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152.01the plane where me arts soar you'd aisy rouse a thunder from and
–152.01+song Pretty Molly Brannigan: 'The place where my heart was you'd aisy roll a turnip in'
–152.01+arse are
–152.01+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation aisy: easy
152.02where I cling true'tis there I climb tree and where Innocent looks
–152.02+ring true
–152.02+Motif: 2&3
–152.02+Colloquial 'tis: it is
–152.02+at the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War, King Charles II (then of Scotland) famously escaped capture by hiding in an oak tree
–152.02+Innocent X was pope during the English Civil War and strongly supported Catholic Ireland with money and weapons (Cluster: Popes)
152.03best (pick!) there's holly in his ives.
–152.03+holly, ivy (Motif: holly, ivy, mistletoe)
–152.03+honey in his hives
152.04     As my explanations here are probably above your understand-
–152.04+{{Synopsis: I.6.3.A: [152.04-152.14]: as if lecturing to a squad of urchins — he will tell a fable}}
–152.04+(parody of Tarr's lecture style in Wyndham Lewis's Tarr (1918))
152.05ings, lattlebrattons, though as augmentatively uncomparisoned
–152.05+'my dear little brothers in Christ' (Joyce: A Portrait III)
–152.05+Little Britain: a title used, at different times, to refer to Ireland, to Brittany, and to Wales
–152.05+Serbo-Croatian brat: brother
–152.05+Colloquial brat: a child, especially an unruly one
152.06as Cadwan, Cadwallon and Cadwalloner, I shall revert to a more
–152.06+Cadwan, Cadwallon and Cadwalloner: kings of ancient Wales
152.07expletive method which I frequently use when I have to sermo
–152.07+expletive: serving to fill out
–152.07+explicit
–152.07+Latin sermo: speech
152.08with muddlecrass pupils. Imagine for my purpose that you are a
–152.08+middleclass
152.09squad of urchins, snifflynosed, goslingnecked, clothyheaded,
–152.09+clotty
152.10tangled in your lacings, tingled in your pants, etsitaraw etcicero.
–152.10+lessons
–152.10+Colloquial tinkled: urinated
–152.10+etcetera
–152.10+Cicero: 1st century BC Roman orator and statesman
152.11And you, Bruno Nowlan, take your tongue out of your inkpot!
–152.11+Motif: Browne/Nolan [159.22]
–152.11+Giordano Bruno of Nola
152.12As none of you knows javanese I will give all my easyfree trans-
–152.12+Javanese: of Java
–152.12+French javanais: cant in which extra syllables inserted into words
–152.12+Japanese
152.13lation of the old fabulist's parable. Allaboy Minor, take your
–152.13+altar boy
–152.13+L.B. (Lévy-Bruhl) [150.15]
–152.13+in English public schools, older and younger pupils with the same surname were often called 'N Major' and 'N Minor' [159.21]
152.14head out of your satchel! Audi, Joe Peters! Exaudi facts!
–152.14+prayer Litany of the Saints: 'Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos' (Latin 'Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us')
–152.14+Jupiter
152.15     The Mookse and The Gripes.
–152.15+{{Synopsis: I.6.3.B: [152.15-153.08]: the fable of the Mookse and the Gripes begins — the Mookse goes awalking and comes upon a stream}}
–152.15+Motif: Mookse/Gripes (*V*/*C*) [152.15-159.18]
–152.15+Aesop: The Fox and the Grapes (fable)
–152.15+Mock Turtle and Gryphon: characters in Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
–152.15+(MOOKSE: *V* - fox - space - stone - Motif: butcher's or bishop's apron or blouse - Latin/Roman - right bank - Adrian IV - London - deaf - pope - Wyndham Lewis)
–152.15+moose
–152.15+mouse
–152.15+Danish mukke: to grumble
–152.15+mucus
–152.15+monk
–152.15+(GRIPES: *C* - grapes - time - tree - Motif: kerchief or handkerchief - Greek/Russian - left bank - Barbarossa - Dublin - blind - heretic - James Joyce)
–152.15+gripe: to grip, to clutch, to grasp; to oppress, to afflict
–152.15+Slang gripe: to complain, to grumble
–152.15+gripes: colic pains
–152.15+grippe: influenza
152.16     Gentes and laitymen, fullstoppers and semicolonials, hybreds
–152.16+ladies and gentlemen
–152.16+full stops, semicolons, hyphens
–152.16+hybrids
–152.16+high-breds and low-breds
152.17and lubberds!
