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061.01scenities, una mona. Sylvia Silence, the girl detective (Meminerva,
–061.01+Latin scaenitae: actresses
–061.01+scenery [060.36]
–061.01+obscenities
–061.01+Triestine Italian Dialect Slang una mona: a silly cunt (with or without sexual overtones)
–061.01+VI.B.10.022h (r): 'Sylvia Silence, the girl detective'
–061.01+Sunday Pictorial 29 Oct 1922, 17/4: 'Advertisement for The Schoolgirls' Weekly': 'No. 2 Just Out... includes all these tip-top stories:... Sylvia Silence, the girl detective'
–061.01+Latin meminisse: to remember [.04]
–061.01+Minerva: Roman goddess of wisdom
061.02but by now one hears turtlings all over Doveland!) when supplied
–061.02+Motif: Dear Dirty Dublin
–061.02+turtledove [039.14-.15]
061.03with informations as to the several facets of the case in her cozy-
–061.03+facts
–061.03+American cozy: cosy, warm and comfortable [429.22]
061.04dozy bachelure's flat, quite overlooking John a'Dream's mews,
–061.04+dozy: drowsy, sleepy [429.22]
–061.04+bachelor's
–061.04+lure
–061.04+John-a-dreams: dreamy fellow, daydreamer
–061.04+muse (in Greek mythology, the nine Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory) [.01]
061.05leaned back in her really truly easy chair to query restfully through
–061.05+phrase really and truly: absolutely, honestly
061.06her vowelthreaded syllabelles: Have you evew thought, wepow-
–061.06+VI.B.7.210e (o): 'Vowelthreaded'
–061.06+Kennedy-Fraser & Macleod: Songs of the Hebrides II.ix: 'the wind too, the never-ceasing wind, makes itself heard in the weird, vowel-threaded rising and falling "motives" that link together the chanted phrases of many an old bardic lay'
–061.06+syllables
–061.06+(Motif: rhotacism, w = r) [.06-.10] [523.02-.04]
–061.06+ever
–061.06+reporter
061.07tew, that sheew gweatness was his twadgedy? Nevewtheless ac-
–061.07+sheer
–061.07+VI.B.10.082e (r): 'J. Caesar, greatness his tragedy'
–061.07+nevertheless, according
061.08cowding to my considewed attitudes fow this act he should pay
–061.08+VI.B.5.081e (r): 'a considered judgment' (only last two words crayoned)
–061.08+for
–061.08+VI.B.10.071k-.072a (r): 'ought not pay full penalty'
–061.08+Daily Sketch 14 Dec 1922: 'Petition for Reprieve of Bywaters is Ready To-Day': 'A taxicab driver: Bywaters is a silly young fellow, but he ought not to pay the full penalty' [059.25]
061.09the full penalty, pending puwsuance, as pew Subsec. 32, section
–061.09+pursuance
–061.09+phrase as per: in accordance with
–061.09+Motif: 1132
–061.09+Oscar Wilde was tried for 'gross indecency' under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (has no subsection 32)
061.1011, of the C. L. A. act 1885, anything in this act to the contwawy
–061.10+contrary
061.11notwithstanding. Jarley Jilke began to silke for he couldn't get
–061.11+song Master Dilke Upset the Milk When Taking It Home to Chelsea: 'He let the cat, the naughty cat, Slip out of the Gladstone bag' (lampoons Sir Charles Dilke, a 19th century English politician ruined by a divorce scandal (similar to Parnell)) [.11-.13]
–061.11+sulk
061.12home to Jelsey but ended with: He's got the sack that helped him
–061.12+Slang phrase get the sack: to be dismissed from employment, to be fired
061.13moult instench of his gladsome rags. Meagher, a naval rating,
–061.13+instead
–061.13+stench
–061.13+Colloquial glad rags: one's best clothes
–061.13+gladsome: glad, happy, joyous
–061.13+German kleidsam: (of clothing) becoming, flattering [562.05]
–061.13+VI.B.10.071h (r): 'a sailor in embankment was encouraged to speak by his fiancée & said I think he was more to blame but I think there was someone else behind it' [.13-.26] [211.11]
–061.13+Daily Sketch 14 Dec 1922: 'Petition for Reprieve of Bywaters is Ready To-Day': 'A sailor, on the Embankment, was encouraged to speak by his fiancée, and said: I think the woman was more to blame than Bywaters, but I think there was someone else in it' [058.24-061.13]
–061.13+rating: enlisted naval man (as opposed to officer)
061.14seated on one of the granite cromlech setts of our new fish-
–061.14+VI.B.10.075a (r): 'granite setts (market)'
–061.14+Lawrence: Aaron's Rod 102: 'sitting on the granite setts, being hauled up by a burly policeman, he saw our acquaintance Aaron, very pale in the face and a little dishevelled. "Like me to tuck the sheets round you, shouldn't you? Fancy yourself snug in bed, don't you? You won't believe you're right in the way of traffic, will you now, in Covent Garden Market? Come on, we'll see to you." And the policeman hoisted the bitter and unwilling Aaron'
