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128.01a horologe unstoppable and the Benn of all bells; fuit, isst and
–128.01+Archaic horologe: timepiece, clock, sundial
–128.01+song The Wren: 'The king of all birds'
–128.01+Big Ben: the bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London
–128.01+bane: cause or agent of ruin
–128.01+belles
–128.01+Latin fuit, est et erit: was, is and will be (Motif: tenses) [140.04-.05]
–128.01+Latin Tempus fuit, est et erit: Time was, is and will be (the motto on the coat of arms of The Times newspaper)
–128.01+German isst: eats
128.02herit and though he's mildewstaned he's mouldystoned; is a quer-
–128.02+Latin heri: yesterday
–128.02+mildew-stained
–128.02+Anglo-Irish Slang mouldy: drunk
–128.02+Slang stoned: drunk
–128.02+Motif: tree/stone
–128.02+quercus: a genus of oak trees
–128.02+queer (Motif: Queer man)
128.03cuss in the forest but plane member for Megalopolis; mountun-
–128.03+American Colloquial cuss: person
–128.03+plane tree
–128.03+(planed wood) [.04]
–128.03+(member of Parliament)
–128.03+megalopolis: very large city or conglomerate of adjacent cities (from Greek megalo-: large- + Greek polis: city)
–128.03+Megalopolis: ancient capital of Arcadia, Greece
–128.03+VI.B.45.130a-b (o): 'mountunmighty faunonfleetfoot'
–128.03+Daumal: Les Pouvoirs de la Parole dans la Poétique Hindoue: (of Vedic literature) 'la comparaison par négation, d'un usage courant dans les hymnes. Pour dire, par exemple, "inébranlable comme une montagne", le védique dit d'abord "montagne", puis, pour faire passer ce mot du sens physique au sens analogique, il annule le premier sens en faisant suivre le mot de la négation : "montagne-non inébranlable", dit-il' (French 'comparison by negation, commonly used in hymns. To say, for example, "unshakeable as a mountain", the Vedic first says "mountain", then, to make this word pass from the physical sense to the analogical sense, he cancels the first sense by appending the word of negation: "mountain-not unshakable", he says')
–128.03+(mighty as a mountain, fleet-footed as a faun)
–128.03+Archaic unmighty: feeble, impotent
128.04mighty, faunonfleetfoot; plank in our platform, blank in our
–128.04+(planed wood made into a plank) [.03]
–128.04+VI.B.45.131e-f (o): 'plank in platform blank —'
–128.04+American plank: an article in a political party's platform
–128.04+phrase a blot on one's escutcheon: a stain on one's reputation
128.05scouturn; hidal, in carucates he is enumerated, hold as an earl,
–128.05+VI.B.45.136i (o): 'scout (cave)'
–128.05+Mawer: The Vikings 125: (in a list of Scandinavian elements in English placenames) '-SCOUT. O.N. skúti, cave formed by jutting rocks'
–128.05+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–128.05+VI.B.45.137a (o): 'hidal, carucal vs — ?'
–128.05+Mawer: The Vikings 132: 'The assessment by carucates in multiples and submultiples of 12 is characteristic of the Danelagh, as opposed to that by hides, arranged on a decimal system in the strictly English districts... in Lancashire a hidal assessment has been superimposed upon an original carucal one'
–128.05+hide, carucate: two different old English units of land of varying size, each at some point defined as the amount of land that could be tilled with one plough in one year (roughly 60 to 180 acres)
–128.05+hidalgo: one of lower Spanish titles of nobility
–128.05+HEC (Motif: HCE)
–128.05+VI.B.45.137c (o): 'hold, earl,' [025.14]
–128.05+Mawer: The Vikings 135: 'The 'holds' of Northumbria, who rank next after the earls... are also of Scandinavian origin' [025.14]
–128.05+hold: an old English title of a high-ranking officer in the Danelagh [025.14]
–128.05+German hold: gracious, lovely
–128.05+old
–128.05+earl, count (titles of nobility)
128.06he counts; shipshaped phrase of buglooking words with a form
–128.06+VI.B.45.130d-e (o): 'O shipshaped phrase drumlooking word jet d'urine de vache'
–128.06+Daumal: Les Pouvoirs de la Parole dans la Poétique Hindoue: (of stylistic embellishments in ancient Hindu poetry) 'On cite pour mémoire, comme amusements très inférieurs, les arrangements de lettres dont la transcription graphique reproduit le dessin "d'un lotus, d'un sabre, d'un tambour, d'une roue, d'un jet d'urine de vache", etc.' (French 'We cite for the record, as very inferior amusements, the arrangements of letters, the graphic transcription of which reproduces the drawing "of a lotus, of a saber, of a drum, of a wheel, of a jet of cow's urine", etc.')
