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374.01in your flesh. To tell how your mead of, mard, is made of. All old
–374.01+nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made of?: 'What are little boys made of, made of?... Frogs and snails, And puppy-dogs' tails... What are little girls made of, made of?... Sugar and spice, And all that's nice'
–374.01+Lewis Carroll invented a word game called Doublets, in which a player turns one word into another by altering one letter at a time, optionally rearranging the letters, with each step resulting in an existing word (e.g. mead, mard, made)
–374.01+Persian mard: man, human male
–374.01+French merde: shit
374.02Dadgerson's dodges one conning one's copying and that's what
–374.02+C.L. Dodgson: Lewis Carroll's real name
374.03wonderland's wanderlad'll flaunt to the fair. A trancedone boy-
–374.03+Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
–374.03+Alice P. Liddell: child-friend of Lewis Carroll and model for Lewis Carroll's Alice
–374.03+Boston Evening Transcript: a Boston newspaper (until 1941; T.S. Eliot wrote a poem about it, titled 'The Boston Evening Transcript', in 1915; Motif: The Letter: Boston Transcript)
–374.03+(Yeats's wife's automatic writing led to Yeats: A Vision)
–374.03+(Lewis Carroll's handwriting was described as 'boyish-looking')
–374.03+postscript
374.04script with tittivits by. Ahem. You'll read it tomorrow, marn,
–374.04+tittivation
–374.04+Titbits (periodical; Joyce: Ulysses.4.467)
–374.04+man
–374.04+morn
374.05when the curds on the table. A nigg for a nogg and a thrate for
–374.05+cards
–374.05+(breakfast)
–374.05+Matthew 5:38: 'Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth' (referring to Exodus 21:24: 'Eye for eye, tooth for tooth')
–374.05+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation thrate: treat
374.06a throte. The auditor learns. Still pumping on Torkenwhite Rad-
–374.06+throat
–374.06+York, white, red, Lancaster (York (white rose) and Lancaster (red rose) were the two sides of the Wars of the Roses, a series of 15th century English civil wars; Motif: Wars of the Roses)
–374.06+German Radlampen: bicycle lights
374.07lumps, Lencs. In preplays to Anonymay's left hinted palinode
–374.07+German links: left (direction)
–374.07+ALP (Motif: ALP)
–374.07+Slang anonyma: demi-mondaine, woman of doubtful reputation
–374.07+anonymous left-handed (King Mark supposedly got an anonymous letter)
–374.07+palinode: poem with retraction of an earlier statement
374.08obviously inspiterebbed by a sibspecious connexion. Note the
–374.08+inspired
–374.08+spiderwebbed
–374.08+sib: kinship, concord
–374.08+suspicious
374.09notes of admiration! See the signs of suspicion! Count the hemi-
–374.09+Slang notes of admiration: exclamation marks
–374.09+(question marks)
374.10semidemicolons! Screamer caps and invented gommas, quoites
–374.10+demisemiquavers
–374.10+inverted commas
–374.10+Italian gomma: rubber
–374.10+quotes
–374.10+Slang quoites: buttocks
–374.10+quite pointless
374.11puntlost, forced to farce! The pipette will say anything at all for
–374.11+Dutch punt: point, full stop
–374.11+face to face
–374.11+Swift: Ppt
374.12a change. And you know what aglove means in the Murdrus due-
–374.12+glove, duel
–374.12+aglow
–374.12+J.C. Mardrus translated the Koran and the Arabian Nights into French (Mardrus: Le Koran)
–374.12+dialect
374.13luct! Fewer to feud and rompant culotticism, a fugle for the glee-
–374.13+feed
–374.13+Roman Catholicism
–374.13+French culotte: breeches
–374.13+Danish fugle: birds
–374.13+Archaic gleeman: minstrel
374.14men and save, sit and sew. And a pants outsizinned on the
–374.14+outsize
–374.14+inside out [373.16]
374.15Doughertys' duckboard pointing to peace at home. In some,
–374.15+Downing: Digger Dialects 20: 'DOUGH (n.) — Money' (World War I Slang)
–374.15+Downing: Digger Dialects 21: 'DUCKBOARD — (1) A wooden frame about five feet long and eighteen inches wide, on which are nailed, crosswise, short pieces of wood in the form of a grating. These are laid in tracks across muddy or shell-torn country in order to enable troops to pass over the ground. (2) The Military Medal ribbon' (World War I Slang)
–374.15+sum
374.16lawanorder on lovinardor. Wait till we hear the Boy of Biskop
–374.16+law and order
–374.16+Danish lov: law
–374.16+loving
–374.16+ardor: ardour, fierce heat, intense passion
–374.16+Boy Bishop (on 6 December in the middle ages in English cathedral choirs)
–374.16+song The Bay of Biscay
–374.16+Danish biskop: bishop
374.17reeling around your postoral lector! Epistlemadethemology for
–374.17+reading
–374.17+pastoral letter
–374.17+Latin lector: reader
–374.17+epistles
–374.17+epistemology: the philosophical study of knowledge
–374.17+theology
374.18deep dorfy doubtlings. As we'll lay till break of day in the bunk of
–374.18+Motif: Dear Dirty Dublin
–374.18+German Dorf: village
–374.18+song The Bay of Biscay
374.19basky, O! Our island, Rome and duty! Well tried, buckstiff! Batt
–374.19+song The Death of Nelson: 'For England, home and beauty'
–374.19+Motif: Butt/Taff
374.20in, boot! Sell him a breach contact, the vendoror, the buylawyer!