–061.14+cromlech: a type of prehistoric megalithic tomb, consisting of a large flat stone supported horizontally by two or more upright ones [.16]
–061.14+sett: a squared granite stone used in paving (also spelled 'set')
–061.14+Fishamble Street, Dublin
061.15shambles for the usual aireating after the ever popular act, with
–061.15+Dialect shambles: a meat-market, a fish-market
–061.15+aeration: exposure to air
–061.15+(smoking after sex)
061.16whom were Questa and Puella, piquante and quoite, (this had a
–061.16+*IJ*
–061.16+song 'Questa o quella' from Verdi's Rigoletto (Italian 'This woman or that' ('are the same to me'))
–061.16+Motif: P/Q (twice; lowercase mirror images, and as such associated with *IJ*)
–061.16+Latin puella: girl [.25]
–061.16+quoit: the large flat horizontal stone of a cromlech; a cromlech as a whole [.14]
061.17cold in her brain while that felt a sink in her summock, wit's
–061.17+a sinking feeling in her stomach
–061.17+what's what
061.18wat, wot's wet) was encouraged, although nearvanashed himself,
–061.18+Slang twat: female genitalia
–061.18+German Slang Fotze: female genitalia
–061.18+near-vanished
–061.18+nirvana: in Buddhism, the ultimate state of liberation from worldly suffering and from the cycle of rebirth (from Sanskrit nirvana: blown out, extinguished)
061.19by one of his co-affianced to get your breath, Walt, and gobbit
–061.19+Archaic affianced: betrothed, engaged
061.20and when ther chidden by her fastra sastra to saddle up your
–061.20+then
–061.20+Buddha's mother chided him for neglecting his body
–061.20+Swedish fastrer: aunts
–061.20+faster sister
–061.20+foster-sister
–061.20+Spanish sastra: tailoress
–061.20+Gipsy saster: iron (Borrow: Romano Lavo-Lil 58)
–061.20+Swedish systrer: sisters
–061.20+Russian sestra: sister
–061.20+(pull up)
061.21pance, Naville, thus cor replied to her other's thankskissing: I
–061.21+pants [.26]
–061.21+naval [.13]
–061.21+Cornish cor: manner, way, sort
–061.21+Portuguese cor: colour
–061.21+co-replied [.19]
–061.21+VI.B.10.095n (r): 'I lay'
–061.21+Gilbert: Old England 116: 'Do try an orange, Mester, They're good and cheap to-day; I've selled no end this morning; You'll find 'em nice, I lay'
–061.21+VI.B.11.140m-.141a (r): 'I'll lay a bob that Tommy Lipton cdn't lay' (only first four words crayoned)
–061.21+song In Our Little Garden Sub-bub: 'Well, I'll lay a bob that Tommy Lipton couldn't lay The sort of eggs our cocks and hens are laying every day' (a 1922 song)
061.22lay my two fingerbuttons, fiancee Meagher, (he speaks!) he was
–061.22+pressing two fingers upon the deceased's lips is an important part of the ceremony of Opening of the Mouth in Egyptian myth (Budge: The Book of the Dead)
–061.22+fiancée (i.e. future Mrs.) [.13]
–061.22+fancy
–061.22+Latin mea: mine
061.23to blame about your two velvetthighs up Horniman's Hill — as
–061.23+(*IJ*) [.27]
–061.23+Annie Horniman: patroness of Abbey Theatre, Dublin
–061.23+Horniman Museum, London
–061.23+Slang horny: lecherous
061.24hook and eye blame him or any other piscman? — but I also
–061.24+Motif: hook/eye (hook and eye: a type of fastener, composed of a metal hook and a metal eyelet, used for fastening clothes, nowadays especially brassieres; Slang hook and eye: arm in arm)
–061.24+how can I blame
–061.24+Irish pis: female genitalia
–061.24+Latin piscis: fish
–061.24+song Polly Wolly Doodle (American children's song)
061.25think, Puellywally, by the siege of his trousers there was some-
–061.25+Latin puella: girl [.16]
–061.25+Wally: nickname for Walt [.19]
–061.25+siege of Troy
–061.25+French siège: seat, chair
–061.25+sit: the manner in which an article of clothing fits a person
–061.25+seat: buttocks [.25-.27]
–061.25+trousers [.26]
061.26one else behind it — you bet your boughtem blarneys — about
–061.26+Colloquial behind: buttocks [.25-.27]
–061.26+American Colloquial phrase bet your bottom dollar (indicating absolute certainty, enough to wager everything on it)
–061.26+American boughten: bought (as opposed to home-made)
–061.26+Colloquial bottom: buttocks [.25-.27]
–061.26+Blarney doeskin trousers advertised in late 19th century Ireland [.21] [.25] [211.11]
061.27their three drummers down Keysars Lane. (Trite!).
