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203.01Wickenlow, garden of Erin, before she ever dreamt she'd lave
–203.01+VI.B.6.148a (r): 'garden of Erin = Wicklow Mts' (Cluster: Wicklow)
–203.01+County Wicklow is known as 'The Garden of Ireland' (Cluster: Wicklow) [062.19]
–203.01+Eden
–203.01+Eden Quay, Dublin (Cluster: Quays in Dublin)
–203.01+leave
–203.01+Archaic lave: to wash, bathe
203.02Kilbride and go foaming under Horsepass bridge, with the great
–203.02+Kilbride: village, County Wicklow, on the Brittas river, a tributary of the Liffey (Cluster: Wicklow) [576.06]
–203.02+Saint Bride: another name for Saint Brigid of Kildare, a well-known 5th century Irish saint
–203.02+Rosmer is accused of having driven his first wife to suicide (by jumping off a bridge) in Ibsen: all plays: Rosmersholm [.04]
–203.02+Bride, Ireland (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.02+Horsepass Bridge, over the Liffey river, near Poulaphouca
–203.02+a mythical white horse is believed to bring destruction to dwellers of Rosmersholm in Ibsen: all plays: Rosmersholm [.04]
203.03southerwestern windstorming her traces and the midland's grain-
–203.03+the Great Southern and Western Railway Company and the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company have lines running near the Liffey in places [552.02]
–203.03+tresses
–203.03+Grain (Cluster: Rivers)
203.04waster asarch for her track, to wend her ways byandby, robecca
–203.04+west
–203.04+Asat (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.04+asearch
–203.04+The Book of Common Prayer: Matrimony: 'to have and to hold... for better, for worse' (prayer)
–203.04+Sainéan: La Langue de Rabelais I.246: (of Gargantua) 'son déluge urinal fut tellement abondant "qu'il fist une petite riviere, laquelle on appelle encore de present Robec"' (French 'his urinary flood was so abundant "that it formed a little river, which is still called Robec nowadays"') (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.04+Rebecca West published a long essay in 1928 in which she explained why she had mixed feelings about Joyce's writing
–203.04+Rebekka West: character in Ibsen: all plays: Rosmersholm [.02]
203.05or worse, to spin and to grind, to swab and to thrash, for all her
–203.05+
203.06golden lifey in the barleyfields and pennylotts of Humphrey's
–203.06+Liffey, with a source in the Wicklow Mountains (Cluster: Rivers; Cluster: Wicklow)
–203.06+VI.B.6.167d (r): 'Barleyfields (Str)'
–203.06+Freeman's Journal 11 Feb 1924, 8/6: 'By the Way': 'The Moores, from whom sprang the Earls of Drogheda, obtained a grant of a portion of the lands which were then lying waste and leading out to what were known as the "Barley Fields," on the northern side of Dublin'
–203.06+Barley Fields, Dublin, site of Rotunda Hospital (later Rutland Square)
–203.06+VI.B.6.157d (r): 'pennylands'
–203.06+Dialect pennyland: a measure of land valued at one penny a year
–203.06+North Lotts Street and South Lotts Road, Dublin (not adjacent)
–203.06+VI.B.6.149h (r): 'Humphreystown'
–203.06+Humphreystown: townland, County Wicklow (Cluster: Wicklow)
–203.06+Humphreystown Bridge, near Poulaphouca
203.07fordofhurdlestown and lie with a landleaper, wellingtonorseher.
