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121.01his Claudian brother, is it worth while interrupting to say? —
–121.01+Claudian letters: three new letters introduced into the Latin alphabet by the Roman Emperor Claudius and abandoned after his death, including a turned F and a half H [.03] [.07]
121.02throughout the papyrus as the revise mark) stalks all over the
–121.02+(an F-like insertion mark is frequently used in the Joyce: Finnegans Wake manuscripts)
121.03page, broods F sensationseeking an idea, amid the verbiage,
–121.03+stage
–121.03+(three pairs of rotated F's) [018.36] [.07] [266.22]
–121.03+turned F: one of the three Claudian letters (Ⅎ), looking like an F rotated 180 degrees, and having a sound value of 'w' or 'v' [.01]
–121.03+foliage
121.04gaunt, stands dejectedly in the diapered window margin, with
–121.04+(frets)
–121.04+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 39: 'the fret pattern, which is employed in a considerable number of forms as a filling for panels in both borders and initials'
–121.04+VI.B.6.062l (r): 'diaper'
–121.04+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 39: 'Diaper work is occasionally introduced to brighten small spaces lying between the larger designs'
121.05its basque of bayleaves all aflutter about its forksfrogs, paces
–121.05+basque: the extension of a lady's bodice
–121.05+basket
–121.05+wreaths of bayleaves worn by Roman emperors
–121.05+(middle)
121.06with a frown, jerking to and fro, flinging phrases here, there, or
–121.06+
121.07returns inhibited, with some half-halted suggestion, F, dragging
–121.07+VI.B.6.053a (r): 'inhibited'
–121.07+Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles 188: 'l'inhibition et ses modes graphologiques' (French 'inhibition and its graphological expressions')
–121.07+half H: one of the three Claudian letters (Ⱶ), looking like the left half of an H or like a horizontally-mirrored F missing its longer arm, and having an unknown sound value [.01]
–121.07+(three pairs of rotated F's) [018.36] [.03] [266.22]
121.08its shoestring; the curious warning sign before our protoparent's
–121.08+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 10: 'The symbol... known in Irish MSS. as "head under the wing" or "turn under the path"... indicates that the words immediately following it are to be read after the end of the next full line' (the symbol looks like a vertically-stretched capital C)
121.09ipsissima verba (a very pure nondescript, by the way, sometimes
–121.09+Latin ipsissima verba: very same words
–121.09+VI.B.6.063b-c (r): 'nondescript ferntail'
–121.09+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 41: 'Thus a branch of foliage is frequently seen to evolve from between the open jaws of a nondescript, while at the same time the tail of the beast presents the appearance of a trefoil or lance-shaped leaf'
–121.09+Motif: some/more
121.10a palmtailed otter, more often the arbutus fruitflowerleaf of the
–121.10+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 16: (of the bottom of the Monogram page) 'Slightly to the right will be seen an otter-like creature with a fish in its mouth'
–121.10+German Otter: adder, viper
–121.10+VI.B.6.061b (r): 'arbutus caithne 2 years Cainapple' (only first, second and last words crayoned)
–121.10+Freeman's Journal 9 Jan 1924, 8/5: 'By the Way': 'The arbutus tree is now displaying its beauty in its native districts of Cork and Kerry... The tree is one of Nature's curiosities, yielding leaf, flower, and fruit at the same time. "Caithne," its Irish name, suggests two years old, and may have reference to the fact that the fruit takes two years to develop... The "Cainapple," as it is termed locally, has not a very palatable taste'
121.11cainapple) which paleographers call a leak in the thatch or the
–121.11+Motif: Cain/Abel
121.12Aranman ingperwhis through the hole of his hat, indicating that the
–121.12+Joyce: other works: The Mirage of the Fisherman of Aran: 'He... wears a big black hat with a wide brim'
–121.12+VI.B.6.052k (r): 'whispering'
–121.12+('whispering' taken in any order desired) [.13]
121.13words which follow may be taken in any order desired, hole of
–121.13+
121.14Aran man the hat through the whispering his ho (here keen
–121.14+Anglo-Irish keen: funeral song accompanied by wailing and lamentation for the dead
121.15again and begin again to make soundsense and sensesound kin
–121.15+Motif: sound/sense (twice)
121.16again); those haughtypitched disdotted aiches easily of the rariest
–121.16+when Irish is written in Roman characters, the dot placed above a letter to indicate aspiration is removed and an extra 'h' is added
–121.16+H (Cluster: Letters)
121.17inasdroll as most of the jaywalking eyes we do plough into halve,
–121.17+J (Cluster: Letters)
–121.17+VI.B.10.070j (g): 'jaywalker'
–121.17+'j' and 'i' interchangeable in Latin
–121.17+I (Cluster: Letters)
121.18unconnected, principial, medial or final, always jims in the jam,
–121.18+in Arabic, the shape of a letter varies according to its initial, medial, final, or isolated position within the word
–121.18+principal: initial (Bacon)
–121.18+English riddles about j being in jam
–121.18+Slang jimjams: fidgets
–121.18+jim: name of Arabic letter 'j'
–121.18+James Joyce
–121.18+Jam Sahib: the title of the maharaja of the Indian state of Nawanagar (from 1907 to 1933, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, previously a famous cricketer)
