049.25+Boldt: From Luther to Steiner 56: (quoting Max Stirner) 'the Christian Longing for the Beyond'
049.26by footblows coulinclouted upon his oyster and atlas on behanged
–049.26+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Tho' the Last Glimpse of Erin with Sorrow I See: 'I will fly with my Coulin' [air: Coulin] [.29]
–049.26+Edmund Spenser: Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (Colin Clout is Spenser's name for himself in The Shepheardes Calender)
–049.26+atlas: the uppermost vertebra of the neck
–049.26+on behalf of
049.27and behooved and behicked and behulked of his last fishandblood
–049.27+flesh and blood
049.28bedscrappers, a Northwegian and his mate of the Sheawolving
–049.28+Norwegian
–049.28+William O'Shea: 19th century Irish politician, better known as the estranged husband of Katharine O'Shea, Parnell's long-time lover and later his wife, who named Parnell as co-respondent in his divorce case from Katharine, leading to Parnell's downfall
–049.28+Archaic sea-wolf: pirate [202.24]
–049.28+Parnell: 'the loss with which you are threatened unless you consent to throw me to the English wolves now howling for my destruction' (in an open letter to the people of Ireland, when about to be deposed as the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, following the O'Shea divorce scandal and Gladstone's threat to break his alliance with the party if Parnell retains his leadership)
049.29class. Though the last straw glimt his baring this stage thunkhard
–049.29+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Tho' the Last Glimpse of Erin with Sorrow I See [.26]
–049.29+phrase the last straw: the latest in a series of unpleasant events that makes the entire situation unbearable
–049.29+Danish glimt: gleam; glimpse
–049.29+drunkard
049.30is said (the pitfallen gagged him as 'Promptboxer') to have
–049.30+(orchestra pit in a theatre)
–049.30+(nicknamed him)
–049.30+prompt-box: the prompter's box on a theatre stage
–049.30+Levey & O'Rorke: Annals of the Theatre Royal, Dublin 83: 'principal second violin, Mr. Robert Barton... held for years the post of repetiteur or deputy-leader at the Theatre Royal... In addition to music he cultivated what was then entitled the "noble art of self-defence"... He therefore obtained the sobriquet of "Boxing Bob," by which title he was frequently greeted when he made his appearance in the orchestra'
049.31solemnly said — as had the brief thot but fell in till his head like
–049.31+thought
–049.31+Dialect in till: into
049.32a bass dropt neck fust in till a bung crate (cogged!): Me drames,
–049.32+Bass's ale
–049.32+Archaic dropt: dropped
–049.32+head first
–049.32+thrust into
–049.32+Slang cogged: fraudulent
–049.32+my dreams have come true
–049.32+French drame: drama, play
049.33O'Loughlins, has come through! Now let the centuple celves of
–049.33+Domhnall and Muirchearlach O'Lochlainn: high kings of Ireland
–049.33+Anglo-Irish Lochlann: Scandinavian, Viking
–049.33+centuple: hundredfold [050.06]
–049.33+selves
049.34my egourge as Micholas de Cusack calls them, — of all of whose
–049.34+ego urge
–049.34+Motif: Mick/Nick
–049.34+Michael Cusack: 19th-20th century Irish teacher and founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (thought to be the original for the character of the citizen in Joyce: Ulysses.12)
–049.34+Nicholas of Cusa: 15th century German philosopher (also called Nicholas de Cusa) [.36]
049.35I in my hereinafter of course by recourse demission me — by
–049.35+Italian ricorso: recurrence; recurring (a term popularly associated with Vico in the context of the recurrence of historical cycles)
–049.35+demission: action of giving up or letting go from oneself
049.36the coincidance of their contraries reamalgamerge in that indentity
–049.36+coincidence of contraries: identity of opposites, extremes meet (a philosophical concept in the works of Nicholas of Cusa, Giordano Bruno and others; Motif: coincidence of contraries) [.34]
–049.36+reamalgamate
–049.36+merge
–049.36+Leibniz: 'identity of indiscernibles' (principle that no two things are ever absolutely identical)


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