–128.06+(a phrase shaped like a ship with words looking like bugs)
–128.06+ship-shape: meticulously neat and tidy
–128.06+big-looking
128.07like the easing moments of a graminivorous; to our dooms
–128.07+(urination or defecation)
–128.07+graminivorous: grass-eating
–128.07+VI.B.45.137e (o): 'doom law'
–128.07+Mawer: The Vikings 136: 'The legal instinct was strong in the Scandinavian mind and English law bears deep marks of its influence. The very word 'law' itself is of Scandinavian origin and has replaced the English 'doom''
–128.07+(Domesday Book: 11th century record of the great survey of the lands of England by order of William the Conqueror, for tax purposes (from Middle English domesday: doomsday, judgement day (supposedly because the book's valuations could not be appealed, just like those of the Last Judgement)))
–128.07+Czech dum: house (pronounced 'doom')
–128.07+homes
128.08brought he law, our manoirs he made his vill of; was an over-
–128.08+VI.B.45.137b (o): 'manor, vill & sokeland'
–128.08+Mawer: The Vikings 135: (based on information from the Domesday Book) 'Certain types of manorial structure are specially common in the Danelagh. Manor and vill are by no means identical, indeed several manors are included under one vill. Very frequent is the type which consists in a central manor with sokeland appurtenant'
–128.08+manor, vill: two different units of feudal English territorial organisation
–128.08+French manoir: countryseat
–128.08+villa
–128.08+Motif: 4 elements (air, earth, water, fire)
–128.08+evergreen
128.09grind to the underground and acqueduced for fierythroats; sends
–128.09+London Underground
–128.09+Italian acque: waters
–128.09+aqueduct
128.10boys in socks acoughawhooping when he lets farth his carbon-
–128.10+Dublin superstition that gasworks' air cures whooping cough (Joyce: Ulysses.6.121: 'Gasworks. Whooping cough they say it cures')
–128.10+cockahoop
–128.10+whooping cough
–128.10+fart
–128.10+forth
–128.10+carbon dioxide, a constituent of coal gas
128.11oxside and silk stockings show her shapings when he looses hose
–128.11+oxhide (in Greek mythology, Orion was said to have been born from an oxhide urinated upon by three gods)
–128.11+(urinates on)
–128.11+German Hose: trousers
–128.11+hold
128.12on hers; stocks dry puder for the Ill people and pinkun's pellets
–128.12+stock, gunpowder, sporting, pellets, pink (hunting)
–128.12+German Puder: powder
–128.12+'Pink pills for pale people' (advertisement)
–128.12+French île: island
–128.12+Sporting Times (subtitled The Pink 'Un): newspaper (published a hostile review of Joyce: Ulysses)
–128.12+pink: scarlet-coloured coat worn in fox hunting
128.13for all the Pale; gave his mundyfoot to Miserius, her pinch to
–128.13+Anglo-Irish The Pale: the English-controlled part (around Dublin) of late medieval Ireland; the area around Dublin, even afterwards
–128.13+maundy: ceremony of washing the feet of poor people by royalty or ecclesiastics, commemorating Jesus's washing of his disciples' feet on Maundy Thursday
–128.13+Percy French: song Slattery's Mounted Foot
–128.13+Lundy Foot, Dublin tobacconist, sold 'superfine pig-tails for ladies'; his neighbour, John Philpot Curran, the celebrated legal wit, told him to inscribe 'quid rides' (Latin: what are you laughing at) on his carriage; Lundy Foot was stoned in 1835 [.14]
–128.13+Latin miserius: poorer, more wretched, more miserable
128.14Anna Livia, that superfine pigtail to Cerisia Cerosia and quid
–128.14+Latin ceresia: cherry
128.15rides to Titius, Caius and Sempronius; made the man who had
–128.15+Titus: Roman emperor
–128.15+Titus Andronicus, Caius, Sempronius: characters in William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
–128.15+Italian phrase Tizio, Caio e Sempronio: Tom, Dick and Harry (*VYC*; Motif: Tom, Dick and Harry)
128.16no notion of shopkeepers feel he'd rather play the duke than play
–128.16+VI.B.25.166h (o): 'William Shopskeeper' ('Shopskeeper' replaces a cancelled 'Shokkeeper')
–128.16+Motif: Nation of shopkeepers (attributed to Napoleon, referring to England)
–128.16+(Wellington)
128.17the gentleman; shot two queans and shook three caskles when
–128.17+Slang shot: fucked
–128.17+the Dublin coat of arms shows three burning castles flanked by two female figures (Motif: 2&3)
–128.17+Archaic quean: female, woman, ill-bred woman, prostitute
–128.17+queens, castles (chess)
–128.17+caskets
128.18he won his game of dwarfs; fumes inwards like a strombolist till
–128.18+(chess)
–128.18+draughts: the game of checkers
–128.18+Stromboli, volcano
128.19he smokes at both ends; manmote, befier of him, womankind,
–128.19+phrase burning the candle at both ends: overworking oneself (from early morning to late at night)
–128.19+man must be
–128.19+Archaic mote: may
–128.19+be fair to him
–128.19+be afraid of him
–128.19+French fier: proud
–128.19+French fier à: to trust
128.20pietad!; shows one white drift of snow among the gorsegrowth
–128.20+Pietà: an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead Jesus (from Italian pietà: pity, mercy)
–128.20+pity (him)
–128.20+white and gold: liturgical colours
–128.20+(drop of sperm at tip of penis)
