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169.01     Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is joky for Jacob. A few
–169.01+(CHAPTER: a portrait of Shem the Penman)
–169.01+{{Synopsis: I.7.1.A: [169.01-169.10]: Shem's name — his origins}}
–169.01+Shem, son of Noah
–169.01+Shem, Shemus, Seumas, Jem, Jim, James, Jake, Jacob are all cognates, ultimately derived from the biblical Jacob (Hebrew Ya'akov)
169.02toughnecks are still getatable who pretend that aboriginally he
–169.02+American Slang roughneck: a 'tough'
–169.02+getatable: accessible
–169.02+French prétendre: affirm
–169.02+aboriginally: from earliest known times
169.03was of respectable stemming (he was an outlex between the lines
–169.03+stem: to originate
–169.03+(lists four men: outlex between A and B, inlaw to C, and D was among his connections) [.03-.06]
–169.03+(illegitimate child)
–169.03+Latin lex: law (i.e. outlaw)
169.04of Ragonar Blaubarb and Horrild Hairwire and an inlaw to Capt.
–169.04+Ragnar Lodbrok: Viking chief
–169.04+German blau: blue
–169.04+German Blaubart: Bluebeard (pantomime about a wife-killer, based on a literary folktale by Perrault)
–169.04+French barbe: beard
–169.04+barbed wire
–169.04+VI.B.18.218h (b): 'Harald Hairwire'
–169.04+Worsaae: An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland 35: 'Harald Haarfager, the first absolute sovereign of Norway' (usually referred to in English as Harald Fairhair)
–169.04+horrid
–169.04+phrase there's hair, like wire!: there's a girl with a lot of long and stiff hair! (catch-phrase of the early 20th century)
–169.04+VI.B.14.053j (r): 'an in-law of'
169.05the Hon. and Rev. Mr Bbyrdwood de Trop Blogg was among
–169.05+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Mr Bbyrdwood...} | {Png: ...Mr. Bbyrdwood...}
–169.05+Sir George Birdwood: 19th century Anglo-Indian official, naturalist, and writer [114.13]
–169.05+Beardwood: friend of Joyce's father
–169.05+William Byrd: 16th-17th century English composer, famous for his melody for song The Woods So Wild [556.17]
–169.05+French de trop: superfluous
–169.05+Colloquial Joe Bloggs: the average man, the man in the street
169.06his most distant connections) but every honest to goodness man
–169.06+VI.B.6.063d (r): 'distant relations'
–169.06+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 41: 'the zoomorphic, or animal, forms introduced in the decoration of the Manuscript... distant relations, as it were, of the lion, the calf, and the eagle, of the Evangelical symbols'
169.07in the land of the space of today knows that his back life will
–169.07+Motif: time/space
169.08not stand being written about in black and white. Putting truth
–169.08+Motif: dark/fair (black, white)
–169.08+phrase put two and two together
169.09and untruth together a shot may be made at what this hybrid
–169.09+
169.10actually was like to look at.
–169.10+
169.11     Shem's bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an
–169.11+{{Synopsis: I.7.1.B: [169.11-170.24]: Shem's appearance — the first riddle of the universe}}
–169.11+(twenty-one items)
–169.11+VI.B.14.176d (g): 'adze'
–169.11+O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages 67: 'The god rose out of the lake, bearing a brazen adze in his hand, and decided in favour of Cuculain'
–169.11+VI.B.14.163j (g): 'adzehead with crookhead staff' (only first word crayoned)
–169.11+Bury: The Life of St. Patrick 79: (quoting a prophecy attributed to the Irish high king's druids, concerning Saint Patrick and his circular tonsure) 'Adze-head will come with a crook-head staff'
169.12eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a
–169.12+eighth
–169.12+lark's eye: mischievous eye
–169.12+whole
–169.12+hole
–169.12+phrase something up one's sleeve: a secret plan [305.22]
169.13sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip,
–169.13+uncrowned king of Ireland: an epithet of both Parnell and Daniel O'Connell
–169.13+(not real)
169.14a trio of barbels from his megageg chin (sowman's son), the
–169.14+barbel: a filament hanging from the mouths of some fishes
–169.14+Greek mega-: large-
–169.14+Joyce: Ulysses.15.3369: 'THE NANNYGOAT (bleats) Megeggaggegg!'