–374.20+breach of contract
–374.20+byelaw
374.21One hyde, sack, hic! Two stick holst, Lucky! Finnish Make Goal!
–374.21+Motif: hide/seek
–374.21+Latin hic: here
–374.21+Finn MacCool
374.22First you were Nomad, next you were Namar, now you're Nu-
–374.22+Motif: 4-stage Viconian cycle
–374.22+Irish namá: alone
–374.22+Hebrew namer: leopard; tiger
374.23mah and it's soon you'll be Nomon. Hence counsels Ecclesiast.
–374.23+no more
–374.23+HCE (Motif: HCE)
374.24There's every resumption. The forgein offils is on the shove to
–374.24+presumption
–374.24+Foreign Office
–374.24+Slang on the shove: on the move
374.25lay you out dossier. Darby's in the yard, planning it on you, plot
–374.25+Scotland Yard
374.26and edgings, the whispering peeler after cooks wearing an illfor-
–374.26+song The Peeler and the Goat (Anglo-Irish peeler: policeman)
–374.26+bearing information
374.27mation. The find of his kind! An artist, sir! And dirt cheap at
–374.27+finest
–374.27+first
374.28a sovereign a skull! He knows his Finsbury Follies backwoods
–374.28+Finsbury Park, London
–374.28+backwards
374.29so you batter see to your regent refutation. Ascare winde is rifing
–374.29+Battersea Park, London
–374.29+better
–374.29+Regent's Park, London
–374.29+Dutch het regent: it is raining
–374.29+recent
–374.29+reputation
–374.29+Oscar Wilde [.31]
–374.29+writing
374.30again about nice boys going native. You know who was wrote
–374.30+(young male prostitutes, with whom Oscar Wilde was associated)
374.31about in the Orange Book of Estchapel? Basil and the two other
–374.31+The Yellow Book: notorious literary and art magazine of the 1890s
–374.31+Yellow Book of Lecan: Irish manuscript
–374.31+Eastcheap, London
–374.31+Chapelizod
–374.31+Basil Hallward: the artist who paints the portrait in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray [.29]
–374.31+Greek basileus: king
374.32men from King's Avenance. Just press this cold brand against
–374.32+King's Avenue, Ballybough, Dublin
–374.32+phrase to turn King's evidence: (of an accomplice in a crime) to offer himself as witness for the prosecution against other persons implicated
–374.32+Genesis 4:15: 'the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him' (traditionally interpreted as a sign or letter on his forehead; Motif: Brand on brow) [.33] [486.14-.16]
–374.32+Norwegian koldbrann: gangrene
374.33your brow for a mow. Cainfully! The sinus the curse. That's it.
–374.33+Slang mo: moment [486.16]
–374.33+carefully
–374.33+Cain (who was cursed by God for killing his brother; Genesis 4:11: 'And now art thou cursed from the earth') [.32]
–374.33+Motif: Sign of the cross
–374.33+sin
374.34Hung Chung Egglyfella now speak he tell numptywumpty top-
–374.34+HCE (Motif: HCE)
–374.34+Hwang Ch'êng: Imperial City (part of Peking)
–374.34+Chinese chung: a crowd
–374.34+Beach-la-Mar fella: fellow (serves numerous grammatical functions)
–374.34+(speaks excellent pidgin)
–374.34+Chinese Pidgin numpa one: first-class, excellent
–374.34+nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
–374.34+Chinese Pidgin topside: above, over, superior
–374.34+top sawyer: the sawyer who works the upper handle of a pit-saw; someone who excels in his profession [173.28]
–374.34+Mark Twain: other works: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
374.35sawys belongahim pidgin. Secret things other persons place there
–374.35+Beach-la-Mar belongahim: his
–374.35+Motif: person, place, thing
374.36covered not. How you fell from story to story like a sagasand
–374.36+from storey to storey
–374.36+saga
–374.36+sack of sand
–374.36+Constable Sackerson
–374.36+Saxon
–374.36+Danish sand: true


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