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179.01layen loves in meeingseeing, he got the charm of his optical
–179.01+song My Lagan Love
–179.01+phrase got the fright of his life: experienced extreme and sudden fear
179.02life when he found himself (hic sunt lennones!) at pointblank
–179.02+VI.B.10.057c (r): 'found himself looking into barrel of revolver'
–179.02+Latin hic sunt lenones: here are pimps
–179.02+Latin hic sunt leones: here are lions (on medieval maps)
–179.02+Joyce: other works: L'influenza letteraria universale del rinascimento: 'The compiler of atlases in the high middle ages did not lose his composure when he was in a quandary. He would write on the doubtful area the words: Hic sunt leones. The idea of solitude, the terror of strange beasts, the unknown were quite sufficient for him' (originally in Italian)
–179.02+Judge Michael Lennon attacked Joyce in Catholic World, 1931, despite their seeming friendship (Joyce: Letters I.395: letter 06/08/37 to Constantine P. Curran: 'my fellow-countrymen... on the map of their island there is marked very legibly for the moment Hic sunt Lennones')
179.03range blinking down the barrel of an irregular revolver of
–179.03+Irregulars: anti-treaty forces in the Irish Civil War, 1922-3
179.04the bulldog with a purpose pattern, handled by an unknown
–179.04+Slang bulldog: pistol
–179.04+the bulldog is a symbol of the British people
–179.04+VI.B.10.113c (r): 'a tin with a purpose'
–179.04+a 1920s advertisement for Bird's Egg Substitute: 'A tin with a purpose... Every tin of Bird's Egg Substitute has the purpose of making the housewife's task lighter — of making better cakes and better puddings at less cost and less trouble' [619.02]
–179.04+The Unknown Warrior: an unidentified British soldier killed in World War I and buried in Westminster Abbey in 1920
179.05quarreler who, supposedly, had been told off to shade and
–179.05+shadow: to follow (someone) closely and clandestinely (like a shadow)
–179.05+Motif: alliteration (sh) [.05-.06]
179.06shoot shy Shem should the shit show his shiny shnout out
–179.06+Colloquial snout: nose
179.07awhile to look facts in their face before being hosed and creased
–179.07+VI.B.3.137d (r): 'look facts in face'
–179.07+Slang hosed: fired at with an automatic weapon
–179.07+Anglo-Irish Slang creased: severely beaten
179.08(uprip and jack him!) by six or a dozen of the gayboys.
–179.08+Motif: Up, guards, and at them!
–179.08+Jack the Ripper
–179.08+Anglo-Irish go-boy: sly harmful fellow
–179.08+dayboys
179.09     What, para Saom Plaom, in the names of Deucalion and
–179.09+{{Synopsis: I.7.1.O: [179.09-179.16]: this lowlife — what was he really at?}}
–179.09+Para: Finnish spirit, bearer of milk, cream, butter
–179.09+Portuguese para: for
–179.09+French par exemple: for example
–179.09+by Saint Paul!
–179.09+Portuguese sao: saint
–179.09+Sao Paulo, Brazil
–179.09+Latin exemplum: example
–179.09+Deucalion and Pyrrha: the only two survivors of the Flood in Greek mythology
179.10Pyrrha, and the incensed privy and the licensed pantry gods
–179.10+Roman pantries had guardian spirits
179.11and Stator and Victor and Kutt and Runn and the whole mesa
–179.11+Stator and Victor: epithets of Jupiter
–179.11+Dutch Slang kut: female genitalia
–179.11+phrase cut and run
–179.11+Portuguese mesa redonda: round table
179.12redonda of Lorencao Otulass in convocacaon, was this dis-
–179.12+Saint Laurence O'Toole: 12th century archbishop of Dublin at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion, and one of the two patron saints of Dublin
–179.12+Portuguese Lourençao: Laurence
–179.12+Portuguese convocaçao: convocation
–179.12+Portuguese invencao: invention
–179.12+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...convocacaon, was...} | {Png: ...convocacaon was...}
179.13interestingly low human type, this Calumnious Column of
–179.13+Cluster: Lowness
–179.13+CCC...BBB...AAA
179.14Cloaxity, this Bengalese Beacon of Biloxity, this Annamite Aper
–179.14+Latin cloaca: sewer
–179.14+(Budgen: James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, ch. 5, p. 108: 'I said: "You remember that H. G. Wells... says you have a cloacal obsession...". "Cloacal obsession!" said Joyce. "Why, it's Wells's countrymen who build water-closets wherever they go' (referring to H.G. Wells's review in Nation, 24 Feb 1917 (Deming: The Critical Heritage 86)))
–179.14+Biloxi: seaport, Mississippi
–179.14+Latin bilis: anger, gall, bile
–179.14+Annamite: Vietnamese (Annam was the common European name for Vietnam until the 1930s)
–179.14+Latin aper: boar
–179.14+Latin atrox: cruel, savage
179.15of Atroxity, really at, it will be precise to quarify, for he seems
–179.15+Portuguese preciso + verb 'to be' indicates necessity
–179.15+qualify
–179.15+clarify
179.16in a badbad case?