–169.14+Irish meig: bleat, meg
–169.14+Irish meigead: goat's chin and beard
–169.14+Irish meigeadach: goat's bleating
–169.14+(goatee; Joyce had one at different times)
–169.14+French saumon: salmon
169.15wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial
–169.15+Motif: right/wrong (Motif: left/right)
–169.15+phrase all ears: fully attentive
–169.15+(deception)
169.16tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of
–169.16+(hair)
–169.16+phrase without a leg to stand on: no chance of getting away with it
–169.16+phrase handful of thumbs (awkward)
169.17thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of
–169.17+Motif: ear/eye (blind, deaf)
–169.17+blind gut: caecum
–169.17+(could eat anything)
–169.17+loose liver: one who lives loosely (wantonly, immorally)
–169.17+(overdrinking)
169.18two buttocks, one gleetsteen avoirdupoider for him, a manroot
–169.18+gleet: a venereal disease accompanied by morbid discharge from the urethra, sexually-transmitted bacterial urethritis (a primary symptom of gonorrhea)
–169.18+Gladstone
–169.18+1 stone = 14 pounds
–169.18+Slang stone: testicle
–169.18+avoirdupois: the standard pre-metric British system of weights (pounds, ounces, etc.)
–169.18+VI.B.14.140n (r): 'manroot ginseng' (only first word crayoned)
–169.18+Perry: The Origin of Magic and Religion 153: (of the initiation rituals of the Ojibwa) 'The ritual death and rebirth is a constant feature of the initiation... use is made of ginseng, "man root," which is supposed to be of "divine" origin'
–169.18+Slang manroot: penis
–169.18+I Timothy 6:10: 'the love of money is the root of all evil'
169.19of all evil, a salmonkelt's thinskin, eelsblood in his cold toes, a
–169.19+VI.B.14.131c (r): '(salmon) kelts'
–169.19+Irish Statesman 30 Aug 1924, 800/1: 'Salmon by the Million. A New View': 'The killing of kelts by the poacher is evidently not such a serious matter as we thought, for if the salmon as a rule only spawns once, the kelt as a rule will not return to the river'
–169.19+kelt: a salmon in bad condition after spawning
–169.19+thin-skinned: sensitive to criticism, easily offended
–169.19+VI.B.14.116e (r): 'eel's blood — bad'
–169.19+Colloquial cold feet: fear, cowardice
169.20bladder tristended, so much so that young Master Shemmy on
–169.20+Tristan (derived from French triste: sad)
–169.20+distended
169.21his very first debouch at the very dawn of protohistory seeing
–169.21+(first thing to come out of his mouth)
–169.21+Archaic debouch: outlet, opening (from a narrower to a wider space, e.g. stream into lake)
–169.21+French de bouche: of mouth
–169.21+debauch: an act of excessive sensual indulgence
–169.21+Latin protohistoria: first knowledge
169.22himself such and such, when playing with thistlewords in their
–169.22+Motif: So and so
–169.22+weeds
169.23garden nursery, Griefotrofio, at Phig Streat 111, Shuvlin, Old
–169.23+nursery garden
–169.23+Italian grifo: snout
–169.23+Italian brefotrofio: foundlings' home, orphanage
–169.23+part of Threadneedle Street, London, famous as the site of the Bank of England and the London Stock Exchange, was formerly called Pig Street [.24]
–169.23+Motif: 111
–169.23+shovel, hoe
–169.23+Dublin, Ireland
169.24Hoeland, (would we go back there now for sounds, pillings and
–169.24+Holland House, Bury Street, London, built in 1916 as the offices of a Dutch shipping and mining company, is not far from Threadneedle Street [.23]
–169.24+pounds, shillings and pence
–169.24+(*VYC*)
–169.24+Motif: sound/sense


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