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129.01and a drinkthedregs kink; wurstmeats for chumps and cowcar-
–129.01+Latin rex: king
–129.01+king
–129.01+German Wurst: sausage
–129.01+County Westmeath
–129.01+Anglo-Irish champ: a Northern Irish dish of mashed potatoes, milk, butter and scallions (often served with sausages or meat)
–129.01+natives of County Carlow are known as 'scallion eaters'
129.02lows for scullions; when he plies for our favour is very trolly
–129.02+very truly yours
–129.02+William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
129.03ours; two psychic espousals and three desertions; may be matter
–129.03+Motif: 2&3
–129.03+matter-of-fact: straightforward, prosaic; factual
129.04of fact now but was futter of magd then; Cattermole Hill, ex-
–129.04+(spoonerism)
–129.04+futter: to have sex with
–129.04+German Vater: father
–129.04+German Magd: maid
–129.04+CHE (Motif: HCE)
–129.04+Cahermohill, County Limerick
–129.04+Souvenir of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Opening of The Gaiety Theatre 29: 'the inimitable "Private Secretary" captured the town, with Helmore as the "Rev Robt. Spalding," and Hill, that "mountain of flesh" as "Cattermole"'
–129.04+phrase making a mountain out of a molehill: overreacting to a minor issue, exaggerating the importance of a trivial problem
129.05mountain of flesh was reared up by stress and sank under strain;
–129.05+
129.06tank it up, dank it up, tells the tailor to his tout; entoutcas for a
–129.06+German Dank: thanks
–129.06+Slang tout: spy; solicitor of custom for tradesman
–129.06+French en-tout-cas: a small umbrella that can serve as either umbrella or sunshade (from French en tout cas: in any event)
129.07man, but bit a thimble for a maid; blimp, blump; a dud letter, a sing
–129.07+nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence
129.08a song a sylble; a byword, a sentence with surcease; while stands
–129.08+syllable
–129.08+byword: object of scorn or derision; proverb; epithet
–129.08+Archaic surcease: cessation, intermission
–129.08+Circe
–129.08+Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage IV.cxlv: 'While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls — the World' [.26]
–129.08+(erection)
129.09his canyouseehim frails shall fall; was hatched at Cellbridge but
–129.09+Slang frails: women
–129.09+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–129.09+Celbridge: village, County Kildare, west of Dublin, on the Liffey river
129.10ejoculated abrood; as it gan in the biguinnengs so wound up in
–129.10+ejaculated
–129.10+educated abroad
–129.10+abrood: (of a bird) on its eggs
–129.10+hymn Glory Be: 'As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be' (Genesis 1:1, John 1:1: 'In the beginning')
–129.10+Archaic gan: began
–129.10+gun, wound
–129.10+Guinness
129.11a battle of Boss; Roderick, Roderick, Roderick, O, you've gone
–129.11+Battle of New Ross (part of the Irish Rebellion of 1798)
–129.11+bottle of Bass (i.e. Bass's ale)
–129.11+Dora Sigerson: The Story and Song of Black Roderick: 'Roderick! Roderick! Roderick!'
