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273.01By old Grumbledum's walls. Bumps, bellows
–273.01+Motif: By the Magazine Wall, zinzin, zinzin [045.05-.06]
–273.01+phrase The king is dead, long live the king (traditional proclamation of a new king)
273.02and bawls.1 Opprimor's down, up up Opima!
–273.02+Latin opprimor: I am oppressed
–273.02+Motif: up/down [.08-.09]
–273.02+Latin opima: rich, fertile (plural)
–273.02+Estonian oppima: to study
273.03Rents and rates and tithes and taxes, wages,
–273.03+
273.04saves and spends. Heil, heptarched span of
–273.04+German Heil: hail
–273.04+Greek heptarchê: magistracy of one-seventh
–273.04+rainbow (seven colours, symbol of peace)
273.05peace!2 Live, league of lex, nex and the mores!
–273.05+Latin lex: law
–273.05+Mick, Nick and the Maggies (Motif: Mick/Nick) [219.19]
–273.05+Latin nex: violent death
273.06Fas est dass and foe err you. Impovernment
–273.06+Latin fas est: it is divinely lawful
–273.06+German was ist das?: what is that?
–273.06+Danish hvor er du?: where are you?
–273.06+impoverishment
–273.06+Lincoln: Gettysburg Address: 'government of the people by the people for the people'
273.07of the booble by the bauble for the bubble. So
–273.07+Oliver Cromwell (about parliamentary power): 'Remove this bauble!' (attributed to him, when ordering the removal of the speaker's mace on the dissolution of the Rump Parliament)
273.08wrap up your worries in your woe (wumpum-
–273.08+song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag
–273.08+Motif: up/down [.08-.09] [.02]
–273.08+wampum used as currency
273.09tum!) and shake down the shuffle for the
–273.09+song Old Uncle Ned: 'Then lay down the shovel and the hoe, Hang up the fiddle and the bow, No more hard work for poor old Ned, He's gone where the good niggers go'
273.10throw. For there's one mere ope3 for down-
–273.10+Merope: mother of Daedalus
–273.10+more hope
273.11fall ned. As Hanah Levy, shrewd shroplifter,
–273.11+Danish ned: down
–273.11+Anna Livia (*A*)
–273.11+shoplifter
273.12and nievre anore skidoos with her spoileds.4
–273.12+German nie: never
–273.12+Nièvre river
–273.12+never another
–273.12+Nore river
–273.12+Slang skidoo: to depart quickly, to run off
–273.12+spoils
273.13To add gay touches. For hugh and guy and
–273.13+you and I and I and you
–273.13+phrase hue and cry: outcry, public cry of alarm or pursuit or disapproval (but given that 'hue' also means 'colour', Motif: ear/eye)
273.14goy and jew. To dimpled and pimpled and
–273.14+Hebrew goy: a Gentile (Motif: Jew/Gentile)
273.15simpled and wimpled. A peak in a poke and a
–273.15+Motif: alliteration (p)
–273.15+phrase a pig in a poke: a thing bought without first being examined
273.16pig in a pew.5 She wins them by wons, a haul
–273.16+ones (Motif: 111)
–273.16+a whole
273.17hectoendecate, for mangay mumbo jumbjubes
–273.17+Hecate: Greek moon-goddess
–273.17+Greek hekatoendeka: 111 (Motif: 111)
–273.17+Danish mange: many
–273.17+mumbo jumbo
–273.17+jujube: a kind of edible berry-like fruit; a type of candy
273.18tak mutts and jeffs muchas bracelonettes
–273.18+Mutt and Jeff: American comic-strip characters
–273.18+Spanish muchas gracias: many thanks
273.19gracies barcelonas.6 O what a loovely free-
–273.19+Anglo-Irish Slang barcelona: imported silk scarf (the name obviously derives from Barcelona, Spain)
–273.19+lovely
–273.19+German Freispruch: acquittal, absolution
273.20speech 'twas (tep)7 to gar howalively hinter-
–273.20+Motif: Tip
–273.20+Dialect gar: make
–273.20+Irish gair: laugh
–273.20+Anna Livia (*A*)
–273.20+German Hintergrund: background
–273.20+(farting)
273.21grunting! Tip. Like lilt of larks to burdened
–273.21+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...grunting! Tip...} | {Png: ...grunting. Tip...}
–273.21+Motif: Tip
273.22crocodile,8 or skittering laubhing at that
–273.22+German Laub: foliage
–273.22+laughing
–273.22+VI.C.2.039b (g): === VI.B.2.040e ( ): 'trees laugh at old wind's joke'
–273.22+German hing: hung
273.23wheeze of old windbag, Blusterboss, blow-
–273.23+Wyndham Lewis edited the publication Blast
–273.23+VI.C.2.135c (o): '*E* blowing about what he did'
–273.23+Schiller: Tantalus or The Future of Man 30: 'modern man has no right to "boast himself far better than his fathers" — in intrinsic quality... it is probable that he is slightly inferior in capacity to his own ancestors'
–273.23+VI.C.2.176d (o): 'blowhard mitt — —' (dashes ditto 'hard'; only first word crayoned)
–273.23+Slang blowharding: boasting
273.24harding about all he didn't do. Hell o' your
–273.24+Motif: heliotrope
–273.24+Colloquial o': of
273.25troop! With is the winker for the muckwits
–273.25+Motif: This is [.26-.27]
–273.25+proverb A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse: any subtle hint will be or has been understood, without need for extensive elaboration [.25-.28]
–273.25+German Winker: signal; flag-man
–273.25+Magwitch: a character in Charles Dickens: all works: Great Expectations
–273.25+Marquis of Wellesley: Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Wellington's brother
273.26of willesly and nith is the nod for the umproar
–273.26+Motif: This is [.25] [.27]
–273.26+emperor Napoleon
273.27napollyon and hitheris poorblond piebold
–273.27+Apollyon: fiend in Pilgrim's Progress, associated with Napoleon during Napoleonic wars
–273.27+Motif: This is [.25-.26]
–273.27+hither is
–273.27+piebald horse
273.28hoerse. Huirse. With its tricuspidal hauberk-
–273.28+Spanish huir: to flee
–273.28+Latin tricuspis: having three points
–273.28+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–273.28+German Haube: hood, bonnet, cap
273.F01     1 Shake eternity and lick creation.
