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475.01sweat of night blues moist upon them. Feefee! phopho!!
–475.01+(nightmares)
–475.01+dews just
–475.01+(progression of exclamation marks) [492.05-.07]
–475.01+fear (Cluster: Fear)
–475.01+[.12-.16]
–475.01+Greek phobos: fear (Cluster: Fear)
475.02foorchtha!!! aggala!!!! jeeshee!!!!! paloola!!!!!! ooridiminy!!!!!!!
–475.02+German Furcht: fear (Cluster: Fear)
–475.02+Irish eagla: fear (Cluster: Fear)
–475.02+Langdon: The Babylonian Epic of Creation 10: 'the monsters of Chaos which Marduk subdued in his combat with Tiamat... the Great Lion (ugallum), the Gruesome Hound (uridimmu), the Fish-man (kulili)... in all seven monsters'
–475.02+VI.B.11.013n-q (r): 'Jishin earthqu kaminari thunder kaji fire oyaji' (only first two words crayoned here; third and fourth words crayoned separately) [003.15]
–475.02+Japanese proverb Jishin, kaminari, kaji, oyaji: earthquakes, thunder, fires, fathers (four things to be feared; Cluster: Fear)
–475.02+Italian paura: fear (Cluster: Fear)
–475.02+(Macalister: Temair Breg 328: (of a rite for determining the next king after one had died not at the hands of his successor) 'Someone, presumably a druid, glutted himself with the flesh and broth of a white [sacred] bull, and then went to sleep, while four druids chanted over his body an ór firindi, or "spell of truth." The appointed king would appear to the sleeper amid the nightmares induced by his overloaded stomach') [405.30] [456.03] [474.11] [474.21] [477.01-.02] [532.06]
475.03Afeared themselves were to wonder at the class of a crossroads
–475.03+Archaic afeared: afraid (Cluster: Fear)
–475.03+German vier: four (pronounced 'fear'; Motif: The four of them; *X*)
–475.03+VI.B.14.210a (r): 'wonder at'
–475.03+VI.B.16.059f (g): 'crossroads'
–475.03+Connacht Tribune 19 Apr 1924, 3/3: 'Maintenance Contracts. District Roads': 'To maintain 43 years, 678 perches, 12 ft wide, of road from Rockfield to Athenry between Royhill cross roads, and Gloves cross roads'
–475.03+crossword puzzle
–475.03+(the Sphinx posed a riddle to all travellers on the road to Thebes)
475.04puzzler he would likely be, length by breadth nonplussing his
–475.04+VI.B.16.002i (r): '*V* has length breadth thickness'
475.05thickness, ells upon ells of him, making so many square yards of
–475.05+Archaic ell: an old unit of length equal, in England, to 45 inches
475.06him, one half of him in Conn's half but the whole of him never-
–475.06+VI.B.14.176l (r): 'N/S Conn Owen Mor'
–475.06+O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages 74: (of the Esker Riada) 'To our wonder-loving ancestors this was the great rampart erected by Conn of the Hundred Fights and Owen Mōr, the southern monarch, when, on the cessation of their second war, they agreed to divide the sovereignity of Ireland by a partition line drawn from Ath-a-Cliah Dub-Linn to Ath-a-Cliah Mara, i.e., from Dublin to Galway' [.22]
–475.06+Ireland was anciently divided into Conn's half and Owen's half, named after the legendary 2nd century kings, Conn of the Hundred Battles and Eoghan Mór ('Owen the Great'), a.k.a. Mogh Nuadhat (who divided Munster among his five sons) [.22]
475.07theless in Owenmore's five quarters. There would he lay till
–475.07+Irish Abhainn Mor: Great River (name of several Irish rivers)
