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443.01 | behaitch like solitar. We are all eyes. I have his quoram of |
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–443.01+ | German BH: brassiere (short for Büstenhalter) |
–443.01+ | Colloquial behind: buttocks |
–443.01+ | phrase all ears (Motif: ear/eye) |
–443.01+ | quorum: the minimum number of members of any body necessary for the proper transaction of business |
–443.01+ | Quran: alternative spelling for Koran [.02] |
443.02 | images all on my retinue, Mohomadhawn Mike. Brassup! More- |
–443.02+ | Robert of Retina translated the Koran into Latin [.01] |
–443.02+ | retina: light-sensitive coating at the back of the eye [.01] |
–443.02+ | Mohammedan: Muslim |
–443.02+ | Anglo-Irish omadhaun: Irish amadán: fool |
–443.02+ | Slang brass up: pay up |
–443.02+ | brace up |
443.03 | over after that, bad manners to me, if I don't think strongly about |
–443.03+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...that, bad...} | {Png: ...that bad...} |
–443.03+ | (bad luck) |
–443.03+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...me, if...} | {Png: ...me if...} |
–443.03+ | VI.B.16.046f (r): 'I am thinking very strong of going off' |
–443.03+ | VI.B.10.013f (r): 'Albi Connolly thinking of giving M. SJ. in custody' (Albrecht Connolly (Heron in Joyce: A Portrait) was a fellow student of Joyce at Belvedere College and died in 1908) |
443.04 | giving the brotherkeeper into custody to the first police bubby |
–443.04+ | Genesis 4:9: 'Am I my brother's keeper?' |
–443.04+ | brothelkeeper |
–443.04+ | VI.B.10.047d (r): 'policewoman' |
–443.04+ | Joyce: Ulysses.12.577: 'The baby policeman, Constable MacFadden' (perhaps from Slang bobby: policeman; perhaps from baby-faced) |
–443.04+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...bubby...} | {Png: ...bubey...} |
–443.04+ | Slang bubby: a woman's breast |
443.05 | cunstabless of Dora's Diehards in the field I might chance to |
–443.05+ | Slang cunt: female genitalia |
–443.05+ | DORA: Defence of the Realm Act, 1914 |
–443.05+ | Diehards: Anti-Treaty forces of I.R.B. in 1920s |
443.06 | follopon. Or for that matter, for your information, if I get the |
–443.06+ | fall upon |
–443.06+ | Slang get the wind up: become alarmed or anxious |
443.07 | wind up what do you bet in the buckets of my wrath I mightn't |
–443.07+ | |
443.08 | even take it into my progromme, as sweet course, to do a rash act |
–443.08+ | pogrom |
443.09 | and pitch in and swing for your perfect stranger in the meadow |
–443.09+ | (hang) |
–443.09+ | Clontarf (site of the famous battle of Brian Boru) means 'Bull Meadow' (from Irish Cluain Tarbh) |
443.10 | of heppiness and then wipe the street up with the clonmellian, |
–443.10+ | Mountjoy Prison, Dublin |
–443.10+ | Hep: sacred bull of Memphis |
–443.10+ | VI.B.10.069g (r): 'wipe street with him' |
–443.10+ | Clonmel prison, County Tipperary (name means 'Meadow of Honey'; became a borstal in 1906) |
–443.10+ | Cromwellian: pertaining to Oliver Cromwell |
443.11 | pending my bringing proceedings verses the joyboy before a |
–443.11+ | versus the |
–443.11+ | VI.B.20.050e (b): 'joyboy' |
–443.11+ | Lewis: The Art of Being Ruled 285: 'The 'Nancyism' of the joy-boy or joy-man — the over-mannered personality, the queer insistence on 'delicate nurture,' that air of assuring those met that he is a 'real lady'... are to some human norm... offensive' |
–443.11+ | Slang joyboy: a male homosexual |
–443.11+ | Colloquial Jew-boy: a young Jewish man (at the time, not necessarily offensive) |
443.12 | bunch of magistrafes and twelve good and gleeful men? Filius |
–443.12+ | magistrates |
–443.12+ | German strafe: punish |
–443.12+ | phrase twelve good men and true: jury (*O*) |
–443.12+ | gleeman: minstrel |
–443.12+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...men? Filius...} | {Png: ...men. Filius...} |
–443.12+ | Crofts: Women under English Law 59: 'Though English Law provides for the maintenance during childhood of an illegitimate person, he suffers many disabilities, for he is, for certain purposes, filius nullius' |
–443.12+ | Latin filius nullius per fas et nefas: the son of no one through right and wrong, the son of no one by any means good or bad (Motif: right/wrong) |
443.13 | nullius per fas et nefas. It should prove more or less of an event |
