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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+[585.02]
–203.12+Neptune rowing club, Dublin
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+Triton: in Greek mythology, a merman and the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea (of which Neptune is the Roman equivalent)
–203.13+Tritonville Road, Dublin
–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
203.14two? Neya, narev, nen, nonni, nos! Then whereabouts in Ow and
–203.14+Archaic 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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