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186.01continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marry-
186.01+VI.B.10.020d (r): 'integument'
186.01+Monahan: Adventures in Life and Letters 233: (as if addressing the ghost of Charles Lamb) 'In what bodiless region dost thou now sojourn, O Carolus Agnus, with thy slim shy soul answering to what was erst its earthly integument?'
186.01+integument: outer covering, skin, shell
186.01+Motif: 4-stage Viconian cycle (birth, marriage, burial, ricorso)
186.01+marivaudage: exaggeratedly affected writing style (after the French novelist Marivaux)
186.01+many-voiced
186.02voising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history (thereby, he said,
186.02+Vico's cycles of history
186.03reflecting from his own individual person life unlivable, trans-
186.03+VI.B.2.124l (r): 'transaccidentation'
186.03+transaccidentation: transmutation of the accidents (qualities, attributes, appearances) of the bread and wine into those of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist (as opposed to the more common transubstantiation, where the substance changes, but the accidents do not)
186.04accidentated through the slow fires of consciousness into a divi-
186.04+VI.B.2.006g (r): 'dividual dust'
186.04+Morris: Life of St. Patrick 212n: (quoting De Vere's St. Patrick, p. 49) 'This nation, from the blind dividual dust Of instincts brute, thoughts driftless, warring wills... shall to God stand true'
186.04+dividual: shared, held in common
186.05dual chaos, perilous, potent, common to allflesh, human only,
186.05+VI.B.2.010g (r): 'Chaos'
186.05+Foote: Bible Romances 8: The Creation Story: 'What is the meaning of "create"? Was it the production of what is called "chaos," or the formation of the chaos into a cosmos?'
186.05+phrase all flesh: all animals; all mankind
186.06mortal) but with each word that would not pass away the squid-
186.06+squids squirt an ink-like screen
186.07self which he had squirtscreened from the crystalline world
186.07+
186.08waned chagreenold and doriangrayer in its dudhud. This exists
186.08+went
186.08+VI.B.1.072c (r): '(peau de) Chagrin *C*'
186.08+French chagrin: grief
186.08+French chagrin, peau de chagrin: shagreen (a species of rough leather, made from the skin of a horse, ass, shark, seal, etc., frequently dyed green)
186.08+Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (it was at some point thought that it may have been influenced by Balzac's novel Le Peau de Chagrin (1831), which tells of a wish-granting piece of shagreen, shrinking and shortening the owner's life with each wish)
186.08+dud
186.08+Danish dødhud: dead skin
186.08+deadhand
186.08+Welsh hud: magic, illusion, charm
186.08+-hood
186.08+Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 358: (an example of a Dravidian sentence) 'maram und eNDu kangiReN: "(un) arbre existe ayant dit je vois"' (French 'maram und eNDu kangiReN: "(a) tree exists having said I see"')
186.09that isits after having been said we know. And dabal take dab-
186.09+Colloquial phrase devil take ...! (exclamation of anger or impatience with someone or something)
186.09+Dublin
186.10nal! And the dal dabal dab aldanabal! So perhaps, agglaggagglo-
186.10+Santali dal: to strike
186.10+Santali dapal: to strike each other; to cover
186.10+Santali danapal: covering
186.10+Meillet & Cohen: Les Langues du Monde 403: (of Munda languages, such as Santali) 'les langues munda... ressemblent aux langues dites agglutinantes telles que le turc' (French 'the Munda languages... resemble the so-called agglutinating languages, such as Turkish')
186.10+agglomeratively
186.11meratively asaspenking, after all and arklast fore arklyst on his
186.11+speaking
186.11+at last
186.11+Lithuanian arklas: plough
186.11+phrase put the cart before the horse: do something in the wrong order
186.11+Lithuanian arklys: horse
186.11+German Arglist: deceit, artifice
186.12last public misappearance, circling the square, for the deathfête
186.12+squaring the circle: an old mathematical challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle (long assumed to be impossible and finally proven to be so in 1882) [176.33] [285.F04-.F05] [460.09] [614.27]
186.12+(Joyce: Finnegans Wake is circular and has four books)
186.12+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, Png: ...deathfête...} | {BMs (47474-78v): ...deathfe^te...} (the caret is actually positioned at the base of the line and may well be a small *V*)
186.12+VI.B.14.043a (r): 'death day'
186.12+Kinane: St. Patrick 177: (of Saint Patrick) 'extraordinary, heavenly signs and prodigies are recorded to have taken place at the death of our Saint. On the 17th of March, in the year 493, at the age of 120, amid the sweet songs of the Angels, and a supernatural light from heaven, St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, breathed forth his pure soul into the hands of his Creator'
186.12+French fête: saint's feast day
186.13of Saint Ignaceous Poisonivy, of the Fickle Crowd (hopon the
186.13+Saint Ignatius Loyola (feast day is July 31, the day of his death in 1556)
186.13+VI.B.3.107b (b): 'poison ivy'
186.13+O. Henry: The Four Million 104: 'An Adjustment of Nature': 'Cæsar had his Brutus — the cotton has its bollworm, the chorus girl has her Pittsburger, the summer boarder has his poison ivy'
186.13+German ficken: to have sex with
186.13+Joyce: Dubliners: 'A Little Cloud' [.23]
186.13+open
186.13+Slang hop on: to have sexual intercourse
186.14sexth day of Hogsober, killim our king, layum low!) and brandish-
186.14+sex
186.14+6 October: Ivy Day, the anniversary of the death of Parnell [.13]
186.14+Joyce: Dubliners: 'Ivy Day in the Committee Room' [.25]
186.14+hog
186.14+killing
186.14+Aramaic kilim: pig
186.14+uncrowned king of Ireland: an epithet of Parnell (Joyce: A Portrait I: 'Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king!')