–128.20+gorse is very common on Howth Head
–128.20+coarse
128.21of his crown and a chaperon of repentance on that which shed
–128.21+(Christ's thorn crown)
–128.21+French chaperon: medieval headdress
–128.21+(condom on penis)
–128.21+(violet is liturgical colour of repentance)
128.22gore; pause and quies, triple bill; went by metro for the polis and
–128.22+Motif: 2&3 (p and q, triple)
–128.22+P's and Q's (Motif: P/Q; lowercase mirror images, and as such associated with *IJ*)
–128.22+Latin quies: rest
–128.22+Souvenir of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety Theatre 37: 'Miss Cissy Graham's entertaining "Triple Bill"'
–128.22+Dublin Metropolitan Police
128.23then hoved by; to the finders, hail! woa, you that seek!; whom
–128.23+Danish hovedby: principal city (from Danish hoved: head + Danish by: town, city)
–128.23+Matthew 7:7: Luke 11:9: 'seek, and ye shall find'
128.24fillth had plenished, dearth devoured; hock is leading, cocoa comes
–128.24+filth
–128.24+Latin plenus: full
–128.24+death
–128.24+earth
–128.24+Browning: Saul: 'If Death laid her hand on him and Famine devoured his store'
–128.24+HCE (Motif: HCE)
128.25next, emery tries for the flag; can dance the O'Bruin's polerpasse
–128.25+(horse race)
–128.25+Motif: Browne/Nolan [.26]
–128.25+Bruin: a quasi-proper name applied to the bear (for example in the Reynard cycle)
–128.25+Slang pole: penis
–128.25+polar bear
–128.25+French Slang passer: to have sex with
128.26at Noolahn to his own orchistruss accompaniment; took place
–128.26+German Ahn: ancestor
–128.26+Greek orchis: testicle
–128.26+Slang orchestra: testicle
–128.26+truss: a medical apparatus for supporting a hernia (including hernias into the testicular sac)
128.27before the internatural convention of catholic midwives and
–128.27+International Congress of Midwives, held several times in the 1920s and 1930s (the 1936 one took place in Berlin and was organised by the Nazi regime to promote fertility, motherhood and eugenics)
128.28found stead before the congress for the study of endonational
–128.28+found dead
–128.28+Danish fandt sted: took place
–128.28+Greek endo-: within-
–128.28+endometrial: of the endometrium (the inner lining of the womb, where the embryo develops)
–128.28+international
128.29calamities; makes a delictuous entrée and finishes off the course
–128.29+delicious
–128.29+Latin delictum: crime, transgression
–128.29+French entrée: a small dish served before the main course of a meal, either as the first course or following another (e.g. soup)
128.30between sweets and savouries; flouts for forecasts, flairs for finds
–128.30+nursery rhyme children's game Ring-a-ring o' Roses: 'One for me, and one for you, and one for little Moses'
128.31and the fun of the fray on the fairground; cleared out three hun-
–128.31+(rhythm of song John Peel)
128.32dred sixty five idles to set up one all khalassal for henwives hoping
–128.32+Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xxi: (in the Kaaba) 'the three hundred and sixty idols, one for each day of the year, which Mohammad afterwards destroyed in one day'
–128.32+Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xxiii: 'An Arab, who wished to avenge the death of his father, went to consult the square block of white stone called El-Khalasa' (i.e. the Kaaba; the name means salvation)
–128.32+colossal
–128.32+Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xxv: 'These men were called "Hanifs," or "incliners," and their religion seems to have consisted chiefly in a negative position, — in denying the superstition of the Arabs'
–128.32+Lane-Poole: The Speeches & Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad xxiv: (before Mohammad's birth) 'a prophet was expected, and women were anxiously hoping for male children'
128.33to have males; the flawhoolagh, the grasping one, the kindler of
–128.33+(Motif: Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
–128.33+Anglo-Irish flahoolagh: princely, generous (from Irish flaitheamhlach)
–128.33+according to legend, Saint Patrick lit a Paschal (Easter) fire on the Hill of Slane, County Meath, on Holy Saturday 433, in defiance of High King Laoghaire's orders
128.34paschal fire; forbids us our trespassers as we forgate him; the
–128.34+prayer Lord's Prayer: 'forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us'
128.35phoenix be his pyre, the cineres his sire!; piles big pelium on
–128.35+cinders
–128.35+phrase pile Pelion upon Ossa: add difficulty to difficulty, heap on what is already too great (from the Greek myth of the Titans Otos and Ephialtes trying to pile Pelion on Ossa (two mountains in Thessaly) in order to climb to heaven and attack the gods)
128.36little ossas like the pilluls of hirculeads; has an eatupus complex
–128.36+Italian Le Pillole di Ercole: The Pills of Hercules (Italian title of the French comedy 'Les Dragées d'Hercule' by Maurice Hennequin and Paul Bilhaud (1904))
–128.36+French pilule: pill
–128.36+Pillars of Hercules, Gibraltar
–128.36+Latin hircus: goat
–128.36+eat us up
–128.36+Oedipus complex
–128.36+Oedipus Rex


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