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139.01of nature set a veiled world agrin and went within a sheet of
139.01+phrase without the option of a fine (said of an incommutable prison sentence)
139.02tissuepaper of the option of three gaols; who could see at one
139.02+
139.03blick a saumon taken with a lance, hunters pursuing a doe, a
139.03+Joyce: other works: The City of the Tribes: (of the parish house of Saint Nicholas) 'In the same place there is a curious document... in which the writer says that... he had never seen in a single glance what he saw in Galway — a priest elevating the Host, a pack chasing a deer, a ship entering the harbour under full sail, and a salmon being killed with a spear'
139.03+German Blick: glance, look
139.03+French saumon: salmon
139.04swallowship in full sail, a whyterobe lifting a host; faced flappery
139.04+VI.B.18.277e (b): 'swallowship'
139.04+Quiller Couch: Cornwall's Wonderland 219: 'The Story of Sir Tristram and La Belle Iseult': (of Tristan and Iseult) 'So, on a certain day a dainty vessel, all painted white and silver, and furnished with the utmost richness and beauty, set sail from Ireland. At the prow glittered a golden swallow, all set with gems, and on board were Tristram and Iseult'
139.04+(a priest elevating the host at Mass)
139.04+flattery
139.05like old King Cnut and turned his back like Cincinnatus; is a
139.05+VI.B.18.206e (b): 'Cnut'
139.05+Worsaae: An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland vi: (Scandinavian pronunciation guide) 'C has invariably the sound of k... Where c or k precedes another consonant, it retains, as in German, its distinct and proper power. In order to represent this power, Latin and English writers have sometimes substituted the syllable ca for the initial c or k; as, for instance, in the name of Canute (Dan., Cnut or Knud)'
139.05+according to legend, King Canute the Great reproached his courtiers who constantly flattered him by showing them that he was unable to command the sea to turn back
139.05+Cincinnatus assumed dictatorship while danger lasted, then immediately returned to plough
139.06farfar and morefar and a hoar father Nakedbucker in villas old as
139.06+Danish farfar: paternal grandfather
139.06+Danish morfar: maternal grandfather
139.06+prayer Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father... on earth, as it is in heaven'
139.06+Father Knickerbocker: New York City
139.06+Motif: old/new
139.07new; squats aquart and cracks aquaint when it's flaggin in town
139.07+Slang crack a quart: drink a quart bottle
139.07+athwart: across from side to side, usually in an oblique manner
139.07+Slang crack: deflower
139.07+Slang quaint: female genitalia
139.08and on haven; blows whiskery around his summit but stehts
139.08+Danish haven: the garden
139.08+song Finnegan's Wake: 'With a gallon of whisky at his feet, And a barrel of porter at his head' (Motif: head/foot)
139.08+Motif: top/bottom (summit, foot)
139.08+German stehen: to stand
139.08+German stets: steadily, always
139.08+Dutch steeds: always
139.09stout upon his footles; stutters fore he falls and goes mad entirely
139.09+Dutch stout: naughty
139.09+Slang footle: nonsense, twaddle
139.09+foot-hills
139.09+stutters (Motif: stuttering)
139.10when he's waked; is Timb to the pearly morn and Tomb to the
139.10+(awakened)
139.10+(be the object of a wake)
139.10+Motif: Tom/Tim
139.10+song Finnegan's Wake: 'Tim Finnegan'
139.10+early
139.11mourning night; and an he had the best bunbaked bricks in bould
139.11+morning light
139.11+Archaic an: if
139.11+sunbaked
139.12Babylon for his pitching plays he'd be lost for the want of his
139.12+place
139.13wan wubblin wall?
139.13+Dublin Pronunciation wan: one
139.13+wobbling
139.13+Dublin
139.14     Answer: Finn MacCool!
139.14+Finn MacCool: Irish mythical warrior, hero of the Finn cycle of tales
139.15     2. Does your mutter know your mike?
139.15+{{Synopsis: I.6.1A.C: [139.15-139.28]: question and answer #2 (*A*) — her marvelousness}}
139.15+song Cecilia (1925): 'Does your mother know you're out, Cecilia?'
139.15+German Mutter: mother
139.16     Answer: When I turn meoptics, from suchurban prospects,
139.16+(partly-rhymed metred poem) [.16-.28]
139.16+(to the rhythm of song The Bells of Shandon: 'With deep affection and recollection I often think of those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would, in days of childhood, Fling round my cradle their magic spells')
139.16+(my eyes)
139.16+myopic eyes
139.16+suburban
139.17'tis my filial's bosom, doth behold with pride, that pontificator,
139.17+Archaic 'tis: it is
139.17+Archaic doth: does
139.17+Latin pontifex: high priest; pope (literally 'bridge builder'; *E*)
139.18and circumvallator, with his dam night garrulous, slipt by his
139.18+circumvallate: to surround with a rampart or ditch
139.18+asleep
139.19side. Ann alive, the lisp of her, 'twould grig mountains whisper
139.19+phrase man alive! (expression of surprise or shock)
139.19+Anna Livia (*A*)
139.19+lisp of her (Motif: lisping)
139.19+Anglo-Irish grig: Irish griog: excite desire, tantalise
139.20her, and the bergs of Iceland melt in waves of fire, and her spoon-
139.20+German Berg: mountain
139.20+icebergs
139.21me-spondees, and her dirckle-me-ondenees, make the Rageous
139.21+spondee: a metrical foot (long-long; according to BMs (47473-137), Joyce apparently associated spondees with *V*)
139.21+Italian sponde: riverbanks
139.21+trickle
139.21+tickle me
139.21+Italian onde: waves
139.21+on the knees
139.21+Undine: Greek water spirit
139.21+underneath
139.21+righteous
139.22Ossean, kneel and quaff a lyre! If Dann's dane, Ann's dirty, if
139.22+Ossian, Finn's son
139.22+ocean
139.23he's plane she's purty, if he's fane, she's flirty, with her auburnt
139.23+auburn [137.07] [137.23]
139.23+burnt
139.24streams, and her coy cajoleries, and her dabblin drolleries, for to
139.24+
139.25rouse his rudderup, or to drench his dreams. If hot Hammurabi,
139.25+Slang rudder: penis (i.e. erection)
139.25+wet dream
139.25+Hammurabi: king of Babylon
139.25+HCE (Motif: HCE)
139.26or cowld Clesiastes, could espy her pranklings, they'd burst
139.26+Ecclesiastes
139.26+(the prankquean)
139.27bounds agin, and renounce their ruings, and denounce their do-
139.27+again
139.27+(renouncing Satan as part of final exorcism at Baptism)
139.28ings, for river and iver, and a night. Amin!