–203.07+Town of the Ford of the Hurdles (the anglicised Irish name of Dublin)
–203.07+VI.B.6.162j (r): 'landleapers'
–203.07+Lawless: The Story of Ireland 56: (Turgesius, a Viking invader of Ireland) 'was not, unfortunately, the last of the Land Leapers!' (i.e. invaders)
–203.07+willing to nurse her
–203.07+Wellington (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.07+Wellington Quay, Dublin (Cluster: Quays in Dublin)
–203.07+Duke of Wellington (whose long military career carried him through at least half a dozen foreign countries)
–203.07+German Seher: seer
203.08Alesse, the lagos of girly days! For the dove of the dunas! Was-
–203.08+Lewis Carroll's Alice
–203.08+alas
–203.08+Lesse (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.08+Lagos (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.08+French Slang Saint Lago: Saint Lazare prison-cum-hospital for prostitutes, Paris
–203.08+Italian lago: lake
–203.08+(Holy Ghost)
–203.08+Dove (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.08+love
–203.08+Duna (Danube) (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.08+Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: (first words sung by Tristan) 'Was ist? Isolde?' (German 'What is it? Isolde?'; Tristan and Iseult) [004.14] [223.11]
203.09ut? Izod? Are you sarthin suir? Not where the Finn fits into the
–203.09+is it? are you sure? [004.14]
–203.09+Sarthe (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.09+Anglo-Irish sarthin shure: certain sure, confident
–203.09+Suir (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.09+(WHERE)
–203.09+Motif: 4 provinces [.09-.11]
–203.09+Finn
–203.09+Finn, Ulster, Ireland (Cluster: Rivers)
203.10Mourne, not where the Nore takes lieve of Blœm, not where the
–203.10+Mourne, Ulster, Ireland (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.10+Mourne Mountains, Ulster, Ireland
–203.10+Nore, Munster, Ireland (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.10+Dutch lieve: dear, sweet (inflected form of 'lief')
–203.10+Lieve Canal, Belgium (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.10+leave
–203.10+Mount Slieve Bloom, Munster, Ireland (the Nore river flows away from)
–203.10+Bloem (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.10+Dutch bloem: flower
–203.10+Dryden: Alexander's Feast: 'None but the brave deserves the fair' (phrase the brave and the fair: heroic men and women, stereotypically)
203.11Braye divarts the Farer, not where the Moy changez her minds
–203.11+Bray, Leinster, Ireland (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.11+Braye (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.11+Divatte (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.11+diverts
–203.11+wayfarer
–203.11+Moy, Connacht, Ireland (Cluster: Rivers)
203.12twixt Cullin and Conn tween Cunn and Collin? Or where Neptune
–203.12+Lough Cullin and Lough Conn run together (the Moy river drains the former, rather than the latter, which is closer to the sea)
–203.12+Colne (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.12+Neptune, Tritonville [585.02]
–203.12+Neptune, Roman god of the sea, and Triton, the merman son of his Greek equivalent, Poseidon (also, one of the planets its largest moon, respectively)
–203.12+Neptune: two Dublin rowing clubs, one in Ringsend (until around 1904) and one on Chapelizod Road, just south of Phoenix Park (from 1908)
203.13sculled and Tritonville rowed and leandros three bumped heroines
–203.13+scull: to row a boat with sculls (light oars useable by a single rower)
–203.13+Tritonville Road, Sandymount, Dublin (leads toward Irishtown and Ringsend)
–203.13+Motif: 2&3 (*VYC* and *IJ*)
–203.13+Leander Boat Club, London
–203.13+Hero and Leander
–203.13+bump: to touch or begin to overtake the boat in front during a race (Slang to have sex with)
203.14two? Neya, narev, nen, nonni, nos! Then whereabouts in Ow and
–203.14+Dialect nay: no
–203.14+Neya (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.14+Irish ná raibh: may there not be
–203.14+Narev (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.14+phrase hey nonny no (a nonsense jingling refrain popular in Elizabethan verse) [307.F10]
–203.14+French non: no
–203.14+Nen (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.14+ballad jingle: 'hey nonny no'
–203.14+French Archaic Colloquial nenni: no, not at all
–203.14+Nonni (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.14+no
–203.14+Nos (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.14+Ow (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.14+Anglo-Irish ow: river (from Irish abha; Cluster: Rivers)
203.15Ovoca? Was it yst with wyst or Lucan Yokan or where the hand
–203.15+Avoca, County Wicklow (Cluster: Rivers; Cluster: Wicklow; also spelled 'Ovoca') [.18]