–129.11+Roderick (Rory) O'Connor
–129.11+you've got a way with the dames
129.12the way of the Danes; variously catalogued, regularly regrouped;
–129.12+
129.13a bushboys holoday, a quacker's mating, a wenches' sandbath;
–129.13+busman's holiday: one spent following one's usual occupation
–129.13+Quakers' meeting: when silence falls on a group
–129.13+Witch's Sabbath
129.14the same homoheatherous checkinlossegg as when sollyeye airly
–129.14+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–129.14+Greek 'omos: same
–129.14+Greek 'eteros: other
–129.14+song Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye: 'Ye eyeless, noseless, chickenless egg'
129.15blew ye; real detonation but false report; spa mad but inn sane;
–129.15+report: a loud noise, especially that of explosives
–129.15+insane
129.16half emillian via bogus census but a no street hausmann when
–129.16+HEC (Motif: HCE)
–129.16+half a million
–129.16+Émile and Isaac Péreire: 19th century French bankers who raised 24 million francs to finance the first boulevard of Baron Haussmann's renovation project
–129.16+Via Aemilia: road from Placentia to Rimini
–129.16+German Hausmann: male housewife; caretaker, janitor
–129.16+Baron Haussmann: 19th century French official responsible for the vast renovation project of Paris under Napoleon III (Boulevard Haussmann, one of the major boulevards of Paris, opened in 1864 and completed in 1926, is named after him)
–129.16+Alfred Edward Housman: English poet, better known as A.E. Housman
129.17allphannd; is the handiest of all andies and a most alleghant spot
–129.17+ALP (Motif: ALP)
–129.17+Adolphe Alphand: 19th century French engineer who continued Baron Haussmann's renovation project after the latter's dismissal (Passage Alphand, a small street in Paris, is not named after him)
–129.17+orphaned
–129.17+Samuel Lover: Handy Andy
–129.17+Andes: mountain range, South America
–129.17+Allegheny Mountains, in Appalachians
–129.17+elegant
129.18to dump your hump; hands his secession to the new patricius but
–129.18+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
–129.18+Motif: old/new
–129.18+Latin Patricius: Patrick (Saint Patrick)
–129.18+patricians and plebeians
129.19plumps plebmatically for the bloody old centuries; eats with
–129.19+phlegmatically
–129.19+according to legend, Grace O'Malley was refused entrance to Howth Castle on Howth Head as the gates were closed for dinner [021.04]
–129.19+Finn was said to leave the door open for guests at feast times (at least so in Alice Milligan's The Last Feast of the Fianna) [133.26]
129.20doors open and ruts with gates closed; some dub him Rotshield
–129.20+rut: (of animals) to be sexually excited during the mating season
–129.20+Motif: some/more
–129.20+Rothschild
–129.20+Dutch rots: rock
129.21and more limn him Rockyfellow; shows he's fly to both demis-
–129.21+Dublin
–129.21+Rockefeller
–129.21+shows his (trousers') fly (i.e. exhibitionism)
–129.21+Slang fly: cunning, artful, shrewd
–129.21+Motif: 2&3 (both, thrice)
–129.21+fair damsels
–129.21+hemispheres
129.22fairs but thries to cover up his tracers; seven dovecotes cooclaim
–129.22+tries
–129.22+traces
–129.22+Motif: dove/raven (raven, dove)
129.23to have been pigeonheim to this homer, Smerrnion, Rhoebok,
–129.23+Pigeonhouse, Dublin
–129.23+Ibsen: all plays: Et Dukkehjem (The Doll's House)
–129.23+German Heim: home
–129.23+homing pigeon
–129.23+seven cities have been considered Homer's birthplace: Smyrna, Rhodos, Kolophon, Salamis (in Cyprus), Chios, Argos, Athenae [481.21]
–129.23+Merrion (Cluster: Districts of Dublin)
–129.23+Roebuck (Cluster: Districts of Dublin)
129.24Kolonsreagh, Seapoint, Quayhowth, Ashtown, Ratheny; inde-
–129.24+Clonskeagh (Cluster: Districts of Dublin)
–129.24+Seapoint, Dún Laoghaire (Cluster: Districts of Dublin)
–129.24+(from Howth Head (giant's head) to Phoenix Park (giant's feet); Motif: head/foot)
–129.24+Howth (Cluster: Districts of Dublin; Howth Head)
–129.24+Ashtown (Cluster: Districts of Dublin, near Phoenix Park)
–129.24+Raheny (Cluster: Districts of Dublin)
–129.24+the Licensing Act of 1737 effectively made the Lord Chamberlain the official censor of all plays performed in Britain, with the exception of Ireland, to which the act did not apply
129.25pendent of the lordship of chamberlain, acknowledging the rule
–129.25+
129.26of Rome; we saw thy farm at Useful Prine, Domhnall, Domhnall;
