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165.01(the best thing that could happen to it!) and attack the roulade
–165.01+roulade: quick succession of notes, properly as sung to one syllable
–165.01+roulade: a dish made of rolled up meat or cake with various different fillings (including cheese)
–165.01+(penis)
165.02with a swift colpo di glottide to the lug (though Maace I will
–165.02+Italian colpo di glottide: a burst from the glottis, glottal stop
–165.02+(swallowing also closes the glottis)
–165.02+Colloquial lug: ear
–165.02+Dialect lug: long stick, pole
–165.02+Joseph (Joe) Maas: 19th century English tenor
165.03insist was reclined from overdoing this, his recovery often being
–165.03+inclined to overdo
165.04slow) and then, O! on the third dead beat, O! to cluse her eyes
–165.04+deadbeat
–165.04+nursery rhyme 'Open your mouth and shut your eyes And see what God will send you'
165.05and aiopen her oath and see what spice I may send her. How?
–165.05+(oral sex)
–165.05+space
–165.05+prize
165.06Cease thee, cantatrickee! I fain would be solo. Arouse thee, my
–165.06+cantatrice: female professional singer
–165.06+Archaic fain: gladly, with pleasure
–165.06+(masturbation)
165.07valour! And save for e'er my true Bdur!
–165.07+e'er: ever
–165.07+Irish Éire: Ireland
–165.07+troubadour
–165.07+German B-Dur: B flat major
–165.07+brother
165.08     I shall have a word to say in a few yards about the acoustic
–165.08+(spatialist measuring lines of print)
–165.08+years
–165.08+Motif: A/O
165.09and orchidectural management of the tonehall but, as ours is a
–165.09+Greek orchis: testicle
–165.09+orchestral
–165.09+architectural
–165.09+Tonhalle: name of several concert halls, most famously the one in Zurich
–165.09+townhall
165.10vivarious where one plant's breaf is a lunger planner's byscent
–165.10+VI.B.45.126f (g): 'vivarian'
–165.10+Roscoe: Chemistry 30: 'the animal renders the air impure by constantly breathing out carbonic acid; the plant constantly tends to purify the air again by taking up the carbonic acid, and breathing out (by means of its leaves) oxygen gas. This balance between animal and vegetable life is well illustrated by the Vivaria, now so common, in which small water-animals and water-plants grow in a globe shut off from the air'
–165.10+(plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, lungs absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide)
–165.10+proverb One man's meat is another man's poison: different people have different likes and dislikes
–165.10+Wyndham Lewis: Plans and Planners (pamphlet, 1913)
–165.10+breath
–165.10+brief, longer
–165.10+beef
–165.10+leaf
–165.10+ALP (Motif: ALP)
–165.10+Colloquial lunger: a person suffering from a lung disease (especially, tuberculosis)
–165.10+German beißend: pungent, acrid
–165.10+scent
165.11and you may not care for argon, it will be very convenient for
–165.11+VI.B.45.126g (g): 'argon'
–165.11+argon: an inert gas (third most abundant gas in the atmosphere)
–165.11+Greek argon: slow
–165.11+argot
–165.11+Greek argos: shining; idle
165.12me for the emolument to pursue Burrus and Caseous for a rung
–165.12+for the moment
–165.12+emolument: remuneration, reward, dues
–165.12+Motif: Brutus/Cassius
165.13or two up their isocelating biangle. Every admirer has seen my
–165.13+isosceles triangle (i.e. having two equal sides)
165.14goulache of Marge (she is so like the sister, you don't know, and
–165.14+goulash: a highly-seasoned Hungarian stew
–165.14+gouache: painting with opaque colours ground in water
–165.14+don't you know?
165.15they both dress A L I K E !) which I titled The Very Picture of
–165.15+Wyndham Lewis's painting Portrait of an Englishwoman (1914; abstract arrangement of geometric shapes bearing no resemblance to a woman) [.21-.22]
–165.15+Wyndham Lewis's painting Girl Sewing (1921)
165.16a Needlesswoman which in the presence ornates our national
–165.16+Slang needlewoman: prostitute
–165.16+(Wyndham Lewis had an anti-feminine streak)
–165.16+at the present
–165.16+National Gallery, London, when first built called the 'National Cruet-Stand'
165.17cruetstand. This genre of portraiture of changes of mind in order
–165.17+VI.B.45.143d (o): 'portrait of changes of mind'
–165.17+VI.B.45.143h (o): 'style torse & classic'
–165.17+Lévy-Bruhl: L'Expérience Mystique et les Symboles chez les Primitifs 179: 'dans les dessins et les peintures des primitifs, une partie "représentera" le tout. La tête, ou le torse, est le corps entier' (French 'in the drawings and paintings of the primitives, a part will "represent" the whole. The head, or the torso, is the whole body')
165.18to be truly torse should evoke the bush soul of females so I am
–165.18+terse
–165.18+VI.B.45.144e (o): 'bushy soul'
–165.18+Lévy-Bruhl: L'Expérience Mystique et les Symboles chez les Primitifs 219: (as part of a discussion on the practice among some African tribes of using jars as receptacles for their own living souls) 'Je serais tenté de rapprocher ce pot-âme extérieure des représentations très répandues en Afrique occidentale et équatoriale, où se trouvent impliquées des dualités-unités: les hommes-léopards, les hommes-crocodiles, l'"âme de la brousse" (bush-soul) de miss Kingsley, etc.' (French 'I would be tempted to compare this external jar-soul to representations very widespread in western and equatorial Africa, where dualities-unities are involved: leopard-men, crocodile-men, the "soul of the bush" (bush-soul) of Miss Kingsley, etc.')