–203.15+Ystwith (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.15+East with West
–203.15+Lucan
–203.15+Yokanka (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.15+Yukon (Cluster: Rivers)
203.16of man has never set foot? Dell me where, the fairy ferse time! I
–203.16+Dell Creek (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.16+Motif: dark/fair (fair, dark) [.17]
–203.16+Fairy Water (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.16+very first
–203.16+Ferse (Cluster: Rivers)
203.17will if you listen. You know the dinkel dale of Luggelaw? Well,
–203.17+Dinkel (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.17+dingle, dale (valleys)
–203.17+German dunkel: dark [.16]
–203.17+Dingley Dell: country village in Charles Dickens: all works: Pickwick Papers
–203.17+Dale (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.17+Lugg (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.17+VI.B.6.147m (r): 'Luggelaw'
–203.17+Saint Kevin was a hermit at Luggelaw, a lake in the Wicklow Mountains, before retreating to Glendalough (in both places he was tempted by Cathleen and rejected her; she drowned in the second; Cluster: Wicklow)
–203.17+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song No, Not More Welcome [air: Luggelaw]
–203.17+Cluster: Well
203.18there once dwelt a local heremite, Michael Arklow was his river-
–203.18+VI.B.6.035h (r): 'the local (pub / priest)'
–203.18+her
–203.18+eremite: hermit, recluse
–203.18+German Eremit: hermit
–203.18+Motif: The Letter: poor Father Michael
–203.18+Arklow: a town situated at the mouth the Avoca river, County Wicklow (Cluster: Wicklow) [.15]
–203.18+reverend
203.19end name, (with many a sigh I aspersed his lavabibs!) and one
–203.19+hymn Asperges Me: 'Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo et mundabor, Lavabis me' (Latin Thou Shalt Sprinkle Me: 'Thou shalt sprinkle me, O Lord, with hyssop and I shall be cleansed, Thou shalt wash me'; based on Vulgate Psalms 50:9 (Psalms 51:7), this antiphon is sung at Mass, except during Easter season, and is accompanied by sprinkling of the congregation with holy water)
–203.19+asperse: to sprinkle, scatter; to slander, vilify
–203.19+Lava (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.19+lava beds
–203.19+French lavabo: washbasin, sink
203.20venersderg in junojuly, oso sweet and so cool and so limber she
–203.20+the Venusberg (Tannhäuser)
–203.20+Latin dies Veneris: Friday
–203.20+Wednesday
–203.20+Derg (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.20+Juna (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.20+Juny (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.20+June, July
–203.20+Oso (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.20+O so
203.21looked, Nance the Nixie, Nanon L'Escaut, in the silence, of the sy-
–203.21+Nance Creek (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.21+nixie: female water sprite [422.33]
–203.21+Abbé Prévost: Manon Lescaut (a 1731 novel, which has been adapted into several operas, most notably by Auber, Massenet and Puccini)
–203.21+Ninon de l'Enclos: 17th century French socialite and patroness of the arts, famous for her many notable lovers
–203.21+Escaut (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.21+Sycamore Creek (Cluster: Rivers)
203.22comores, all listening, the kindling curves you simply can't stop
–203.22+VI.B.6.097h (r): 'the kind you can't stop kissing'
203.23feeling, he plunged both of his newly anointed hands, the core of
–203.23+(washing hands in river)
–203.23+(to the core)
203.24his cushlas, in her singimari saffron strumans of hair, parting them
–203.24+Anglo-Irish cushla: pulse (term of endearment)
–203.24+Singimari (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.24+singing
–203.24+Struma (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.24+struma: swelling
–203.24+streams
–203.24+Macpherson: The Poems of Ossian II.105: Lathmon: 'Strumon' (glossed in a footnote: 'stream of the hill')
203.25and soothing her and mingling it, that was deepdark and ample
–203.25+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...deepdark...} | {Png: ...deep-dark...}
–203.25+VI.B.1.087e (r): 'deepred' [.26]
203.26like this red bog at sundown. By that Vale Vowclose's lucydlac,
–203.26+Motif: 7 colours of rainbow [.26-.29]
–203.26+Red, Vietnam (and United States) (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.26+red bog: peatbog in central lowlands of Ireland
–203.26+Bug (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.26+Thomas Moore: Irish Melodies: song By That Lake, Whose Gloomy Shore (about Glendalough)
–203.26+Vaucluse (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.26+fountain of Vaucluse, where Petrarch lived