–475.07+five quarters (while there are now four provinces in Ireland, the word for province (Irish cúige) literally means 'fifth', implying that at some point there were five; Motif: four fifths)
475.08they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at
–475.08+spancelled: (of an animal) have its the legs fettered by means of a short length of rope (to prevent free motion) [.10]
–475.08+Italian a pancia in giù: face down (literally 'belly down')
–475.08+pencilled
–475.08+VI.B.1.120b (r): 'chained on bed of flowers'
–475.08+Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol. II, ch. XVI.n65: 'Jerome, in his Legend of Paul the Hermit, tells a strange story of a young man, who was chained naked on a bed of flowers, and assaulted by a beautiful and wanton courtesan. He quelled the rising temptation by biting off his tongue'
475.09one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of
–475.09+foul
–475.09+French foule: crowd
–475.09+(Motif: 7 rainbow girls) [.09-.13]
–475.09+Dialect daffydowndilly: daffodil (nursery rhyme Daffy-down-dilly)
–475.09+daffodils
–475.09+VI.B.16.114b (r): 'footlight flower' [.10]
–475.09+(poppies)
475.10narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds
–475.10+narcosis: insensibility
–475.10+Narcissus
–475.10+four (*X*)
–475.10+forfeiting
–475.10+fettering [.08]
–475.10+VI.B.1.002a (r): 'flounders epicures gardenfillers aran chiefs puritans } spuds'
–475.10+Connacht Tribune 16 Feb 1924, 6/6: (advertisement) 'T. Naughton Ironmonger and Hardware Merchant Has just received a Large Supply of Best Seed Potatoes: Flounders Epicures Puritans Garden Fillers Aran Chiefs, Etc.' [.10-.12]
–475.10+Slang spud: potato
475.11hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan
–475.11+French filles: girls
475.12shoots advancing to Aran chiefs. Phopho!! The meteor pulp
–475.12+[.01]
–475.12+meaty
–475.12+VI.B.5.152g (r): 'meteor' (Cluster: Astronomy)
–475.12+Chateaubriand: Œuvres Choisies Illustrées II.63, Les Martyrs: 'L'haleine enflammée de cent mille combattants, le souffle épais des chevaux, la vapeur des sueurs et du sang, forment sur le champ de bataille une espèce de météore que traverse de temps en temps la lueur d'un glaive, comme le trait brillant de la foudre dans la livide clarté d'un orage' (French 'The inflamed breath of a hundred thousand combatants, the heavy breath of the horses, the steam of the sweat and the blood, form on the battlefield a kind of meteor that crosses from time to time the flash of a sword, like the shining bolt of lightning in the livid clarity of a storm')
–475.12+(flesh)
475.13of him, the seamless rainbowpeel. Aggala!!!! His bellyvoid of
–475.13+VI.B.16.122j (r): 'seamless robe = skin'
–475.13+seedless
–475.13+[.02]
–475.13+beloved
475.14nebulose with his neverstop navel. Paloola!!!!!! And his veins
–475.14+Latin nebulosus: cloudy
–475.14+nebula (Cluster: Astronomy)
–475.14+[018.28-.29]
–475.14+[.02]
475.15shooting melanite phosphor, his creamtocustard cometshair and
–475.15+shooting star (Cluster: Astronomy)
–475.15+melanite: a black variety of andradite (garnet)
–475.15+Phosphor: the planet venus before sunrise (Cluster: Astronomy)
–475.15+VI.B.14.210n (r): 'cream to custard'
–475.15+VI.B.14.210b (r): 'milk & comet hair'
–475.15+comet (Cluster: Astronomy)
475.16his asteroid knuckles, ribs and members. Ooridiminy!!!!!!! His
–475.16+asteroid (Cluster: Astronomy)
–475.16+[.02]
475.17electrolatiginous twisted entrails belt.
