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115.01always. Tip. And it is surely a lesser ignorance to write a word
–115.01+Motif: Tip
–115.01+lesser evil
115.02with every consonant too few than to add all too many. The
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115.03end? Say it with missiles then and thus arabesque the page. You
–115.03+arabesque: Oriental mural decoration with flowing intertwined lines and ornamented calligraphy
115.04have your cup of scalding Souchong, your taper's waxen drop,
–115.04+Anglo-Irish Slang cup of scald: cup of hot tea
–115.04+Lapsang Souchong: a type of China tea
115.05your cat's paw, the clove or coffinnail you chewed or champed
–115.05+clove is etymologically derived from French clou: nail
–115.05+(cloves traditionally said to resemble the nails of the Cross)
–115.05+Slang coffin-nail: cigarette
–115.05+drinkers used to chew a clove to mask breath
115.06as you worded it, your lark in clear air. So why, pray, sign any-
–115.06+song The Lark in the Clear Air
–115.06+German Korkenzieher: corkscrew
115.07thing as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a
–115.07+
115.08perfect signature of its own? A true friend is known much more
–115.08+
115.09easily, and better into the bargain, by his personal touch, habits
–115.09+
115.10of full or undress, movements, response to appeals for charity
–115.10+
115.11than by his footwear, say. And, speaking anent Tiberias and other
–115.11+Tiberias, Palestine, was chief centre of rabbinic scholarship
–115.11+Tiberius
115.12incestuish salacities among gerontophils, a word of warning
–115.12+incestuous
–115.12+salacity: lustfulness, lecherousness
–115.12+Greek gerontophilos: lover of old men
115.13about the tenderloined passion hinted at. Some softnosed per-
–115.13+underlined passage
–115.13+American Slang hardnosed: tough, practical
–115.13+nosed [.26]
115.14user might mayhem take it up erogenously as the usual case of
–115.14+Archaic mayhap: perhaps
–115.14+erroneously
–115.14+phrase it's a case of spoons with them: they are sentimentally in love
115.15spoons, prostituta in herba plus dinky pinks deliberatively summer-
–115.15+Italian prostituta in erba: budding prostitute (literally 'prostitute in the grass'; Cluster: Prostitution)
–115.15+Latin herba: grass
–115.15+Colloquial dinky: small and dainty
–115.15+VI.A.0271q (r): 'dinky pinks (drink)'
–115.15+Archaic summersaulting: somersaulting
115.16saulting off her bisexycle, at the main entrance of curate's per-
–115.16+bissextile: leap-year
–115.16+bicycle
–115.16+sex (Cluster: Prostitution)
–115.16+Anglo-Irish perpetual curate: an old title for a parish priest or vicar
–115.16+Anglo-Irish curate: an assistant to a parish priest; a publican's assistant, a barman
115.17petual soutane suit with her one to see and awoh! who picks her
–115.17+souterrain: underground room or passage
–115.17+suite
–115.17+phrase one, two, three, and away! (used to start a race, etc.)