–129.26+Rome: the Catholic Church
–129.26+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime [air: Domhnall]
129.27reeks like Illbelpaese and looks like Iceland's ear; lodged at quot
–129.27+Italian il bel paese: the home land
–129.27+Bel Paese cheese (had a map of Italy on its package)
–129.27+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Iceland's...} | {Png: ...iceland's...}
–129.27+Ireland's Eye: small island off Howth Head
–129.27+Latin tot... quot: as many... as
129.28places, lived through tot reigns; takes a szumbath for his weekend
–129.28+German tot: dead
–129.28+tetrains
–129.28+Hungarian szombat: Saturday
–129.28+Szombathely: town, Hungary (the birthplace of Bloom's father in Joyce: Ulysses)
–129.28+German Schaumbad: bubble bath
–129.28+sunbath
129.29and a wassarnap for his refreskment; after a good bout at stool-
–129.29+Hungarian vasárnap: Sunday
–129.29+German Wassernapf: water bowl
–129.29+nap
–129.29+refreshment
–129.29+VI.B.32.018f (r): 'stoolball'
–129.29+stoolball: an old English game similar to cricket, believed to be originally played in Sussex with milkmaids' stools as wickets (reported in several British newspapers on 19 May 1930 or thenabouts, following a game played on 17 May at Arundel Castle)
–129.29+(defecation)
129.30ball enjoys Giroflee Giroflaa; what Nevermore missed and
–129.30+VI.B.32.008c (r): '*L* Giroflé Girofla'
–129.30+Charles Lecocq: Giroflé, Girofla (an operetta, in which the two are twin sisters)
–129.30+French song Giroflé, Girofla: 'Que t'as de belles filles! Giroflé, girofla' (French 'What pretty daughters you have! Giroflé, girofla'; children's game; mentioned in Verrimst: Rondes et Chansons Populaires 51)
–129.30+French giroflée: stockflower
–129.30+Italian giro qui giro là: I wander here and there
–129.30+according to one interpretation, Noah's raven missed dry land, while his dove found it (Genesis 8:7-12: 'he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro... and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more'; Motif: dove/raven)
–129.30+Poe: The Raven: 'Quoth the raven "nevermore"'
129.31Colombo found; believes in everyman his own goaldkeeper and
–129.31+Latin columba: dove
–129.31+Columbus (found America)
–129.31+Protestantism: every man his own priest
–129.31+goalkeeper
–129.31+gold
129.32in Africa for the fullblacks; the arc of his drive was forty full
–129.32+VI.B.32.026c (b): 'Africa for the fullblacks'
–129.32+(many newspapers reported in May 1930 about riots in South Africa over government policy against black people)
–129.32+fullback: a defensive field-position in rugby, football and hurling (behind the other backs)
–129.32+Allblacks: the New Zealand national rugby team
–129.32+VI.B.32.090c (r): 'arc of his drive'
–129.32+Italian arco, forte: bow, strong (Strongbow)
–129.32+(Joyce was forty in 1922)
129.33and his stumps were pulled at eighty; boasts him to the thick-in-
–129.33+stumps pulled at end of play (cricket)
–129.33+VI.B.32.117c (r): 'thick & thews (Gaels)'
–129.33+Irish tuigeann tú Gaeilge?: do you understand Irish? (catch-phrase of Irish revivalism) [277.F10]
–129.33+Colloquial thick: dull-witted, stupid
129.34thews the oldest creater in Aryania and looks down on the Suiss
–129.34+thews: muscular features, might, vigour, muscles
–129.34+crater
–129.34+Irish i nÉirinn: in Ireland
–129.34+Aryan: Indo-European or Indo-Iranian (but appropriated by the Nazis and others to mean of northern European or Germanic descent)
–129.34+Wyss: The Swiss Family Robinson
129.35family Collesons whom he calls les nouvelles roches; though his
–129.35+Italian colle: hill
–129.35+VI.B.32.116d (r): 'les nouveaux roches (Alps)'
–129.35+the Swiss Alps are relatively new rocks (French nouvelles roches)
–129.35+French les nouveaux riches: the new rich, the upstarts
–129.35+French de la vieille roche: of the good old stock (literally 'of the old rock')
129.36heart, soul and spirit turn to pharaoph times, his love, faith and
–129.36+heart, soul and spirit are three of the nine constituents of man in Egyptian theology [415.31-.32]
–129.36+VI.B.32.117b (r): 'Pharaoph times'
–129.36+pharaoh: the title of the king of ancient Egypt
–129.36+far off
–129.36+Motif: faith, hope, charity (the three Christian theological virtues, so called because they are directed at God; alternatively listed as faith, hope, love)


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