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088.01by Waterhose's Meddle Europeic Time, near Stop and Think,
–088.01+Waterhouse's Clock, Dublin [213.16]
–088.01+Middle European Time (also known as Central European Time; during most of Joyce's life, this was used in central Europe (e.g. Austro-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland), but not in western Europe (e.g. France, Belgium))
–088.01+VI.B.6.039f (b): 'Stop & think!'
088.02high chief evervirens and only abfalltree in auld the land) there
–088.02+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–088.02+Latin virens: being green (hence, evergreen)
–088.02+hymn Faithful Cross: 'Faithful Cross, above all others, One and only noble tree' (part of the Good Friday service)
–088.02+German Abfall: garbage, rubbish, litter; apostasy, rebellion
–088.02+German Apfel: apple
–088.02+appletree (Garden of Eden)
–088.02+fall (of man, of tree)
–088.02+song Auld Lang Syne
–088.02+all
088.03was not as much light from the widowed moon as would dim a
–088.03+VI.B.5.087b (r): '(the widowed moon)'
088.04child's altar. The mixer, accordingly, was bluntly broached, and
–088.04+Slang mixer: troublemaker [087.13]
–088.04+Motif: alliteration (b)
–088.04+(cross-questioned)
088.05in the best basel to boot, as to whether he was one of those
–088.05+(best manner)
–088.05+German Baselbut: region around Basel
–088.05+Travers Smith: Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde 6: 'I was always one of those for whom the visible world existed' (paraphrasing Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray: 'Like Gautier, he was one for whom "the visible world existed"', which in turn is referring to Théophile Gautier: 'Je suis un homme pour qui le monde visible existe' (French 'I am a man for whom the visbile world exists'))
088.06lucky cocks for whom the audible-visible-gnosible-edible world
–088.06+Motif: 5 senses (touch missing) [086.32]
–088.06+gnosis: special knowledge of spiritual mysteries (from Greek gnosis: knowledge)
–088.06+nose
088.07existed. That he was only too cognitively conatively cogitabun-
–088.07+Motif: alliteration (c)
–088.07+conatively: with volition, with exertion
–088.07+cogitabundly: meditatively, thoughtfully
–088.07+abundantly
088.08dantly sure of it because, living, loving, breathing and sleeping
–088.08+Motif: 4-stage Viconian cycle (?)
088.09morphomelosophopancreates, as he most significantly did, when-
–088.09+Greek morphoô: form, shape
–088.09+Morpheus: the classical personification of sleep and dreams
–088.09+Greek melos: music; limb
–088.09+Greek sophos: wise
–088.09+Greek pantokrates: all-powerful, omnipotent
–088.09+pancreas
088.10ever he thought he heard he saw he felt he made a bell clipper-
–088.10+(Motif: 5 senses)
–088.10+Motif: ear/eye
088.11clipperclipperclipper. Whether he was practically sure too of his
–088.11+clapper: to ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to its clapper (its tongue)
088.12lugs and truies names in this king and blouseman business? That
–088.12+proverb You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear: something inherently inferior cannot be turned into something of value (Cluster: Pigs)
–088.12+German phrase Lug und Trug: lies and deception
–088.12+Colloquial lug: ear
–088.12+true name: in various forms of mysticism and folklore, the name, often secret, of a thing or person that somehow reflects its true nature and allows its discoverer to wield power over it (Legalese true name: one's legal name)
–088.12+French truie: sow (Cluster: Pigs)
–088.12+VI.B.3.155a (o): 'This King Business'
–088.12+(Festy King)
–088.12+phrase king and country (objects of allegiance)
–088.12+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...business...} | {Png: ...buisness...}
088.13he was pediculously so. Certified? As cad could be. Be lying! Be
–088.13+pediculous: infected with lice
–088.13+morbus pediculosus: ancient disease in which the body swarmed with lice [.14]
–088.13+particularly
–088.13+satisfied
–088.13+cad (the cad with the pipe)
088.14the lonee I will. It was Morbus O' Somebody? A'Quite. Szer-
–088.14+Greek thelô: I will, I want
–088.14+Motif: A/O
–088.14+acquit
–088.14+Hungarian szerda: Wednesday (Cluster: Days)
088.15day's Son? A satyr in weddens. And how did the greeneyed
–088.15+Sunday (Cluster: Days)
–088.15+Saturday (Cluster: Days)
–088.15+nursery rhyme Monday's Child: 'Saturday's child works hard for his living'
–088.15+weddings
–088.15+Wednesday (Cluster: Days)
–088.15+William Shakespeare: Othello III.3.195: 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster'
088.16mister arrive at the B.A.? That it was like his poll. A cross-
–088.16+B.A.: Bachelor of Arts degree [087.13]
–088.16+VI.B.5.050d (r): 'it's like his poll'
–088.16+Irish Independent 5 Jun 1924, 5/4: 'West Cork Horror': (a police sergeant testifying in a trial of murder and dismemberment of a farmer by most of his family members) 'Witness took the head out of a sack and turned an electric torch on it, and asked Leary could he identify it... "I am not sure, but it is like his poll"'