–273.F01+Mackirdy & Willis: The White Slave Market 192: (quoting a "missus" arguing with an American Consul trying to convince her to stop her traffic in American women to the East) 'the 'sky-pilots,' the 'pulpit-punchers,' and 'Bible-bangers' don't own creation... If you stop my progress here in this hell-on-earth... I say, I'll shake eternity to its foundation to get even with you'
273.F02     2 I'm blest if I can see.
–273.F02+VI.C.2.136b (o): 'I'm blest if I can see'
273.F03     3 Hoppity Huhneye, hoosh the hen. I like cluckers, you like nuts (wink).
–273.F03+German Huhn: hen
–273.F03+German Hühnerauge: corn, painful callus (literally 'hen-eye')
–273.F03+Colloquial hoosh: to drive or force (an animal) off or away
273.F04     4 Sweet, medium and dry like altar wine.
–273.F04+Thom's Directory of Ireland/Dublin (1922), 798: (advertisement) 'Pure Altar Wine Sweet, Medium and Dry'
273.F05     5 Who'll buy me penny babies?
–273.F05+VI.C.2.138b (o): 'penny babies'
–273.F05+penny babies: type of sweet
273.F06     6 Well, Maggy, I got your castoff devils all right and fits lovely. And am
–273.F06+Motif: The Letter: well Maggy/Madge/Majesty
–273.F06+Prince: The Dissociation of a Personality 17: (of Christine's most prominent secondary personality) 'Sally is the Devil, not an immoral devil, to be sure, but rather a mischievous imp' [.F08]
273.F07vaguely graceful. Maggy thanks.
–273.F07+very grateful. Many thanks (Motif: The Letter: dear, thank you ever so much)
273.F08     7 My six is no secret, sir, she said.
–273.F08+nursery rhyme Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid?: 'My face is my fortune, sir, she said'
–273.F08+sex
–273.F08+Motif: yes/no [.F09]
–273.F08+Prince: The Dissociation of a Personality 481: (quoting a letter written by one of Christine's minor secondary personalities) 'I am too nervous and excited... to attempt to write you at any length to-night ([interlineation by Sally] 'Nobody asked you, Sir, she said.')' (Sally is quoting the final line of nursery rhyme Where Are You Going To, My Pretty Maid?) [.F06]
273.F09     8 Yes, there, Tad, thanks, give, from, tathair, look at that now.
–273.F09+Jespersen: Language, its Nature, Development and Origin 159 (VIII.8): (if a child reaches out and says) 'ta or da, it will be taken by its parents and others as a real word... in England as there or thanks... in Germany as da 'there', in France as tiens 'hold'... in Italy as to, (= togli) 'take''
–273.F09+(interpretations of baby sound 'da')
–273.F09+Russian da: yes
–273.F09+Cornish tad: Welsh tad: father
–273.F09+Irish an t-athair: the father
–273.F09+Anglo-Irish táthaire: sycophant, ill-mannered person
273.L01Curragh
–273.L01+Curragh of Kildare (racecourse)
–273.L01+song An Páistín Fionn: 'Chara mo chroídhe mo pháistín fionn' (Irish 'friend of my heart, my fairheaded maid')
–273.L01+Irish a chara mo chroídhe, mo bastún fein: friend of my heart, my own blockhead
–273.L01+Irish a chara mo chroídhe, mo bastún fionn: friend of my heart, my fair-haired blockhead
273.L02machree, me
–273.L02+
273.L03bosthoon fiend.
–273.L03+bosom friend: very close friend
273.L04Femilies hug
–273.L04+VI.C.2.164c (o): 'Family Hold Back'
–273.L04+Colloquial phrase family hold back: jocular command to leave enough food for the guests
273.L05bank!
–273.L05+
273.L06All we suffered
–273.L06+
273.L07under them Cow-
–273.L07+phrase Caudine Fork: a trap (from Italian mountain gorges where legions captured)
273.L08dung Forks and
–273.L08+
273.L09how we enjoyed
–273.L09+
273.L10over our pick of
–273.L10+
273.L11the basketfild.
–273.L11+
273.L12Old Kine's
–273.L12+Archaic kine: cows
–273.L12+Battle of Cannae: legions destroyed by Hannibal (baskets filled with rings belonging to slain)
273.L13Meat Meal.
–273.L13+
273.L14Flieflie for the
–273.L14+(presents from *A*) [210.06-212.06]
–273.L14+Motif: 2&3 (flieflie, bombambum) [.L16]
–273.L14+Motif: 5 vowels (I+E for the I+E (*IJ*), O+A+U for the A+O+U (*VYC*)) [.L14-.L15] [.L16-.L18]
273.L15jillies and a
–273.L15+Archaic gillie: a flirtatious young woman
–273.L15+jinnies (*IJ*) [008.31]
273.L16bombambum
–273.L16+
273.L17for the
–273.L17+
273.L18nappotondus.
–273.L18+Napper Tandy: famous 18th century Irish revolutionary, one of the founders of the Society of United Irishmen, the main force behind the Irish Rebellion of 1798
–273.L18+Napoleons (*VYC*) [008.21-.22]


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