–061.27+(*VYC*) [.23]
–061.27+Slang drummer: trousers-maker
–061.27+Keyser's Lane, medieval Dublin (vulgarly named 'Kiss-arse lane', being steep and slippery in frosty weather)
–061.27+Slang arse: buttocks [.25-.27]
–061.27+Greek tritê: third [058.32] [059.14] [060.22]
–061.27+that's right
061.28     Be these meer marchant taylor's fablings of a race referend
–061.28+{{Synopsis: I.3.2.A: [061.28-062.25]: can it be believed? — he flees to another land, to hostility and terror}}
–061.28+German Meer: Spanish mar: sea
–061.28+mere
–061.28+Merchant Tailors' Guild of Saint John the Baptist, Dublin, 1704
–061.28+merchant sailor: a seaman working on a merchant vessel
–061.28+French marchant: walking
–061.28+teller (of tales)
–061.28+fabling: telling of fables (Obsolete lying)
–061.28+right reverend
–061.28+VI.B.6.131h (b): 'odd man King = referendum'
–061.28+Irish Statesman 2 Feb 1924, 662/2: 'The Referendum': 'the Referendum is liable in an extreme case to make the odd man king'
061.29with oddman rex? Is now all seenheard then forgotten? Can it
–061.29+odd man: the odd-numbered person in an otherwise evenly-divided and deadlocked group of decision makers, who is therefore able to cast the decisive vote
–061.29+Oedipus Rex
–061.29+Latin rex: king
–061.29+VI.B.46.052c (g): 'all seen, all heard forgotten'
–061.29+Trogan: Les Mots Historiques du Pays de France 107: 'MARIE-ANTOINETTE... J'ai tout vu, tout entendu et tout oublié' (French 'MARIE ANTOINETTE... I have seen it all, heard it all and forgotten it all'; when asked, a few months later, about the events of the French Revolution)
–061.29+Motif: ear/eye (seen, heard)
061.30was, one is fain in this leaden age of letters now to wit, that so
–061.30+be
–061.30+VI.B.3.149d (o): 'one is fain'
–061.30+Harris: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions I.76: (of Oscar Wilde's lecture tour in America) 'One is fain to confess today that these lectures make very poor reading'
–061.30+Archaic fain: obliged, forced
–061.30+VI.B.3.157i (o): 'leaden age of letters'
–061.30+Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Making of Britain 70: 'a Constantinopolitan age of darkness paralleling the age of iron, of lead and of gloom (saeculum . . . . ferreum . . . . plumbeum . . . . obscurum) in the West'
–061.30+write
061.31diversified outrages (they have still to come!) were planned and
–061.31+
061.32partly carried out against so staunch a covenanter if it be true
–061.32+covenanter: a member of the 17th century Covenant movement in Scotland (associated with presbyterianism)
–061.32+'Solemn League and Covenant' to resist Home Rule, signed throughout Ulster in 1912
061.33than any of those recorded ever took place for many, we trow,
–061.33+that any
–061.33+Archaic trow: to believe, to suppose
061.34beyessed to and denayed of, are given to us by some who use
–061.34+German bejaht: assented to
–061.34+biassed
–061.34+Motif: yes/no (yes + Dialect nay: no)
–061.34+denied
061.35the truth but sparingly and we, on this side ought to sorrow for
–061.35+
061.36their pricking pens on that account. The seventh city, Urovivla,
–061.36+Slang prick: penis
–061.36+penis
–061.36+VI.B.17.app6h (r): 'the 3rd city (Troy)' [062.30]
–061.36+Hirn: Les Jeux d'Enfants 22: (of the history of spinning tops) 'on possède enfin des toupies en terre cuite qui datent de ce qu'on a coutume d'appeler la troisième ville de Troie' (French 'finally we have terracotta spinning tops that date from what we customarily call the third city of Troy')
–061.36+Joyce: A Portrait IV: (referring to Dublin) 'the seventh city of christendom' (possibly based on Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh: History of the City of Dublin 451 + 451n: 'Dublin, the capital of Ireland, in population and extent the second city of the British empire, and probably the seventh in Europe, is situate on the river Anna Liffey... The European cities that exceed Dublin in extent and population, are London, Paris, Constantinople, Vienna, Moscow, and Naples')
–061.36+Uruvela, where Buddha attained enlightenment
–061.36+Danish viv: wife


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