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056.01bawl, the copycus's description of that fellowcommuter's play
–056.01+copycat
–056.01+Copernicus: 16th century astronomer
–056.01+(the namecousin) [055.17]
056.02upon countenants, could simply imagine themselves in their bo-
–056.02+countenance: facial expression (especially of calmness and composure)
–056.02+continents
–056.02+(the factferreters) [055.13]
056.03som's inmost core, as pro tem locums, timesported acorss the yawn-
–056.03+Latin pro tempore locum tenens: holding the place for a time (Motif: time/space)
–056.03+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...locums, timesported...} | {Png: ...locums timesported...}
–056.03+German Ort: place (Motif: time/space)
–056.03+transported across
–056.03+Dutch kors: across
–056.03+VI.B.3.078g (o): 'yawning abyss snoring —' (dash dittos 'abyss')
–056.03+Schuré: Woman the Inspirer 127: 'In love, as in friendship, there are divergencies of idea and feeling which at first are almost imperceptible crevices, though they widen into yawning abysses with the flight of time'
056.04ing (abyss), as once they were seasiders, listening to the cockshy-
–056.04+(of time)
–056.04+Colloquial cock-shy: a free throw (or 'shy') at an object set up for the purpose (as a form of amusement)
–056.04+Dialect cock-shut: twilight (also spelled 'cock-shoot')
–056.04+cocksure
056.05shooter's evensong evocation of the doomed but always ventri-
–056.05+shooter [052.01-.06]
–056.05+Motif: odd/even [.07]
–056.05+VI.B.20.059a (o): 'ventriloquent'
–056.05+Lewis: The Art of Being Ruled 297: 'Bogoraz says that on one occasion, when he prevailed on a shaman to practise at his house, his 'spirits' (of a ventriloquial variety) refused for a long time to put in an appearance'
–056.05+eloquent
056.06loquent Agitator, (nonot more plangorpound the billows o'er
–056.06+The Agitator: an epithet of Daniel O'Connell, the preeminent leader of Catholic Ireland in the first half of the 19th century (*E*) [.14] [.19]
–056.06+(Motif: stuttering)
–056.06+plangent: making the sound of waves beating on the shore
–056.06+Archaic o'er: over
056.07Thounawahallya Reef!) silkhouatted, a whallrhosmightiadd, a-
–056.07+Irish tonn a' mhaith sháile: wave of the good salt-sea
–056.07+Valhalla: in Norse mythology, the magnificent hall in which chosen slain heroes spend their glorious afterlife
–056.07+silk-hatted
–056.07+silhouetted
–056.07+German Walross: walrus
–056.07+might I add
–056.07+song Finnegan's Wake: 'mighty odd' [.05]
–056.07+against
056.08ginsst the dusk of skumring, (would that fane be Saint Muezzin's
–056.08+Danish skumring: dusk
–056.08+Archaic fane: temple
–056.08+muezzin: Muslim public crier who proclaims the hours of prayer
056.09calling — holy places! — and this fez brimless as brow of faithful
–056.09+phrase holy blazes!
–056.09+fez: brimless skull-cap in the form of a red truncated cone, ornamented with a long black tassel (national Turkish headdress)
–056.09+Muslims touch their brow to the ground during prayer
056.10toucher of the ground, did wish it were — blessed be the bones!
–056.10+
056.11— the ghazi, power of his sword.) his manslayer's gunwielder
–056.11+ghazi: a Muslim title of honour ('champion'), applied primarily to fanatics devoted to the destruction of infidels (from Arabic ghazi: fighting)
–056.11+Frank 'Ghazi' Power: Irish journalist [521.22]
–056.11+power, word, sword (proverb The pen is mightier than the sword: words are more effective than violence in bringing about change)
–056.11+(arm or hand)
056.12protended towards that overgrown leadpencil which was soon,
–056.12+Archaic protended: extended, stretched
–056.12+(pointed to monument) [036.17-.18]
–056.12+overgrown milestone: an old nickname for the Wellington Monument, Phoenix Park
–056.12+Slang phrase lead in one's pencil: male sexual vigour (from Slang pencil: penis)
056.13monumentally at least, to rise as Molyvdokondylon to, to be, to
–056.13+momentarily
–056.13+(erection)
–056.13+Modern Greek molybdokondylon: lead pencil [.12]
056.14be his mausoleum (O'dan stod tillsteyne at meisies aye skould
–056.14+Odin
–056.14+Daniel O'Connell's body is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, at the bottom of a tall round tower (called O'Connell Tower or O'Connell Memorial) [.06] [.19]
–056.14+stood stone-still
–056.14+Danish stod: stood
–056.14+German stillstehen: stand still
–056.14+Steyne: a pillar formerly standing in Dublin, erected by the Vikings near their landing place
–056.14+German Meise: titmouse
–056.14+Dutch meisjes: girls
–056.14+Danish skulde: should
056.15show pon) while olover his exculpatory features, as Roland rung,
–056.15+show upon [582.28]
–056.15+Serbo-Croatian olovo: lead (metal)
–056.15+phrase a Roland for an Oliver: equal measure, adequate response
–056.15+all over
–056.15+Roland: the bell of Ghent in Longfellow's The Belfry of Bruges [.17]
056.16a wee dropeen of grief about to sillonise his jouejous, the ghost
–056.16+Anglo-Irish wee: tiny
–056.16+(tear)
–056.16+Anglo-Irish -een (diminutive)
–056.16+French sillon: furrow
–056.16+French joue: cheek
–056.16+French joujou: toy
–056.16+Motif: The ghost of a notion
056.17of resignation diffused a spectral appealingness, as a young man's
–056.17+(almost a smile) [.28] [.31]
–056.17+diffuse series: a type of series of lines seen in the spectral analysis of chemical elements
–056.17+spectral: ghostly
–056.17+peal: a series of variations rung on a set of bells [.15]
–056.17+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song As a Beam o'er the Face of the Waters May Glow [air: The Young Man's Dream]
056.18drown o'er the fate of his waters may gloat, similar in origin and
–056.18+drown, float (opposites)
–056.18+frown, gloat (near opposites)
–056.18+Archaic o'er: over
056.19akkurat in effective to a beam of sunshine upon a coffin plate.
