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173.01the meaning, sousy, of that continental expression, if you ever
–173.01+Colloquial soused: drunk
–173.01+French sosie: double, lookalike
–173.01+Italian scusi: beg your pardon
173.02came acrux it, we think it is a word transpiciously like canaille?:
–173.02+across
–173.02+Latin crux: cross
–173.02+transpiciously: manifestly
–173.02+VI.B.6.041f (r): 'How wd you say canaille?' (on a notebook page with several entries from Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles)
–173.02+French canaille: rabble, mob; scoundrel (literally 'pack of dogs' [.03]) [.20]
173.03or: Did you anywhere, kennel, on your gullible's travels or
–173.03+kennel: a house for dogs; a pack of dogs [.02]
–173.03+Ringgold Wilmer Lardner the Elder: Gullible's Travels (1917)
–173.03+Swift: Gulliver's Travels
173.04during your rural troubadouring, happen to stumble upon a
–173.04+
173.05certain gay young nobleman whimpering to the name of Low
–173.05+answering to
–173.05+Cluster: Lowness
173.06Swine who always addresses women out of the one corner of
–173.06+
173.07his mouth, lives on loans and is furtivefree yours of age? with-
–173.07+VI.B.6.049m (r): 'lives on loans & is 35'
–173.07+Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles 288: 'ses tares profondes l'ont précipité avec sa famille dans une misère noire. Il vit d'emprunt, de mendicité, et il a trente-cinq ans' (French 'his great defects have propelled him and his family into a black misery. He lives on loans, on begging, and he is thirty-five')
–173.07+thirty-three (or forty-three) years
173.08out one sigh of haste like the supreme prig he was, and not a bit
–173.08+sign
–173.08+VI.B.6.041h (r): 'haste'
–173.08+Crépieux-Jamin: Les Éléments de l'Écriture des Canailles 309: 'La précipitation que l'écriture révèle avec tant de sureté (1) est la hâte excessive que nous mettons dans nos résolutions et dans nos actions' (French 'The hurry which the writing reveals with such clarity (1) is the excessive haste we place in our resolutions and in our actions')
–173.08+VI.B.6.084b (r): 'prig'
–173.08+Slang prig: petty thief
–173.08+pig
173.09sorry, he would pull a vacant landlubber's face, root with ear-
–173.09+
173.10waker's pensile in the outer of his lauscher and then, lisping,
–173.10+the name Earwaker originated as euerwacer (ever-waker)
–173.10+pensile: hanging
–173.10+pencil
–173.10+German Lauscher: listener (hence outer ear of game)
–173.10+lisping (Motif: lisping)
173.11the prattlepate parnella, to kill time, and swatting his deadbest
–173.11+Prattling Parnel: a garden flowering plant, better known as 'London Pride' or 'Saint Patrick's Cabbage' (from Obsolete parnel: harlot)
–173.11+Parnell
–173.11+prunella: material used for academic robes
–173.11+sweating
173.12to think what under the canopies of Jansens Chrest would any
–173.12+Jansenism: a 17th century heresy strongly opposed by the Jesuits (named after Cornelius Jansen, a Dutch theologian)
–173.12+Jesus Christ
173.13decent son of an Albiogenselman who had bin to an university
–173.13+Albion
–173.13+Albigensian heresy
–173.13+(English) gentleman
173.14think, let a lent hit a hint and begin to tell all the intelligentsia
–173.14+let alone
–173.14+VI.B.3.039e (r): 'intelligentsia'
–173.14+Slang intelligentsia: irresponsible middle-class with ideas (term originated in pre-revolutionary Russia)
173.15admitted to that tamileasy samtalaisy conclamazzione (since, still
–173.15+Danish Tommelise: Thumbelina
–173.15+Tamil and Santali are Indian languages (of different families)
–173.15+Danish samtale: conversation
–173.15+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation aisy: easy
–173.15+Italian conclamazione: acclamation
–173.15+conclamation: loud lamentation of group of people for the dead
–173.15+Italian conversazione: conversation [172.31]
173.16and before physicians, lawyers merchant, belfry pollititians, agri-
–173.16+VI.B.14.150a (r): 'belfry politics'
–173.16+Gorce: Saint Vincent Ferrier 235: 'Il y avait à l'intérieur de ces cinq États bien des petitesses, bien des politiques de clocher, bien des anarchies' (French 'Within these five States were plenty of pettinesses, plenty of belfry politics, plenty of anarchies')
–173.16+French politique de clocher: petty narrow-minded local politics (literally 'belfry politics')
–173.16+(church-dominated politics)
–173.16+politicians
–173.16+Latin agricola: farmer
–173.16+agricultural manufacturers
173.17colous manufraudurers, sacrestanes of the Pure River Society,
–173.17+sacristan: an official responsible for maintaining the sacred vessels, vestments, books, etc. of a church
173.18philanthropicks lodging on as many boards round the panesthetic
–173.18+panesthesia: sum total of individual's perception at a given moment
173.19at the same time as possible) the whole lifelong swrine story of
–173.19+
173.20his entire low cornaille existence, abusing his deceased ancestors
–173.20+HEC (Motif: HCE)
–173.20+Cluster: Lowness
–173.20+Italian corna: horns (i.e. cuckold)
–173.20+in 1902-3, when Joyce visited Paris, he stayed at the Hôtel Corneille, 5 Rue Corneille
–173.20+Pierre Corneille: 17th century playwright, often impoverished
–173.20+carnal
–173.20+French canaille: rabble, mob; scoundrel [.02]