115.18up as gingerly as any balmbearer would to feel whereupon the
–115.18+
115.19virgin was most hurt and nicely asking: whyre have you been so
–115.19+
115.20grace a mauling and where were you chaste me child? Be who,
–115.20+Grace O'Malley
–115.20+VI.B.3.071b (o): 'are you chaste? By whom?' ('chaste?' uncertain)
–115.20+chased
–115.20+my
115.21farther potential? and so wider but we grisly old Sykos who have
–115.21+Father Provincial: the title of the leading authority of a religious order in a specific province (common among the Jesuits)
–115.21+German und so weiter: and so forth
–115.21+Swiss German mir grusige alte Sieche: we nasty-minded old fellows
–115.21+Greek sykon: fig
–115.21+Colloquial psycho: psychologist
115.22done our unsmiling bit on 'alices, when they were yung and
–115.22+(psycho)analysis
–115.22+Lewis Carroll's Alice
–115.22+young
–115.22+Jung
115.23easily freudened, in the penumbra of the procuring room and
–115.23+Freud
–115.23+frightened
115.24what oracular comepression we have had apply to them! could
–115.24+Joyce: Stephen Hero XXI: (Cranly) 'to describe the hymeneal tract... called it oracle and all within the frontiers he called oracular'
–115.24+auricular confession
–115.24+compression
–115.24+French comprendre: to understand
115.25(did we care to sell our feebought silence in camera) tell our very
–115.25+Legalese in camera: privately, without the presence of the public in the courtroom (from Latin in camera: in a chamber)
115.26moistnostrilled one that father in such virgated contexts is not
–115.26+nostrilled [.13]
–115.26+father [.29]
–115.26+virgated: made straight, rodlike
–115.26+variegated
115.27always that undemonstrative relative (often held up to our con-
–115.27+undemonstrable
–115.27+VI.B.7.027c (r): 'held up to contumacy'
–115.27+Boldt: From Luther to Steiner 4: 'Among our great poets of the Middle Ages, Walter von der Vogelweide (1170-1230)... Never did he tire in his campaign for the defence of Germanism against Guelphish deceit and treachery — the "trickery of the Romish priests"... So also did this singer hold up to contumacy the materialism and immorality of the Roman hierarchy' (it is quite possible that the English translator meant to write 'contumely' rather than 'contumacy', which Joyce may or may not have surmised)
–115.27+Obsolete phrase hold the contumacy: to undergo medical quarantine
–115.27+contumacy: wilful disobedience, perverse resistance to authority
–115.27+contumely: scorn, contempt, reproach, insult
115.28tumacy) who settles our hashbill for us and what an innocent all-
–115.28+Colloquial phrase settle one's hash: silence, subdue, get rid of
–115.28+Mark Twain: other works: The Innocents Abroad
–115.28+phrase all aboard
115.29abroad's adverb such as Michaelly looks like can be suggestive
–115.29+Motif: The Letter: poor Father Michael [.26]
115.30of under the pudendascope and, finally, what a neurasthene nym-
–115.30+pudenda: female genitalia (Cluster: Prostitution)
–115.30+microscope
–115.30+neurasthenia: nervous debility
–115.30+nympholept: one inspired by violent enthusiasm, especially for an unattainable ideal
115.31pholept, endocrine-pineal typus, of inverted parentage with a
–115.31+pineal body: endocrine gland in the brain; disease leads to hypersexuality
115.32prepossessing drauma present in her past and a priapic urge for
–115.32+drama
–115.32+German Traum: dream
–115.32+trauma
–115.32+(Freud's emphasis upon the persistence of infantile sexuality in adult behaviour)
–115.32+priapic: relating to cult of Priapus, Roman god of procreation; phallic (Cluster: Prostitution)
–115.32+priapism: persistent erection of the penis
115.33congress with agnates before cognates fundamentally is feeling
–115.33+congress: coming together, meeting; sexual intercourse (Cluster: Prostitution)
–115.33+VI.B.7.222c (b): 'agnates i' (only first word crayoned)
–115.33+Vico: Principj di una Scienza Nuova 36 (II.vii): (of Roman plebeians) 'loro retaggi vadano ab intestato agli eredi suoi, in difetto agli agnati, e finalmente a' gentili' (Italian and Latin 'their inheritances would go when intestate to their heirs, otherwise to the agnates, and finally to the kinsmen')
–115.33+under Roman law, an agnate was a kinsman related exclusively through male links, while a cognate was a kinsman related through male or female links in any combination
–115.33+under English law, an agnate is a kinsman related through one's father's side, while a cognate is a kinsman related through one's mother's side (in both cases regardless of whether the intervening links are male or female)
115.34for under her lubricitous meiosis when she refers with liking to
–115.34+lubricity: slipperiness, lasciviousness (Cluster: Prostitution)
–115.34+meiosis: deliberate understatement; reduction division of nuclei, as in sex organs
115.35some feeler she fancie's face. And Mm. We could. Yet what need
–115.35+Motif: alliteration (f)
–115.35+Colloquial feller: fellow
–115.35+fancies
–115.35+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Yet...} | {Png: ...Yes...}
115.36to say? 'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry, in
–115.36+Colloquial 'tis: it is


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