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073.01his langwedge and quite quit the paleologic scene, telling how
–073.01+language
–073.01+cuneiform script (literally 'wedge-shaped') [072.18]
–073.01+VI.B.2.011e (g): 'Paleologue'
–073.01+Archaic paleology: science or study of antiquities
073.02by his selfdenying ordnance he had left Hyland on the dissenting
–073.02+self-denying ordinance: act of 1645 preventing members of the English Parliament from holding military office
–073.02+ordnance: military equipment, ammunition, artillery
–073.02+Danish ord: word, utterance
–073.02+upon leaving Ireland for Australia in 1856, Charles Gavan Duffy famously said: 'A change might come, but unless the existing condition of things alter, there is no more hope for Ireland than for a corpse on the dissecting-table' [.20-.21]
–073.02+highland, table (forms of elevated land)
–073.02+C. Hyland: manager of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, in the 1920s
–073.02+German Heiland: the Saviour
073.03table, after exhorting Earwicker or, in slightly modified phrase-
–073.03+
073.04ology, Messrs or Missrs Earwicker, Seir, his feminisible name of
–073.04+sir
–073.04+Luke 8:30: 'And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him'
073.05multitude, to cocoa come outside to Mockerloo out of that for
–073.05+(Motif: stuttering) [.10]
–073.05+Waterloo
073.06the honour of Crumlin, with his broody old flishguds, Gog's
–073.06+'Timothy' stems from Greek time: honour and Greek theos: god [.06]
–073.06+Crumlin: district of Dublin
–073.06+bloody
–073.06+Dutch brood: bread
–073.06+Obsolete brood: the young of fish, fry
–073.06+Joyce: Ulysses.1.366: (Buck Mulligan ridiculing the obsession with Celtic folklore among Irish revivalists) 'fishgods of Dundrum' [004.01]
–073.06+Danish gud: god
–073.06+Gog: legendary giant (always paired with Magog)
–073.06+God's
073.07curse to thim, so as he could brianslog and burst him all dizzy,
–073.07+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation thim: them
–073.07+Brian Boru
–073.07+brain
–073.07+Colloquial slog: to hit, to strike
–073.07+day
073.08you go bail, like Potts Fracture did with Keddle Flatnose and
–073.08+phrase you go bail: you can be sure
–073.08+Pott's fracture: a type of fracture of the fibula (and often also the tibia) close to the ankle
–073.08+proverb The pot calling the kettle black: criticising another for one's own faults (hypocrisy)
–073.08+VI.B.16.004i (b): 'Kettle Flatnose'
–073.08+Walsh: Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period 48: 'Ketill Flatnose, a famous chief in the Hebrides, all of whose family, with the exception of his son, Björn the Easterner, adopted Christianity'
073.09nobodyatall with Wholyphamous and build rocks over him, or
–073.09+in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus called himself Nobody to trick the cyclops Polyphemus (Polyphemus had imprisoned Odysseus and his men by blocking his cave's entrance with a giant rock; when they later escaped, he threw huge rocks at their fleeing ship)
–073.09+nobody: someone who is not famous
–073.09+at all
–073.09+wholly famous
–073.09+(bury)
073.10if he didn't, for two and thirty straws, be Cacao Campbell, he
–073.10+Motif: 432
–073.10+strokes (Cluster: Cricket)
–073.10+(Motif: stuttering) [.05]
–073.10+Thomas Campbell: South-African cricketer (Cluster: Cricket)
–073.10+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Campbell, he...} | {Png: ...Campbell he...}
073.11didn't know what he wouldn't do for him nor nobody else no-
–073.11+VI.B.5.150l (r): 'nor nothing else no more nor me'
–073.11+Connacht Tribune 19 Jul 1924, 3/4: 'Dunmore District Court': (husband's evidence in a marital dispute trial) 'I could not knock any rights out of her nor anybody else no more than me'
073.12more nor him after which, batell martell, a brisha a milla a stroka
–073.12+Charles Martel ('the Hammer'): 8th century Frankish general, best remembered for stopping the Muslim invasion of Europe at the Battle of Tours and for being Charlemagne's grandfather
–073.12+Irish ag briseadh: breaking
–073.12+Irish ag milleadh: destroying