–179.16+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABC
179.17     The answer, to do all the diddies in one dedal, would sound:
–179.17+{{Synopsis: I.7.1.P: [179.17-180.33]: his deterioration — his useless book}}
–179.17+Anglo-Irish diddies: nipples (from Irish did)
–179.17+Childish daddies: fathers
–179.17+Stephen Dedalus
–179.17+dedal: labyrinth
–179.17+Portuguese dedal: thimble
–179.17+Portuguese dedo: finger
179.18from pulling himself on his most flavoured canal the huge chest-
–179.18+favoured
–179.18+HCE (Motif: HCE)
179.19house of his elders (the Popapreta, and some navico, navvies!)
–179.19+Portuguese popa: poop (of a ship)
–179.19+Portuguese preta: black (feminine)
–179.19+Portuguese navio: ship
179.20he had flickered up and flinnered down into a drug and drunkery
–179.20+Slang flicker: drink
–179.20+Motif: up/down
–179.20+VI.B.10.036g (r): 'drug addict'
–179.20+VI.B.25.157e (r): 'drunkery'
–179.20+Slang drunkery: a public-house or drink-shop, a place to get drunk in
179.21addict, growing megalomane of a loose past. This explains the
–179.21+habbit
–179.21+megalomania
–179.21+ALP (Motif: ALP)
179.22litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite,
–179.22+Obsolete septuncial: of seven ounces, of seven parts
–179.22+VI.B.6.057j (r): 'uncial'
–179.22+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 16: 'The text of the Gospel according to St. Matthew follows in large uncial and minuscule combined' (Matthew)
–179.22+uncial: (of letters) capital
–179.22+VI.B.6.057i (r): 'trumpet'
–179.22+Sullivan: The Book of Kells 15: (quoting Rev. Dr. Todd about the Monogram page) 'contains almost all varieties of design to be found in Celtic art... the divergent pattern known as the trumpet-pattern'
–179.22+HEC (Motif: HCE)
179.23neoclassical, which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after
–179.23+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...neoclassical, which...} | {Png: ...neoclassical which...}
–179.23+VI.B.14.129k (r): 'musicianly'
–179.23+patrician: related to the patricians of medieval Italy or ancient Rome; related to Saint Patrick
–179.23+VI.B.6.107i (r): 'manuscribe'
–179.23+inscribe
179.24his name. It would have diverted, if ever seen, the shuddersome
–179.24+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...diverted, if ever seen, the...} | {Png: ...diverted if ever seen the...}
179.25spectacle of this semidemented zany amid the inspissated grime
–179.25+VI.B.6.116h (r): 'semi demented'
–179.25+Nation and Athenæum 22 Apr 1922, 124/2: 'Mr. Joyce's Ulysses' (review of Joyce: Ulysses by John M. Murry): 'an immense, a prodigious, self-laceration, the tearing-away from himself, by a half-demented man of genius, of inhibitions and limitations which have grown to be flesh of his flesh' (Deming: The Critical Heritage 196)
–179.25+VI.B.6.118a (r): 'inspissated'
–179.25+Nation and Athenæum 22 Apr 1922, 125/1: 'Mr. Joyce's Ulysses' (review of Joyce: Ulysses by John M. Murry): 'Every thought that a super-subtle modern can think seems to be hidden somewhere in its inspissated obscurities' (Deming: The Critical Heritage 197)
–179.25+Boswell: Life of Johnson, 16/10/1769: 'inspissated gloom'
179.26of his glaucous den making believe to read his usylessly unread-