–088.16+Cambridge Slang poll: a 'pass' degree, a bachelor's degree without honours (derogatory)
–088.16+VI.B.5.052b (r): 'a coarsegrained person with odd hips & twitching mouth' [.16-.18]
–088.16+Freeman's Journal 6 Jun 1924, 7/1: '"Wicked Fast Woman"': (in a libel trial) 'Mrs Copeman... said Miss Thurburn signed a letter sent to her in which there was a reference to "a coarse-grained person with two left feet, odd hips, and twitching eyes"'
–088.16+cross-grained: perverse, contrarious
088.17grained trapper with murty odd oogs, awflorated ares, inquiline
–088.17+VI.B.16.040f (b): 'Murty'
–088.17+song Finnegan's Wake: 'mighty odd'
–088.17+Motif: A/O
–088.17+Motif: 5 senses (touch missing) [086.32]
–088.17+(4 body parts) [.20]
–088.17+Dutch oog: eye
–088.17+VI.B.2.045g (b): 'awl pierced ear'
–088.17+Ingersoll: Mistakes of Moses 17: (of slavery in the Bible) 'When the time of a married slave expired, he could not take his wife and children with him. Then if the slave did not wish to desert his family, he had his ears pierced with an awl, and became his master's property for ever'
–088.17+perforated
–088.17+ears
–088.17+inquiline: in zoology, an animal that lives in the another's nest, a commensal
–088.17+Italian naso inquilino: tenant nose (a not uncommon blunder for Italian naso aquilino: aquiline nose, among people who speak with affectation)
088.18nase and a twithcherous mouph? He would be. Who could bit
–088.18+German Nase: nose
–088.18+twitch
–088.18+treacherous
–088.18+mouth
–088.18+beat you out
088.19you att to a tenyerdfuul when aastalled? Ballera jobbera. Some
–088.19+Hungarian tányér: plate
–088.19+ten yard
–088.19+tankardful
–088.19+German Aas: carrion
–088.19+Hungarian asztal: table
–088.19+(Buridan's Ass: a philosophical paradox about an ass standing exactly midway between two identical piles of hay, one to its left, one to its right, and ultimately dying of hunger, unable to decide which one to choose)
–088.19+Hungarian balra: to the left (Motif: left/right)
–088.19+Hungarian jobbra: to the right
088.20majar bore too? Iguines. And with tumblerous legs, redipnomi-
–088.20+Spanish majar: to be tiresome
–088.20+major
–088.20+Hungarian magyar bor: Hungarian wine
–088.20+Hungarian igenis: yes indeed
–088.20+a Guinness
–088.20+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...with tumblerous...} | {JJA 46:209: ...with a stopper head, bottle shoulders, a barrel bauck and tumblerous...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 49:117, skipping a nine-word line)
–088.20+Variants: elucidations for variant: stopper, bottle, barrel, tumbler (related to liquid containers) ^^^ (4 body parts) [.17-.18] ^^^ German Bauch: belly ^^^ back (Motif: back/front)
–088.20+tumbler: a drinking cup, originally shaped so that it could not be set down until emptied
–088.20+redenominated: named again
–088.20+redip: to baptise again, to name again
088.21nated Helmingham Erchenwyne Rutter Egbert Crumwall Odin
–088.21+Motif: acronym: HERE COMES EVERYBODY (Motif: HCE) [.23] [032.18]
–088.21+Burke's Peerage lists 'Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Bentley', born 1876, under 'Tollemache-Tollemache' (Motif: acronym: LYONEL THE SECOND)
–088.21+Elizabeth Murray (died 1698) was wife to Sir Lionel Tollemache of Helmingham [.21], countess of Dysart [.23], and mistress of Oliver Cromwell [.21]
–088.21+Welsh erchwyn: side, bedside
–088.21+Egbert: 9th century king of Wessex and father of Ethelwulf [.22]
–088.21+egg, wall (nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty)
088.22Maximus Esme Saxon Esa Vercingetorix Ethelwulf Rupprecht
–088.22+Latin maximus: greatest
–088.22+Latin saxum: stone (Motif: tree/stone) [.23]
–088.22+Vercingetorix: 1st century BC Gallic chieftain who revolted against the Romans and was defeated by Julius Caesar
–088.22+Ethelwulf: 9th century king of Wessex and son of Egbert [.21]
–088.22+Rupprecht: 19th-20th century crown prince of Bavaria (the last heir apparent of the defunct kingdom of Bavaria, from 1919 until his death in 1955)
088.23Ydwalla Bentley Osmund Dysart Yggdrasselmann? Holy Saint
–088.23+Yggdrasil: the World-Tree in Norse myth [.22]
–088.23+German Mann: man
–088.23+HCE ('C' phonetically; Motif: HCE) [.21]
–088.23+holly, ivy (Motif: holly, ivy, mistletoe)
–088.23+Motif: Mick/Nick (saint, devil)
–088.23+German Teufel: devil
088.24Eiffel, the very phoenix! It was Chudley Magnall once more
–088.24+Eiffel Tower, Paris
–088.24+fellow
–088.24+Charlemagne
–088.24+Latin magnus: Irish mór: big, large, great
–088.24+surely
088.25between the deffodates and the dumb scene? The two childspies
–088.25+phrase between the devil and the deep sea: facing two equally undesirable alternatives
–088.25+defendants
–088.25+daffodils
–088.25+deaf and dumb
–088.25+Motif: time/space (dates, scene)
–088.25+damsels
–088.25+(no answer?)