–152.17+Obsolete lubberd: big clumsy fellow, lubber
152.18     Eins within a space and a wearywide space it wast ere wohned
–152.18+German eins: one
–152.18+German einst: once
–152.18+Albert Einstein
–152.18+Motif: time/space (once, space)
–152.18+Joyce: A Portrait I: (begins) 'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow' (phrase once upon a time, and a very good time it was (traditional folktale opening))
–152.18+very wide
–152.18+Motif: time/space (space, ere)
–152.18+Samuel Butler: Erewhon (in which watches are smashed (i.e. anti-time))
–152.18+nowhere
–152.18+Dutch er woonde eens: there once lived
–152.18+Eireamhón: Heremon, first Milesian ruler of all Ireland
–152.18+German wohnen: to live, to reside
152.19a Mookse. The onesomeness wast alltolonely, archunsitslike,
–152.19+German Einsamkeit: Danish ensomhed: solitude, loneliness (literally 'onesomeness')
–152.19+was
–152.19+vast
–152.19+all too lonely
–152.19+Greek archôn: ruler, lord
–152.19+German arg: badly, terribly
–152.19+German unsittlich: indecent, immoral
–152.19+German entsetzlich: dreadful, terrible, awful
–152.19+broadly
152.20broady oval, and a Mookse he would a walking go (My hood!
–152.20+bloody awful
–152.20+nursery rhyme A Frog He Would A-wooing Go: 'With a rowley, powley, gammon and spinach Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley' (also known as The Frog's Courting, The Lovesick Frog, The Wedding of the Frog and the Mouse, etc.) [.20-.22]
–152.20+my hat
–152.20+phrase I'll eat old Rowley's hat: I'll eat my hat (if something utterly unlikely occurs) [081.10]
–152.20+proverb The hood does not make the monk: do not judge by appearances
152.21cries Antony Romeo), so one grandsumer evening, after a great
–152.21+William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
–152.21+Anthony Rowley [.20]
–152.21+William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
–152.21+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Romeo), so...} | {Png: ...Romeo) so...}
–152.21+Cervantes: Don Quixote, ch. 2: 'one morning before the dawning of the day (which was one of the hottest of the month of July) he donned his suit of armour, mounted Rocinante with his patched-up helmet on, braced his buckler, took his lance, and by the back door of the yard sallied forth upon the plain in the highest contentment and satisfaction at seeing with what ease he had made a beginning with his grand purpose. But scarcely did he find himself upon the open plain, when a terrible thought struck him' [.21-.36]
–152.21+Sumerian
–152.21+summer
152.22morning and his good supper of gammon and spittish, having
–152.22+gammon: bottom piece of a flitch of bacon [.20]
–152.22+Greek gamon: marriage, sexual intercourse
–152.22+spinach [.20]
152.23flabelled his eyes, pilleoled his nostrils, vacticanated his ears and
–152.23+flabellum: fan of ostrich feathers carried on either side of a pope's chair in procession (Cluster: Popes)
–152.23+(fanned his eyes)
–152.23+Motif: 5 senses (touch missing) [086.32]
–152.23+Latin pilleolus: skull cap (formerly worn by prelates)
–152.23+Latin pilus: hair
–152.23+depilated
–152.23+(wiped his nose)
–152.23+vaticinated: prophesied
–152.23+Vatican (Cluster: Popes)
–152.23+vacated
–152.23+(dewaxed his ears)
152.24palliumed his throats, he put on his impermeable, seized his im-
–152.24+pallium: vestment worn by Roman Catholic patriarchs
–152.24+(cleared his throat)
–152.24+(put on his coat)
–152.24+French impermeable: raincoat
–152.24+(picked his sword)
–152.24+Latin impugno: to assault, to attack (from Latin im-: in- + Latin pugnus: fist)
152.25pugnable, harped on his crown and stepped out of his immobile
–152.25+a crowned harp was the traditional hallmark (standard mark) for gold and silver in Ireland
–152.25+The Harp and Crown: 18th century Dublin pub
–152.25+(put on a hat)
–152.25+(stepped out of his house)
152.26De Rure Albo (socolled becauld it was chalkfull of masterplasters
–152.26+The Prophecies of St. Malachy no. 5: 'De rure albo': 'Of the white country' (Adrian IV, the only English pope) (Cluster: Popes)