–179.26+glaucous: pale bluish-green
–179.26+glaucoma (Joyce suffered from)
–179.26+uselessly
–179.26+Joyce: Ulysses
179.27able Blue Book of Eccles, édition de ténèbres, (even yet sighs the
–179.27+VI.B.6.118j (r): 'bluebook'
–179.27+Manchester Guardian 15 Mar 1923, 39: 'Modern Irish Literature' (review of Joyce: Ulysses by Stephen Gwynn): 'Seven hundred pages of a tome like a Blue-book are occupied with the events and sensations in one day of a renegade Jew' (Deming: The Critical Heritage 301)
–179.27+Blue Books: the official reports of the English Parliament [013.21] [014.29]
–179.27+the early printings of Joyce: Ulysses were bound in blue paper
–179.27+Book of Kells (Sullivan: The Book of Kells)
–179.27+Eccles Street, Dublin, where Bloom lived in Joyce: Ulysses
–179.27+French édition de ténèbres: edition of darkness
–179.27+(Joyce: Finnegans Wake might be seen as a 'night' or 'dark' counterpart of Joyce: Ulysses)
179.28Most Different, Dr. Poindejenk, authorised bowdler and censor,
–179.28+M.D.
–179.28+Most Reverend
–179.28+(not indifferent)
–179.28+French point de jeu: game point
–179.28+Ezra Pound, while editing the Calypso chapter of Joyce: Ulysses for publication in The Little Review, censorially deleted portions of the risqué text dealing with Bloom's visit to the lavatory (see Pound/Joyce appendix C)
–179.28+Colloquial the Yank: the American (which Pound was)
–179.28+Motif: alphabet sequence: ABC (Pound's ABC of Economics and ABC of Reading were published in 1933 and 1934, respectively; this clause, however, was written by Joyce in 1927)
–179.28+Bowdler expurgated Shakespeare
179.29it can't be repeated!) turning over three sheets at a wind, telling
–179.29+Slang phrase three sheets in the wind: very drunk
–179.29+(three pages at a time)
179.30himself delightedly, no espellor mor so, that every splurge on the
–179.30+Portuguese no: in the
–179.30+Portuguese espelho: mirror
–179.30+Obsolete speller: preacher
–179.30+Portuguese mor: bigger
–179.30+Irish mór: big, large, great
–179.30+more
179.31vellum he blundered over was an aisling vision more gorgeous
–179.31+VI.B.6.140m (r): 'vellum'
–179.31+VI.B.14.166l (r): 'aisling (vision)'
–179.31+Irish aisling: Anglo-Irish aisling: vision, dream, visionary poem
–179.31+ailing
179.32than the one before t.i.t.s., a roseschelle cottage by the sea for
–179.32+that is to say
–179.32+German Esche: ash tree
–179.32+German Schelle: bell
–179.32+song My Love and Cottage near Rochelle
179.33nothing for ever, a ladies tryon hosiery raffle at liberty, a sewer-
–179.33+ladies'
–179.33+try-on
–179.33+The Liberties: district of Dublin
–179.33+Liberty's: London department store
–179.33+ewer
–179.33+(Fendant) [171.25]
179.34ful of guineagold wine with brancomongepadenopie and sick-
–179.34+Guinea Gold: a brand of cigarettes
–179.34+guinea-gold: of the colour of a gold guinea
–179.34+Portuguese branco: white
–179.34+blancmange, pudding or pie
–179.34+Portuguese monge: monk
–179.34+Portuguese padeiro: baker
–179.34+six
179.35cylinder oysters worth a billion a bite, an entire operahouse
–179.35+
179.36(there was to be stamping room only in the prompter's box and
–179.36+phrase standing room only: no seats left at a well-attended event


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