121.19sahib, as pipless as threadworms: the innocent exhibitionism of
–121.19+threadworm: rectal parasite
121.20those frank yet capricious underlinings: that strange exotic serpen-
–121.20+underwear
–121.20+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 42: 'The frequently recurring presence of serpentine forms all through the decorations of the Manuscript has given rise to the suggestion that these forms are in some way connected with the worship of ophidian reptiles'
–121.20+S (Cluster: Letters)
121.21tine, since so properly banished from our scripture, about as freak-
–121.21+Saint Patrick supposedly banished all snakes from Ireland
–121.21+frequent
–121.21+freak wind
121.22wing a wetterhand now as to see a rightheaded ladywhite don a
–121.22+wing
–121.22+German Wetterhahn: weathercock, weather-vane
–121.22+nursery rhyme 'Ride a Cock Horse, to Banbury Cross, See a fair lady, upon a white horse' (Motif: white horse)
121.23corkhorse, which, in its invincible insolence ever longer more and
–121.23+German Rockhose: skirt-like trousers
–121.23+invincible ignorance: in Catholic theology, the state of persons who are ignorant of the Christian truth and, through no fault of their own, are unable to overcome this ignorance (they therefore cannot be considered capable of sin)
121.24of more morosity, seems to uncoil spirally and swell lacertinelazily
–121.24+VI.B.6.056b (r): 'spiral'
–121.24+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 1: 'the clean, unwavering sweep of rounded spiral; the creeping undulations of serpentine forms that writhe in artistic profusion through the mazes of its decorations'
–121.24+VI.B.6.061i (r): 'lacertine'
–121.24+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 21: 'The entire composition forms one of the most striking instances of lacertine convolution and colour to be found in the volume'
–121.24+lacertine: lizardlike
121.25before our eyes under pressure of the writer's hand; the ungainly
–121.25+VI.B.6.052j (r): 'pressure'
–121.25+Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles 188: 'L'énergie se manifeste dans l'écriture par la vitesse des mouvements et la pression de la main' (French 'Energy manifests itself in writing by the quickness of the movements and the pressure of the hand')
–121.25+writing, music, painting, sculpture, black arts (arts) [.25-.27]
121.26musicianlessness so painted in sculpting selfsounder ah ha as
–121.26+German Selbstlaut: vowel (literally 'self-sound')
–121.26+Motif: A/O [.27]
–121.26+Motif: Ah, ho! [.27]
121.27blackartful as a podatus and dumbfounder oh ho oaproariose as
–121.27+podatus: in Gregorian chant, a figure indicating that a single syllable is to be sung as two notes, the lower first
–121.27+opera, aria
–121.27+uproarious
–121.27+arioso: a lyrical manner of setting a text in an opera, cantata or oratorio
121.28ten canons in skelterfugue: the studious omission of year number
–121.28+cannons
–121.28+canon, fugue
–121.28+Shelta Sheltafocal: word of Shelta
–121.28+subterfuge
–121.28+(Sullivan: The Book of Kells 27: (of the unknown date of The Book of Kells) 'the page that should have told its story is unfortunately no longer there')
121.29and era name from the date, the one and only time when our
–121.29+
121.30copyist seems at least to have grasped the beauty of restraint; the
–121.30+
121.31lubricitous conjugation of the last with the first: the gipsy mat-
–121.31+lubricious: slippery, slimy, elusive, lascivious
–121.31+(last sentence of Joyce: Finnegans Wake joins first) [003.01] [628.16]
–121.31+Matthew 19:30: 'And many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first' (Motif: The Letter: the last of the first)
121.32ing of a grand stylish gravedigging with secondbest buns (an in-
–121.32+William Shakespeare: Hamlet I.2.180-181: 'The funeral bak'd meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables'
–121.32+gravedigger (William Shakespeare: Hamlet)
–121.32+German Kräftigung: invigoration
–121.32+Shakespeare bequeathed his second-best bed to his wife Anne
–121.32+German Zwieback: a type of crisp, sweetened twice-baked bread, commonly given to teething infants and to patients with an upset stomach (literally 'twice-baked')
121.33terpolation: these munchables occur only in the Bootherbrowth
–121.33+German Butterbrot: piece of buttered bread
–121.33+Jarl van Hoother (the prankquean's adversary) [021.05]
–121.33+Howth (Howth Head)
121.34family of MSS., Bb — Cod IV, Pap II, Brek XI, Lun III, Dinn
–121.34+Cod.: Codex
–121.34+Pap.: papyrus
–121.34+Dutch pap: porridge
–121.34+breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper (four meals)
–121.34+August Immanuel Bekker introduced system of arranging manuscripts in families
121.35XVII, Sup XXX, Fullup M D C X C: the scholiast has hungrily
–121.35+Battle of the Boyne, 1690 (famous victory of the Protestant William III of Orange over the Catholic Jacobites)
–121.35+scholiast: commentator on a writer
121.36misheard a deadman's toller as a muffinbell): the four shortened
–121.36+Slang deadman: baker
–121.36+German toller: more crazy, more insane
–121.36+toller: one who tolls bells
–121.36+VI.B.14.174i (r): 'muffinbell'
–121.36+muffin-bell: the bell rung by a seller of muffins
–121.36+four ampersands [111.11] [111.15-.16]
–121.36+foreshortened


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