–475.17+Spanish látigo: whip, lash; cinch strap
–475.17+Italian lattiginoso: milky
–475.17+VI.B.1.119c (r): 'twisted entrail belt'
–475.17+Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol. II, ch. XVI.n1: (of Jews under Roman rule) 'In Cyrene, they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus, 240,000; in Egypt, a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawn asunder, according to a precedent to which David had given the sanction of his example. The victorious Jews devoured the flesh, licked up the blood, and twisted the entrails like a girdle round their bodies'
–475.17+belt (Cluster: Astronomy)
475.18     Those four claymen clomb together to hold their sworn star-
–475.18+{{Synopsis: III.3.3A.C: [475.18-477.02]: the four have come to question him — they crouch by his form, amazed}}
–475.18+*X*
–475.18+VI.B.1.127h (r): 'clomb'
–475.18+Archaic clomb: climbed
–475.18+came
–475.18+VI.B.10.028a (r): 'hold a sworn inquiry'
–475.18+Irish Times 7 Nov 1922, 3/6: 'Film censorship': 'Alderman Lawlor... would move that a full sworn inquiry be held, instead of submitting the matter to a committe of the whole house'
–475.18+VI.B.14.222h (g): 'Star Chamber *X*'
–475.18+Court of Star-Chamber: a court in Westminster, London, active in the 15th, 16th and 17h centuries (through its abuse became a byword for tyranny)
475.19chamber quiry on him. For he was ever their quarrel, the way
–475.19+quarry
475.20they would see themselves, everybug his bodiment atop of
–475.20+everyone
–475.20+every man
–475.20+Archaic bodement: omen, premonition, prophecy
–475.20+embodiment
475.21annywom her notion, and the meet of their noght was worth two
–475.21+Anna
–475.21+anyone
–475.21+any woman
–475.21+Browning: 'Any Wife to Any Husband' (poem)
–475.21+worm
–475.21+nation
–475.21+Robert Browning: Meeting at Night, Parting at Morning (paired poems, the first two stanzas long, the second only one; Motif: meet/part) [.25]
–475.21+midnight
–475.21+nought
475.22of his morning. Up to the esker ridge it was, Mallinger parish, to a
–475.22+VI.B.1.046b (r): 'esker (gravelly hillocks) ridge — Dub — Gal'
–475.22+VI.B.14.176k (r): 'Esker ridge'
–475.22+O'Grady: Selected Essays and Passages 73: 'Through the centre of Ireland, running east and west, there extends a long gravel ridge, known in the bardic literature as the Esker Riada, whose origin the geologists refer to the action of the sea when Ireland was submerged' [.06]
–475.22+Anglo-Irish esker: a ridge of gravelly mounds, believed to have been formed by streams under glacial ice
–475.22+Irish Eiscir Riada: an East-West route from Dublin to Galway following an almost continuous chain of eskers (and dividing Ireland into the Northern 'Conn's half' and the Southern 'Owen's half') [.06]
–475.22+malinger
–475.22+VI.B.6.180c (r): '10 miles W of Mullingar'
–475.22+Gwynn: The History of Ireland 13: 'the Hill of Usnach, the central point of Ireland, about ten miles west of Mullingar' [474.20] [476.06]
–475.22+Mullingar: town, County Westmeath
475.23mead that was not far, the son's rest. First klettered Shanator
–475.23+VI.B.10.028f (r): 'The Sons' Rest (Cunniam)' (Captain Thomas Cunniam was a pub owner, raconteur and drinking companion of John S. Joyce; hence, pub name?)