–165.18+bush-soul: among the tribes of Calabar (in modern Nigeria), one of the four souls a person has, the one that dwells within a wild animal in the bush, alongside the animal's own life force (a term introduced to European readers by Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa)
–165.18+Slang bush: pubic hair (especially a woman's)
165.19leaving it to the experienced victim to complete the general
–165.19+
165.20suggestion by the mental addition of a wallopy bound or, should
–165.20+VI.B.45.143e,g (o): 'congoroul teal wallopy bound' ('teal' replaces a cancelled 'tail'; 'bound' replaces a cancelled 'touch') [.21]
–165.20+Lévy-Bruhl: L'Expérience Mystique et les Symboles chez les Primitifs 176: (of Australian rock paintings representing wallabies, small kangaroo-like marsupials) 'des séries de deux traits parall`les, discontinus, avec une ligne entre les deux. Cette ligne représentait la trace laissée par la queue de l'animal, et les traits parallèles discontinus, celles de ses pieds. Le wallaby en marchant frappe le sol de sa queue, ce que ne fait pas le kangourou' (French 'series of two parallel, discontinuous lines, with a line in between. This line represented the mark left by the tail of the animal, and the parallel discontinuous lines, those of its feet. The wallaby while walking hits the ground with its tail, which the kangaroo does not') [.21]
165.21the zulugical zealot prefer it, a congorool teal. The hatboxes
–165.21+VI.B.45.143a (o): 'Zulugical Gardens'
–165.21+zoological
–165.21+Zulu, Congo (African nations)
–165.21+kangaroo tail [.20]
–165.21+conger eel
–165.21+Congaree: river and swamp in South Carolina (an inscribed copy of a 1927 book called "Congaree Sketches: Scenes from the Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip of Heaven and Hell with Other Miscellany" by Edward C.L. Adams was in Joyce's personal library)
–165.21+teal: a type of small duck
–165.21+(Wyndham Lewis didn't like cubism)
165.22which composed Rhomba, lady Trabezond (Marge in her ex-
–165.22+rhomb: a quadrilateral with all four sides equal and two pairs of opposite angles equal
–165.22+Jacques Offenbach: La Princesse de Trebizonde
–165.22+princesses of Trebizond, Turkey, once much in demand by Christian and Muslim princes
–165.22+trapezoid: a quadrilateral with no sides parallel (or with only two sides parallel)
–165.22+Latin in excelsis: in the highest
165.23celsis), also comprised the climactogram up which B and C may
–165.23+climacteric: period preceding menopause, any critical period
–165.23+Greek klimax: ladder, staircase, scale, gamut
–165.23+Greek gramma: letter
–165.23+[.13]
165.24fondly be imagined ascending and are suggestive of gentlemen's
–165.24+Wyndham Lewis: Cantleman's Spring-mate (has characters, fellow officers of Cantleman, called A, B, C, and D)
165.25spring modes, these modes carrying us back to the superimposed
–165.25+in physics, the simple oscillation pattern of a spring is called its mode, and the general motion of a complex system can be described as the superposition (or superimposition) of multiple modes
165.26claylayers of eocene and pleastoseen formation and the gradual
–165.26+Eocene and Pleistocene: geological periods
165.27morphological changes in our body politic which Professor
–165.27+
165.28Ebahi-Ahuri of Philadespoinis (Ill) — whose bluebutterbust I
–165.28+French ébahi: astonished
–165.28+French ahuri: flabbergasted
–165.28+Greek philadespoinis: mistress-loving
–165.28+Philadelphia
–165.28+Greek phillades poinês: ration coupons
–165.28+Illinois
–165.28+Colloquial blue butter: mercurial ointment against parasites
–165.28+good, better, best (positive, comparative, superlative) [106.33] [533.36]
165.29have just given his coupe de grass to — neatly names a boîte à
–165.29+French coupe: a cut, cutting
–165.29+French coup de grâce: a finishing stroke, a death blow to put a wounded one out of one's misery (literally 'stroke of mercy')
–165.29+French boîte à surprises: mystery box, box of surprises
–165.29+French boîte à surprise: Jack-in-the-box (toy)
165.30surprises. The boxes, if I may break the subject gently, are worth
–165.30+
165.31about fourpence pourbox but I am inventing a more patent pro-
–165.31+'Worth a guinea a box' (advertisement for Beecham's pills)
–165.31+French pour: for
–165.31+poorbox
–165.31+per box
165.32cess, foolproof and pryperfect (I should like to ask that Shedlock
–165.32+(remove locks, to enter homes)
–165.32+Sherlock Holmes: a fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle [.33-.34]
165.33Homes person who is out for removing the roofs of our criminal
–165.33+Arthur Conan Doyle: A Case of Identity: (Sherlock Holmes speaking) 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable' [.32]
–165.33+Slang roof: hat
–165.33+roots
165.34classics by what deductio ad domunum he hopes de tacto to detect
–165.34+classes
–165.34+deduction, detection [.32]
–165.34+Latin deductio ad dominum: a leading away to the Lord
–165.34+Latin reductio ad absurdum: proof of falsity by demonstration of absurd consequences
–165.34+Latin domuum: of homes [.33]
–165.34+Latin de tactu: from a touch
–165.34+Latin de facto: in fact
165.35anything unless he happens of himself, movibile tectu, to have a
–165.35+Latin mirabile dictu: wonderful to relate
–165.35+Italian tetto rimovibile: removable roof [.33]
–165.35+Latin tectum: roof
165.36slade off) after which they can be reduced to a fragment of their
–165.36+Slang to have a slate off: to be slightly deranged
–165.36+Wyndham Lewis studied at Slade School of Art
–165.36+Henry Slade: 19th century medium
–165.36+can be produced at a fragment of


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