186.14+lay him low
186.14+Cluster: Lowness
186.15ing his bellbearing stylo, the shining keyman of the wilds of
186.15+VI.B.14.071h (r): 'SP bell'
186.15+Fleming: The Life of St. Patrick 171: 'St. Patrick's bell, 'Clog-Phadruig,' is now preserved in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin' (a relic attributed to Saint Patrick)
186.15+French stylo à bille: ballpoint pen
186.15+VI.B.14.111b (r): 'shining keyman of door'
186.16change, if what is sauce for the zassy is souse for the zazimas, the
186.16+proverb What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: what is acceptable for one person should be acceptable for another too
186.16+Lithuanian zasis: goose
186.16+Dialect souse: liquid used for pickling, brine
186.16+Lithuanian zasinas: gander
186.16+Zosimos: 3rd century alchemist [185.35]
186.16+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...zazimas, the...} | {Png: ...zazimas the...}
186.17blond cop who thought it was ink was out of his depth but
186.17+
186.18bright in the main.
186.18+right
186.19     Petty constable Sistersen of the Kruis-Kroon-Kraal it was, the
186.19+{{Synopsis: I.7.1.X: [186.19-187.23]: the constable meets Shem outside — bringing home some unlikely drink}}
186.19+VI.B.6.088c (r): 'petty constable — treason' (dash dittos 'petty'; only first two words crayoned)
186.19+Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 86 (sec. 84): 'most of the terms pertaining to the law are of French origin... Petty (Fr. petit) was, I suspect, introduced by the jurists in such combinations as... petty constable... petty treason'
186.19+petty constable: an officer of the peace at the parish or township level, usually part-time and unpaid (mostly abolished by the mid 19th century)
186.19+Constable Sackerson (*S*)
186.19+VI.B.1.153m (g): 'sisterson'
186.19+Crawford: Back to the Long Grass 130: 'the solution of that long-standing puzzle in Africa as to the chief's nephew often usurping the rights of his own sons... "For," said the princess to her royal brother, "you, King, may marry forty wives, but I may only marry one man. Therefore, that one man, being a spick-and-span aristocrat, the cream of earth's son, is, and must be, a blue-blood prince, whereas you, the Chief, can have a son who has a King for his father and a slave for his mother." The luminous logic of all this at once clears up an old difficulty, the "sister's son" being a blue-blood black. Therefore, and by parity of reasoning, a mere King's son is a nobody'
186.19+Joyce: Dubliners: 1) The Sisters
186.19+Norwegian sist: last
186.19+Norwegian -sen: -son (in patronymic surnames)
186.19+Danish -en: the
186.19+Ku Klux Klan
186.19+(religion, sovereign, and home)
186.19+Dutch kruis: cross (also in Afrikaans)
186.19+Dutch kroon: crown (also in Afrikaans)
186.19+kraal: a small village or livestock enclosure in South Africa (from Afrikaans)
186.20parochial watch, big the dog the dig the bog the bagger the
186.20+parochial: of a parish
186.20+by the
186.20+b/d + (Motif: 5 vowels) + g: I, O, A, U, E
186.21dugger the begadag degabug, who had been detailed from pollute
186.21+Norwegian det dugger: dew is falling
186.21+Norwegian dag: day
186.21+VI.B.10.065d (r): 'bailiff specially detailed'
186.21+police duties
186.22stoties to save him, this the quemquem, that the quum, from the
186.22+Lithuanian stotis: station
186.22+(from being pelted)
186.22+Latin quemquem: whoever
186.22+Latin Archaic quum: when, as, while
186.23ligatureliablous effects of foul clay in little clots and mobmauling
