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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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