–073.12+Irish ag stracadh: tearing
–073.12+strike a ball
073.13a boola, so the rage of Malbruk, playing on the least change of
–073.13+Irish ag buaileadh: beating
–073.13+song Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre (French Marlborough goes to war; very popular 18th century French folk song about the supposed death and burial of the First Duke of Marlborough (referred to as Malbrouk in some versions of the song); incorporated into Leoncavallo's opera, as well as into many other works)
–073.13+Ruggero Leoncavallo: Malbrouck (opera; premiered in Rome, 1910)
–073.13+last chance
073.14his manjester's voice, the first heroic couplet from the fuguall
–073.14+His Majesty's
–073.14+His Master's Voice: unofficial name of The Gramophone Company, a British gramophone record label, whose logo showed a dog listening attentively to a gramophone
–073.14+jester
–073.14+VI.B.6.064g (b): 'heroic couplet'
–073.14+heroic couplet: a verse form consisting of two iambic pentameters
–073.14+fugal: in music, pertaining to fugues
073.15tropical, Opus Elf, Thortytoe: My schemes into obeyance for This
–073.15+trope: in medieval music, the interpolation of a short musical embellishment into the traditional liturgical plainsong
–073.15+opus number: in music, a number assigned to a composition according to its chronological order among the composer's works, indicated by the word 'opus' followed by a number (from Latin opus: work)
–073.15+German elf: eleven [.18]
–073.15+Motif: 1132
–073.15+Thor: Norse god of thunder
–073.15+abeyance: temporary suspension
073.16time has had to fall: they bit goodbyte to their thumb and, his
–073.16+Greek time: honour [.17]
–073.16+fall [.18]
–073.16+Finn burnt his thumb while cooking the Salmon of Knowledge and bit it to ease the pain, thereby obtaining absolute wisdom and knowledge of all things [.18]
–073.16+phrase bite one's thumb (at another, as a gesture of contempt or defiance)
–073.16+bid goodbye
–073.16+song Off to Philadelphia in the Morning : 'With my bundle on my shoulder There's no one could be bolder And I'm off to Philadelphia in the morning' [.16-.18]
073.17bandol eer his solgier, dripdropdrap on pool or poldier, wishing
–073.17+bandoleer: a soldier's shoulder-belt fitted with loops or pockets for cartridges
–073.17+Dutch eer: honour [.16]
–073.17+soldier
–073.17+polder: land reclaimed from the sea through the use of dykes (a Dutch term)
073.18the loff a falladelfian in the morning, proceeded with a Hubble-
–073.18+lot
–073.18+fall [.16]
–073.18+German elf: eleven [.15]
–073.18+Fianna: Finn's warrior band [.16]
–073.18+hobble
–073.18+Jack Hubble: English cricketer (Cluster: Cricket)
–073.18+Edwin Hubble: American astonomer (his discovery of nebulae outside the Milky Way was first published in 1924)
–073.18+Hurdle Ford (the anglicised Irish name of Dublin)
073.19forth slouch in his slips backwords (Et Cur Heli!) in the directions
–073.19+slips, backward: cricket terms pertaining to a player's position (Cluster: Cricket)
–073.19+backwards
–073.19+ECH (Motif: HCE)
–073.19+Joyce: other works: Et Tu, Healy (a poem, now lost, possibly written by Joyce at age nine, on Parnell's death, presumably accusing Timothy Healy of backstabbing Parnell)
–073.19+Latin et cur: and why?
–073.19+Matthew 27:46: (Jesus on the cross) 'Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'
–073.19+cur: a low-bred dog (term of contempt)
073.20of the duff and demb institutions about ten or eleven hundred
–073.20+Charles Gavan Duffy: Irish nationalist, co-founder of The Nation, and later an Australian politician [.02] [.21]
–073.20+in Joyce's time, there were two deaf-and-dumb institutions in Dublin
073.21years lurch away in the moonshiny gorge of Patself on the Bach.
–073.21+Moonshine Gorge: a gorge in the Kimberley region of Western Australia [.02] [.20]
–073.21+VI.B.9.052e (o): 'glen & gorge' (first word not crayoned)
–073.21+Bonney: The Work of Rain and Rivers 17: 'the corries and cirques, the glens and gorges, which occur... in many mountainous regions'
–073.21+pat self on the back
–073.21+German Bach: brook
073.22Adyoe!