–152.26+(England is called Albion (from Latin albus: white) in allusion to its white chalk cliffs (Dover))
–152.26+so-called because
–152.26+cold
–152.26+chalk (limestone), converted to lime, is a component of plaster
–152.26+chock-full
–152.26+masterpieces
–152.26+Ibsen: all plays: The Master Builder
152.27and had borgeously letout gardens strown with cascadas, pinta-
–152.27+Borgia popes (Cluster: Popes)
–152.27+Borgia Apartment: suite of rooms in Vatican, used to house the Vatican art collection before the erection of Pinacoteca Vaticana (Cluster: Popes)
–152.27+Villa Borghese, Rome, famous for its gardens and art gallery
–152.27+gorgeously laid-out
–152.27+Italian cascata: waterfall
–152.27+Pentecost: a holiday celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, Whitsun
–152.27+Italian pinacoteca: painting-gallery
–152.27+Pinacoteca Vaticana: art gallery in Vatican, erected under Pope Pius XI (Cluster: Popes)
152.28costecas, horthoducts and currycombs) and set off from Luds-
–152.28+Latin hortus: garden
–152.28+orthodox
–152.28+aqueducts
–152.28+Catacombs
–152.28+Welsh Caerludd: London (Ludd's town)
152.29town a spasso to see how badness was badness in the weirdest of
–152.29+Italian a spasso: (to go) for a walk
–152.29+space
–152.29+phrase business is business: business considerations take precedence over emotional or personal issues
–152.29+François Marie Arouet Voltaire: Candide: 'best of all possible worlds' [158.10]
–152.29+worst
152.30all pensible ways.
–152.30+French pensable: conceivable
152.31     As he set off with his father's sword, his lancia spezzata, he was
–152.31+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song The Minstrel Boy: 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him; His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him'
–152.31+Italian lancia spezzata: a prince's bodyguard (literally 'broken lance' or 'broken spear') [.33]
152.32girded on, and with that between his legs and his tarkeels, our
–152.32+legs, heels
–152.32+American Colloquial tarheel: a nickname for a native of North Carolina, United States (from tar being a major product of this state)
–152.32+Turgesius: 9th century Viking invader of Ireland (known by many other similar names, e.g. Thorkel)
152.33once in only Bragspear, he clanked, to my clinking, from veetoes
–152.33+Nicholas Breakspear: 12th century Englishman, became Pope Adrian IV and granted Ireland to Henry II in his bull opening with the word Laudabiliter, in order to unite the Irish and Roman churches (Cluster: Popes) [.26] [.31]
–152.33+thinking
–152.33+Dutch vee: cattle
–152.33+Papal Veto: Jus Exclusivæ, a right claimed by several Catholic monarchs to veto a candidate for the papacy (exercised about a dozen times from the 17th to the 20th century; Cluster: Popes)
–152.33+Motif: top/bottom (toe, top)
–152.33+Motif: 2&3
152.34to threetop, every inch of an immortal.
–152.34+treetop
–152.34+(triple crown of a pope; Cluster: Popes)
–152.34+William Shakespeare: King Lear IV.6.106: 'every inch a king'
152.35     He had not walked over a pentiadpair of parsecs from his
–152.35+Greek pente: five
–152.35+(5 x 2 = 10)
–152.35+parsec: a unit of interstellar distance, equal to the distance giving rise to a heliocentric parallax of one second of arc, or 3.26 light-years (from parallax + second)
–152.35+paces (a pace, while not clearly defined, is sometimes considered to be a thousandth of a mile)
152.36azylium when at the turning of the Shinshone Lanteran near
–152.36+Azylian culture in the Mesolithic period (Cluster: Prehistory)
–152.36+asylum
–152.36+Motif: Shem/Shaun
–152.36+shine, shone (Motif: tenses)
–152.36+sunshine
–152.36+Shaun's lantern (Motif: Shaun's belted lamp)
–152.36+Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran: oldest of the four Papal basilicas in Rome (Cluster: Popes) [153.01]
–152.36+lane
–152.36+there were five Ecumenical Councils of Lateran


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