–056.19+German akkurat: precise, exact
–056.19+in effect
–056.19+Daniel O'Connell said Robert Peel's smile was like 'the silver plate on a coffin' [.06] [.14]
056.20     Not olderwise Inn the days of the Bygning would our Travel-
–056.20+{{Synopsis: I.3.1.J: [056.20-056.30]: similarly, our unfriended bard reaches a tavern — a similar quasi-smile}}
–056.20+otherwise
–056.20+Genesis 1:1, John 1:1: 'In the beginning'
–056.20+Danish bygning: building
–056.20+Oliver Goldsmith: other works: The Traveller or A Prospect of Society 1: 'Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po' [.20-.22] [.30]
–056.20+Macaulay: Review of Ranke's History of the Popes: 'some traveller from New Zealand' [156.29]
056.21ler remote, unfriended, from van Demon's Land, some lazy
–056.21+van Dieman's Land: earlier name of Tasmania (after a Dutch admiral)
056.22skald or maundering pote, lift wearywilly his slowcut snobsic
–056.22+VI.B.16.016d (b): 'skald'
–056.22+Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 71: 'Icelandic sources mention at least three skálds who made their way to Ireland during the tenth century' (skald: ancient Scandinavian poet)
–056.22+maundering: moving dreamily or aimlessly; rambling in speech, muttering incoherently (Obsolete Slang begging)
–056.22+wandering poet
–056.22+Lewis: Time and Western Man 114: (of Stephen in Joyce: Ulysses) 'He is 'the poet' to an uncomfortable, a dismal, a ridiculous, even a pulverizing degree... the incredible slowness with which he gets about from place to place... how he raises his hand, passes it over his aching eyes' [.28-.30] [148.33]
–056.22+Weary Willie: one of a pair of lazy tramps in the English comic-strip Weary Willie and Tired Tim
–056.22+wearily
–056.22+snobbish
056.23eyes to the semisigns of his zooteac and lengthily lingering along
–056.23+zoo (animal constellations)
–056.23+zodiac (astrological signs)
–056.23+Irish teach: house
056.24flaskneck, cracket cup, downtrodden brogue, turfsod, wild-
–056.24+VI.B.6.154a (b): 'innsigns / bottleneck = poteen / broken cup = tea / old shoe on pole = ? / wisp of straw = bed / broom = whisky / sod of turf = tobacco' (first word not crayoned) [.24-.27]
–056.24+(the astrological sign for Aries (#1) looks vaguely like a flask neck)
–056.24+(the astrological sign for Taurus (#2) looks vaguely like a cup)
–056.24+cracked
–056.24+cricket cap
–056.24+Motif: up/down
–056.24+(the constellation Gemini (#3) looks vaguely like a shoe)
–056.24+Anglo-Irish brogues: rough heavy shoes
–056.24+(the astrological sign for Cancer (#4) looks vaguely like a rolled lawn turf)
–056.24+(the constellation Leo (#5) looks vaguely like a broom)
056.25broom, cabbageblad, stockfisch, longingly learn that there at the
–056.25+Slang cabbage: female pudenda (Virgo (#6))
–056.25+(the constellation Aquarius (#11) looks vaguely like a cabbage stalk)
–056.25+Danish blad: Dutch blad: leaf
–056.25+German Stockfisch: dried cod
–056.25+fish (Pisces (#12))
–056.25+The Angel, Islington, London (many Irish there)
056.26Angel were herberged for him poteen and tea and praties and
–056.26+German Herberge: Dutch herberg: inn, shelter [.20]
–056.26+[.24-.25]
–056.26+Anglo-Irish poteen: illicit whiskey (from Irish poitín)
–056.26+Anglo-Irish praties: potatoes (from Irish prátai)
056.27baccy and wine width woman wordth warbling: and informally
–056.27+Colloquial baccy: tobacco
–056.27+Bacchus: Greek god of wine
–056.27+Motif: alliteration (w)
–056.27+phrase wine, women and song (hedonistic pleasures)
–056.27+with (twice)
–056.27+informal [.31]
056.28quasi-begin to presquesm'ile to queasithin' (Nonsense! There
–056.28+French presque: almost
–056.28+French presqu'île: peninsula
–056.28+(almost a smile) [.17] [.31]
–056.28+to think [.31-.32]
–056.28+queasy
–056.28+quasi-thin
–056.28+Lewis: Time and Western Man 106: 'there is not very much reflection going on at any time inside the head of Mr. James Joyce' [.22] [.28-.30]
056.29was not very much windy Nous blowing at the given moment
–056.29+Wyndham Lewis
–056.29+Greek nous: intelligence, mind
056.30through the hat of Mr Melancholy Slow!)