139.28+for ever and ever, amen (a common biblical and liturgical phrase)
139.28+Dutch min: love
139.29     3. Which title is the true-to-type motto-in-lieu for that Tick
139.29+{{Synopsis: I.6.1A.D: [139.29-140.07]: question and answer #3 (*F*) — its name}}
139.29+(what is the title of Joyce: Finnegans Wake?)
139.29+(what is the name of the tavern?)
139.29+prototype
139.29+VI.B.8.056a (b): 'motto for brothel' [.31]
139.29+mother-in-law
139.29+phrase tit for tat: retaliation of a commensurate nature
139.29+Rhyming Slang tit for tat: hat (Motif: White hat)
139.29+Irish tig: house (South)
139.30for Teac thatchment painted witt wheth one darkness, where
139.30+Irish teach: house (West)
139.30+hatchment: escutcheon, armorial shield
139.30+Dutch wit: white
139.30+white with
139.30+Motif: dark/fair (white, darkness)
139.31asnake is under clover and birds aprowl are in the rookeries and
139.31+snake, clover (phrase snake in the grass: a secretly treacherous person) [210.26]
139.31+under cover
139.31+birds, owl, rook
139.31+of prey
139.31+Slang rookery: brothel [.29]
139.32a magda went to monkishouse and a riverpaard was spotted,
139.32+Sudermann: Magda (a highly successful 1893 play, originally called 'Heimat' (German 'Home'), but better known as 'Magda', which was also the title of its English translation) [.33]
139.32+German Magd: maid [046.25-.27]
139.32+monkeyhouse
139.32+Dutch nijlpaard: hippopotamus (literally 'Nile-horse')
139.32+Dutch paard: horse
139.32+leopard (spotted)
139.33which is not Whichcroft Whorort not Ousterholm Dreyschluss
139.33+(twenty-four wrong answers) [139.33-140.05]
139.33+witchcraft
139.33+croft: a small piece of arable land with an adjacent house (often rented to and worked by a peasant tenant)
139.33+whore
139.33+Sudermann: Magda: (the title character is a famous singer whose stage name in Italian is) 'Maddalene dall'Orto' (magdalene: a reformed prostitute) [.32]
139.33+German Vorort: suburb
139.33+German Ort: place
139.33+Swedish öster: east
139.33+Archaic holm: small island, islet (common as a suffix in placenames)
139.33+Dreyfus affair: a famous case of French antisemitism (in which Dreyfus, a French captain of Jewish descent, was convicted for treason, whereas Esterhazy, a French major, who was the real culprit, was acquitted)
139.33+German drei: three
139.33+dry
139.33+German Schluss: end
139.33+German Schloss: castle
139.33+(the Dublin coat of arms shows three burning castles)
139.34not Haraldsby, grocer, not Vatandcan, vintner, not Houseboat
139.34+Harald: the name of several Medieval Danish and Norwegian kings
139.34+Obsolete by: village, town (common as a suffix in placenames)
139.34+Norwegian våt: wet
139.34+Vatican
139.34+VI.B.18.090d (o): 'vintners'
139.34+Power: Medieval English Nunneries 5: 'The knight or the county gentleman could not apprentice his superfluous daughters to a pursemaker or a weaver in the town... nor was it theirs to make the parti-coloured bed and shake the coverlet, worked with grapes and unicorns, in some rich vintner's house. There remained for him... only marriage or else a convent'
139.34+husband and wife
139.35and Hive not Knox-atta-Belle not O'Faynix Coalprince not
139.35+Latin nox atrabilis: gloomy night
139.35+Obsolete atte: at (surviving as an infix in some placenames, such as Havering-atte-Bower)
139.35+Slang attaboy! (exclamation of encouragement or admiration)
139.35+Irish Baile Átha Cliath: Town of the Ford of the Hurdles (the Irish name of Dublin)
139.35+Motif: O felix culpa!
139.35+Motif: dark/fair (ofay, coal)
139.35+American Slang ofay: a white person (black American dialect)
139.35+French Les Rois Fainéants: The Lazy Kings, The Do-Nothing Kings (epithet of the last of the Merovingian kings, a dynasty of Frankish monarchs that ruled Gaul in the 6th-8th centuries)
139.35+Slang nix: nothing
139.35+phrase as black as coal
139.35+prince
139.36Wohn Squarr Roomyeck not Ebblawn Downes not Le Decer
139.36+the Joyces lived at 2 Square (de) Robiac, Paris, from 1925 to 1931
139.36+German wohnen: to live, to reside
139.36+one square room
139.36+(square is siglum for *F*)
139.36+square root
139.36+German Eck, Ecke: corner
139.36+Eblana: Ptolemy's name for Dublin (or so it was mostly believed in Joyce's time)
139.36+Epsom Downs
139.36+John Le Decer: 14th century provost of Dublin (built a bridge across the Liffey)


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