–475.23+sun's rest
–475.23+German klettert: (he/she/it) climbs
–475.23+*X* + the four's ass = Motif: four fifths [.23-.31]
–475.23+Irish seanadóir: senator
475.24Gregory, seeking spoor through the deep timefield, Shanator
–475.24+spoor: trail, trace
–475.24+VI.B.5.040h (r): 'timefield'
475.25Lyons, trailing the wavy line of his partition footsteps (some-
–475.25+VI.B.1.110d (r): 'partition — Donegal wavy line' (dash dittos 'part'; a line joins first word and last two words; only first word and last two words crayoned)
–475.25+Handbook of the Ulster Question 83: 'Map showing the areas for the Free State (Anti-Partition) and for the Belfast Parliament (Partition) according to voting results in the constituencies in 1918' (followed by a map of the partition border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which could be described as a 'wavy line')
–475.25+parting [.21]
475.26thing in his blisters was telling him all along how he had
–475.26+
475.27been in that place one time), then his Recordership, Dr Shuna-
–475.27+VI.B.3.122c (r): 'Been here before (to I)' (i.e. Ireland)
–475.27+Motif: time/space
–475.27+VI.B.11.030b (r): 'His Attorneyship'
–475.27+Graves: Irish Literary and Musical Studies 81: 'William Allingham': (from Allingham's portrait of an absentee landlord) 'On every pleasure men can buy with gold He surfeited, and now, diseased and old, He lives abroad; a firm in Molesworth Street Doing what their attorneyship thinks meet'
–475.27+(Saint Luke traditionally a doctor)
475.28dure Tarpey, caperchasing after honourable sleep, hot on to the
–475.28+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation dure: door
–475.28+Latin caper: male goat (Motif: goat/sheep)
–475.28+paperchase: children's game of 'hare and hounds' using paper scraps as trail
–475.28+VI.B.10.012b (g): 'after honourable sleep'
–475.28+sheep
475.29aniseed and, up out of his prompt corner, old Shunny MacShunny,
–475.29+VI.B.16.143l (r): 'aniseed'
–475.29+(aniseed used to lay trails for hounds)
–475.29+VI.B.3.134d (r): 'prompt corner'
–475.29+Campbell (Cornwallis-West): My Life and Some Letters 47: 'Ben Greer told me that... I must play the nun... and that he would say the words loudly from the prompt corner. All I had to do was to open and shut my mouth... I did so, and it was a success'
–475.29+Anglo-Irish Pronunciation shunny: sunny
–475.29+Johnny
475.30MacDougal the hiker, in the rere of them on the run, to make a
–475.30+Anglo-Irish rere: rear
–475.30+Colloquial phrase on the run: fleeing from justice
475.31quorum. Roping their ass he was, their skygrey globetrotter,
–475.31+the four's ass (coloured gray or grey) [.23]
–475.31+VI.B.1.065c (r): 'skygrey'
–475.31+Metchnikoff: La Civilisation et les Grands Fleuves Historiques 344n: 'Les premiers mots que les enfants chinois apprennent à lire dans le fameux Livre des Mille Caractères sont: "Le bleu est la couleur du ciel, le jaune est la couleur de la terre." La première de ces propositions serait admise dans toutes les parties du monde, là même où le ciel est le plus souvent gris' (French 'The first words that Chinese children learn to read in the famous Book of a Thousand Characters are: "Blue is the colour of the sky, yellow is the colour of the earth". The first of these propositions would be accepted in all parts of the world, even those where the sky is most often grey')
–475.31+VI.B.1.021j (r): 'globetrotting cat'
475.32by way of an afterthought and by no means legless either for
–475.32+Slang legless: drunk
475.33such sprouts on him they were that much oneven it was tumbling
–475.33+(legs)
–475.33+VI.B.1.012a (r): 'legs of uneven length'
475.34he was by four lengths, within the bawl of a mascot, kuss yuss,
–475.34+Anglo-Irish phrase within the bawl of an ass: near, near enough
–475.34+Verdi: A Masked Ball (opera)
–475.34+Paul of Damascus (Saint Paul converted on the road to Damascus)
–475.34+German Kuss: kiss
–475.34+Irish cos dheas, cos clé: right foot, left foot (Motif: left/right)
475.35kuss cley, patsy watsy, like the kapr in the kabisses, the big ass,
–475.35+what's he like [245.33]
–475.35+Italian phrase salvare capra e cavoli: have one's cake and eat it too (literally 'save the goat and the cabbages')
–475.35+Esperanto kapr: goat
–475.35+Czech kapr: carp
–475.35+Swiss German Kabis: cabbage
–475.35+the four's ass
475.36to hear with his unaided ears the harp in the air, the bugle
–475.36+VI.B.1.082n (r): 'unaided ear'
–475.36+unheeding
–475.36+song 'Tis the Harp in the Air (from the opera Maritana)


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