186.23+liable
186.23+libellous
186.23+foul play
186.23+Joyce: Dubliners: 10) Clay
186.23+Joyce: Dubliners: 8) A Little Cloud [.13]
186.23+Obsolete clot: a hardened lump (of clay or earth)
186.24on looks, that wrongcountered the tenderfoot an eveling near
186.24+Latin lux: light
186.24+Joyce: Dubliners: 2) An Encounter
186.24+encountered
186.24+Archaic rencountered: met in a hostile fashion
186.24+Motif: right/wrong [.26]
186.24+(Shem)
186.24+Joyce: Dubliners: 4) Eveline
186.24+evening
186.25the livingsmeansuniumgetherum, Knockmaree, Comty Mea, reel-
186.25+Joyce: Dubliners: 12) Ivy Day in the Committee Room [.14]
186.25+Colloquial phrase omnium gatherum: a mixed gathering of various persons or things
186.25+Danish rum: room
186.25+Knockmaree Dolmen: a small prehistoric burial chamber in Phoenix Park
186.25+the Virgin Mary supposedly appeared at Knock, County Mayo, 1879
186.25+come to me
186.26ing more to the right than he lurched to the left, on his way from
186.26+Motif: left/right [.24]
186.27a protoprostitute (he would always have a (stp!) little pigeoness
186.27+prostitute
186.27+VI.B.18.226p (b): 'had your pigeoness with an arch girl'
186.27+business
186.27+Colloquial pigeon: business
186.27+Danish pige: girl
186.28somewhure with his arch girl, Arcoiris, smockname of Mergyt)
186.28+somewhere
186.28+whore
186.28+Latin fornix: arch, vault; brothel
186.28+Portuguese arco-íris: rainbow
186.28+Iris: Greek goddess of the rainbow
186.28+Swedish smecknamn: nickname
186.28+Lithuanian mergyte: little girl
186.28+Maggy
186.29just as he was butting in rand the coyner of bad times under a
186.29+Norwegian butt: not pointed
186.29+German Rand: Danish rand: edge
186.29+round the corner
186.30hideful between the rival doors of warm bethels of worship
186.30+Slang have a hideful: be drunk
186.30+R.L. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
186.30+Bethel: a place mentioned repeatedly in the Bible (e.g. Genesis 28:19; from Hebrew Beth El: House of God)
186.30+brothels
186.31through his boardelhouse fongster, greeting for grazious oras
186.31+Joyce: Dubliners: 7) The Boarding House
186.31+French bordel: German Bordell: brothel
186.31+German Fenster: window
186.31+Lithuanian grazus: beautiful
186.31+gracious
186.31+Lithuanian oras: weather, air
186.31+whores
186.32as usual: Where ladies have they that a dog meansort herring?
186.32+Danish Hvorledes har De det i dag, min sorte herre?: How are you today, my dark sir? (Motif: How are you today, my dark/fair sir?)
186.33Sergo, search me, the incapable reparteed with a selfevitant
186.33+French Slang sergot: policeman
186.33+Lithuanian sergantis: sick
186.33+VI.B.10.016i (r): 'search me'
186.33+The Leader 4 Nov 1922, 305/1: 'As Others See Us': 'What they're striking about — well, search me, but I expect it don't matter a row of pills'
186.33+Colloquial phrase search me!: I don't know!
186.33+(without a cap, hence raising his hair) [.34]
186.33+VI.B.10.085d (r): 'repartee'
186.33+self-evident
186.33+French éviter: to avoid, to shun
186.34subtlety so obviously spurious and, raising his hair, after the
186.34+hat
186.34+Joyce: Dubliners: 5) After the Race
186.35grace, with the christmas under his clutcharm, for Portsymasser
186.35+Joyce: Dubliners: 14) Grace
186.35+Christmas [187.07]
186.35+(presents under his arm)
186.35+*E*, *A*, *I*, *V* and *C*
186.36and Purtsymessus and Pertsymiss and Partsymasters, like a prance
186.36+prince


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