–443.13+ | VI.B.16.101d (r): 'more or less an event' |
–443.13+ | Key: John McCormack, His Own Life Story 19: 'His entrance into the Diocesan College of the Immaculate Conception of Summerhill, at Sligo, on October 15, 1896, was more or less an event. For he had won a free place by competitive examination and was starting upon a phase of his youth in which a notable personality, Bishop Clancy, was to exert upon him a lasting effect' |
443.14 | and show the widest federal in my cup. He'll have pansements |
–443.14+ | whitest feather in my cap |
–443.14+ | German Feder: feather |
–443.14+ | federal theology: doctrine of covenants between God and man |
–443.14+ | French pansement: medical dressing |
–443.14+ | Obsolete pensement: anxious thought |
–443.14+ | William Shakespeare: Hamlet IV.5.175: 'pansies, that's for thoughts' |
–443.14+ | phrase a penny for your thoughts (used to ask someone what they are thinking about) |
443.15 | then for his pensamientos, howling for peace. Pretty knocks, I |
–443.15+ | VI.B.6.091i (g): 'pensamiento (time to think)' |
–443.15+ | Jespersen: The Growth and Structure of the English Language 141 (sec. 137): (quoting a quaint passage from Howell's New English Grammar, 1662) 'The Spanish abound and delight in words of many syllables, and where the English expresseth himself in one syllable, he doth in 5 or 6, as thoughts pensamientos... for while they speak they take time to consider of the matter' |
–443.15+ | Spanish pensamiento: pansy; mind, thought |
–443.15+ | Peace of Amiens: halt in Napoleonic Wars, 1802-3 |
–443.15+ | VI.C.5.217b (o): 'howled for peace' === VI.B.17.063h ( ): 'hoisted for peace' (i.e. the result of a mistranscription) |
–443.15+ | Bugge: Contributions to the History of the Norsemen in Ireland II.9: (of Magnus Barefoot, 11th-12th century Norwegian king who invaded and died in Ireland) 'Ordericus Vitalis relates that on approaching Anglesey, Magnus hoisted a red shield on the mast as a token of peace' |
–443.15+ | Dr Robert Knox bought corpses stolen or murdered by Burke and Hare in 1828 Edinburgh |
–443.15+ | Anglo-Irish knock: hill |
443.16 | promise him with plenty burkes for his shins. Dumnlimn wimn |
–443.16+ | Anglo-Irish drumlin: little hill |
443.17 | humn. In which case I'll not be complete in fighting lust until I |
–443.17+ | VI.B.16.046e (r): 'you won't be complete until' |
–443.17+ | VI.B.16.130c (r): 'fighting lust' |
443.18 | contrive to half kill your Charley you're my darling for you and |
–443.18+ | VI.B.16.023g (r): '½ kill him' |
–443.18+ | song Charley Is My Darling |
–443.18+ | Charles the Simple: 9th-10th century king of West Francia (modern France), who granted Normandy to the Rollo the Viking (Northman) in return for the latter's end of hostilities, allegiance and religious conversion [.21] |
443.19 | send him to Home Surgeon Hume, the algebrist, before his ap- |
–443.19+ | (send him to his maker) |
–443.19+ | song Home Sweet Home |
–443.19+ | Surgeon Gustavus Hume: 18th century Dublin property speculator |
–443.19+ | VI.B.16.145s (r): 'before his time' |
–443.19+ | Crawford: Thinking Black 217: 'His methods are sublime, His ways supremely kind; God never is before His time, And never is behind' |
443.20 | pointed time, particularly should he turn out to be a man in brown |
–443.20+ | VI.B.16.023f (r): '*V* especially shd he prove to be a man over 40 with wife & offspring man about town of about 40' ('shd he prove to be' replaces a cancelled 'if') [.20-.22] |
443.21 | about town, Rollo the Gunger, son of a wants a flurewaltzer to |
–443.21+ | VI.B.30.011f (g) === VI.B.30.010e (g): 'Rollo' |
–443.21+ | Mawer: The Vikings 52: 'a meeting was arranged between Charles and the Viking leader Rollo at St Clair-sur-Epte, before the end of 911. Here the province later known as Normandy... was given to Rollo and his followers as a beneficium, on condition that he defended the kingdom against attack, and himself accepted Christianity' [.33] |
–443.21+ | Rollo: 9th-10th century Viking of obscure Norse or Danish origin, the first ruler of the newly-created Normandy (hence, theoretically, an ancestor of the Anglo-Norman invaders of Ireland) [.18] [.33] [444.32] |
–443.21+ | Rolf Ganger: a Viking mentioned in the Icelandic sagas (literally 'Rolf the Walker', because no horse could carry him), one of the suggested identities of Rollo |