–073.22+Volapük adyö: adieu, goodbye
073.23     And thus, with this rochelly exetur of Bully Acre, came to
–073.23+{{Synopsis: I.3.3.D: [073.23-073.27]: the assailant's departure — bringing the last stage in the siegings to an end}}
–073.23+Balfe: The Siege of Rochelle (opera)
–073.23+Latin exitus: a going-out
–073.23+Bully's Acre: one of Dublin's oldest cemeteries (used until 1832; in Kilmainham, just south of Phoenix Park)
–073.23+Acre: walled city, Palestine (frequently besieged, most famously during the Crusades and by Napoleon)
–073.23+Clontarf (site of the famous battle of Brian Boru) means 'Bull Meadow' (from Irish Cluain Tarbh)
073.24close that last stage in the siegings round our archicitadel which
–073.24+proceedings
–073.24+sieging
–073.24+German sie ging: she went
–073.24+German siegen: to win, to triumph, to be victorious
–073.24+Latin arcis: citadel's
073.25we would like to recall, if old Nestor Alexis would wink the
–073.25+in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Nestor, King of Pylos, is repeatedly referred to as 'old Nestor'
073.26worth for us, as Bar-le-Duc and Dog-an-Doras and Bangen-op-
–073.26+Bar-le-Duc: town in France, staging area for the siege of Verdun, 1916
–073.26+bar the door, dog at door, bang on door
–073.26+Anglo-Irish deoch an dorais: parting drink, last drink before going home (literally 'drink of the door')
–073.26+Dutch bangen: those who are afraid
–073.26+Bergen-op-Zoom: town, Netherlands (frequently besieged)
–073.26+Dutch op: on
073.27Zoom.
–073.27+
073.28     Yed he med leave to many a door beside of Oxmanswold for
–073.28+{{Synopsis: I.3.3.E: [073.28-074.05]: he is gone — until he awakes again}}
–073.28+Volapük yed: yet
–073.28+Danish med liv: with life
–073.28+made
–073.28+Oxmantown: a part of northern Dublin, where Ostmen (Viking invaders of Ireland and their settler descendants) once lived [047.22]
–073.28+wold: elevated piece of open country [.30]
073.29so witness his chambered cairns a cloudletlitter silent that are at
–073.29+chambered cairn: stone-age burial monument, consisting of a cairn or pile of stones enclosing a chamber
–073.29+Archaic litten: lighted, lit
–073.29+silent letter
073.30browse up hill and down coombe and on eolithostroton, at
–073.30+phrase up hill and down dale (Motif: up/down; Motif: hill/hollow)
–073.30+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–073.30+VI.B.3.054e (r): 'Coombe'
–073.30+Corkery: The Hounds of Banba 39: 'On the Heights': 'remembering how warm it had been in the coom'
–073.30+coombe: deep valley, deep hollow (especially on the flank of a hill; also spelt 'coomb' and 'coom')
–073.30+The Coombe: street and area west of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
–073.30+Greek neo lithostrôton: new stone pavement
–073.30+VI.B.10.089b (r): 'eoliths of Kentish weald' (Weald: a region of southeast England)
–073.30+eolith: primitive stone instrument, stone age chipped flint (from Greek eos: dawn + Greek lithos: stone)
–073.30+Vulgate John 19:13: 'lithostrotos' (Latin 'mosaic pavement'; on which Pilate's judgement seat was placed on Good Friday)
073.31Howth or at Coolock or even at Enniskerry, a theory none too
–073.31+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–073.31+Howth (Howth Head)
–073.31+Coolock: district of Dublin
–073.31+Enniskerry: village, County Wicklow
073.32rectiline of the evoluation of human society and a testament of
–073.32+Obsolete rectiline: rectilinear, forming or lying on a straight line
–073.32+evolution
–073.32+evaluation
–073.32+Hugh Miller: The Testimony of the Rocks, 1857 (a book about geology)
073.33the rocks from all the dead unto some the living. Olivers lambs
–073.33+Oliver's lambs: Irish name for Oliver Cromwell's soldiers
–073.33+Oliver: one of the two most famous of Charlemagne's twelve paladins [.35] [074.05]
073.34we do call them, skatterlings of a stone, and they shall be ga-
–073.34+Danish skatter: treasure
–073.34+Archaic scatterling: vagrant
–073.34+shall [074.01] [074.04]
073.35thered unto him, their herd and paladin, as nubilettes to cumule,
–073.35+paladin: knightly hero, knight errant (originally one of Charlemagne's twelve knights) [.33] [074.05]
–073.35+Latin nubila: clouds (hence, little clouds)
–073.35+to come
–073.35+cumulus clouds (characterised by a heaped-up appearance)
–073.35+Cumhall: Finn's father [074.01]
073.36in that day hwen, same the lightning lancer of Azava Arthur-
–073.36+when
–073.36+Danish hvem: who
–073.36+Guinevere, Lancelot, King Arthur (the primary love triangle of Arthurian legend) [074.01]
–073.36+save
–073.36+Archaic lance of lightning: bolt of lightning
–073.36+as part of the Peninsular War, on 25 September 1811, forces under Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) had a minor clash with part of the French army near Carpio, Spain, on the banks of the Azava river


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