–088.25+Motif: 2&3 (*IJ* and *VYC*) [.27]
–088.25+child spies
088.26waapreesing him auza de Vologue but the renting of his rock
–088.26+were appraising him out of the foliage
–088.26+German aus: from, out of, of
–088.26+eau de Cologne: a type of perfume (literally French 'water of Cologne')
–088.26+Irish de bholóig: of an ox
–088.26+Matthew 27:51: (on the death of Jesus) 'the rocks rent'
–088.26+Ragnarok: in Norse mythology, a future cataclysmic series of events, including a great battle in which many gods will die (e.g. Odin, Thor, Loki), after which the world will begin anew (literally 'Fate of the Gods' or 'Twilight of the Gods' in Old Norse)
–088.26+German Rock: coat, skirt
–088.26+Motif: tree/stone (rock, forest) [.27]
088.27was from the three wicked Vuncouverers Forests bent down
–088.27+three [.25]
–088.27+The Three Wicked Uncoverings: a triad of taboos in Welsh myth (associated with King Arthur)
–088.27+Vancouver: city, Canada
–088.27+uncoverers
–088.27+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song Fairest! Put on Awhile [air: Cummilum]
088.28awhits, arthou sure? Yubeti, Cumbilum comes! One of the ox-
–088.28+art thou
–088.28+American Slang you bet: certainly
–088.28+Japanese yube: night
–088.28+Latin comes: companion (from Latin cum: with + Latin ire: to go)
–088.28+Ostmen: Viking invaders of Ireland and their settler descendants (the name survived in Oxmantown, a part of northern Dublin, where Ostmen once lived)
088.29men's thingabossers, hvad? And had he been refresqued by the
–088.29+Thing: among the Vikings, a public assembly that functioned as a parliament, to make political decisions, and as a court of law, to resolve disputes
–088.29+Danish hvad?: eh?, what?
–088.29+(no answer?)
–088.29+refreshed
–088.29+French fresque: fresco (a technique of mural painting)
088.30founts of bounty playing there — is — a — pain — aleland in
–088.30+(urine)
–088.30+song 'There is a happy land'
–088.30+J.J. Callanan: Gougane Barra (poem): 'There is a green island In lone Gougane Barra' (Gougane Barra is a small remote lake in County Cork) [093.28]
088.31Long's gourgling barral? A loss of Lordedward and a lack of sir-
–088.31+gurgling
–088.31+barrel
–088.31+Archaic phrase alas and alack! (exclamation of grief or pity)
–088.31+Lord Edward Street, Dublin
–088.31+Lord Edward FitzGerald: 18th century Irish rebel
–088.31+Sir Philip Crampton: 19th century Dublin surgeon (his monument had drinking fountains attached) [.32]
–088.31+syphilis
088.32philip a surgeonet showeradown could suck more gargling
–088.32+surgeon [.31]
–088.32+showered on
088.33bubbles out of the five lamps in Portterand's praise. Wirrgeling
–088.33+The Five Lamps: a five-way junction in Dublin, adjoining Portland Row
–088.33+Finnish portteri: porter
–088.33+German wird gelingen: will succeed
–088.33+Danish virkelig: real
088.34and maries? As whose wouldn't, laving his leaftime in Black-
–088.34+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...and maries?...} | {JJA 46:208: ...and boeuffickly bucephull. Wheataured, however, and with fallen mammaries?...} (conceivably corrupted at JJA 49:117, skipping a seven-and-a-half-word line)
–088.34+Variants: elucidations for variant: wheatear: a small white-rumped bird (originally called wheatears, meaning 'white arse') [071.11] [550.26] ^^^ (Motif: mixed gender)
–088.34+(wouldn't fall)
–088.34+living his lifetime
–088.34+Archaic laving: washing, bathing
–088.34+leaving: putting forth leaves
–088.34+Liffey river
–088.34+the name Dublin derives from Irish dubh linn: black pool
088.35pool. But, of course, he could call himself Tem, too, if he had
–088.35+Tem: in Egyptian mythology, the first god, having created himself [056.34]
–088.35+phrase have the time: to be able to spend the needed time; to know what time it is (Motif: What is the time?)
088.36time to? You butt he could anytom. When he pleased? Win and
–088.36+Motif: Tom/Tim
–088.36+Motif: time/space (time, place) [089.01]
–088.36+bet
–088.36+anytime
–088.36+win, place (racing terms)


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