–443.21+ | once |
–443.21+ | German Flur: meadow, floor |
–443.21+ | Anglo-Irish Pronunciation flure: floor |
–443.21+ | The Floor Walker: a 1916 Charlie Chaplin film |
443.22 | Arnolff's, picking up ideas, of well over or about fiftysix or so, |
–443.22+ | VI.B.30.011b (g): 'Arnulf' |
–443.22+ | Mawer: The Vikings 50: (of Arnulf of Carinthia, future Holy Roman Emperor) 'The Danes in Flanders were defeated by Arnulf (afterwards emperor) on the Dyle, near Louvain, in 891' |
–443.22+ | Arnott's: Ireland's oldest and largest department store, Dublin (from 1843) |
–443.22+ | (possibly a portrait of John Joyce) |
443.23 | pithecoid proportions, with perhops five foot eight, the usual |
–443.23+ | pithecoid: apelike |
443.24 | X Y Z type, R.C. Toc H, nothing but claret, not in the studbook |
–443.24+ | Motif: alphabet sequence: XYZ |
–443.24+ | R.C.: Roman Catholic |
–443.24+ | Toc H: Talbot House, London |
–443.24+ | Slang claret: blood |
–443.24+ | Slang in the studbook: of ancient lineage, upper class (i.e. listed in Burke's or Debrett's Peerage) |
–443.24+ | German Storch: stork |
443.25 | by a long stortch, with a toothbrush moustache and jawcrockeries, |
–443.25+ | stretch |
–443.25+ | (Joyce had false teeth since 1923) |
443.26 | alias grinner through collar, and of course no beard, meat and |
–443.26+ | old Finglas May Day revels included grinning through horse-collars for tobacco |
–443.26+ | (pepper-and-salt suit) |
443.27 | colmans suit, with tar's baggy slacks, obviously too roomy for |
–443.27+ | Colmans' mustard |
443.28 | him and springside boots, washing tie, Father Mathew's bridge |
–443.28+ | Father Mathew Bridge (Whitworth Bridge), Dublin (named after Father Theobald Mathew, the Irish temperance advocate) |
443.29 | pin, sipping some Wheatley's at Rhoss's on a barstool, with some |
–443.29+ | Joyce: Ulysses.5.388: 'some temperance beverage Wheatley's Dublin hop bitters' |
–443.29+ | VI.B.30.010c (g): 'Rhos' |
–443.29+ | Mawer: The Vikings 47: (of the Viking settlers of what will become Russia) 'it was in the year 865 that the Swedish Rhôs (Russians) laid siege to Constantinople' |
–443.29+ | Ross's: several Dublin restaurants |
443.30 | pubpal of the Olaf Stout kidney, always trying to poorchase mov- |
–443.30+ | people |
–443.30+ | VI.B.30.008c (g): 'olaf stout' |
–443.30+ | Mawer: The Vikings 41: (of Cnut (Canute) the Great) 'The most important event of his later years was however his struggle with Olaf the Stout, the great St Olaf of Norway' |
–443.30+ | Olaf the Stout: Olaf II, 11th century king of Norway, later canonised as Saint Olaf |
–443.30+ | half |
–443.30+ | stout: a type of beer |
–443.30+ | purchase |
–443.30+ | Slang movables: small objects of value |
443.31 | ables by hebdomedaries for to putt in a new house to loot, cigarette |
–443.31+ | Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...hebdomedaries...} | {Png: ...hebomedaries...} |
–443.31+ | hebdomadary: one taking weekly turn in performance of Roman Catholic Church offices |
–443.31+ | Archaic for to: in order to |
–443.31+ | new, older (Motif: old/new) |
–443.31+ | let |
–443.31+ | boot |
443.32 | in his holder, with a good job and pension in Buinness's, what |
–443.32+ | Guinness's |
443.33 | about our trip to Normandy style conversation, with an oc- |
–443.33+ | VI.B.30.011e (g): 'Normandy' |
–443.33+ | Mawer: The Vikings 52: 'the province later known as Normandy (including the counties of Rouen, Lisieux, Evreux and the district between the rivers Bresle and Epte and the sea) was given to Rollo and his followers [.21] |
443.34 | casional they say that filmacoulored featured at the Mothrapurl |
–443.34+ | film called |
–443.34+ | Finn MacCool |
–443.34+ | mother-of-pearl: a smooth iridescent material produced by certain molluscs |
–443.34+ | Metropole Cinema, Dublin |
443.35 | skrene about Michan and his lost angeleens is corkyshows do |
–443.35+ | Saint Michan's Church, Dublin (corpses preserved in crypt by dehydration) |
–443.35+ | Henry Arthur Jones: Michael and His Lost Angels |
–443.35+ | Los Angeles |
–443.35+ | Anglo-Irish -een (diminutive) |
–443.35+ | French quelque chose de merveilleuse: something wonderful |
443.36 | morvaloos, blueygreen eyes a bit scummy developing a series of |
–443.36+ | French morve: snot |
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