–203.26+Lucy Creek (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.26+Milton: other works: Lycidas [.28] [.30]
203.27the reignbeau's heavenarches arronged orranged her. Afroth-
–203.27+reigning beau
–203.27+rainbow
–203.27+Arrone (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.27+L'Arronge: 19th century German dramatist
–203.27+arranged around
–203.27+Orange (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.27+aphrodisiac
203.28dizzying galbs, her enamelled eyes indergoading him on to the
–203.28+Latin galbus: German gelb: yellow
–203.28+Milton: other works: Lycidas 139: 'enameld eyes' [.26]
–203.28+enamoured: in love
–203.28+emerald (green)
–203.28+(blue eyes)
–203.28+Eye, Scotland (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.28+indigo
–203.28+to the verge of violating
203.29vierge violetian. Wish a wish! Why a why? Mavro! Letty Lerck's
–203.29+French vierge: virgin
–203.29+violet
–203.29+(wish on seeing rainbow)
–203.29+Anglo-Irish wisha: well, indeed (expressing surprise or annoyance; often duplicated)
–203.29+Dublin Slang wish: female genitalia
–203.29+Motif: mishemishe/tauftauf [.30]
–203.29+Mavri (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.29+Mavrodaphne, a Greek wine [.30]
203.30lafing light throw those laurals now on her daphdaph teasesong
–203.30+laughing right through
–203.30+Laura, to whom Petrarch wrote sonnets [.31]
–203.30+Milton: other works: Lycidas 1: 'ye Laurels' [.26]
–203.30+Motif: tree/stone (laurel, rock) [.31]
–203.30+Daphne: in Greek mythology, a water nymph transformed into a laurel tree to escape Apollo's unwanted advances (Greek daphne: laurel)
–203.30+Colloquial daft: foolish, stupid; crazy, insane
–203.30+tauftauf [.29]
–203.30+Tees (Cluster: Rivers)
203.31petrock. Maass! But the majik wavus has elfun anon meshes.
–203.31+Saint Petrock: patron saint of Devon and Cornwall (Cornish Petroc: Patrick)
–203.31+Petrarch: 14th century poet, became poet laureate of Padua in 1341 and was accordingly crowned with a wreath of laurels [.30]
–203.31+Matthew 16:18: 'thou art Peter, and upon this rock'
–203.31+rock [.30]
–203.31+Maas, Netherlands (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.31+Kiswahili maji: water
–203.31+magic
–203.31+Kiswahili wavu: net
–203.31+waves
–203.31+Kiswahili elfu: thousand
–203.31+a thousand and one (The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night)
–203.31+elfin
–203.31+eleven and one (Motif: 111)
–203.31+meshes of a net
–203.31+Mesha (Cluster: Rivers)
203.32And Simba the Slayer of his Oga is slewd. He cuddle not help
–203.32+Kiswahili simba: lion
–203.32+Simba Uranga (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.32+pantomime Sinbad the Sailor
–203.32+Siva the Slayer: Hindu god of destruction
–203.32+Kiswahili oga: to bathe; cowardice, fear
–203.32+Ogi (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.32+lewd
–203.32+(Joyce: Letters II.72: letter 03/12/04 to Stanislaus Joyce: (of Nora Barnacle and probably Father Moran) 'She has told me something of her youth... When she was sixteen a curate in Galway took a liking to her... One night at tea he took her on his lap and said he liked her, she was a nice little girl. Then he put his hand up under her dress which was shortish. She however, I understand, broke away. Afterwards he told her to say in confession it was a man not a priest did 'that' to her. Useful difference') [203.32-204.05]
–203.32+could not
203.33himself, thurso that hot on him, he had to forget the monk in
–203.33+Thurso (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.33+thirst
–203.33+VI.B.6.142i (r): 'forgot the priest in the man'
203.34the man so, rubbing her up and smoothing her down, he baised
–203.34+Motif: up/down
–203.34+(drinking from river)
–203.34+Baïse, France (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.34+French baiser: kiss
–203.34+bathed
–203.34+raised
–203.34+(lowered)
203.35his lippes in smiling mood, kiss akiss after kisokushk (as he
–203.35+Lippe (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.35+French lippe: thick (lower) lip
–203.35+lips
–203.35+Acis (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.35+Kiso (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.35+kiss after kiss
–203.35+Irish coisceadh: stop, enough
–203.35+Kushk (Cluster: Rivers)
203.36warned her niver to, niver to, nevar) on Anna-na-Poghue's of
–203.36+VI.B.5.007i (r): 'Fr Moran warned NB not to frig' (Slang frig: to masturbate) [.32]
–203.36+never
–203.36+Nive (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.36+Neva (Cluster: Rivers)
–203.36+Portuguese nevar: to snow
–203.36+raven
–203.36+Boucicault: Arrah-na-Pogue (Anglo-Irish pogue: kiss) [279.F08]
–203.36+Anna (*A*)


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