–173.20+VI.B.14.158f (r): 'deceased ancestors'
173.21wherever the sods were and one moment tarabooming great
–173.21+Colloquial phrase under the sod: dead and buried
–173.21+Dialect the sod: nickname for Ireland
–173.21+Slang sod: sodomite; fellow, chap (pejorative or not)
–173.21+Tara: ancient capital of Ireland
–173.21+song Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay
–173.21+(celebrating)
173.22blunderguns (poh!) about his farfamed fine Poppamore, Mr
–173.22+blunderbusses
–173.22+Motif: A/O [.26]
–173.22+American Colloquial poppa: father
–173.22+Irish mór: big, large, great
173.23Humhum, whom history, climate and entertainment made the
–173.23+HCE (Motif: HCE)
173.24first of his sept and always up to debt, though Eavens ears ow
–173.24+Joyce: Ulysses.3.246: (referring to the bombing of Clerkenwell Prison by the Fenians in 1867) 'for her love he prowled with colonel Richard Burke, tanist of his sept, under the walls of Clerkenwell and, crouching, saw a flame of vengeance hurl them upward in the fog' [.24-.26]
–173.24+sept: Irish clan
–173.24+date
–173.24+heavens hear how
173.25many fines he faces, and another moment visanvrerssas, cruach-
–173.25+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...visanvrerssas, cruaching...} | {Png: ...visanvrerssas cruaching...}
–173.25+vice versa
–173.25+Finnish isän vieressä: next to the father
–173.25+Irish cruach: conical heap
–173.25+French cracher: to spit
–173.25+cracking
173.26ing three jeers (pah!) for his rotten little ghost of a Peppybeg,
–173.26+VI.B.25.150n (r): '3 jeers!' (opposite of Motif: three cheers) [117.23]
–173.26+Motif: A/O [.22]
–173.26+Pepper's ghost: a type of theatrical illusion
–173.26+paper bag
–173.26+Anglo-Irish beg: little
173.27Mr Himmyshimmy, a blighty, a reeky, a lighty, a scrapy, a bab-
–173.27+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Mr Himmyshimmy...} | {Png: ...Mr. Himmyshimmy...}
–173.27+German Himmel-Schimmel! (expletive)
–173.27+Ham, Shem
173.28bly, a ninny, dirty seventh among thieves and always bottom
–173.28+Aeschylus: The Seven against Thebes
–173.28+Charles Dickens: all works: Oliver Twist, ch. 43: 'Wasn't he always top-sawyer?' (Fagin lamenting the Artful Dodger; Motif: top/bottom)
–173.28+bottom sawyer: the sawyer who works the lower handle of a pit-saw [003.07] [299.28] [374.34]
–173.28+Mark Twain: other works: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
173.29sawyer, till nowan knowed how howmely howme could be, giv-
–173.29+no one knew
–173.29+Archaic proverb Home is home, be it never so homely: home is the best, regardless of how humble it is (Archaic never so: ever so)
173.30ing unsolicited testimony on behalf of the absent, as glib as eaves-
–173.30+eavesdropper
173.31water to those present (who meanwhile, with increasing lack of
–173.31+VI.B.7.049a (r): 'increasingly lack of interest'
–173.31+Boldt: From Luther to Steiner 90: (of members of the Anthroposophical Society who fail to understand Steiner properly) 'such members are (and will in all probability increasingly prove themselves to be) unsuited to co-operate in the great work of the present and the near future, for they are wanting in the most elementary qualifications needed. Persons of this kind have often not the faintest interest in philosophy: they may be deficient in scientific training, or again they may lack the ability to think "logically"'
173.32interest in his semantics, allowed various subconscious smickers
–173.32+VI.B.14.012a (r): 'semantic'
–173.32+Boulenger & Thérive: Les Soirées du Grammaire-Club 156: 'vaut-il mieux, oui ou non, connaître notre langue, vocabulaire, syntaxe, sémantique même, de l'intérieur, à l'aide du latin, et en remontant sans cesse à ce passé ténébreux?' (French 'is it better, yes or no, to know our language, vocabulary, syntax, even semantic, from the inside, with the help of Latin, and by ceaselessly going back to that dark past?')
–173.32+French Sem: Shem
–173.32+antics
–173.32+VI.B.6.114k (r): 'fore consco sub — un —' (dashes ditto 'consco') [.33] [174.01]
–173.32+snickers
–173.32+sniggers
–173.32+smirks
–173.32+Motif: Mick/Nick (mick, devil)
173.33to drivel slowly across their fichers), unconsciously explaining,
–173.33+French Colloquial s'en ficher: not to care, not to give a damn
–173.33+features
–173.33+feathers
173.34for inkstands, with a meticulosity bordering on the insane, the
–173.34+for instance
–173.34+VI.B.6.118h (r): 'border on insane'
173.35various meanings of all the different foreign parts of speech he
–173.35+VI.B.2.075b (b): 'misuse of prep & conj disappearance'
–173.35+Pascal: La Démence Précoce 92: (of the mentally ill) 'Le malade passe d'une idée à l'autre avec une très grande facilité. Les liens de la syntaxe ("mais", "par", "si", etc.) sont placés au hasard et unissent des phrases disparates... les conjonctions, les prépositions sont de moins en moins nombreuses' (French 'The patient passes from one idea to another with great ease. The links of syntax ("but", "by", "if", etc.) are placed at random and unite disparate sentences... the conjunctions, the prepositions are less and less numerous')
173.36misused and cuttlefishing every lie unshrinkable about all the
–173.36+cultivating
–173.36+cuttlefish 'ink'
–173.36+unthinkable


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