–056.30+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Mr Melancholy...} | {Png: ...Mr. Melancholy...}
–056.30+[.20]
056.31     But in the pragma what formal cause made a smile of that to-
–056.31+{{Synopsis: I.3.1.K: [056.31-057.15]: where are all the formal facts and specifics? — the four's comments}}
–056.31+Greek pragma: deed, act, matter, affair
–056.31+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...pragma what...} | {BMs (47472-233): ...pragma and by laws of casuality what...}
–056.31+formal cause: in Aristotelian philosophy, the structure or form aspect of a thing or event which determines its nature
–056.31+smile [.17] [.28]
–056.31+to think [.28]
–056.31+(train of thought)
–056.31+Thoth: Egyptian god of wisdom and writing
056.32think? Who was he to whom? (O'Breen's not his name nor the
–056.32+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...Who was...} | {BMs (47472-233): ...Who, under ye great bow of 's heaven, was...}
–056.32+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Oh! Breathe Not His Name: 'Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade' [air: The Brown Maid]
056.33brown one his maid.) Whose are the placewheres? Kiwasti, kis-
–056.33+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...Whose are...} | {BMs (47472-233): ...Whose in thunder and weddin and soddin and order are...}
–056.33+place (Motif: time/space) [.34]
–056.33+Downing: Digger Dialects 59: 'KISWASTI — Why; what for. KISKER — Which... KITHER — Where... KITNA — How much. "Kitna budja" — What's the time?' (World War I Slang; Motif: What is the time?)
–056.33+Finnish kivasti: nicely, smoothly, smartly
056.34ker, kither, kitnabudja? Tal the tem of the tumulum. Giv the gav
–056.34+tell the time of the tumult
–056.34+tell the tale of (Motif: Tale told of Shaun or Shem)
–056.34+Cornish tal: Welsh tal: tall, high, eminent
–056.34+Swift: A Tale of a Tub
–056.34+Tem: in Egyptian mythology, the first god, having created himself (by spitting or self-abusing on a mound of mud; the vowels of the name are unknown, therefore the name could be any with the consonants T, M, for example Atum; possibly a form of Ra)
–056.34+Gipsy tem: country (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 63)
–056.34+time [.33]
–056.34+tomb
–056.34+tumulus: a barrow, a mound erected in ancient times over a grave
–056.34+give
–056.34+phrase gift of the gab
–056.34+Gipsy gav: town, village (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 32)
056.35of the grube. Be it cudgelplayers' country, orfishfellows' town or
–056.35+German Grube: hole, mine, pit
–056.35+cudgel players [043.06]
–056.35+Gipsy Cosht-killimengreskey tem: Cudgel players' country, Cornwall (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 112-113)
–056.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...country, orfishfellows'...} | {Png: ...country orfishfellows'...}
–056.35+oar-fish: a type of fish
–056.35+Gipsy Match-eneskey gav: Fishy town, Yarmouth (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 112-113)
056.36leeklickers' land or panbpanungopovengreskey. What regnans
–056.36+Gipsy Porrum-engreskey tem: Leek-eaters' country, Wales (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 114-115)
–056.36+Dutch Luilekkerland: land of Cockaigne, land of plenty
–056.36+Latin Pannonia: Hungary
–056.36+Gipsy Paub-pawnugo tem: Apple-water country, Herefordshire (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 114-115)
–056.36+German Ungarn: Hungary
–056.36+Russian po-vengerski: in Hungarian
–056.36+Gipsy Pov-engreskey tem: Potato country, Norfolk (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 114-115)
–056.36+Motif: alliteration (r)
–056.36+Latin regnans: ruling, reigning (participial adjective)
–056.36+German regnen: to rain


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